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Metaphysics in the Reformation
Authors: Aspray Silvianne
Published: January 2022

Because the magisterial reformers largely rejected metaphysical discourses, is often assumed that the Protestant Reformation had no metaphysics. However, if metaphysics is understood as the ontological relationship between God and the world, how could any theological work not be at least implicitly metaphysical? This book argues that the avowedly anti-metaphysical stance of many reformers is itself a metaphysical position, and that teasing out the implicit metaphysics in their worldviews is both possible and worthwhile despite – or even because of – their insistent denials that they have any such thing. Metaphysics in the Reformation proposes a novel methodology for studying the implied metaphysics of the Reformation, focussing on implied structures of being and causality. It then applies this methodology to the under-researched work of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562). Analysing four main areas of Vermigli’s theology – his anthropology, his soteriology, his doctrine of the Eucharist, and his political theology – the book argues that in his theology, Vermigli simultaneously inhabits two different metaphysical models of the relationship between God and the world. The book contends that by extension, this holds true of Reformation theology more generally.
Conclusion
Authors: Aspray Silvianne
Published: January 2022

This conclusion considers the hermeneutical implications of the finding that Vermigli’s work is metaphysically complex with a view to what it means for understanding the Reformation more broadly. It argues that the metaphysical complexity underlying Reformation theology helps to make sense of radically diverging contemporary readings of reformers like Luther and Calvin. It moreover contends that if the Reformation was not characterised by a univocal metaphysics only, it becomes problematic to hold a line of argument which makes of the Reformation a motor of modernity, while predicating modernity on univocal structures of being. Finally, it argues that it is historically and philosophically significant that Vermigli’s work, and Reformation theology more broadly, sustains an unresolved tension by oscillating between a participatory and a univocal metaphysical model.
Traces of Tourism and Transnationalism in Liszt’s Heine Settings
Authors: Clark Suzannah
Published: January 2022

Shortly after touring the Rhinelands in the early 1840s, Liszt began setting two poems by Heine that feature the Rhine: ‘Im Rhein’ (S. 272) and ‘Die Lorelei’ (S. 273). They were published together in 1843 in a collection of mostly German songs and one Italian song, which Liszt titled Buch der Lieder after Heine’s own collection of poems published in 1827 and from which ‘Im Rhein’ and ‘Die Lorelei’ are drawn. Based on a public letter written while Liszt was on holiday in Nonnenwerth and published in Paris during his lifetime, this essay argues that two life experiences that happened within days of each other in the summer of 1841 indelibly link these two songs in Liszt’s biography and offer insights in how to read his musical settings. Firstly, Liszt travelled passed the Lorelei rock by steamship, which was so noisy and created so much smoke that he complained he could not properly take in either the landscape or the soundscape of the famed location along the river, which, according to a newly minted legend, inhabited by a siren-figure called Lorelei. Secondly, he was invited by the citizens of Cologne to provide a benefit concert to help raise funds to finish the construction of the Cologne cathedral, which had lain incomplete since the fifteenth century. Although he had already composed ‘Im Rhein’, shortly after his success in Cologne, he composed ‘Die Lorelei’. In 1856, Liszt published substantially revised versions of both songs. By then, he had settled in Weimar and was no longer the cosmopolitan visitor with a multitude of national allegiances, which opens the different versions to an analysis through Liszt’s own lived experience – that is, through the lens of tourism versus transnationalism. The essay compares the two versions as contrasting reactions to the loco-descriptive elements in Heine’s poems. Through a close analysis of Liszt’s choices of form, harmony, melodic contour, and accompanimental figuration, I argue that, in the case of ‘Im Rhein’, Liszt’s revision reveal a greater intimacy with the monuments described in Heine’s poem and, in the case of ‘Die Lorelei’, the setting becomes more idyllic over time, suggesting an erasure of Liszt’s own traumatic journey and the technological developments in shipping that had drowned out and obscured the sonic and visual aura of the famous and perilous bend in the river. In both cases, the transnational perspective brings to the fore ways in which the sense of flow, movement of light, navigation, boundaries, and the crossing of thresholds are either facilitated or hampered in Heine’s poems and Liszt’s music.
‘Once again … speaking of’ Heine, in Song
Authors: Tunbridge Laura
Published: January 2022

This chapter explores songs that move across temporal rather than geographical borders. Theodore Adorno’s two lectures on Heine, the lesser-known ‘Towards a Reappraisal of Heine’ (1949) and ‘Heine the Wound’ (1956) provide a way of thinking about the poet’s anti-sentimentality in relationship to notions of his inner exile and about how history can alter the course of an artist’s reception. The chapter focuses on the echoic effects of Heine settings by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927-2017) and Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952). Both composers allude to aspects of nineteenth-century musical heritage, from the tradition of lieder composition in general to intertextual references. Comparison with Heine settings by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) demonstrate how the anti-sentimentalism of the poetry spoke not only to Romantic but also to post-modern generations.
French Impressions: The Transnational Afterlives of Verlaine’s ‘La lune blanche’ in Song
Authors: Evans David
Published: January 2022

In this chapter I compare settings of Verlaine’s ‘La Lune blanche’ (‘The White Moon’) by composers of different nationalities (Delius, Webern, Sorabji, Loomis, Nevin, Loeffler, Hennessy, Poldowski, McEwen, Szulc, Stravinsky) in order to show how different ideas of French song – and of art song itself – emerge through the multiple dialogues of its transnational crossings. Two opposing approaches become clear: on the one hand, songs which maintain a reverence towards the source text as a symbol of the cultural cachet which French mélodie has enjoyed since its 1880-1930 heyday; and on the other, songs which offer a curiously unplaceable musical material, staking a claim for music as an mode of articulation which functions independently from language and, indeed, from national identities which are always in danger of falling into repetition, cliché, and pastiche. This latter mode, I suggest, comes closest to the real heart of mélodie as understood by its foremost French purveyors, Fauré and Debussy, and which composers like Stravinsky draw out of Verlaine’s text: a conception of song as an art form uniquely placed to offer a critique of fixed national paradigms and stable interpretative systems, by constantly calling into question, through their formal complexities, the very processes by which meaning itself is produced.
Afterword
Authors: Cave Terence
Published: January 2022

The Afterword reframes this volume’s questions by arguing in favour of an emphasis on the communicative properties of song as an amalgam of words and music: the functions of song and of ordinary language overlap and coalesce in human practices. In place of the polar opposites that characterise nineteenth-century theory, what is proposed is a spectrum account of the language–music relation as an embodied cognitive event: how does human cognition manage the complex territory opened up by the synchronicities of music and language? This cognitive frame rests on the assumption that human activity, however far it reaches beyond the material ecology it arose from, is essentially local and situated. Songs are artefacts, special kinds of cognitive objects which have evolved within given cultural ecologies. Such artefacts are not one-way acts of human ‘intelligence’ doing things to the world, but the material form of an ecological relationship.
Introduction
Authors: Ansolabehere Karina , Frey Barbara A. , Payne Leigh A.
Published: January 2022

LATIN AMERICA sits at the centre of the third wave of democratisation that began in the early 1980s. It has advanced farther than any other region of the world in its accountability processes for past human rights violations perpetrated during authoritarian regimes and armed conflicts. Despite these human rights achievements, Latin America is known as the most violent global region. In the last two decades since the transitions, serious human rights violations, especially disappearances, have increased exponentially in several countries in the region. This volume seeks to understand these post-transition disappearances. It does so by examining four different countries in the region and the dynamics that play out within them. It considers a variety of voices and points of view: from the perspectives of victims and relatives; of activists, advocates, and public officials seeking truth and justice; and of scholars attempting to draw out the specificities in each case and the patterns across cases. The underlying objective behind the project is to gain knowledge and to draw on deep commitment to change within the region so as to overcome this tragedy....
Conclusions
Authors: Mandolessi Silvan
Published: January 2022

This book fills an important gap on research devoted to disappearances in democratic contexts. It connects present-day disappearances with ‘classic’ disappearances committed during Latin America’s past authoritarian regimes and armed conflicts. Through its conceptual framework, case studies and description of ‘tools,’ the book applies knowledge of the region’s past to explain today’s violations. The editors emphasise the continuities in the practice of disappearances between both periods, including its clandestine nature, its targeting of 'disposable' populations, its links to the political economy of development; and its utility in establishing social control through ambiguous loss. The book also urges a rethinking of the state’s responsibility for disappearances under international law. Instead of allowing states to deny accountability for disappearances by private actors, the book argues that, in contexts of impunity and generalized violence, the state’s failure to search or to investigate is enough to prove acquiescence. The book provides an insightful and multidimensional picture of the phenomenon, significantly contributing to an enhanced understanding of the multiple ways in which disappearances continue to occur in democratic countries. It also offers a toolbox of best practices for civil society actors who continue to fight against disappearances, in Latin America and beyond.
Application of geoelectrical methods for identification of soil layer
Authors: Oktaviana Latif , Ula Hazhiyah , Yoga Purnama
Published: January 2022

Landslide is a geological event caused by the movement of rock or land mass that can be defined as the displacement of slope-forming material, which is the original rock as well as the other material that is moving with the gravity. The factors that influence landslides are soil layer, slip surface and saturated soil. Mapping or determining the landslide area is done by identifying several parameters that can trigger landslide. The geophysical method that can be used to analyse soil layer is resistance type of geoelectrical. Variations of each rock or soil layer resistance below the measuring point can be obtained from the measurements of current and potential differences. The research site is located East Aceh district, Indonesia. Geoelectrical measurements using Wenner-Schlumberger electrode configuration. Based on geological information, field observation and geophysical measuring results, the area is dominated by clay, sand and gravel material. Lithology of clay dominates the underside of the surface (until the depth of ± 30 meters. water that is held in sand lithology causes saturation of the sand. this is because there is a layer of clay under the sand which has low permeability or even impermeable properties. Saturated sand lithology can lead to contact between particles and has the potential to weaken it, causing soil movement.
A review of vibro-acoustic techniques for control of combustion engine noise
Authors: Narayan S. , Usman Kaisan , Abubakar Shitu
Published: January 2022

The present work focuses on various vibro-acoustic signals techniques that can monitor malfunctions in Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs). Recent works by other authors have focused on various reciprocating machines including compressors no attempts has been deal with IC engines. This paper gives a summary of the generation mechanism of sound and vibration in Engines. An overview of the monitoring and diagnostic techniques base on noise, pressure an vibration signatures is also discussed. Various fault conditions are described which affect ICEs. Measuring of acoustic signals has non-intrusive behavior with capability of detecting airborne transmission paths faults. In view of industrial needs to reduce the maintenance costs monitoring of vehicle operations, the present work can be a useful guide for engineers for understanding types of faults so as sufficient time is obtained to process reliable and information.
On some aspects of translation: On Chesil Beach by Ian Mcewan and its translation into Serbian
Authors: Biljetina Jelena
Published: January 2022

The goal of this paper is to analyse some segments of Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach and their translation into Serbian. The main aim is to analyse to what extent the translator managed to transfer the meaning of the original text into Serbian. The translation is analysed on the semantic and pragmatic levels. The method used to compare and contrast the source text language and the language of the Serbian text is contrastive analysis. The obtained results of the analysis show that the message of the original text was in most cases successfully transferred into Serbian.
Comparison of efficacy and safety of ultrasonography and fiber optic bronchoscope guided percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy: A prospective observational study running title: Efficacy and safety of USG and FOB guided tracheostomy
Authors: Abu Nadeem , Avishek Chakma , Obaid Ahmed , Sana Naseem , Muazzam Hasan
Published: January 2022

Introduction: We aimed to compare the procedural time, efficacy, and incidence of complications of ultrasonography and fiberoptic bronchoscope-guided percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT). Methods: The study population included the patients admitted to the department of anesthesiology and critical care. In this prospective observational study, we randomly divided 60 participants into two groups. In the ultrasound (US)-guided group, ultrasonography was used for PDT. While in the FOB guided group, we used the fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB). We compared efficacy parameters and complications between the two groups. The mean values were compared between study groups using an independent sample t-test. Categorical outcomes were compared using the chi-square test. P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Compared with the bronchoscopy group, the US group had a significantly shorter PDT operation time (11.8 ± 2.5 versus 15.43 ± 3.27 mins, P < 0.001). FOB group had fewer puncture attempts than the US group. FOB group had more central punctures than the US group (p < 0.001). Among PDT complications, bleeding happened in two patients (6.67%) in the FOB group and tracheal tube cuff puncture was observed in 8 (26.67%) patients in the US group. Conclusion: The US-guided PDT consumes less time for the procedure compared to bronchoscope-guided PDT. FOB was more effective in terms of parameters like the number of needle puncture attempts, the accuracy of the puncture site, the incidence of the posterior tracheal wall hit compared to US-guided PDT. Complications like bleeding were present in FOB.
Effects of topical administration of tranexamic acid on blood loss in total knee arthroplasty: A retrospective study (topical use of tranexamic acid in total knee arthroplasty)
Authors: Milovanović Marijana , Vasković Igor , Nešković Vojislava
Published: January 2022

Introduction: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a complex surgical intervention. By 2030, TKA is expected to reach as much as 3.48 million interventions yearly. Perioperative bleeding is a major problem in TKA, with intraoperative blood loss from 300 to 2000 ml. In orthopedic surgery, tranexamic acid (TXA) has been used to prevent blood loss and enable faster recovery. Here we present the first experience of topically applied tranexamic acid for TKA in our hospital. Method: The effects of topical use of TXA on bleeding for the one-year period were retrospectively analyzed. Comparisons were made between two groups: the T-TK group in which TXA was topically applied, and the 0-TK group, in which the drug was not used. Demographic data, hemoglobin and hematocrit, transfusion of allogeneic blood products, intraoperative and postoperative blood loss, anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy, and the occurrence of postoperative complications were analyzed. Results: The study included 104 patients, 35 in the T-TK group and 69 in the 0-TK group. It was shown that patients with significantly higher intraoperative bleeding received topical TXA. Patients in the T-TK group received fewer transfusions on the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth days. Conclusion: Analysis of the initial use of topical tranexamic acid in our hospital indicates that patients with more intraoperative bleeding were those to receive the treatment. There is a need for better-defined indications for the topical use of TXA, particularly as an alternative for patients who are at higher risk of developing thromboembolic complications.
Urgent ultrasonographic diagnostics in acute traumatic abdominal conditions: Urgent ultrasound in abdominal trauma
Authors: Vasin Dragan , Pavlović Aleksandar , Stojadinović Milica , Tomić Tijana , Vukmirović Jelica , Nikolić Marija , Mijović Ksenija , Mašulović Dragan
Published: January 2022

Clearly defined protocols and multidisciplinary approach present a milestone for patients' condition evaluation. Ultrasound is a fast, accessible, non-invasive and repeatable radiological examination and has an important place in the trauma algorithms. It detects trauma of parenchymal and hollow abdominal organs, hematoperitoneum, and helps in the assessment of volume status. Ultrasound in trauma is performed according to the Focused Assessment with Sonography for the Trauma (FAST) protocol or as a standard ultrasonographic examination of the abdomen and can be repeated to monitor morphological changes due to indications for emergency surgical treatment.
Models of technological integration development
Authors: Miller Alexander , Miller Maxim
Published: January 2022

Issues of scientific and technological development of the economy, increasing its competitiveness, including various aspects of technological integration, are the subject of foreign and domestic research. At the same time, technological integration is considered as a key direction of the new industrial and scientific-technical policy, as a means of transition to the digital economy, to production processes with higher added value, as a means of establishing a constructive dialogue between industrial enterprises and science. The reason for this is, on the one hand, the relative novelty of this economic phenomenon, and, on the other, the lack of theoretical and methodological tools for modelling the development of technological integration. The purpose of the article is to study the problems of modelling the development of technological integration in the context of priority scientific and technological development of the Russian economy. The article uses a wide range of general scientific methods: analysis and synthesis, grouping, typing, modelling, economicstatistical and graphical. The main methodological approaches used in the article are: structural-functional, instrumental and process approaches, which are reflected in the scientific and practical material of the general theory of systems, the theory of organization. The theoretical results of the study are the disclosure of the organizational model for the development of technological integration as a dynamic set of interconnected modules: management and coordination; structure; processes; resources designated to achieve the strategic objectives of technology integration participants. Classification characteristics of technological integration development processes have been identified and theoretically justified. The applied result is a specialized modelling tool based on a combination of a standardized approach and improved design quality with the ability to test simulated processes and the presence of stable feedback with all participants in technological integration. The process model of technological integration development was argued, its decomposition was carried out, which allows distinguishing the main, supporting and regulatory processes of participants in technological integration. The combination of these models facilitates the management of these processes in order to maximize the efficiency of the modern economy. An organizational and economic mechanism for modelling the development of technological integration is proposed, which allows the use of operational monitoring, due to the vector orientation of which it becomes possible to promptly carry out regular adjustments of key parameters of assessing the impact of technological integration on the results of technological development in national economies.
Job satisfaction and organizational commitment of employees in tourism: Serbian Travel agency case
Authors: Dramićanin Sandra , Perić Goran , Pavlović Nebojša
Published: January 2022

The aim of this research is to examine the relationships between the factors of job satisfaction (pay, promotion, supervision, fringe benefits, contingent rewards, operating procedures, co-workers, nature of work and communication) identified by Spector and the organizational commitment in travel agencies in Serbia. The survey was conducted during March and April 2020, on a sample of 152 respondents, using a survey method and validated instruments: Job Satisfaction Survey and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire. Research findings indicate a significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Furthermore, the results indicate that pay, promotion, fringe benefits, co-workers and communication correlate significantly with employee commitment, while between the other factors of job satisfaction (supervision, contingent rewards, operating procedures, nature of work) and organizational commitment, there are moderately positive relationships. Implications, research limitations and suggestions for future research are presented.
La concepción del cuerpo en Marx y el principio de necesidad
Authors: Aparicio Payá Manuel
Published: January 2022

En la primera parte de este trabajo analizo los rasgos que definen el paradigma del cuerpo desarrollado por Marx. Señalo también algunas reflexiones contemporáneas sobre el cuerpo que pueden ser entendidas en relación con dicho paradigma. En una segunda parte, analizo su caracterización económica del cuerpo a partir de la idea de necesidad, argumentando que en Marx se da una concepción normativa del cuerpo y estableciendo una relación con el principio de necesidad. Finalmente, me centro en algunas aportaciones de teóricos actuales de la justicia que han reflexionado sobre la aplicación del principio de necesidad en el ámbito de la asistencia y el cuidado del cuerpo.
Transfiguración del sufrimiento en el pensamiento de E.M. Cioran
Authors: De las Heras Notario Juan María
Published: January 2022

En el presente trabajo vamos a otear el paisaje de la fatalidad que, sin duda, representan los escritos de Cioran, con el objetivo de analizar si es posible una solución aﬁrmativa, al estilo de la música y el arte en Schopenhauer o el vitalismo de Simmel, a la esencia problemática de la existencia humana, lo que signiﬁca tratar de dilucidar acerca de si es posible la liberación del sufrimiento en el sujeto o, en caso de no serlo, ver en qué medida podemos mitigar el dolor adoptando otro tipo de ﬁlosofías de orden terapéutico (epicureísmo, ﬁlosofías orientales, etc.) frente a otro tipo de ﬁlo-sofías de carácter pesimista que abogan por la negación de la vida como es el caso de la ﬁlosofía de la redención de Mainländer.
Socio-economic status and mathematics achievement
Authors: Passy Robert A.
Published: January 2022

This is an evaluation of the role of socioeconomic status in mathematics achievement in the elementary mathematics program in three programs of elementary school mathematics. Each of the programs was in operation for four or more school years. Two contemporary programs and one drawn from past school records were included in the samples. The evaluation took place at the third-grade level.
Area concepts for second graders
Authors: Myers Donald E.
Published: January 2022

In the traditional curriculum the study of area usually occurs in junior high or after the student has mastered most of the multiplication skills. To discuss the area of a region adequately, however, it is necessary either to ignore certain mathematical difficulties or to build up a considerable background of skills. In this article the author has attempted to show how the basic ideas can be conveyed without such dependence on mathematical skills.
Efficacy and Teaching Mathematics by Telling: A Challenge for Reform
Authors: Smith John P.
Published: January 2022

This paper analyzes the tension between the traditional foundation of efficacy in teaching mathematics and current reform efforts in mathematics education. Drawing substantially on their experiences in learning mathematics, many teachers are disposed to teach mathematics by “telling”: by stating facts and demonstrating procedures to their students. Clear and accurate telling provides a foundation for teachers' sense of efficacy—the belief that they can affect student learning—because the direct demonstration of mathematics is taken to be necessary for student learning. A strong sense of efficacy supports teachers' efforts to face difficult challenges and persist in the face of adversity. But current reforms that de-emphasize telling and focus on enabling students' mathematical activity undermine this basis of efficacy. For the current reform to generate deep and lasting changes, teachers must find new foundations for building durable efficacy beliefs that are consistent with reform-based teaching practices. Although productive new “moorings” for efficacy exist, research has not examined how practicing teachers' sense of efficacy shifts as they attempt to align their practice with reform principles. Suggestions for research to chart the development of, and change in, mathematics teachers' sense of efficacy are presented.
Sociomathematical Norms, Argumentation, and Autonomy in Mathematics
Authors: Yackel Erna , Cobb Paul
Published: January 2022

This paper sets forth a way of interpreting mathematics classrooms that aims to account for how students develop mathematical beliefs and values and, consequently, how they become intellectually autonomous in mathematics. To do so, we advance the notion of sociomathematical norms, that is, normative aspects of mathematical discussions that are specific to students' mathematical activity. The explication of sociomathematical norms extends our previous work on general classroom social norms that sustain inquiry-based discussion and argumentation. Episodes from a second-grade classroom where mathematics instruction generally followed an inquiry tradition are used to clarify the processes by which sociomathematical norms are interactively constituted and to illustrate how these norms regulate mathematical argumentation and influence learning opportunities for both the students and the teacher. In doing so, we both clarify how students develop a mathematical disposition and account for students' development of increasing intellectual autonomy in mathematics. In the process, the teacher's role as a representative of the mathematical community is elaborated.
Exploring Power and Oppression: An Examination of Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Professional Growth
Authors: Bell Troy , Lolkus, Michael , Newton Jill , Willey Craig
Published: January 2022

The preparation of mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) varies widely, with little guidance regarding the essential skills and knowledge necessary to tackle the field’s looming challenges. Equitable access to, and engagement with, mathematics has surfaced as an elusive goal of mathematics education organizations. MTEs, therefore, ought to identify and engage with resources that help them comprehend and confront systemic oppression and inequities. We present the process and reflections from an examination of MTEs’ professional growth through engagement in a collaborative interrogation of critical texts outside of mathematics education. Participation in this series of structured readings and dialogue led MTEs to develop a deeper understanding of the historical movements and events that created today’s local and global status quos. Furthermore, MTEs could more readily make connections between macrocontexts of colonialism, violence, and oppression, and the micromanifestations of power and marginalization within mathematics education. Implications for future development of MTEs are discussed.
Eye-tracking Recordings as Data in EMCA Studies
Authors: Dalby Kristiansen Elisabeth , Rasmussen Gitte
Published: January 2022

The article contributes to the ongoing discussion of the potential of using eye-tracking recordings in ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA) by exploring to what extent and under what circumstances such recordings may be useful for EMCA studies of multimodal social interaction. For this purpose, it analyzes examples of social conduct recorded by one video camera and one set of eye-tracking glasses. The article concludes that while eye-tracking recordings may, in some specific cases, provide new analytic possibilities for studying social action, they are by no means indispensable for EMCA research in multimodal social interaction, and making use of mobile eye-tracking equipment and recordings may compromise the data as well as the analytic procedure.
MULTILINGUAL SENTIMENT NORMALIZATION FOR SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES
Authors: Baglini Rebekah Brita , Hansen Lasse , Enevoldsen Kenneth , Nielbo Kristoffer Laigaard
Published: January 2022

In this paper, we address the challenge of multilingual sentiment analysis using a traditional lexicon and rule-based sentiment instrument that is tailored to capture sentiment patterns in a particular language. Focusing on a case study of three closely related Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) and using three tailored versions of VADER, we measure the relative degree of variation in valence using the OPUS corpus. We found that scores for Swedish are systematically skewed lower than Danish for translational pairs, and that scores for Norwegian are skewed higher for both other languages. We use a neural network to optimize the fit between Norwegian and Swedish respectively and Danish as the reference (target) language.
Francisco Silvera, Los camaleones (Memoria punk)
Authors: Méndez Rubio Antonio
Published: January 2022

Francisco Silvera, Los camaleones (Memoria punk), Úbeda: Fundación Huerta de San Antonio, 2021, 176 págs.
Utilization of tangible heritage of the XXIX World Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk
Authors: Kozhevnikova Mariya Sergeevna
Published: January 2022

The holding of such large-scale world events as the Olympic Games, Universiades, and championships require major capital investments in the development of infrastructure of the host city, which in the future becomes the so-called heritage. The article analyzes the experience of utilization of heritage after holding major sports events in other countries and Russian cities, examines the planned and actual use of the heritage of the XXIX World Winter Universiade held in Krasnoyarsk in March 2019 with regards to sports facilities built, reconstructed or renovated for the World Student Games afterwards.  The novelty of this research consists in the analysis of utilization of the heritage of the XXIX World Winter Universiade held in Krasnoyarsk in March 2019 almost two years after the competition. The conclusion is made that the sport facilities built for the World Student Games are actively used by the city residents for public skating or skiing, professional sports, as well as commercial events, such as concerts, exhibitions, etc. The developed sports infrastructure created for the World Student Games allows Krasnoyarsk hosting all-Russian and world athletic events. The XXIX World Winter Universiade had a positive impact upon the social and economic development of Krasnoyarsk.
Experiment on dynamic absolute gravity measurement based on cold atom gravimeter
Authors: Cheng Bing , Chen Pei-Jun , Zhou Yin , Wang Kai-Nan , Zhu Dong , Chu Li , Weng Kan-Xing , Wang He-Lin , Peng Shu-Ping , Wang Xiao-Long , Wu Bin , Lin Qiang ,   College of Science, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Precision Measurement, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China,   School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Huangshan University, Huangshan 245041, China
Published: January 2022

Dynamic gravity measurements can improve the survey efficiency of the gravity field, and can play an important role in implementing the basic geological surveys, resource exploration, and geophysical research. Based on cold atom gravimeter, inertial stabilization platform and the movable vehicle device, a system for dynamically measuring absolute gravity is built, and the dynamic measurement experiments are carried out. Firstly, the noise power spectra of the vertical vibration are measured at different moving velocities, and the influence of such a vibration on the measurement of absolute gravity is analyzed theoretically. Besides, the influence on the contrasts and offsets of the atomic interference fringes are evaluated from different moving velocities, then the effect of vibration compensation in the dynamic measurement environment is analyzed. When the maximum moving speed is 5.50 cm/s and the maximum vibration amplitude is 0.1 m/s2, the atomic interference fringes can still be rebuilt based on the technology of vibration compensation. On this basis, the atomic interference fringes are obtained at different values of T and different moving velocities, then the absolute gravity value in the dynamic measurement environment is evaluated. After the correction of the systematic system and subtraction by the initial value of absolute gravity, the final measured result is (–1.22 ± 2.42) mGal. Finally, the experiment on the static absolute gravity is conducted, and the two values are found to be not much different from each other through comparing the static measurement data with the dynamic measurement data. The experiment of dynamic absolute gravity measurement in this paper may provide the helpful reference data for the dynamic absolute gravity measurement with moving vehicles.
ChiroVox: a public library of bat calls
Authors: Görföl Tamás , Huang Joe Chun-Chia , Csorba Gábor , Győrössy Dorottya , Estók Péter , Kingston Tigga , Szabadi Kriszta Lilla , McArthur Ellen , Senawi Juliana , Furey Neil M. , Tu Vuong Tan , Thong Vu Dinh , Khan Faisal Ali Anwarali , Jinggong Emy Ritta , Donnelly Melissa , Kumaran Jayaraj Vijaya , Liu Jian-Nan , Chen Shiang-Fan , Tuanmu Mao-Ning , Ho Ying-Yi , Chang Heng-Chia , Elias Nurul-Ain , Abdullah Nur-Izzati , Lim Lee-Sim , Squire C Daniel , Zsebők Sándor
Published: January 2022

Recordings of bat echolocation and social calls are used for many research purposes from ecological studies to taxonomy. Effective use of these relies on identification of species from the recordings, but comparative recordings or detailed call descriptions to support identification are often lacking for areas with high biodiversity. The ChiroVox website (www.chirovox.org) was created to facilitate the sharing of bat sound recordings together with their metadata, including biodiversity data and recording circumstances. To date, more than 30 researchers have contributed over 3,900 recordings of nearly 200 species, making ChiroVox the largest open-access bat call library currently available. Each recording has a unique identifier that can be cited in publications; hence the acoustic analyses are repeatable. Most of the recordings available through the website are from bats whose species identities are confirmed, so they can be used to determine species in recordings where the bats were not captured or could not be identified. We hope that with the help of the bat researcher community, the website will grow rapidly and will serve as a solid source for bat acoustic research and monitoring.
Genome-wide identification and evolution of WNK kinases in Bambusoideae and transcriptional profiling during abiotic stress in Phyllostachys edulis
Authors: Liu RongXiu , Vasupalli Naresh , Hou Dan , Stalin Antony , Wei Hantian , Zhang Huicong , Lin Xinchun
Published: January 2022

With-no-lysine (WNK) kinases play vital roles in abiotic stress response, circadian rhythms, and regulation of flowering time in rice, Arabidopsis, and Glycine max. However, there are no previous reports of WNKs in the Bambusoideae, although genome sequences are available for diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid bamboo species. In the present study, we identified 41 WNK genes in five bamboo species and analysed gene evolution, phylogenetic relationship, physical and chemical properties, cis-elements, and conserved motifs. We predicted the structure of PeWNK proteins of moso bamboo and determined the exposed, buried, structural and functional amino acids. Real-time qPCR analysis revealed that PeWNK5, PeWNK7, PeWNK8, and PeWNK11 genes are involved in circadian rhythms. Analysis of gene expression of different organs at different developmental stages revealed that PeWNK genes are tissue-specific. Analysis of various abiotic stress transcriptome data (drought, salt, SA, and ABA) revealed significant gene expression levels in all PeWNKs except PeWNK11. In particular, PeWNK8 and PeWNK9 were significantly down- and up-regulated, respectively, after abiotic stress treatment. A co-expression network of PeWNK genes also showed that PeWNK2, PeWNK4, PeWNK7, and PeWNK8 were co-expressed with transcriptional regulators related to abiotic stress. In conclusion, our study identified the PeWNKs of moso bamboo involved in circadian rhythms and abiotic stress response. In addition, this study serves as a guide for future functional genomic studies of the WNK genes of the Bambusoideae.
CFD-CAA Method for Prediction of Pseudosound and Emitted Noise in Quadcopter Propeller
Authors: Timushev Sergey , Yakovlev Alexey , Klimenko Dmitry
Published: January 2022

Subsonic flow air blade machines like UAV propellers generate intensive noise thus the prediction of acoustic impact, optimization of these machines in order to reduce the level of emitted noise is an urgent engineering task. Currently, the development of calculation methods for determining the amplitudes of pressure pulsations and noise characteristics by CFD-CAA methods is a necessary requirement for the development of computer-aided design methods for blade machines, where the determining factors are the accuracy and speed of calculations. The main objective is to provide industrial computer-aided design systems with a highly efficient domestic software to create optimal designs of UAV blade machines that provide a given level of pressure pulsations in the flow part and radiated noise. It comprises: 1) creation of a method for the numerical simulation of sound generation using the correct decomposition of the initial equations of hydrodynamics of a compressible medium and the selection of the source of sound waves in a three-dimensional definition, taking into account the rotation of blades and their interaction with the stator part of the UAV; 2) decomposition of the boundary conditions accounting pseudo-sound disturbances and the complex acoustic impedance at the boundaries of the computational domain 3) development of an effective SLAE solver for solving the acoustic-vortex equation in complex arithmetic (taking into account the boundary conditions in the form of complex acoustic impedance); 4) testing of a new method at all stages of development using experimental data on the generation of pressure pulsations and aerodynamic noise, including a propeller noise measurements.
Mortality of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Exposed to Spinetoram Toxic Bait in the Laboratory
Authors: Raga Adalton , De Sousa Ester Marques , Louzeiro Léo Rodrigo Ferreira
Published: January 2022

Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) cause significant losses during the production and marketing of horticultural products. Brazilian growers usually adopt full-coverage insecticide spraying to control fruit flies, but toxic bait is a more strategic technique, because reach efficacy and the target surface is the foliage and branches. We provide information regarding the toxicity of spinetoram bait to two fruit fly species in the laboratory as an alternative to organophosphates and the specific spinosad formulation. We tested toxic baits in the laboratory, using commercial hydrolysed corn protein (10% v/v) plus 90 g, 120 g, 150 g and 180 g dilutions of spinetoram 250 WG (commercial product/1,000 litres of water). All toxic baits were compared with an untreated control (only protein) for the adults of females and males of Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart, 1835) and Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) up to 30 hours of exposure. Dry food for adults was included in all dilutions (5% w/v). In addition, we tested the residual effect of toxic baits applied to the leaves of mandarin seedlings. We used the same treatments of the earlier bioassay without dry food, collecting treated leaves and exposing them to C. capitata (medfly) females for 24 hours in the laboratory. Leaves were collected 1, 3, 7, 15 and 30 days after application. Overall, medfly adults were more susceptible to spinetoram baits than A. obliqua. All toxic baits resulted in 100% C. capitata mortality 24 hours after initial exposure, and the toxic bait at 150 g/1,000 L of water resulted in the maximum mortality (96%) in A. obliqua. Except for 90 g of spinetoram bait at 30 days after application, all spinetoram bait concentrations resulted in significantly, more dead C. capitata females than the control over all tested periods in the residual bioassay. At 30 days after application, spinetoram baits at 120 g, 150 g and 180 g resulted in 85%, 87% and 86% mortality in C. capitata, respectively. Spinetoram toxic baits have proven promising for long-term fruit fly management.
Pomegranate Seed Extract: A Strong Antioxidant against Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Induced Oxidative Stress in Albino Wistar Rats
Authors: Obisike U. A. , Boisa N. , Nwachuku E. O.
Published: January 2022

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the antioxidant properties of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Punica granatum (Pomegranate) seed in testosterone induced benign prostate hyperplastic albino Wistar rats.

Study design: This study is an interventional study.

Place and Duration of Study: The experimental aspect of this study was conducted at the animal house, Department of Pharmacology, University of Port Harcourt between April and September, 2019.

Methodology: Seventy (70) adult albino male wistar rats were used for this study. They were divided into 12 groups of 5 rats each and fed with commercial rat diet and clean drinking water. Aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Punica granatum seed were prepared using the maceration method. Benign Prostate Hyperplasia was induced in rats after they submitted to bilateral orchiectomy by daily injections of testosterone propionate (TP) (4 mg/kg b.wt.sc). Rats were treated with 500 or 1500 mg/kg b.wt. of aqueous or ethanoI extracts of Punica granatum seed, dutasteride or in combination. Administration of extracts was done by gavage. Plasma total oxidant status (TOS), total antioxidant status (TAS), superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, were analyzed using sandwich ELISA Kits by Shanghai Korain Biotech Co., Ltd, China, while oxidative stress indices (OSI) were calculated. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 22.0 of Windows Stat Pac and p values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.

Results: The results showed that the mean TOS, TAS, SOD and OSI for the rats in the normal control group were 1.66±0.2U/ml, 2.71±0.25U/ml, 41.8±2.9pg/ml and 0.62±0.10 respectively. After BPH induction (group 2), the values were 3.25±0.5U/ml,1.17±0.14U/ml, 23.38±2.09 pg/ml and 2.81±0.60pg/ml respectively. There were significant decreases for TOS and OSI, and significant increases for TAS and SOD when the rats where treated with lower and higher doses of both aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Punica granatum and Dutasteride.

Conclusion: In conclusion, both doses of Punica granatum seed for ethanolic and aqueous extracts individually and in combination and with dutasteride markedly reduced total oxidant status, oxidative stress indices and improved the activities of antioxidant parameters like superoxide dismutase and total antioxidant status.
Perceived Sustainability and Reliability of Naturopathic Birth Control Methods; A Study in Ningo-Prampram, Ghana
Authors: Nyarkotey Obu Raphael , Aggrey-Bluwey Lawrencia , Nartey Ruth
Published: January 2022

Background: According to worldwide estimates, some 600,000 women die each year of pregnancy-related causes, and another 75,000 die following unsafe abortions. At least 200,000 of these maternal deaths are attributable to the failure or lack of contraceptive services. Naturopathic birth control methods have been proven to be a safe and effective way to prevent unwanted pregnancies

Aim: this study aimed to examine the use of naturopathic birth control methods and to explore the perceived reliability and perceived sustainability of naturopathic birth control methods among adults.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive survey design was used. Adults in the Ningo-Prampram Municipality were randomly sampled to select 100 respondents, who were then administered with the structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24. Results were presented using descriptive metrics.

Results:  Majority of the respondents (39.6%) strongly agree to the use of naturopathic birth control methods 12 months. 34.1% strongly agreed as against 2.2% who strongly disagreed to the reliability of naturopathic birth control methods. 38.5 showed agreement as against 19.8% showing disagreement on the reliability of naturopathic birth control methods. 49.5% agreeing strongly to its sustainability, as against 3.3% disagreeing strongly.

Conclusion:  It is indicative that given the benefits of naturopathic birth control methods, more adults are in strong agreement of its usage, reliability and sustainability, since it presents the user with no later life health issues such as infertility and complications in parturition. It is therefore important that, the issues of Sexually Transmitted infections (STIs) are addressed with abstinence and or fidelity with one sexual partner.