bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
IgE-Immunoadsorption for severe allergy to multiple foods: a case series of five children
Authors: Arasi Stefania , Piscitelli Anna Lucia , Cafarotti Arianna , Marziani Beatrice , Pecora Valentina , Dahdah Lamia , Leone Giovanna , Bracaglia Giorgia , Porzio Ottavia , Muda Andrea Onetti , Fiocchi Alessandro
Published: May 2022

Background: Children with severe atopic status may present high
risk of fatal or near fatal anaphylaxis and a highly impaired quality of
life. Omalizumab has been shown to be a promising approach as
monotherapy for severe allergy to multiple foods. However, very high
serum total IgE levels may limit its use. Objective: To assess
the efficacy of selective IgE-immunoadsorption (IgE-IA) on total IgE
levels and threshold of reactivity to the culprit foods in children with
history of severe anaphylaxis due to multiple foods and allergic
comorbidities.  Methods: In this single-center, prospective,
open-label efficacy study we evaluated children with severe asthma,
allergy to 2+foods and total IgE levels >2,300 kUI/L. To
establish the food reactivity threshold, each patient underwent oral
food challenges (OFCs) before and after IgE-IA. Results: Five
patients (4 males; age, 10.9±5 years, mean±SD), underwent an average of
three (range 2–5) sessions of IgE-IA. Each session reduced IgE levels
by a mean of 1,958.87 kUI/L. After the IgE-IA cycle, serum total IgE
dropped from 3,948±1,652.7 (mean±SD) to 360.8±71.89 kUI/L (-10.94 folds;
p=0.01). The threshold of reactivity (No Observed Adverse Effect Level,
NOAEL) tested at OFCs for the culprit foods
(4baked-milk+2baked-egg+1lentil+2hazelnut+1wheat) increased overall from
21.51 (median, IQR 1.49-82.62) protein milligrams to 1,114.99
(837.2-4,222.8) milligrams (p<.001), ie. up to 51.8 times
higher than baseline. 8/10 OFCs were negative after IgE-IA.
Conclusions: IgE-IA increased food threshold quickly. It can be
considered in well-selected patients with severe food allergies and high
IgE-levels especially if otherwise eligible to anti – IgE treatments.
Reported congenital malformations after exposure to non-tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: a retrospective comparative study in EudraVigilance
Authors: Ghalandari Nafise , Crijns Ineke , Bergman Jorieke , Dolhain Radboud , Puijenbroek Eugène van , Hazes Mieke
Published: May 2022

Aim To evaluate the number and nature of reported congenital
malformations (CMs) after intrauterine exposure to non-tumour necrosis
factor inhibitors (non-TNFis) compared to certolizumab pegol (CZP)
Material and methods A retrospective comparative study was conducted in
the EudraVigilance (EV) database. EV is a pharmacovigilance database,
which can be used for detecting safety signals and generating hypotheses
on possible relations between drugs and adverse events. A supposedly
safe biologic (CZP) was considered as the reference group.
Pregnancy-reports of non-TNFis and CZP were extracted. Odds ratios (ORs)
for CMs were calculated for each non-TNFi, versus CZP (quantitative
assessment). Then, CM patterns were compared to CZP in consultation with
a clinical geneticist (qualitative assessment). Results ORs were not
statistically significant except for belimumab and vedolizumab (similar
in magnitude). Although qualitative analyses did not show any specific
patterns for belimumab but three cases of corpus callosum agenesis (CCA)
were identified for vedolizumab (versus null in CZP and other
investigated non-TNFis). Two of the CCA cases were associated with other
neurological CMs (one cerebral ventriculomegaly with microcephaly and
one polymicrogyria). This may indicate that these CCAs are related to
undiagnosed genetic alterations or are associated with the underlying
maternal disease, although a definite relationship with vedolizumab
exposure cannot be ruled out. Conclusion No special safety signal was
identified regarding the occurrence of CMs after exposure to non-TNFis,
except for vedolizumab. Based on available information, no firm
conclusions can be made regarding observed CCAs in the vedolizumab group
(it warrants further research)
Leukemia Cutis presenting as Hyperpigmented patches. A rare presentation
Authors: Namazi Nastaran , Kani Zahra Asadi , kaddah Ali , Diab Reem
Published: May 2022

Leukemia cutis is a cutaneous manifestation of leukemia. Herein, we
present a rare cutaneous manifestation of leukemia cutis in a patient
with myeloid leukemia m5, characterized by hyperpigmented red-to-brown
patches on face and upper trunk. To our knowledge, hyperpigmented
patches secondary to leukemia cutis is rarely described in the
literature.
Concealed His Extrasystoles: A Masquerader of AV Block
Authors: Ho Rady , Ruskin Jeremy , Ng Chee Yuan
Published: May 2022

Concealed His extrasystoles are a well-known masquerader of AV block. It
is therefore necessary to consider pseudo AV block in patients who
develop unexpected AV block without a clear etiology. In this report, we
present a case of a 46-year-old female who was found to have
pseudo-Mobitz II AV block secondary to His extrasystoles diagnosed on
surface ECG without requiring invasive electrophysiology study. We also
demonstrated in this patient that flecainide can be an effective
treatment for His extrasystoles.
THD Reduction in Closed Loop Multilevel Inverter by using Adaptive Learning Algorithm
Authors: SELOKAR MOHAN , SANKHE MANOJ
Published: May 2022

Multilevel converters are very widely used for industrial applications
as it has various advantages like less distortion and high efficiency.
Multilevel converters reduced the need of high rating switches in the
converter. High value of output voltage and high value of current can be
obtained whenever required by application. It produces multiple levels
in output voltage and output current. We used Voltage feedback for the
control of the output voltage. Usually PI controller is used for the
control of output voltage in order to reduce total harmonic distortion.
We replaced PI controller with artificial neural network (ANN) to reduce
THD. Learning algorithm in closed loop is implemented and reduction in
THD is achieved.
UHI in Fortaleza and trends on screen-level air temperature and precipitation
Authors: Afrânio Coelho,
Published: May 2022

There is a consensus that Urban Heat Island phenomenon - UHI occurs in
every large city. This effect is characterized by higher air
temperatures in cities than in the neighboring countryside at night.
However, to date, there has been no systematic study on the Fortaleza
case, the Brazil’s 5th largest city. By the comparison between
screen-level air temperature measured by two automatic weather stations,
one located in the city and the other in the neighboring region, this
work shows the occurrence of the UHI in Fortaleza, even during the rainy
season. In an attempt to find some effect of the UHI on precipitation
(and vice-versa), historical series of air temperature and precipitation
were analyzed from 1966 to 2020. Besides the considerable increase in
air temperature over the years, a slight downward trend was observed in
UHI and even more in accumulated precipitation between the hours of
15:00 and 21:00 (local time). However, one believes that these trends
may be related to climate change at large scale rather than an urban
scale.
A View of Milton and the Traditional
Authors: Kranidas Thomas
Published: May 2022

Milton's view of the traditional in literature is usually deduced from a handful of orthodox statements on style and genre. In fact, Milton's attitude ought to be deduced from the whole range of his poetry and prose. In the prose, where Milton continually comments on problems of language, he steadily condemns unthinking use of authority. His hostility to the merely traditional ought to give us freedom to treat the poetry with emphasis on its own coherence rather than on consistency with the precepts and models of tradition. In treating the War in Heaven, we ought to allow the possibility of comedy when the local texture urges it on us and we might even see the episode as a part of a continuous organic metaphor in the middle of the poem, a great “bodily” disturbance which ends with the evacuation of evil from Heaven. Milton never avoids the challenging of good by evil, in his ideas, in his symbolic structures, in his very style.
Satan's Metamorphoses: The Internal Speech
Authors: Stein Arnold
Published: May 2022

Beginning with Book IV, Satan's new career forces the orator and master of disguise to speak to himself. The first stage of inner conflict shows the gaps and exchanges between his knowledge and his feeling. Though there are counter-movements, the direction and shape of the conflict present a Satan choosing to integrate himself at a level that favors efficiency of purpose. As the inner life narrows, the art of the narrative voice takes up the moments of greatest intensity and keeps the sense of conflict alive. In effect, Satan transforms himself and does so according to the traditions of moral law. The internal speech demonstrates how he maneuvers himself, freely expressing the passions, motives, and selective awareness by which he moves, but which govern him—so that he is at once “voluntary” agent and victim.
“Uncloister'd Virtue”: Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise
Authors: Blackburn Thomas H.
Published: May 2022

Milton, following Genesis, dates man's Fall from his eating the fruit of the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,” yet in Paradise Lost Adam and Eve know evil before they disobey God's command. Set forth in part in Raphael's instructive discourses and acknowledged in the speeches of Adam and Eve themselves, this prelapsarian knowledge is conceptual. It makes Adam and Eve free and responsible moral agents, but is not therefore incompatible with innocence: they may “see, and know, and yet abstain.” The series of choices they survive in innocence proves them “sufficient to have stood,” yet also foreshadows their corruption by manifesting potentialities which make them “free to fall.” By eating the fruit they for the first time actualize evil in their own existence, and the “event” for which the tree is named is this new and catastrophic knowledge of evil as an experienced actuality. The Fall is neither the inexplicable ruin of an ignorant bliss nor the inevitable result of a flawed creation. Milton's conception of a knowledgeable, yet sinless, innocence not only is congruent with his analysis of virtue in Areopagitica, but also makes possible a narrative rendering of the Fall which is coherent, credible, and dramatic.
“Comus” and the Castlehaven Scandal
Authors: Breasted Barbara
Published: May 2022

The cuts made for the first performance of Comus tend to reduce the explicit sexual content of the Lady's and Comus’ speeches. This decorum, and the “cleansing family ritual” of the masque itself, were probably designed to repair the Bridgewater family's reputation, damaged by the trial and execution, three years before, of the Earl of Castlehaven and two of his servants for sexual crimes. Testimony and reports of the trial in diaries and letters describe the rape and promiscuity of the Earl's wife (sister to the Countess of Bridgewater), homosexuality between the Earl and his servants, and the conversion of Elizabeth Audley (Alice Egerton's twelve-year-old cousin) into a “whore.” Letters of the Countess Dowager of Derby, for whom Milton wrote Arcades, reveal her distress over the scandal and her efforts to obtain pardons for her daughter and granddaughter. For the first audience, seeing Lady Alice Egerton act out her resistance to sexual temptation, Comus affirmed the Bridgewaters’ possession of the aristocratic virtues which their relatives so notoriously lacked.
Christ's Nativity and the Pagan Deities
Authors: Hyman Lawrence W.
Published: May 2022

In reading the Nativity Ode, the sense of loss that we feel at the disappearance of the pagan gods is genuine, but it does not interfere with the unity of the poem. For the coming of Christ is also presented in a paradoxical manner: the Prince of Light comes to us in darkness, the all-powerful God in a “house of mortal clay.” We should therefore not be surprised that the arrival of Christianity, which will eventually make all life divine, has as its first result the banishment of what men had thought of as divine—the false gods. The ambivalent attitude towards the pagan gods is thus continuous with the paradox of Christ; and the poem, although complex in bringing together contradictory feelings, is unified in tone.
Milton and the Ancients on the Writing of History
Authors: Samuel Irene
Published: May 2022

Milton's views on the writing of history develop from an early acceptance of rhetorical commonplaces to independent judgments not only on how history should be written but on what history is worth writing. This development was produced by his experience as a historian and controversialist and by his study of classical works, notably Lucian's satiric How to Write History. He goes beyond the ancients—and his contemporaries —in removing all “set speeches” from proper historiography; he speaks with Lucianic bite on the fabulous in history; despite his lifelong regard for Sallust, he repudiates Sallust's comment that a nation depends for greatness on its historians. Ultimately he applies a single standard to all mankind's doings, and concludes that nations get the historians they deserve. By the time he rejects the suggestion that he write the story of his own troubled times he has reached convictions like those written into Paradise Lost on the worthlessness of recording what does not merit praise.
“The Lord's Battells”: “Samson Agonistes” and the Puritan Revolution
Authors: Di Salvo Jackie
Published: May 2022

Samson was a culture hero for the Puritan revolution, held up as a spiritual model by the preachers. Samson Agonistes expresses the central values of that revolution. Samson is an active hero with a divine vocation who eschews the idle life represented by Dalila, just as the Puritan middle class rejected the leisure values of the aristocracy. Samson's vocation, like those of many seventeenth-century Puritans, is military and revolutionary. He is fighting on God's side in a cosmic war against Satan, whose battlefield is not only in the soul but in the political terrain of England. His vocation is to free the Israelites from the oppression of the Philistines, just as the New Model Army believed it had a divine calling to free England from the demonic tyranny of Charles I. The contrast between Samson and Harapha reflects the development of a new kind of soldier armed with the advantages of internal discipline. On the spiritual level Samson battles against self-doubt to that same faith in providence which enabled men like Cromwell to lead a new class to power.
Milton's Gunpowder Poems and Satan's Conspiracy
Authors: Revard Stella P.
Published: May 2022

The gunpowder sermons, preached in annual celebration of the discovery of Guy Fawkes's plot (1605), were powerful influences on the young Milton's treatment of this conspiracy in his Latin epigrams and In Quintum Novembris. The sermons also influenced the mature Milton's depiction of Satan's conspiracy in Paradise Lost. The influence of the gunpowder sermons is apparent in the many striking resemblances between them and Milton's work, early and late. The preachers and Milton alike regard Satan as the archetypal conspirator, who invented gunpower as a weapon to rival God's thunderbolt. They are alike in dramatically characterizing God as the unmoved deity, who easily defeats the most subtle of intrigues. For example, both the preachers and Milton are indebted to Psalm ii, the spectacle of God laughing at his enemies. Finally, the particular ironic contempt which Milton affects toward the rebel angels in Paradise Lost may be traced to the irony employed by the sermonists to mock the pretentious futility of the gunpowder plotters. The gunpowder sermons, then, bring into sharp relief some political contours of Paradise Lost.
Milton's “Areopagitica”: Its Isocratic and Ironic Contexts
Authors: Wittreich, Joseph Anthony
Published: May 2022

Milton's ambivalent attitudes toward both the English Parliament and Isocrates suggest that his title for this, his most famous, prose work possesses more precise imaginative connections with its substance than is usually supposed. Through his title—and then in his exordium—Milton equates himself with Isocrates and Parliament with the General Assembly. But those equations are shaken by the allusion to St. Paul, who is clearly to be admired for his toleration and whose audience is to be rebuffed for its lack of it. Milton allows the initial correspondences to remain intact until he fulfills the rhetorical demands of his exordium (eliciting the good will of his audience) and then allows ironic inconsistencies to tumble forth. Areopagitica, then, is written from two perspectives (the one serious, the other ironic)—a conclusion that is supported by both the allusion to St. Paul and the reference to Euripides’ The Suppliants. A “perpetual stumbling block” to generations of readers, the title of Milton's oration proves to be an important source of meaning and unity for the work.
THE SACRED HEAD: MILTON'S SOLAR MYSTICISM
Authors: Norford Don Parry
Published: May 2022

Milton aspires to light, to free himself from the body. A celebrant of the solar Logos, he is preoccupied with the conflict between spirit and nature and the frightening possibility of the dissolution of consciousness. The central figures in Milton's poems are associated with the death and rebirth of the sun. In his early poems the figure of Orpheus, whose Apollonian song tamed Dionysian nature, inspires the triumph of the Christ-child over the pagan deities, the death and rebirth of Lycidas, the mystique of the Lady's “sun-clad power of chastity.” In the later poems solar power tends to become apocalyptically destructive: Samson annihilates the Philistines, and the Son overwhelms the rebel angels in his solar chariot. Milton's ideal, symbolized by the chariot of Deity, is to harness physical energies in service of the Logos. This ideal of sublimation, which has alchemical affinities, is displayed in A Mask. Ideally, sublimation should lead to integration and higher wholeness. Yet in Milton, transcendence seems ultimately based upon dismemberment—the mortification of nature in the interests of spirit.
MILTON'S HOUSEHOLD EPIC
Authors: Toliver Harold E.
Published: May 2022

Formal epic is both consummated and altered by Milton in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, which absorb much of the tradition but recast it. The focus in Paradise Lost on Adam and Eve is part of Milton's conscious resistance to chivalric epic on behalf of Puritan and domestic values. In contrast to the royalist apologetic still active in his day, Milton subordinated civil to religious institutions. The sublime domesticity of Adam and Eve is expressed by the meet conversations of Book IV, where Milton defines a new love language and combines pastoral and heroic virtues. The Fall adds the moral values of redemption in a chastened Adam and Eve and in Christ, who completes the heroic paradigm. This notion of the heroic is not new, but reformative; it goes back to scriptural precedents. But it is also provoked by the times, and Milton invents a new style to handle the scriptural materials.
Milton's Technique of Multiple Choice
Authors: Mollenkott Virginia R.
Published: May 2022

Milton presented his readers with two or more possible interpretations of certain situations for the following purposes: to avoid committing himself on issues where he himself was doubtful; to recognize the mysteries of the universe; to make his plot more intriguing; to create a bridge between Hebraic mythological exclusiveness and Hellenic richness; and to provide ironic commentary on the human condition. Always the technique has the effect of drawing the reader into more active participation through choice. Nathaniel Hawthorne used the technique perhaps more frequently than Milton, sometimes more obviously, but always with similar effect.
The Rule of Charity in Milton's Divorce Tracts
Authors: Huguelet Theodore L.
Published: May 2022

To reconcile Christ and Moses on divorce (Matthew, chapter xix and Deuteronomy, chapter xxiv), and to prove that the Scriptures in fact sanction divorce for incompatibility, Milton needed a decisive principle of hermeneutics. He discovered “the Rule of Charity.” This rule—the hermeneutical corollary of the Gospel doctrine of charity—became Milton's “loadstarre” of exegesis, enabling him to resolve doctrinal ambiguities by seeking the interpretation most charitable toward mankind. While Milton might have derived the Rule of Charity from Augustine, from Augustinian tradition, or from Erasmus or Hugo Grotius, it is likely that he discovered his key to Scripture in 1641—42, when he applied Ramistic method to exegesis. He observed that doctrinal charity becomes the “supreme axiom” in the method of Scripture, or the art of divinity. Hence, by the axiom of charity, a literal, merciless interpretation of Christ's words on divorce would invert the Law and the Gospel and violate the divine dialectics of Scripture. Milton's confidence in his divorce argument was bolstered by his perception of divine method behind “the all-interpreting voice of Charity.”
Lovemaking in Milton's Paradise
Authors: Lindenbaum Peter
Published: May 2022

In Paradise Lost, Milton took the unusual stand of asserting that Adam and Eve engaged in sexual relations while still in Eden before the Fall, a stand which was, if not totally original with Milton, at least a departure from almost all treatments of his scriptural material by Christian poets, theologians, and biblical commentators before him. Any importance that the relative distinctiveness of such a stand implies is reinforced further by the enthusiastic outbursts of the poem's usually calm narrator when he touches on the subject of our first parents' nocturnal lovemaking (in Book IV) and on the related subject of the naked Eve's physical attractiveness. What amounts to an instance of Milton's personal emphasis in the poem, then, encourages the reader as well as Adam to view sexual love as the “sum” of prelapsarian bliss (VIII, 522); and when love of Eve proves to be the cause of Adam's fall, we are prompted to appreciate his decision as complex and difficult, even while we judge him mistaken in placing his love of Eve before obedience to God. The difficulty that Milton's own insistence upon prelapsarian sexual love works into Adam's decision is typical of the poet's presentation of prelapsarian life generally. Life in Milton's relatively difficult Eden is not so much significantly different from our postlapsarian existence as it is a pastoral image of our present complex life in small.
Estado del arte programas de posgrado en Inocuidad y Procesos Biotecnológicos Alimentarios (IPBA)
Authors: Guevara Guerrero Beatriz , Vásquez García Andrea , Jurado Cortes Norma
Published: May 2022

En este artículo se presenta una reflexión del estado del arte de los programas de posgrado universitarios en las disciplinas de Inocuidad y Procesos Biotecnológicos Alimentarios (IPBA) y áreas de formación académica afines hasta el 2021. Es parte del proceso de creación, diseño y desarrollo de un nuevo programa a nivel de especialización tecnológica elaborado por la Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD) de Colombia. La búsqueda de información sistemática se realizó mediante bases de datos educativas, listados que agrupan programas de posgrado, buscadores de posgrado a nivel de especialización, especialización tecnológica, maestría, artículos y documentos de organizaciones que trabajan en IPBA. El objetivo de revisar el estado del arte de programas de posgrado en IPBA, es conocer qué temáticas se están enseñando en las universidades a nivel nacional y mundial frente a las necesidades de las empresas e industrias de alimentos y si existe una congruencia entre lo que se está enseñando académicamente a nivel nacional y mundial y los requerimientos de las organizaciones. Por tanto, se relacionaron los programas posgraduales a nivel nacional e internacional, analizando un bajo número de programas posgraduales con estas características y una gran necesidad de creación de nuevos programas de formación posgradual en el área de inocuidad y procesos biotecnológicos alimentarios.
“MEANING AS USE”, NORMATIVE SENTENCES, AND ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE
Authors: Оглезнев Виталий Васильевич
Published: May 2022

Представлены возражения против позиции В. А. Ладова, изложенной в его статье в этом номере журнала. Рассмотрен один из критических аргументов Д. Катца, выдвинутый против концепции «значение как употребление» Л. Витгенштейна. Речь идет об аргументе, что фиксация более глубинных смыслов грамматических форм, которые не релятивизируются в языковых играх, позволяет показать, что смыслы грамматических форм не рождаются в конкретной языковой игре. Показано, что если критерием понимания смысла в рамках коммуникации может служить только определенное действие, то решающее значение имеет не столько пропозициональное содержание этого действия, сколько его иллокутивная сила. Без иллокутивной силы смысл языковой формы понять достаточно сложно, если вообще возможно. Обращение к нормативным предложениям, выраженным особыми прескриптивными речевыми актами, позволило показать, что различия между приказами, просьбами, предсказаниями проявляются только на прагматическом уровне использования языка, на семантическом уровне такого различия нет. Вне контекста конкретной языковой игры такого различия не провести.

This short remark, which is a minor objection to Vsevolod A. Ladov’s panel article “Gottlob Frege’s Semantics in Modern Analytic Philosophy”, examines one of the critical arguments put forward by Jerrold Katz against Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “meaning as use”. I am talking about the argument that fixing deeper meanings of grammatical forms that are not relativized in language games allows us to show that the meanings of grammatical forms are not caused in a specific language game. I show that, if only a certain action can be treated as a criterion for understanding meaning in the framework of communication, then the crucial importance is not so much the propositional content of this action as its illocutionary force. Without the illocutionary force, the meaning of linguistic form is quite difficult to understand, if at all possible. The reference to normative sentences expressed by special prescriptive speech acts made it possible to show that the differences between orders, requests, predictions manifest themselves only at the pragmatic level of language use, there is no such difference at the semantic level. Beyond the context of a particular language game, such a distinction cannot be made.
Competing Notions of Diversity in Archipelago Tourism: Transport Logistics, Official Rhetoric and Inter-Island Rivalry in the Azores
Authors: Baldacchino Godfrey , Ferreira Eduardo Costa Duarte
Published: May 2022

Contending and competing geographies are often implicitly involved in archipelagic spaces. Various small island states and territories with multi-island geographies have flourishing tourism industries that presuppose an archipelagic experience: visitors are encouraged to explore and sample different island constituents of the territory. This strategy taps into different tourism niche markets, improves local value added, and shares tourism revenue beyond key nodes and urban centers. The organization of such an important economic activity however often reflects a ‘one-size-fits-all’, tightly coordinated, frequently contrived process that does not necessarily speak to the cultural and biogeographical forms of diversity that reside in the archipelago. This paper offers the notion of archipelago as a new way of rethinking problems and challenges encountered in island tourism, and then assesses the implications of this conceptualization on the representation of ‘the archipelago’ in the Azores, Portugal, and reviews what this approach means and implies for sustainable tourism policy.
Futures, fakes and discourses of the gigantic and miniature in ‘The World’ islands, Dubai
Authors: Gupta Pamila
Published: May 2022

This article takes the “island” as a key trope in tourism studies, exploring how ideas of culture and nature, as well as those of paradise (lost) are central to its interpretation for tourists and tourist industries alike. Increasingly, however, island tourism is blurring the line between geographies of land and water, continent and archipelago, and private and public property. The case of ‘The World’ islands mega project off the coast of Dubai (UAE) is used to chart the changing face and future of island tourism, exploring how spectacle, branding and discourses of the gigantic, miniature, and fake, alongside technological mediations on a largescale, reflect the postmodern neoliberal world of tourism and the liquid times in which we live. Artificial island complexes such as this one function as cosmopolitan ‘non-places’ at the same time that they reflect a resurgence in (British) nascent nationalism and colonial nostalgia, all the whilst operating in a sea of ‘junkspace’. The shifting cartography of ‘the island’ is thus mapped out to suggest new forms of place-making and tourism’s evolving relationship to these floating islandscapes.
The scourging of Sark
Authors: Lowenthal David
Published: May 2022

The Channel Island of Sark (5.5 km2; population 500), Europe’s sole surviving feudal entity, was forced into democracy in 2008 following an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights by billionaire twins Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, tenants of the subsidiary island of Brecqhou. Unhappy with subsequent Sark election results that rejected most of their chosen candidates, backers of Barclay interests have now brought suit to revise the 2008 electoral reform act. The applicants contend that the current system discriminates against those favouring needed development and that Sark still remains essentially under the feudal control of the Seigneur and his cronies. This essay discounts these complaints as spurious and as obnoxious, for threatening the traditional values that sustain Sark’s legendary tranquillity. The Sark saga is an object lesson in steadfast small-island resistance to unwanted ‘improvement’ by outside agency, however motivated.
Reconocimiento de activos en los contratos de arrendamientos financieros. Tratamiento desde el punto de vista del arrendatario
Authors: Martin Juan Carlos
Published: May 2022

Los contratos de leasing en Argentina y en el mundo son de uso frecuente, por ello es que resulta importante comprender lo que las normas técnicas contables dispongan sobre la valorización al momento de su reconocimiento, al realizar las mediciones periódicas del activo y pasivo emergente de la contabilización de este tipo de contrato, y de la baja de estos elementos patrimoniales.
No vemos que se haya profundizado el estudio sobre un aspecto en particular, relacionado con el reconocimiento del activo subyacente que ha sido objeto del contrato de arrendamiento, tratado desde el punto de vista del arrendatario. Nos estamos refiriendo a la determinación del valor descontado de los futuros pagos, a través del uso de la tasa implícita.
Tal vez exista desinterés en analizar a fondo la determinación de este valor actual con la utilización de esta tasa, la implícita, dado que con frecuencia en la actividad profesional se hace difícil sino imposible determinarla. Presentado este caso, se recurre a la tasa incremental de los pasivos, como reemplazo de aquella que no se ha podido determinar.
En las normas contables Argentinas distintas a la RT26 de la Federación Argentina de Consejos Profesionales de Ciencias Económicas (FACPCE), como en el reciente modelo establecido sobre este tema,  en la NIIF 16 del Accounting Standards Board (IASB, 2019), está previsto el uso de esta tasa. Este sería el principal motivo por el que creemos que se debería analizar este caso.
Por lo tanto, aunque la tasa implícita es muy poco utilizada, debería agotarse su estudio, o directamente excluirla de las normas contables que proponen su uso, si finalmente tiene pocas posibilidades de determinarse, ergo de usarse en la práctica profesional cotidiana.
   En este trabajo se realiza un análisis  teórico sobre algunos de los escenarios posibles que se puedan presentar con el uso de esta tasa. No albergamos expectativas de que concite la atención de quienes día a día deben contabilizar los efectos de este tipo de contrato en el desarrollo de su profesión; sin embargo, ello no nos ha detenido para ensayar un ejercicio académico, sin tener la intención de agotar a través de él todas y cada una de las situaciones que se puedan presentar.
   Esperamos abrir un debate sobre la utilidad, la razonabilidad y factibilidad que tiene esta tasa, para contabilizar los efectos derivados de los contratos de arrendamientos financieros.
Grounding structural parameters of machine for apple slicing
Authors: Flys Іhor
Published: May 2022

The project of a low-powered slicing machine, shredder for fruits and vegetables was presented. After the investigations on material cutting, the design and components of the machine as well as its operating mode were particularly considered. The technical characteristics of constructional scheme system was developed and future optimizing research directions proposed.
Use of low-enthalpy geothermal resources for greenhouse heating: an experimental study
Authors: Scarascia Mugnozza Giacomo , Pascuzzi Simone , Anifantis Alexandros Sotirios , Verdiani Giuseppe
Published: May 2022

The energy and economic performance analysis of integrated photovoltaic and geothermal systems, for greenhouse heating, was investigated in a experimental study developed at the University of Bari, Southern Italy. A 7.2 kW geothermal heat pump combined with a 120 m vertical double U-bend ground heat exchanger was installed in order to supply the thermal energy demand of 48 m2 single plastic skin greenhouse. Heat extraction energy from the soil, air temperature above the heated cultivated surface, growing media temperature, water temperature inside the heating system were measured and recorded continuously by a system composed of sensors and data logger. Results of the experiment showed that the use of geothermal sources integrated with photovoltaic panels can supply of totally heat energy demand of greenhouse with zero air emission and economy saving of 40% compared to the traditional heating systems.
Zmiana zawartości białka surowego i tłuszczu w okrywie nasiennej bobu podczas kiełkowania
Authors: Gładyszewska Bożena
Published: May 2022

W pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań zmienności zawartości białka i tłuszczu w okrywach nasion bobu odmiany Hangdown Biały SNF, w trakcie procesu kiełkowania przebiegającego w temperaturze 20ºC ± 1ºC. Pierwsze próbki do analizy pobrano następnego dnia od chwili rozpoczęcia eksperymentu, następne pobierano co 24 h przez 5 kolejnych dni. Badania wykazały zwiększenie zawartości tłuszczu (0,94 g/100 g s.m.–1,35 g/100 g s.m.) wraz ze wzrostem intensywności kiełkowania w okrywach w całym przedziale czasowym i obniżenie zawartości białka w okrywach (4,37 g/100 g s.m. – 3,88 g/100 g s.m.) wraz z pojawianiem się coraz większej liczby kiełków. Badania zakończono po 144 h, gdy większość nasion zakończyła już kiełkowanie. W tym czasie zauważono największy spadek zawartości białka (4,39 g/100 g s.m. – 3,88 g/100 g s.m.).
Wpływ promieniowania mikrofalowego na ciemnienie miąższu bulw ziemniaka
Authors: Jakubowski Tomasz , Wrona Paulina
Published: May 2022

Celem pracy było określenie wpływu mikrofal na ciemnienie surowego miąższu bulw ziemniaka. Badaniami objęto 6 bardzo wczesnych odmian ziemniaka (Arielle, Denar, Felka Bona, Lord, Rosara i Velox), które przechowywano przez okres 7 miesięcy. Do napromieniania bulw ziemniaka wykorzystano generator wytwarzający mikrofale o częstotliwości 2,45 GHz. Ocenę stopnia ciemnienia miąższu wykonano według 9-stopniowej skali duńskiej. Uzyskane wyniki badań nie potwierdzają tego, że mikrofale istotnie wpływały na proces ciemnienia surowego miąższu bulw ziemniaka.
Applied linear discriminant analysis and artificial neural network for sorting dried figs based on texture properties
Authors: Behroozi-Khazaei Nasser , Khodaei Jalal , Banakar Ahmad
Published: May 2022

Dried figs are one of the horticultural products that require sorting in the postharvest stage in order to be presented to the market. In Iran, figs are graded manually by professional workers or automatically by mechanical machines. This paper presents a new algorithm based on machine vision technology applicable to be installed in the fig sorting machines. In the presented methodology, image texture properties of figs are extracted by an image processing algorithm. Some features selected by stepwise linear discriminant analysis were introduced as the superior ones for discriminating different classes of dried figs. Among the ten features, discriminant analysis selected six. The selected texture features were fed to artificial neural networks in order to implement the classification process. The image processing assisted neural networks methodology showed promising result as the total sorting accuracy was 100%.
Wybrane techniki wykorzystania zamrażania w przemysłowym zatężaniu i oczyszczaniu ścieków
Authors: Góral Dariusz , Domin Marek , Kluza Franciszek , Kozłowicz Katarzyna , Nakonieczny Piotr
Published: May 2022

Stosowanie tradycyjnych metod oczyszczania i zatężania ścieków przemysłowych nie zawsze jest skuteczne. Użycie w tym celu metod parowania i odwróconej osmozy może generować wysokie koszty. Alternatywą może być zastosowanie kriokoncentracji. W pracy przedstawiono podstawy fizyczne procesu oraz możliwość praktycznego zastosowania kriokoncentracji do przemysłowego oczyszczania i zatężania ścieków. Szczegółowo zaprezentowano metody Niro GEA oraz metody bezpośredniej krystalizacji wody w rurowym i bębnowym wymienniku ciepła. Stwierdzono, że technologię oczyszczania ścieków przy wykorzystaniu zamrażania cechuje wiele zalet zarówno ekonomicznych, jak i praktycznych oraz wskazano na fakt, że wykorzystanie naturalnych warunków zimą może być przełomem w szerszym zastosowaniu kriokoncentracji do oczyszczania ścieków w Polsce.
The influence of solar radiation on selected physiological processes of mosses in karst conditions of the spring niches of the Ojców National Park (Southern Poland)
Authors: Sołtys-Lelek Anna , Caputa Zbigniew
Published: May 2022

The availability of light is one of the most important environmental factors influencing the floristic diversity of spring niches, especially in the specific conditions of deep, karst valleys occurring in the Ojców National Park (southern Poland). The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of solar radiation reaching the karst spring niches, on selected physiological parameters of the spring mosses: Cratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.) Spruce (obligatory krenophyte) and Brachythecium rivulare Schimp. (facultative krenophyte). The five karst spring niches (4 in the Prądnik Valley, 1 in the Sąspowska Valley) were selected for the plant material collection, in which two of the moss species tested occurred simultaneously. On sunny days, measurements of total and reflected radiation as well as the radiation balance in the full spectrum range over the vegetation were made. The temperature was measured for air, water, and on the surface and inside the plants. The collected biological material was subjected to laboratory analysis. Fresh mass of moss gametophytes was significantly the highest from plants growing on stand 5 (intermediate values of light and temperature parameters), and the lowest from mosses on stands 1 and 2 (including lowest air temperatures). Dry mass varied depending on the species and stand. The percentage of water in B. rivulare was highest in plants from  stand 4 (highest air and water temperature), and in C. filicinum from stand 5. Significantly the lowest values of this parameter were found for plants growing in stand 2 (lowest temperature of water). The electrolytes leakage from moss cells was specific and depended on the species. The greatest destabilisation of cell membranes was demonstrated in plants harvested from stands 1 and 2, where it was the coldest. The fluorescence of chlorophyll a varied depending on the moss species and the habitat of spring niches. This paper, presenting of preliminary results, is a kind of introduction to wider research in this topic.
Los enunciados fraseológicos. Algunos ejemplos del catalán coloquial
Authors: Bladas Òscar
Published: May 2022

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Análisis de la interacción comunicativa en contextos institucionales entre proveedores de servicios, usuarios e intermediarios lingüísticos.
Authors: Valero Carmen , Taibi Mustapha
Published: May 2022

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Factors Affecting Readmission to a Drug Rehabilitation Center in Brunei Darussalam
Authors:   Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jln Tungku Link, Brunei Darussalam, Jali Fadzilah , Leong Elvynna ,   Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jln Tungku Link, Brunei Darussalam, Jamil Haziq ,   Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jln Tungku Link, Brunei Darussalam
Published: May 2022

The objective of this study is to examine the sociodemographic factors contributing to the readmission to a drug rehabilitation center among drug addicts in Brunei Darussalam. This retrospective study used de-identified data obtained from the Al-Islah Rehabilitation Center for the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2017. Univariate and multiple logistic regression analyses with a stepwise variable selection method were used to estimate and determine significant factors associated with readmission to the center. A total of 92 out of 705 subjects (13%) were readmitted to the rehabilitation center within the study period, with ages ranging from 20 to 59 years (M = 36.1, SD = 8.6 years). Multiple logistic regression found that subjects who were in the age group of 40 to 49 (OR = 2.24, 95% CI [1.16, 4.37]) resided in the Belait district (OR = 1.94, 95% CI [1.00, 3.63]), divorced or widowed (OR = 2.14, 95% CI [1.19, 3.82]), had committed other criminal offenses (OR = 1.91, 95% CI [1.16, 3.11]), and voluntarily admitted (OR = 2.33, 95% CI [1.34, 4.01]), were found to be significantly more likely to get readmitted to the rehabilitation center. This study provides evidence of sociodemographic factors in relation to readmission to the rehabilitation center in Brunei Darussalam.
Assessing the Determinants of Women’s Age at First Marriage in Rural and Urban Areas of Bangladesh: Insights From Quantile Regression (QR) Approaches
Authors:   Department of Statistics, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh, Hossain Sorif , Hossain Md. Moyazzem ,   Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Yeasmin Sabina ,   Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bhuiyea Md. Shabbir Hossain ,   Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, Chowdhury Promit Barua ,   Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Khan Md. Tareq Ferdous ,   Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental and Public Health  Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, USA
Published: May 2022

This study aims to assess the determinants of age at first marriage of women in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh. The multiple linear regression (MLR) and quantile regression (QR) were employed for analyzing the secondary datasets collected from the 2006, 2012–2013, and 2019 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). The study reveals that the prevalence of early marriage in both rural and urban areas of Bangladesh was extremely high (79% vs. 21%) in 2019. An increasing trend of early marriage in rural areas is evident from 2006 to 2012 compared to a decreasing trend from 2013 to 2019. On the contrary, an opposite scenario is evident in the urban areas. The MLR and QR analysis consistently show that women’s age, geographical division, ethnic group, religion, wealth index, and women’s education are significantly associated with age at first marriage. More specifically, the higher likelihood of early marriage is evident for women living in rural areas, with a low family income, and lower education, living either in Barisal, Rangpur, Khulna, or Rajshahi, and believing in Islam. Generating and implementing more income opportunities for women, raising awareness about the drawback of early marriage, and designing new strategies would improve the current situation.
Can Positive Online Social Cues Always Reduce User Avoidance of Sponsored Search Results?
Authors:   Tongji University, Deng Honglin , Wang Weiquan ,   City University of Hong Kong, Li Siyuan ,   William & Mary, Lim Kai ,   City University of Hong Kong
Published: May 2022

Online social cues that utilize user-generated data, such as user reviews and product ratings, have become one of the key factors influencing online user behavior and decisions. Online users who shared their reviews and ratings about a product (or a seller) become an abstract reference group to a focal user interested in the same product. This study focuses on sponsored search results (SSRs), a type of unsolicited information that matches users’ search queries and receives high evaluations from prior consumers. We investigate the effects of positive social cues on alleviating users’ avoidance responses toward an encountered SSR when searching for a product in a C2C e-commerce context. We synthesize the avoidance literature and identify three forms of SSR avoidance, namely, cognitive, behavioral, and affective avoidance. We apply users’ implicit concerns on SSRs to explain users’ avoidance of an encountered SSR. In addition, we extend social influence theory to online settings where abstract reference groups are posited to trigger social influence. We examine how and under what conditions the three forms of SSR avoidance can be reduced by various positive online social cues (i.e., product- and seller-related). We conduct three laboratory experiments. Results attest to users’ implicit concerns on SSRs and their avoidance of SSRs and reveal different effects of various social cues on reducing the three forms of SSR avoidance. This study uncovers the theoretical mechanisms of social influence on reducing SSR avoidance in online settings. It also offers practical implications for online search service providers to help online users’ decision making in their search process.