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Behind the scenes of Austenmania: Andrew Davies, adaptation and The Making of Pride and Prejudice
Authors: Louttit Chris
Published: May 2017

The contours of the Austen fever that encompasses film and television adaptations, sequels, mash-ups and much else besides have been well explored by a number of critics. This burgeoning Austen-on-screen critical industry has, however, yet to pay sustained attention to the Making Of tie-in books that accompanied the burst of Austen adaptations in the mid-1990s. This article makes them its main focus to provide a new angle on the familiar topic of the classic adaptation. Taking Jonathan Gray’s reading that media paratexts are essential producers of meaning as its starting point, the article attends in detail to Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin’s The Making of Pride and Prejudice. In particular, it explores how this volume frames the relationship between the production and Davies as screenwriter-adaptor. Despite Davies’ already-established reputation as adaptor of the classics, and the prestige afforded the screenwriter by British television, the article argues that The Making of Pride and Prejudice resists the idea of the TV screenwriter as auteur. Instead, the process of adaptation is shown to be a strongly collaborative one. This tie-in book therefore highlights the technological and production advances of this series as much as Davies’ now well-known sexing-up of the narrative.
Reviews
Authors: Drábek Pavel , Raw Laurence
Published: May 2017

Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers, J. Michael Walton (2016) London and New York: Routledge, 270 pp., ISBN: 9781138124325, h/bk, £85.00; ISBN: 9781315648231, e/bk, £24.49

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies: Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture, Yvonne Griggs (2016) New York: Bloomsbury, 296 pp., ISBN: 9781441166142, p/bk, £25.99
Criticism without adjectives: A fable about people from the edge
Authors: Stefanova Kalina
Published: May 2017

Theatre and puppet director Alexander Morfov has been slowly revolutionizing Bulgarian theatre over the last 25 years. His most important contribution to this theatre is its emancipation from prejudice against stage spectacle. He has achieved this by ingeniously fusing the languages of drama and puppet theatre, which remains the only truly original and novel theatre reality on Bulgarian stages. The article focuses mainly on his performance On the Edge.
The postoperatic gap between body and voice
Authors: Pompe Gregor
Published: May 2017

A review of Jelena Novak’s work is an excellent sphere within which to grapple with the term “postopera”, which was introduced into operatic theory by way of analogy with Hans-Thies Lehmann’s term “postdramatic theatre”. In addition to defining the characteristics of postopera, the work (and this review) offers a window into the history of opera and the development of the genre. Options for the interpretation of operatic works are presented mostly through the body-voice gap, that is, the difference between the visual and audible elements of operatic art; this relationship is redefined or, rather, foregrounded by postopera. The review highlights the author’s primary focus on six examples of postopera, for the most part postmodern and minimalist; discloses the broad theoretical and historical foundations, as well as methodologies, on which the author bases her discourse; and locates the book contextually in the wider theory of musical-theatre praxes. Additionally, it presents the meaning that Novak’s book could have in the Slovenian operatic space, identifies certain limitations of the work, and at the same time offers options for the broadening of the author’s questions and further research.
Dr. Henrik Faust: “Beauty is my grave.”
Authors: Svetina Ivo
Published: May 2017

In this obituary, the author ponders the connections between dreams and theatre and introduces a distinction between beauty as truth and beautifulness as the desire for pleasurable things. He understands the theatrical aesthetic of Tomaž Pandur as a search for beauty and as a baroque awareness of the slide of humanity towards catastrophe. The force and beauty of the images in Pandur’s theatrical creations, like all poetic metaphors, articulate Truth.
Balbina’s “theatre in the round”
Authors: Jesenko Primož
Published: May 2017

With an overview of the life and work of Balbina Battelino Baranovič (1921–2015), the article emphasises her role in the Slovenian theatre scene. She founded theatres, researched contemporary theatrical practices, and, thanks to a strong connection to French and American theatre, broadened the horizons of the Slovenian and Yugoslav theatre of the time, while enabling actors to flourish under contemporary approaches. The founder of the Experimental Theatre, she also introduced theatre in the round to the Slovenian artistic space.
Traverses of art and audience participation: An interview with Olaf Nicolai
Authors: Irmer Thomas
Published: May 2017

On the roof of the German pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Olaf Nikolai produced boomerangs whose shape was adapted to local wind currents. He thus reified the conditions of their production, while each thrower individualised each boomerang through their throwing. The art work was thus created only with the help of the participants; similarly to the installation with singers entitled Non Consumiamo... at the exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor at the Arena.
Beginnings at Tanz-Theater Wuppertal: On relevance, form and love – An interview with Vivienne Newport
Authors: Aigner Franziska , Turkenich Uri
Published: May 2017

Vivienne Newport spoke to us about the early choreographic works of Tanztheater Wuppertal under the direction of Pina Bausch, in which Newport participated as one of the seminal dancers. Furthermore, she spoke to us about the internal dynamic in the company and the particularity of Pina Bausch’s relations to the dancers.
Carlos Reygadas’ Batalla en el cielo/Battle in Heaven (2005): Disarticulating the brown male body from myths of Mexican masculinity
Authors: Ordóñez Samanta
Published: May 2017

This article examines questions of masculinity in Carlos Reygadas’s film Batalla en el cielo/Battle in Heaven. Using a comparative approach to address Reygadas’s allusions to the melodramas of Mexico’s cinematic Golden Age, the discussion shows how the model of mestizo masculinity established in the post-revolutionary period remains prevalent in contemporary society as depicted in the film, despite its detrimental effects on the lived experiences of actual Mexican males. Close examination of the main character, Marcos, offers a perspective on how the state’s centring of the male mestizo’s social and economic agency has continued to uphold the established racial hierarchy and traditional relationships of exploitation in Mexico, despite the most recent reconfigurations of the national political economy under neo-liberalism. With particular attention to Reygadas’s aesthetics of realism and the prominent juxtapositions of European oil paintings in the mise-en-scène, the argument contends that Batalla en el cielo denounces the contradictory national model of masculine identity by revealing its effects on the racialized bodies of brown males.
The importance of Dede Korkut Stories in ferms of Turkish language education and volue transfer
Authors: Özbay Murat , Karakuş Esra
Published: May 2017

Language is the most important instrument that allows communication between human beings and which integrates individuals with society thereby enabling a person to express oneself. As a means to agreeing and transferring, learning a language can only take place with an effective learning of the mother tongue. The responsibility of gaining the basic skills of Turkish language that is under the responsibility of Turkish language teaching and the need to provide national and universal values in gaining these skills have been indicated in the programs that have been prepared. This gaining of value will be by means of text books. The objective of this research is to bear in mind and examine the twenty values that take place in the sixth and seventh grades of the Social Sciences Lesson Teaching Program of Muharrem Ergin's book titled "Twelve Stories of Dede Korkut" that is in line with the 2005 Turkish Language Teaching Program for grades sixth through eighth and to classify the value elements that these stories contain. The research utilizes the descriptive analysis method. Among these stories a total of 190 values were determined with the most examples from those that reflected the value of respect with 38, followed by love (29), responsibility (17), solidarity (16) and patriotism (15).
Adaptive work placement for query processing on heterogeneous computing resources
Authors: Karnagel Tomas , Habich Dirk , Lehner Wolfgang
Published: May 2017

The hardware landscape is currently changing from homogeneous multi-core systems towards heterogeneous systems with many different computing units, each with their own characteristics. This trend is a great opportunity for data-base systems to increase the overall performance if the heterogeneous resources can be utilized efficiently. To achieve this, the main challenge is to place the right work on the right computing unit. Current approaches tackling this placement for query processing assume that data cardinalities of intermediate results can be correctly estimated. However, this assumption does not hold for complex queries. To overcome this problem, we propose an adaptive placement approach being independent of cardinality estimation of intermediate results. Our approach is incorporated in a novel adaptive placement sequence. Additionally, we implement our approach as an extensible virtualization layer, to demonstrate the broad applicability with multiple database systems. In our evaluation, we clearly show that our approach significantly improves OLAP query processing on heterogeneous hardware, while being adaptive enough to react to changing cardinalities of intermediate query results.
An empirical evaluation of in-memory multi-version concurrency control
Authors: Wu Yingjun , Arulraj Joy , Lin Jiexi , Xian Ran , Pavlo Andrew
Published: May 2017

Multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) is currently the most popular transaction management scheme in modern database management systems (DBMSs). Although MVCC was discovered in the late 1970s, it is used in almost every major relational DBMS released in the last decade. Maintaining multiple versions of data potentially increases parallelism without sacrificing serializability when processing transactions. But scaling MVCC in a multi-core and in-memory setting is non-trivial: when there are a large number of threads running in parallel, the synchronization overhead can outweigh the benefits of multi-versioning.

To understand how MVCC perform when processing transactions in modern hardware settings, we conduct an extensive study of the scheme's four key design decisions: concurrency control protocol, version storage, garbage collection, and index management. We implemented state-of-the-art variants of all of these in an in-memory DBMS and evaluated them using OLTP workloads. Our analysis identifies the fundamental bottlenecks of each design choice.
From community detection to community profiling
Authors: Cai Hongyun , Zheng Vincent W. , Zhu Fanwei , Chang Kevin Chen-Chuan , Huang Zi
Published: May 2017

Most existing community-related studies focus on detection, which aim to find the community membership for each user from user friendship links. However, membership alone, without a complete profile of what a community is and how it interacts with other communities, has limited applications. This motivates us to consider systematically profiling the communities and thereby developing useful community-level applications. In this paper, we for the first time formalize the concept of community profiling. With rich user information on the network, such as user published content and user diffusion links, we characterize a community in terms of both its internal content profile and external diffusion profile. The difficulty of community profiling is often underestimated. We novelly identify three unique challenges and propose a joint Community Profiling and Detection (CPD) model to address them accordingly. We also contribute a scalable inference algorithm, which scales linearly with the data size and it is easily parallelizable. We evaluate CPD on large-scale real-world data sets, and show that it is significantly better than the state-of-the-art baselines in various tasks.
Asymptotically almost automorphic solutions of differential equations with piecewise constant argument
Authors: Ding Hui-Sheng , Wan Shun-Mei
Published: May 2017

This paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of asymptotically almost automorphic solutions to differential equations with piecewise constant argument. To study that, we first introduce several notions about asymptotically almost automorphic type functions and obtain some properties of such functions. Then, on the basis of a systematic study on the associated difference system, the existence and uniqueness theorem is established. Compared with some earlier results, we do not assume directly that the Green’s function is a Bi-almost automorphic type function.
Supersolvable orders and inductively free arrangements
Authors: Gao Ruimei , Cui Xiupeng , Li Zhe
Published: May 2017

In this paper, we define the supersolvable order of hyperplanes in a supersolvable arrangement, and obtain a class of inductively free arrangements according to this order. Our main results improve the conclusion that every supersolvable arrangement is inductively free. In addition, we assert that the inductively free arrangement with the required induction table is supersolvable.
How to Deal with Regional Tourism? Historical (and Interdisciplinary) Reflections
Authors: Humair Cédric , Knoll Martin , Tissot Laurent
Published: May 2017

The paper advocates a regional perspective for a better understanding of tourism history and discusses historiographical concepts and tools of relevance for this understanding. It links the development of the tourism sector in history with regional transformation processes. The different ways in which tourism evolves in certain regional contexts can help to identify patterns and explain decisive phenomena like the sector’s vulnerability. The investigation proceeds in three steps: The first explores the links between tourism, regional change and historiography on a more general level, the second discusses conceptual approaches to tourism and regional transformation based in economics and economic history, hereby dealing with cluster theories and path dependency in particular. The final chapter guides a methodological discussion taking stock of the experience provided by a research project on the Lake Geneva region.
Alpine Tourism and ‘Masked Transformation’: Salzburg and Tyrol before 1914
Authors: Cole Laurence , Scharf Katharina
Published: May 2017

The article undertakes a comparative analysis of tourism’s role in transformation processes in the Austrian crownlands of Salzburg and Tyrol from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. The authors outline the overall pattern of tourist development in the alpine region, before considering the impact of tourism on the host societies in the two neighboring provinces. They argue that two features of the transformation process proved ambivalent. Firstly, the development of tourism regions resulted from a process of negotiation and confrontation between those favouring and those opposing tourist activities. Secondly, regional transformation took place in ‘masked form’ because, alongside the creation of tourist facilities and infrastructures, many features of ‘traditional’ society were maintained. In addition, the article suggests that a more precise understanding of the transformation process requires differentiation between ‘adaptive transformation’ (the adjustment of existing enterprises and facilities to tourism) and ‘industrial transformation’ (the construction of dedicated areas of tourism-centered activity).
The Magnitostroi of Health: Sochi and the Transformation of the Caucasian Black Sea Coast as a Model for Regional Development in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation
Authors: Noack Christian
Published: May 2017

In the run-up to the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, the Russian leadership repeatedly declared the games to be exemplary for future regional development projects within the country. Treating Sochi as a model case for regional development has a long pre-history, going back to the period of ‘high Stalinism’. Discussing the consecutive development plans for Sochi since the 1930s, this article suggests that in the case of Sochi, Moscow’s methods of octroying centrally planned grandiose schemes with massive short-term investment ‘against all odds’ displayed a high degree of consistency over time. Stalin’s plans to create a ‘world-class’ resort, the ambitious plans to accommodate a genuine Soviet mass tourism in the 1960s and 70s in ‘Great Sochi’ as well as the preparation of the 2014 Olympics habitually produced significant discrepancies between the aspired aims of Soviet development and its socio-economic and ecologic consequences in the region.
Uphill and Downhill Histories. How Winter Tourism Transformed Alpine Regions in Vorarlberg, Austria – 1930 to 1970
Authors: Groß Robert
Published: May 2017

Winter tourism developed an enormous transformative power. The example of Austria’s westernmost province of Vorarlberg is used in this article to highlight the changing role of ski lifts from three different perspectives: Firstly, an analysis of funding schemes for ski lifts reveals their economic vulnerability, which snowfall patterns augmented. Secondly, ski-lift entrepreneurs aimed to lower risks of insolvency by accelerating the uphill and downhill flows of people and by manipulating snow and topography. This, thirdly, was made possible by driving back private property rights in favor of the winter-tourism industry. Combining these three perspectives provides a deeper understanding of the transformation of landscapes in alpine regions between 1930 and 1970.
Feinberg-Horodecki Equation with Pöschl-Teller Potential: Space-like Coherent States
Authors: Arda Altuğ , Sever Ramazan
Published: May 2017

We obtain the quantised momentum solutions, 𝒫
n
, of the Feinberg-Horodecki equation. We study the space-like coherent states for the space-like counterpart of the Schrödinger equation with trigonometric Pöschl-Teller potential that is constructed by temporal counterpart of the spatial Pöschl-Teller potential.
What Does Public Art Teach Us? Public Art, Public Pedagogy and Community Participation in Making
Authors: Quadri Debbie
Published: May 2017

What does public art teach us? Although the meaning of any artwork is not directly received butinstead refracted by people’s personal responses, experiences and understandings, it can be argued that the artwork plays a pedagogical role. Public art teaches us in two ways, firstly, throughthe narratives and knowledge it projects and secondly, through its authorship and placement itteaches us who has the right and the power to place art in public space. Furthermore in the instanceof permanent public art, duration and time endorse, and normalise these narratives and pedagogical meanings. This article utilises this perspective to explore how community involvementin the making of permanent public art might create a different type of pedagogy throughproviding opportunities to offer other narratives to its audience and a more democratic alternativeto the authorship of art in public space. Within the concept of cultural democracy, these artworksnot only enable community members to individually express themselves in
Pocketing Prayer, Pedagogy, and Purple Hair: A Story of Place and Belonging, 2010–2015
Authors: Peitsch Flossie
Published: May 2017

The Prayer Pocket Place, is the ideal public pedagogical outcome of visual artistic practise. Itshistorical links, practical progressions, and successful teaching and learning processes are framedusing narration, testimonials and the initiator’s reflections. These outline Pockets’ transformativearticulation of its tricky subject matter – spirituality in the public sphere – and disclose how itswidespread public endorsement and lasting place / belonging were gained.
Sharing of Genes and Pathways Across Complex Phenotypes: A Multilevel Genome-Wide Analysis
Authors: Gui Hongsheng , Kwan Johnny S , Sham Pak C , Cherny Stacey S , Li Miaoxin
Published: May 2017

Evidence from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) suggest that pleiotropic effects on human complex phenotypes are very common. Recently, an atlas of genetic correlations among complex phenotypes has broadened our understanding of human diseases and traits. Here, we examine genetic overlap, from a gene-centric perspective, among the same 24 phenotypes previously investigated for genetic correlations. After adopting the multilevel pipeline (freely available at http://grass.cgs.hku.hk/limx/kgg/), which includes intragenic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), genes, and gene-sets, to estimate genetic similarities across phenotypes, a large amount of sharing of several biologically related phenotypes was confirmed. In addition, significant genetic overlaps were also found among phenotype pairs that were previously unidentified by SNP-level approaches. All these pairs with new genetic links are supported by earlier epidemiological evidence, although only a few of them have pleiotropic genes in the GWAS Catalog. Hence, our gene and gene-set analyses are able to provide new insights into cross-phenotype connections. The investigation on genetic sharing at three different levels presents a complementary picture of how common DNA sequence variations contribute to disease comorbidities and trait manifestations.
Maternal Torso-Like Coordinates Tissue Folding During Drosophila Gastrulation
Authors: Johnson Travis K , Moore Karyn A , Whisstock James C , Warr Coral G
Published: May 2017

The rapid and orderly folding of epithelial tissue during developmental processes such as gastrulation requires the precise coordination of changes in cell shape. Here, we report that the perforin-like protein Torso-like (Tsl), the key extracellular determinant for Drosophila embryonic terminal patterning, also functions to control epithelial morphogenesis. We find that tsl null mutants display a ventral cuticular hole phenotype that is independent of the loss of terminal structures, and arises as a consequence of mesoderm invagination defects. We show that the holes are caused by uncoordinated constriction of ventral cell apices, resulting in the formation of an incomplete ventral furrow. Consistent with these data, we find that loss of tsl is sensitive to gene dosage of RhoGEF2, a critical mediator of Rho1-dependent ventral cell shape changes during furrow formation, suggesting that Tsl may act in this pathway. In addition, loss of tsl strongly suppressed the effects of ectopic expression of Folded Gastrulation (Fog), a secreted protein that promotes apical constriction. Taken together, our data suggest that Tsl controls Rho1-mediated apical constriction via Fog. Therefore, we propose that Tsl regulates extracellular Fog activity to synchronize cell shape changes and coordinate ventral morphogenesis in Drosophila. Identifying the Tsl-mediated event that is common to both terminal patterning and morphogenesis will be valuable for our understanding of the extracellular control of developmental signaling by perforin-like proteins.
Rediscovering the Final Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Settlement at Pabartoniai, a Site on the River Neris
Authors: Gudaitienė Gabrielė
Published: May 2017

In this article, the primary results of the latest archaeological investigation in Pabartoniai site are represented. The site, in which the earliest finds could be dated to Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, was rediscovered in 2014 and has been excavated for two seasons. Prehistoric structures, flint find assemblage and some archaeobotanical remains provide an opportunity to discuss some questions considering the occupation of the site. However, at the same time, some problems regarding the reconstruction of the first settlement of the river Neris lower reaches are raised, as the archaeological finds are mixed with the material of the later settlement.
A New Perspective on Neolithic Sites in the Dubičiai Microregion Using a GIS Spatial Analysis
Authors: Marcinkevičiūtė Eglė
Published: May 2017

The article analyses the Dubičiai microregion, which is distinguished by the abundance and diversity of its Stone Age settlements, and presents the possibilities provided by GIS Spatial Analysis in reconstructing this microregion’s Neolithic landscape, distinguishing conditions that affected the selection of the Stone Age settlement sites, and determining the locations where the greatest possibility exists for the discovery of new, not yet known Neolithic settlements.
Experimental and Use-wear Examinations of Flint Knives: Reconstructing the Butchering Techniques of Prehistoric Lithuania
Authors: Rimkus Tomas , Slah Gvidas
Published: May 2017

The abundant quantity of flint blades with use-wear traces can be found within Lithuanian archaeological materials. These balades are frequently treated with various additional types of retouch techniques which provide more knowledge on the exploitation of those tools. An absence of organic material makes it extremely difficult to understand the real purpose of those artifacts. Suchlike flint blades, which typologically are considered as knives, are frequently found in Lithuania during excavations in the Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age sites. Their exclusive technological specifics denote a particular function. In this paper, on the basis of flint knives from Lithuanian Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites, we try to reconstruct the prehistoric technologies of animal butchering. In order to accomplish this task, both the experimental and use-wear methods were used. Our research results provided new insights on the use of flint knives and the effectiveness of metal tools in the animal butchering process.
Influences of the Corded Ware Culture in the Belarusian Lakeland (on the Ground of the Kryvina Peat-Bog Microregion)
Authors: Charniauski Маxim
Published: May 2017

This article analyzes the cultural development of the Neolithic settlements in the Belarusian Lakeland at the 4th–3rd millennium BC, mainly based on the archaeological studies on the Kryvina peat-bog settlements. Although cultural complexes of analyzed settlements of the successive Usviaty and Northern Belarusian cultures are quite similar, the latter one possesses a noticeable and significant influence of the Corded Ware tradition that had reached the region from the north-west and south. Based on the obtained radiocarbon dates, this cultural change took place in the second half of the second quarter of the 3rd millennium BC. This is also related with the beginning of the manifestations of the Corded Ware tradition’s influence in the region.
Profesoriais gimstama! In memoriam Klavs Randsborg (1944–2016)
Authors: Merkytė Inga
Published: May 2017

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GRĖSMIŲ VISUOMENĖS GEROVEI SUVOKIMAS: SOCIALINIO OPTIMIZMO, SOCIALINIO IR INSTITUCINIO PASITIKĖJIMO BEI PASITIKĖJIMO SAVIMI ĮTAKA
Authors: Matonytė Irmina , Morkevičius Vaidas , Lašas Ainius , Jankauskaitė Vaida
Published: May 2017

Atsižvelgdami į nacionalinio saugumo, rizikos visuomenės ir žmogaus socialinės raidos sampratas, analizuojame grėsmes visuomenės gerovei. Analizėje remiamės socialinio konstruktyvizmo sąvoka ir Lietuvos gyven­tojų reprezentatyvios apklausos (vykdytos „Vilmorus“ 2016 m. pavasarį, N = 1 004) duomenimis. Savo tyrime susiduriame su visapusiškos visuome­nės gerovės samprata, kuri ignoruoja tai, kad atskiros grėsmių sritys gali da­ryti skirtingą poveikį visuomenės gerovei (vertinimai tiek pagal objektyvius, tiek pagal subjektyvius kriterijus). Atpažindami socialinio konstruktyvizmo akcentuojamą socialinių vertybių, sociodemografinių ir patirtinių veiksnių įtaką vaizdinių ir vertinimų formavimui(si), atskirą dėmesį kreipiame į pa­sitikėjimo raišką suvokiant grėsmes. Įsitraukdami į akademines diskusijas dėl įvairių pasitikėjimo dėmenų, jų reikšmės vertinant grėsmes visuome­nės gerovei ir jų empirinio matavimo galimybių, išskiriame keturias pasi­tikėjimo sampratas, kurios vartojamos socialinės psichologijos, vertybinių orientacijų ir politinės kultūros studijose. Empirinių duomenų analizė rodo, kad socialinis optimizmas, institucinis, socialinis ir asmeninis pasitikėjimas kompleksiškai ir skirtingai veikia individų požiūrius į įvairaus pobūdžio grėsmes (karines, socialines, ekonomines, ekologines, politines, sveikatos ir moralines bei religines). Labiausiai grėsmių poveikio masto vertinimą veikia socialinis optimizmas bei pasitikėjimas administruojančiomis viešosiomis institucijomis. Pasitikėjimo veiksniams mažiausiai imlus yra karinių grėsmių vertinimas. Rezultatų interpretacijoje pateikiame rekomendacijas viešosios politikos formuotojams.
TARPTAUTINĖ SOCIALINIO TYRIMO PROGRAMA IR GALIMYBĖS POLITOLOGINEI ANALIZEI
Authors: Žvaliauskas Giedrius
Published: May 2017

Tarptautinė socialinio tyrimo programa (angl. The International Social Survey Programme, ISSP) yra tęstinė kasmetinė tarptautinė apklausų bendradarbiavimo programa, apimanti svarbiausias socialinių tyrimų temas. Ji sieja esamus socialinių mokslų projektus ir koordinuoja būsimų tyrimų tikslus, taip papildydama individualius nacionalinius tyrimus tarptautine ir tarpkultūrine perspektyva.
Intractable Hypoglycemia in the Setting of Autoimmune Overlap Syndrome
Authors: Shanker Kanika , Daley Tanicia , Semple Robert , Rouster-Stevens Kelly , Ham J. Nina
Published: May 2017

Evaluation of hypoglycemia in a patient with known diabetes mellitus, although usually straightforward, can at times be challenging. We present the case of an 8 year-old Latina girl initially diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus in the setting of multiple autoimmune disorders, including dermatomyositis and lupus nephritis. She subsequently developed signs of insulin resistance and severe hypoglycemia, which was found to be due to insulin-receptor autoantibodies. This condition, known as type B insulin resistance, is a rare, heterogeneous metabolic disease that may feature hypoglycemia in the setting of extreme insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia and, in this case, masqueraded as type 1 diabetes mellitus. The presence of hypoglycemia in the setting of multiple autoimmune disorders should prompt consideration of autoimmune-mediated hypoglycemia. In addition to immunologic modifying therapies, advances in diabetes care in the form of continuous glucose monitoring have provided an additional tool to manage recurrent hypoglycemia.
Ethical Controversy About Hysterectomy for a Minor
Authors: Burgart Alyssa M. , Strickland Julie , Davis Dena , Baratz Arlene B. , Karkazis Katrina , Lantos John D.
Published: May 2017

One of the most complicated ethical issues that arises in children’s hospitals today is the issue of whether it is ever permissible to perform a procedure for a minor that will result in permanent sterilization. In most cases, the answer is no. The availability of good, safe, long-acting contraception allows surgical options to be postponed when the primary goal of such surgical options is to prevent pregnancy. But what if a minor has congenital urogenital anomalies or other medical conditions for which the best treatment is a hysterectomy? In those cases, the primary goal of therapy is not to prevent pregnancy. Instead, sterility is an unfortunate side effect of a medically indicated treatment. Should that side effect preclude the provision of a therapy that is otherwise medically appropriate? We present a case that raises these issues, and asked experts in law, bioethics, community advocacy, and gynecology to respond. They discuss whether the best option is to proceed with the surgery or to cautiously delay making a decision to give the teenager more time to carefully consider all of the options.
Navigating Decisional Discord: The Pediatrician’s Role When Child and Parents Disagree
Authors: Sisk Bryan A. , DuBois James , Kodish Eric , Wolfe Joanne , Feudtner Chris
Published: May 2017

From the time when children enter the preteen years onward, pediatric medical decision-making can entail a complex interaction between child, parents, and pediatrician. When the child and parents disagree regarding medical decisions, the pediatrician has the challenging task of guiding the family to a final decision. Unresolved discord can affect family cohesiveness, patient adherence, and patient self-management. In this article, we outline 3 models for the pediatrician’s role in the setting of decisional discord: deference, advocative, and arbitrative. In the deference model, the pediatrician prioritizes parental decision-making authority. In the advocative model, the pediatrician advocates for the child’s preference in decision-making so long as the child’s decision is medically reasonable. In the arbitrative model, the pediatrician works to resolve the conflict in a balanced fashion. Although each model has advantages and disadvantages, the arbitrative model should serve as the initial model in nearly all settings. The arbitrative model is likely to reach the most beneficial decision in a manner that maintains family cohesiveness by respecting the authority of parents and the developing autonomy of children. We also highlight, however, occasions when the deference or advocative models may be more appropriate. Physicians should keep all 3 models available in their professional toolkit and develop the wisdom to deploy the right model for each particular clinical situation.
Digestibility of nutrients and nitrogen balance in chicken breeder meat direction of productivity at different levels of lysine in the fodder
Authors: Ibatullin I. I. , Ilchuk I. I. , Kryvenok M. Ya.
Published: May 2017

Experimentally determined digestibility of crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber and NFS and nitrogen balance in the body breeder hens, meat direction of productivity. Found that in the first age period – 27–39 weeks, the most significant change digestibility of crude protein for the reduction of lysine in fodder to 0.73%. It was lower than the control group counterparts to 2.46% (Р ˂ 0.05). Also, in the first 13 weeks of oviposition, the increase of lysine in chicken fodder to 0.81% observed increase digestibility of crude protein – at 1.08–2.14%, crude fat – at 0.82–2.70% (Р ˂ 0.05), and NFS – at 0.40–3.56%. In the second age period – 40–65 weeks significantly reduced crude protein digestibility in chickens that consumed the lowest amount of lysine – 0.71%. Factor protein digestibility in poultry this group was lower than control at 2.68% (Р ˂ 0.05). With the increase of lysine in the fodder in the last 25 weeks of oviposition, digestibility of crude protein has not changed, however, crude fat digestibility and NFS increased respectively by 0.64–1.70 and 1.72–2.00%. Digestibility of fat by changing lysine content in the fodder has not changed substantially. Reduction of lysine resulted in an increase in fodder nitrogen excretion of faeces at 7.02–11.00% (Р ˂ 0.05). Changing the content of lysine in the fodder chicken meat direction of productivity has not significantly affected the nitrogen retention in the body and the ratio of pent oxide in the body of the adopted feed.
Determination of the parameters of acute toxicity of «Brovermectin-granulate» on earlings carp
Authors: Loboiko Yu. V. , Danko M. M. , Krushelnytska O. V. , Kravets S. I.
Published: May 2017

The paper presents the results of research to determine the parameters of acute toxicity of «Brovermectin-granulate». The material for the study of acute toxicity were of carp earlings. In experiment used drug «Brovermectin-granulate» (1 g of the drug contains: active actiion substance ivermectin – 3.5 mg, tocopherol acetate – 20 mg). The introduction of the drug  was carried out orally using a probe in anterior intestine of fish. The drug was administered to fish in the form of a homogeneous suspension produced 1 % starch solution individually, in doses of 1000, 4000, 8000, 12000, 16000 and 20000 mg/kg of body weight. For settings acute toxicity determined the general condition and death of fish; for a dose of the drug (DL50) calculated by methods G. Kerber, H. Pershyn, least squares analysis of probit mortality curves for V.B. Prozorovskyj, means three points for B.M. Shtabskyj. At this stage of research it was found lethal (DL100) and maximum tolerated (DL0) dose of «Brovermectin-granulate» for earlings carp. As a result of studies found that 100% death of fish following the dose of 20000 mg/kg (DL100), and for the drug at a dose of 4000 mg/kg (DL0) set to survival of 100% fish. Established that the value of average lethal dose of «Brovermectin-granulate» for fish regardless of the method of calculation mainly coincided and were 10932,8–11200 mg/kg for earlings carp. Thus, the drug «Brovermectin-granulate» for oral administration to fish belongs to grade 4 toxicity – low toxic substances.
Assessment of market parameters of multiple age groups of the galician carp
Authors: Hrytsyniak I. I. , Gurbyk V. V.
Published: May 2017

Purpose: To assess the productive potential of the Galician carp taking into account its morphometric parameters. To assess the market parameters of the Galician carp produced in the conditions of commercial aquaculture in ponds of the Subcarpathian region. To determine the output of fish products depending on fish age-related differences. Task: to determine major morphometric parameters in age-2 and age-3 cap produced at the end of the culture season in ponds of the Subcarpathian region; to assess the output of edible and non-edible parts of the body of the Galician carp. Methodology: The study was carried out in 2016 at the fish farm «Korop», Lviv region. The object of the study were age-2 and age-3 Galician carp produced at the end of the culture season. Fish were investigated according to methodical guidelines. The largest part of the body weight of the examined Galician carp was filet with skin. The smallest part in both age groups was scales that is due to the framed type of their scale covering. The quantity of edible parts in age-3 fish was 4.3% higher than in age-2 fish. The parameter of potentially edible parts in age-2 and age-3 fish was at the same level and did not exceed 32%. The non-edible part of the body in both age groups did not exceed 16%. In age-2 Galician carp, the edible part was 1.5% larger than in carp of the Lubin type of Ukrainian framed strain. In age-3 fish, the percent ratio of the head was 4.45% lower than in the Lubin type.  After analyzing the obtained experimental  data, a conclusion can be drawn that the output of edible parts in both age groups of the Galician carp from the marketable fish mass exceeded the normative values. At the same time, age-3 fish had 4% more filet than the age-2 fish. The Galician carp have a high level of the output of high quality market products compared to fish of the Lubin type of Ukrainian framed strain. An assessment of market parameters of the Galician carp produced during commercial culturing in ponds of the Subcarpathian region. The quantities of edible and non-edible parts in age-2 and age-3 fish of the examined array were determined.
Arginine and lysine: the impact of their correlation on the productivity of young quails
Authors: Omelian A. M. , Pozniakovskiy Y. V.
Published: May 2017

Recently, interest of consumers to quails meat to rising. The reason for this – high biological value of meat. But in literature the little informationon on rationing of arginine and lysine in mixed fodders. This greatly effects on the quality of meat. Many studies confirmed the need for rationing of arginine and lysine for animal growth. Quails are no exception. The effect of these amino acids was not studied on productivity of this birds. That is why we delivered the aim to establish the optimal level and correlations of arginine and lysine in feeding of quails and study their impact on the growth. To solve it, we delivered the following objectives: to investigate the effect of different levels and correlations of amino acids in mixed fodder on live weight, average and relative increase of body weight. So were carried relevant research in the scientific and research laboratory of feed additives of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine on quails of breeds Pharaoh. For the experiment were selected 300 quails. Of them were formed 3 groups. We twice daily fed the mixed fodder of quails. The chemical composition of mixed fodders the differed only on the content of amino acids which we studied. We studied the growth of young quails depending on the content of lysine and arginine in mixed fodder and their correlations. We established that growing quails on fodder with optimal levels of arginine and lysine within a period of growth, and adapted compound feed, subject to the optimum ratio of amino acids for two periods of growth, had a little difference in favor of the first: live weight, relative, average daily gain – 1.0%, 0.1% and 1.1% respectively. Оptimal levels of arginine and lysine for young quails in the second period of growth is 1.26% and 1.29% respectively. The optimal correlation of arginine to lysine is 0.98. Subsequent of this work is to study the effect of different levels and correlations of lysine and arginine in mixed fodder for young quails for meat quality and chemical composition of meat.
The influence of live weight of holstein cows on the duration and effectiveness of their economic use during the period of breeding
Authors: Babik N. P. , Fedorovych Ye. I. , Fedorovych V. V.
Published: May 2017

There are shown data on the impact of live weight of Holstein cows on the duration and effectiveness of their lifetime use during the period of breeding. It was established that the animals which are not reached to the body breed standard of their weight at some period of age had lower rates and duration of lifetime use and productivity. Animals with live weight at 6 months – 181–220, 12 months – 311–340, 18 months – 411–440, at the first insemination – 411–440 and at first calving – 511–540 kg had the longest life duration, productive use, quantity of lactations during all life and highest lifetime productivity. The highest positive correlation coefficients were established between body weight of cows at different periods of their growth (exception – live weight at first calving) and lifetime milk yield (r = 0.072–0.106), the average lifetime fat milk (r = 0.062–0.126), lifetime quantity of milk fat (r = 0.077–0.112), milk yield per day of life (r = 0.077–0.165) and productive use (r = 0.077–0.112). These links were much weaker between live weight and life duration in the studied ages of animals (r = -0.009 – +0.062), productive use (r=-0.125 – +0.094), lactation (r = -0.093 – +0.038) and the number of lactations during life (r = -0.134 – +0.029). The lowest correlation coefficients were between body weight at first calving of cows and the studied parameters of duration and effectiveness of their lifelong use. The impact of the live weight of animals during growing period on the duration of their economic use was the highest (23.34–31,30%), the number of lactations for life (13.79–28.08%), lifetime milk yield (11.89–15.68%) and lifetime amount of milk fat (11.42–15.16%).
Progesterone receptor (PRG) gene polymorphism and association with litter size in the california rabbit breed
Authors: Kotsyubenko G. A. , Pogorelovа A. A. , Kramarenko O. S.
Published: May 2017

Modern approaches to genetic improvement of species based on genotype-depth evaluation of farm animals and genetic diversity of populations using marker technology. Determination of genotype of animals was carried out using PCR-RFLP. A 558-bp sequence of the rabbit progesterone receptor promoter region (PGR) gene was obtained for 60 animals of the California breed from High Litter Size (HLS) and Low Litter Size (LLS) groups. Found that in individuals with multiple groups rabbit dominated by individuals with heterozygous genotype (0.700), while in animals with low levels litter size – individuals with genotype AA. In addition, the rabbit and the second group were characterized by very high actual heterozygosity (Ho = 0,700), which significantly exceeds the expected heterozygosity (No = 0.455). Among the animals that had low bahatoplidnosti differences between actual and expected assessments heterozygosity less significant (0.400 and 0.320, respectively). Thus, in both groups, there is an excess of heterozygosity, accompanied by negative assessments fixation index. PCR-RFLP for PGR gene (using the Eco31I restriction endonuclease) revealed two genotypes of AA and GA, and the genotype AA yielding a single 558 bp band, and the heterozygote genotype GA yielding all the three bands of 558, 416 and 142 bp. The 2464G > A SNP for PGR gene was not fixed in the HLS and LLS groups, the allele G frequency being 0.350 in the HLS and 0.200 in the LLS group. Whatever belong to a group marked predominance on the number of rabbits for a rabbit genotype GA on individuals who had genotype AA. More significant, the difference was for the rabbit of the I-th group (9.1 and 7.0 rabbits, respectively). The difference in litter size between the AA and GA genotypes was found for rabbits from as the HLS, as LLS group.
External characteristics adults cows of ukrainian black and white dairy breed
Authors: Kuziv M. I.
Published: May 2017

The results of the evaluation exterior of the animals Ukrainian black and white dairy cattle in the western region of Ukraine. Studies conducted on animals Ukrainian black and white dairy cattle in the «Milk River» farm in the Sokal and Brody offices breeding reproducers «Breeder» Lviv region and plant breeding «Yamnytsya» Ivano-Frankivsk region. Exterior animals was assessed by measurement of body articles. By value measurements calculated indices of body structure cows. Weight-size factor determined by the formula D.T. Vinnychuka and P.N. Merezhko. The results of research were treated by variational statistics G.F. Lakin. Adults cows of Ukrainian black and white dairy breed for exterior fit the type of dairy animals. Measurements body cows are: height at the withers – 135,6–136,5 depth of chest – 75,1–77,1 width chest – 46,2–48,6, chest girth for by shoulder – 197,0–201,2, oblique body length – 161,4–163,6 width in clubs – 54,5–57,2 girth metacarpus – 19,1–19,5 cm. By oblique trunk length and girth metacarpus, and in the «Milk River» farm Sokal offices and plant breeding «Yamnytsya» also for girth at breast for by blades are dominated by target parameters for the desired type of animal. By other body measurements investigated cows do not reach target parameters for the desired type of animal. Further breeding work with this array of animals should be directed to increase the linear dimensions of the body, with particular attention paid to the width of the chest. Indices body structure cows in farms of different characteristic type of dairy animals. Surround dimensions of the animals constituted 494,9–501,4 cm weight-size factor – 1,08–1,15. In cows of all farms the ratio of live weight and measurements body was typical for relatively stretched animals.