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Using Ethnographic Approaches to Co-Construct Strategies for Success With Students With Dyslexia
Authors: Fogarty-Perry Barbara , McKenzie Margaret
Published: January 2020

This chapter takes a dual focus/lens to applying and performing research methods in inclusive and special education in a tertiary/post-secondary setting with a group of students with dyslexia. It links the core ideas of United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities Article 24, Inclusive Education to describing the development and implementation of a co-constructed, collaborative project to identify success strategies for students with dyslexia, utilizing both student and teacher perspectives and experiences, and examines the fit of utilizing ethnographic approaches in this. As practitioner –researchers, authors provide a narrative case study of a project which was developed/co-constructed to respond to a set of identified needs for a group of students presenting with dyslexia. Authors then examine how the project practices link to research methodology, particularly ethnography, and produce both a set of strategies to work inclusively in the future with students with dyslexia and also construct a methodological approach within the lens of new ethnography. This serves to theories both the project work and guidelines for future use of ethnographic approaches for research in the field of inclusive and special education.
FEM Analysis for Asymmetric Bending Roll of Roll Process in Four-High Mill
Authors: Jia Feng Yong , Wang Jun Sheng , Liu Jia Wei
Published: January 2020

Accurate prediction for the deformation of the roll system is a key to improve the accuracy of the preset model and on-line control model of strip cold rolling processes. A non-linear finite element contact model to simulate the roll system deformation has been developed for4h cold strip rolling mill. Roll process of 4-high cold strip mill is simulated and analyzed by 3D elastic-plastic FEM on the bases of software ANSYS. In the model, the elastic deformation of work roll and backup roll, the plastic deformation of the strip and the pressure of strip and the work and the backup roll were taken into account. Results show that the work roll HYPERLINK "javascript:showjdsw ('showjd_0','j_0')" asymmetric bending is the most effective mean in these strip shape controlling means. The calculated roll gap profile is close to the measured values. This model can improve the accuracy of final products through a correct preset model and on-line control model of strip.
Comparison Experimental Study on Retrofitting Methods of Partially Damaged Timber Columns
Authors: Raongjant Werasak , Jing Meng
Published: January 2020

This paper presented the experimental study on two different strengthening methods for partially damaged timber columns, GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer) sheets and sprayed FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer). Detail comparison was carried out between the mechanical properties of 25% or 50% damaged timber short columns under uniaxial or biaxial eccentric compression. The ultimate bearing capacity of retrofitted columns increased obviously. The biggest improvement after SFRP (Sprayed FRP) retrofitting was 62.7%. Compared with that of undamaged columns, the ultimate bearing capacity of partially damaged columns after retrofitting was recovered up to 48 to 98%. SFRP method is a reasonable and better substitute method of GFRP sheets retrofitting.
Relationship between Crystallization Behavior and Mechanical Performance of F-III Fibers under Different Tensions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Authors: Ding Xiao Ma , Kong Hai Juan , Qiao Meng Meng , Hu Zhi Feng , Yu Mu Huo
Published: January 2020

In this article, the supercritical carbon dioxide (Sc-CO2) was used as a medium for hot-drawing of F-III fibers. The conditions of hot-drawing were selected to be the temperature of 250 °C, pressure of 14 MPa, time of 60 min, and different tensions, which were 0, 3, 4.5, 6, and 7.5 g·d-1, respectively. All samples including the untreated and treated F-III fibers were characterized by a mechanical tester and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Results showed that the Sc-CO2 and applied tension could both promote the crystallinity and degree of orientation of F-III fibers at a temperature below the Tg of F-III fibers in Sc-CO2. Moreover, compared with the untreated, the tensile strength and modulus of treated F-III fibers tended to increase with the increase of tension in the range of 0 ~ 6 g·d-1. In summary, this provided a new treatment mode for the hot-drawing of fibers.
Severe Behçet’s disease equally affects both genders in Egyptian patients: A multicentre retrospective follow-up study
Authors: Attia D.H.S. , Abdel Noor R.A.
Published: January 2020

Behçet’s disease is a relapsing multisystemic disease. Its highest prevalence is seen along the Silk Road. While several studies reported gender disparities, others didn’t. Scarce data are available about the Arabs and the gender differences detected in some ethnicities could not be applied to others. Our study aimed to detect gender differences among a cohort of adult Egyptian patients with Behçet’s disease. Medical files of 255 adult patients diagnosed with Behçet’s disease at the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department of Kasr Al-Aini Hospital, Cairo University and the Internal Medicine Department of Tanta University, between 2002 and 2018, were retrospectively reviewed. The demographic features, the cumulative clinical features, the use, if any, of an intravenous pulse of methylprednisolone and immunosuppressive/biological drugs, and the frequency of the cumulative damage to the different organ systems were described. The disease severity score was calculated as well. The study revealed a prominent male predominance; the male to female ratio was 6.7:1. Acne/pseudofolliculitis was more common in males (28.6% vs 13.2%, p=0.046); the same was observed regarding any vascular involvement and peripheral venous disease (36.3% vs 18.4%, p=0.03 and 30.4% vs 13.2%, p=0.03, respectively). On the other hand, encephalitis and cranial nerve lesions were more prevalent in females (15.8% vs 6%, p=0.03 and 10.5% vs 3.2%, p=0.04, respectively). Severe Behçet’s disease equally affects Egyptian males and females. BD should not be considered a benign disease in Egyptian females. The same quality of medical care should be equally offered to both genders.
Subcalcaneal bursitis as the initial manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis: ultrasonographic observation of two cases
Authors: Suzuki T. , Shirai H.
Published: January 2020

In early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), proliferative synovitis sometimes occurs earlier in the tenosynovium or bursal synovium than in the articular synovium. Here we report two patients who presented with subcalcaneal bursitis while progressing from undifferentiated arthritis with high-titer anti-CCP antibodies (ACPA) to a diagnosis of RA. They had initially presented with palindromic transient pain in the hands and the feet. They were strongly positive for ACPA and negative for rheumatoid factor (RF) at the onset of symptoms. A few years later, they developed persistent plantar heel pain and underwent musculoskeletal ultrasonography (MSUS). MSUS revealed subcalcaneal bursitis with synovial proliferation. At that time, they became positive for RF and they were clinically diagnosed and began receiving treatment for RA. They developed overt synovitis in their wrists and fingers several months later. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on MSUS-detection of subcalcaneal bursitis with synovial proliferation in patients in the very early phase of RA, although there have been many reports of forefoot bursitis. These cases suggest that MSUS scanning of the plantar surface of the heel may be useful for patients with plantar heel pain who are suspected of having a very early phase of RA, because proliferative synovitis can be detected as subcalcaneal bursitis.
Erysipelas-like presentation of Wells’ syndrome (eosinophilic cellulitis)
Authors: Belfeki N. , Gharbi E. , Flateau C. , Diamantis S.
Published: January 2020

Wells’ syndrome, also called eosinophilic cellulitis, is a rare eosinophilic dermatosis characterized by an unspecific inflammatory erythematous eruption often associated with systemic symptoms. Here we report the case of a 57-year-old female with bilateral painful pitting and pruritic feet progressive for two weeks despite one week of oral antibiotics. Skin biopsy was performed showing dermal eosinophilic infiltration. The patient showed a spontaneous progressive improvement of the condition. The presented case demonstrates both clinical and histologic presence of lesions of Wells’ syndrome in the course of the disease. A careful diagnostic approach is needed because of the lack of specific signs. The global outcome is favorable and spontaneous resolution is possible.
Estimation and comparison of integral dose to target and organs at risk in three-dimensional computed tomography image-based treatment planning of carcinoma uterine cervix with two high-dose-rate brachytherapy sources
Authors: Yadav Suresh , Singh O. P. , Choudhary S. , Saroj Dinesh Kumar , Yogi Veenita , Goswami Brijesh
Published: January 2020

Background:

Iridium-192 (192Ir) has been a widely accepted radioisotope for high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy. Recently, Cobalt-60 (60Co) radioisotope with a longer half-life (5.26 years) has been gaining popularity due to economic and logistical reasons as compared with the traditional 192Ir.

Aim:

This study aimed to evaluate and compare the integral dose (ID) to the target and organs at risk (OARs) with two HDR brachytherapy sources in brachytherapy treatment of carcinoma uterine cervix to find appropriate HDR radioisotopes for clinical benefit.

Materials and Methods:

This is a retrospective analysis of 52 computed tomography image-based brachytherapy plans of 52 patients who have received intracavitary treatment with 192Ir HDR source. For each patient plan, one additional set of plan was created using 60Co source in place of 192Ir source keeping the same dwell position, and again dose was optimized. The volume and mean dose for target, OARs, and volume structures of 400%, 200%, 150%, 100%, and 50% were recorded for the estimation and comparison of ID.

Results:

The mean ID to high-risk clinical target volume was significantly higher by 5.84% in 60Co plan than that in 192Ir plan. For OARs, the mean ID to the rectum was significantly higher by 2.60% in 60Co plan as compared to 192Ir plan, whereas for bladder and sigmoid colon, it was lower in 60Co plan than that in 192Ir plan. The mean ID of central dose volume structures of 400%, 200%, 150%, 100%, and 50% was higher by 12.97%, 9.77%, 8.16%, 6.10%, and 3.22%, respectively, in 60Co plan than that of 192Ir plan.

Conclusion:

The results of our study concluded that 192Ir HDR radioisotope should be preferred for intracavitary brachytherapy due to its ideal physical characteristics for better clinical outcomes.
Microcontroller and Android HMI Based Water Level and Control System
Authors: Lestariningsih Tri , Artono Budi , Asyik Hidayatullah Nur , Kusbandono Hendrik
Published: January 2020

Water is a basic human need in daily life. The use of water is used for various household needs for example for consumption, bathing, washing and so on. At present there are still many people who use water pumps to fill water reservoirs at home or in office buildings that are filled manually, so that problems often occur such as the level of water in the reservoir where water is unknown, it is possible that the situation of reservoirs can occur overflow or empty. Utilizing technology in this research will create a tool used to control the water level in the reservoir, which is "Microcontroller-Based Water Level Control System and Android HMI" which is an alternative in controlling and monitoring the water level in a reservoir automatically using an Android Smartphone. This tool is used to control and monitor water reservoirs automatically via Android HMI so that it can be controlled remotely. This tool is designed using a NodeMCU ESP8266 Microcontroller, a relay module that functions to turn on and turn off the pump, and one sensor, the HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor which functions to measure the water level in the reservoir. And the android application used is Cayenne. The test result data is shown in the cayenne application in the form of setting the water height setpoint, the ON / OFF pump indicator and the height value in units of percent (%) and centimeter (cm).
Comparison of the Distribution Pattern of 21-Gene Recurrence Score between Mucinous Breast Cancer and Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma in Chinese Population: A Retrospective Single-Center Study
Authors: Wu Jiayi , Ding Shuning , Lin Lin , Fei Xiaochun , Lin Caijin , Andriani Lisa , Goh Chihwan , Huang Jiahui , Hong Jin , Gao Weiqi , Zhu Siji , Wang Hui , Huang Ou , Chen Xiaosong , He Jianrong , Li Yafen , Shen Kunwei , Chen Weiguo , Zhu Li
Published: January 2020

PurposeThis retrospective study aimed to evaluate the distribution pattern and prognostic value of 21-gene recurrence score (RS) in Chinese patients with mucinous breast cancer (MC) and compared with infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC).Materials and MethodsPatients diagnosed with MC or IDC from January 2010 to January 2017 were retrospectively recruited. Reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction assay of 21 genes was conducted to calculate the RS. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess the association between RS and clinicopathological factors. Survival outcomes including disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were estimated by Kaplan-Meier method and compared by log-rank test.ResultsThe MC cohort included 128 patients and the IDC cohort included 707 patients. The proportions of patients with a low (RS < 18), intermediate (18-30), or high risk (RS > 30) were 32.0%, 48.4%, and 19.5% in MC cohort, and 26.9%, 46.8% and 26.3% in IDC cohort. The distribution of RS varied significantly according to different Ki-67 index and molecular subtype in both cohorts. Moreover, the receipt of chemotherapy was associated with RS in both cohorts. Among patients with MC, tumor stage was related to the DFS (p=0.040). No significant differences in DFS and OS were found among MC patients in different RS risk groups (OS, p=0.695; DFS, p=0.926).ConclusionRS was significantly related to Ki-67 index and molecular subtypes in MC patients, which is similar in IDC patients. However, RS was not able to predict DFS and OS in patients with MC.
On Extensions for Gentle Algebras
Authors: Çanakçı İlke , Pauksztello David , Schroll Sibylle
Published: January 2020

We give a complete description of a basis of the extension spaces between indecomposable string and quasi-simple band modules in the module category of a gentle algebra.
A Rejoinder by Masudul Alam Choudhury
Authors: Masudul Alam Choudhury Masudul Alam Choudhury
Published: January 2020

This is a very brief rejoinder to the above critique of my critique of financial engineering in Islamic epistemological perspective. The purpose of this rejoinder is to point out saliently some of the misgivings on the part of the commentator in his comment. The purpose is not to be elaborate on various points in which I find the commentator to be shallow in his examination of facts and understanding of the paper as presented. By this rejoinder I hope that the misgiving on the mind of the reader will be assuaged by the meaning of the arguments presented in the paper but not understood by the commentator.
T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament
Authors: Brian Tucker J. , Kuecker Aaron
Published: January 2020

The T & T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive Bible resource that highlights the way the NT seeks to form the social identity of the members of the earliest Christ-movement. By drawing on the interpretive resources of social-scientific theories—especially those related to the formation of identity—interpreters generate new questions that open fruitful identity-related avenues into the text. It provides helpful introductions to each NT book that focus on various social dimensions of the text as well as a commentary structure that illuminates the text as a work of social influence.

The commentary offers methodologically informed discussions of difficult and disputed passages and highlights cultural contexts in theoretically informed ways—drawing on resources from social anthropology, historical sociology, or social identity theory. The innovative but careful scholarship of these writers, most of whom have published monographs on some aspect of social identity within the New Testament, brings to the fore often overlooked social and communal aspects inherent in the NT discourse. The net result is a more concrete articulation of some of the every-day lived experiences of members of the Christ-movement within the Roman Empire, while also offering further insight into the relationship between existing and new identities that produced diverse expressions of the Christ-movement during the first century. The SICNT shows that identity-formation is at the heart of the NT and it offers insights for leaders of faith communities addressing these issues in contemporary contexts
Luke
Authors: Brawley Robert L.
Published: January 2020

In this commentary, Robert L. Brawley provides comprehensive coverage of issues and concerns related to Luke from the perspective of social identity. He argues that the Gospel of Luke is strongly concerned with the formation of identity from the very start of the text, which aims at the creation of a socially responsible community in continuity with that community’s collective past.

Brawley establishes a theoretical framework that focuses his interpretation - ranging from the narrative world and sociological issues to postcolonialism and hierarchies of dominance - and uses these perspectives to provide a clear overview of historical and critical issues related to an understanding of Luke. He then provides a thorough outline of and commentary on the text of the Gospel. Brawley’s engagement with the text serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, clergy, and others interested in their own discoveries of the resources of Luke.
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary On Exodus 1–18
Authors: Davies G. I.
Published: January 2020

This volume continues from Graham I. Davies commentary on Exodus 1-10 and takes the reader up to the end of Exodus chapter 18, covering the release of the Israelites from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea.

Davies brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the texts at hand. In addition to the parting of the waters and the defeat of Pharaoh’s army the chapters commented upon also include the so-called ‘Song of the Sea’ in Exodus 15, a complex hymn that Davies studies in depth, and the provision of manna in the desert. The textual issues are varied and Davies navigates them deftly, providing close commentary and profound insights into these well-known texts.

Two results of Davies's research are to place the old hypothesis of an Elohistic source on a much stronger footing and to reaffirm that both it and the J source extended through both Genesis and Exodus.
Performing the Unstageable
Authors: Quigley Karen
Published: January 2020

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare’s King Lear or Sarah Kane’s Blasted, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history.

The book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group’s exploration of Hamlet via the structural frame of John Gielgud’s 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service’s eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O’Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall.

Placing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, Performing the Unstageable values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre’s most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.
A Constructive Critique of Religion
Authors: Lövheim Mia , Stenmark Mikael
Published: January 2020

Why do some strategies for critique of religion seem to be more beneficial for constructive engagement, whereas others increase intolerance, polarization, and conflict?

Through an analysis of the reasons underpinning a critique of religion in institutional contexts of secular democratic societies, A Constructive Critique of Religion explores how constructive interaction and critique can be developed across diverse interests. It shows how social and cultural conditions shaping these institutions enable and structure a critical and constructive engagement across diverging worldviews.

A key argument running through the book is that to develop constructive forms of critique a more thorough and systematic investigation of resources for criticism located within religious worldviews themselves is needed. Chapters also address how critique of Islam and Christianity in particular is expressed in areas such as academia, the law, politics, media, education and parenting, with a focus on Northern Europe and North America. The interdisciplinary approach, which combines theoretical perspectives with empirical case studies, contributes to advancing studies of the complex and contentious character of religion in contemporary society.
On-line determination of the chemical composition of single activated cloud condensation nuclei – a first investigation of single urban CCN and CCN obtained from sea water samples
Authors: Dameto de España Carmen , Wonaschuetz Anna , Steiner Gerhard , Schuh Harald , Sioutas Constantinos , Hitzenberger Regina
Published: January 2020

Abstract. Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) play an important role in cloud microphysics and are crucial for the second indirect effect of aerosols on global climate. One of the uncertainties in calculations of the indirect effect is due to insufficient data on CCN activation. The formation and growth processes of aerosol particles which subsequently become CCN determine their chemical composition. Due to the numerous organic and inorganic components present in atmospheric aerosol particles, a determination of the chemical composition of individual CCN is still challenging. To expand our understanding of activation of real-world CCN we introduce a novel method to characterize the chemical composition of single activated CCN in their droplet state. This method consists of a coupling of two essential instruments, a CCN-VACES (Cloud Condensation Nuclei-Versatile Aerosol Concentration Enrichment System) which is a modification of the original VACES to select and enrich CCN concentrations, and a Laser Ablation Aerosol Particle Time of Flight mass spectrometer (LAAPTOF), a single particle mass spectrometer. In the CCN-VACES, an aerosol flow is exposed to a specific water vapour supersaturation (in this study: 0.035 %, 0.054 %, 0.1 % and 0.6 %, respectively) and the CCN in the flow grow to droplets if their critical supersaturation is exceeded. These grown droplets are subsequently enriched in concentration by means of a virtual impactor at the end of the growth region by a factor of ca. 16 and pass directly into a LAAPTOF to measure the chemical composition of individual activated droplets. Contrary to widely held beliefs, the LAAPTOF is able to analyse refractory and non-refractory components even in aqueous droplets and can therefore be used to determine the chemical composition of actually activated CCN in their droplet state. Single particle spectra (for both positive and negative ions) were obtained from activated CCN in the ambient aerosol as well as activated CCN originating from aerosolized sea water samples collected at two different regions (Palma de Mallorca and San Sebastián, Spain). Ambient CCN were found to contain sometimes highly complex mixtures of different carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous components. Sea water derived CCN show the expected content of sea salt constituents, but the presence of organics is also observed. Activated CCN from the San Sebastián water samples have stronger sulphate signals than the Mallorca water sample. The LAAPTOF was found to provide insights into the composition of individual activated CCN.
La Musicoterapia, una vía de expresión global
Authors: Agudo Cadarso Isabel
Published: January 2020

La Musicoterapia se ha revelado últimamente como una herramienta de intervención efectiva en la prevención y rehabilitación de patologías muy diversas, ayudando a mantener o mejorar las funciones físicas, psico-emocionales y sociales de las personas. En este articulo explicamos cómo se articula una intervención en Musicoterapia partiendo del conocimiento de los efectos de la música en el ser humano y cómo estos llegan de una manera global a todas las áreas de la persona y utilizando adecuadamente las diferentes técnicas de musicoterapia basadas en la escucha y la improvisación musical, podemos influir en el bien estar de nuestros pacientes o clientes
Análisis y teoría política en las reformas sociales de Solón de Atenas
Authors: Rus Rufino Salvador
Published: January 2020

La figura de Solón es crucial en el desarrollo del pensamiento político griego. Este fue capaz de desarrollar una teoría política extraída a partir de su experiencia de gobierno, de su análisis de la realidad social y de su actuación como arconte con amplios poderes en una situación crítica durante los inicios del siglo seis a. e. c. Tomando esto como punto de partida, el propósito de este trabajo es presentar unas conclusiones con relación al análisis que Solón realiza de las circunstancias históricas y sociales en las que desempeñó su responsabilidad política. El mismo le llevó a desarrollar unas ideas que configuraron su teoría política, quizá la primera en la historia del pensamiento, que sirvió para fundamentar sus leyes y justificar sus decisiones como personaje público y responsable del gobierno de Atenas. Todo ello está recogido en sus poemas y en los testimonios posteriores que poseemos de él.
Social network sites as empowerment tools in consensual non-monogamies. The case of polyamory in Italy
Authors: Paccagnella Luciano
Published: January 2020

Consensual non-monogamies, where partners agree to pursue other romantic or sexual relationships, have gained greater visibility with the advent of online communication tools. How is the diffusion of social network sites linked to the spread of consensual non-monogamous relationships? This study is based on the analysis of 22 semi-structured interviews with people who define themselves as “polyamorous” and are active members of the two biggest polyamory groups on Facebook in Italy.The results suggest that people come to the decision to engage in non-monogamous relationships before they join online groups dedicated to this topic. Moreover, specific online groups do not constitute a privileged base from which to recruit new romantic or sexual partners. However, the availability of shared online spaces is important for “giving things a name”, making it easier to share experiences with other group members and more generally off-line, sometimes helping in coming out.
The effect of processed Tempeh gembus to high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hsCRP) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels in women with obesity
Authors: Wati Desti Ambar , Nadia Fika Shafiana , Isnawati Muflihah , Sulchan Mohammad , Afifah Diana Nur
Published: January 2020

Obesity causes chronic inflammatory reaction is characterized by elevated levels of high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hscrp). Hscrp and hdl could be used as an early marker of cardiovascular disease risk. Tempeh gembus contain fiber, unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants, which can reduce the inflammatory reaction. This study determines the effect of processed Tempeh gembus on hsCRP and HDL in obese women. This study included in experimental studies with randomized post-test only control group design involving 40 obese women aged 20 – 50 years. Subjects were randomized into two groups: a control group was given a standard diet low in calories 30 calories/kg body weight, and the treatment group was given a standard diet low in calories 30 calories/kg body weight and Tempeh gembus for 28 days. hsCRP and HDL levels were measured before and after the intervention, food intake was measured by using a 3 x 24-hour recall and physical activity (IPAQ form). HsCRP levels were measured using the ELISA method, whereas HDL levels were measured using the CHOD-PAP method. Wilcoxon test (hsCRP levels) and paired t-test (HDL levels) used to test differeces before and after intervention each group. Mann Whitney test (hsCRP levels) and independent sample test (HDL levels) used to test differeces before and after intervention between groups. There are differences in hsCRP levels before and after the intervention in the control group (p = 0.00) and the treatment group (p = 0.00). There are differences in HDL levels before and after the intervention in the control group (p = 0.00) and the treatment group (p = 0.00). There are differences in the decrease hsCRP levels between the two groups (p = 0.00). There are differences in the increase in HDL levels between the two groups (p = 0.03). Tempeh gembus 150 grams/day can decrease hsCRP levels and increase HDL levels in women with obesity.
A Fantasy in Black: The Death Drive in Fitzgerald's Lost Stories
Authors: Amfreville Marc
Published: January 2020

This keynote address presented at the Fifteenth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in Toulouse, France, on 26 June 2019, examines the relevance of the Freudian concept of the death drive to works gathered in I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories, a collection of previously unpublished short fiction edited by Anne Margaret Daniel and published in 2017. A leading proponent of psychoanalytic theory in literary studies, a practicing psychoanalyst, and the translator of I'd Die for You into French, Amfreville examines the lurking recognition of the preeminence of death in three specific pieces in the collection: the title text, “Nightmare (Fantasy in Black),” and “The Women in the House (Temperature).” As the article demonstrates, even when Fitzgerald appended comic twists and happy endings to these 1930s efforts—none of which appeared in print during his lifetime—there remained within his attempts at literary resolution an awareness that the primal instinct of life is not toward organic fulfillment but toward the inertia of the state that precedes being—namely, nonbeing. Against the “infinite immobility of prevailing death,” the creative instinct can only proffer a displacement of that inexorable fact of existence, so that “the very act of creation functions as a way to hide the void and simultaneously to give it a shape.”
“Things aren't arranged so that this could be as you want”: Jules Peterson and F. Scott Fitzgerald's “Playing in the Dark” inTender Is the Night
Authors: Messenger Chris
Published: January 2020

How might a contemporary critical reader gauge the character Jules Peterson in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night? An “Afro-European,” Peterson is dead in a Paris hotel room in 1925, but how that death signifies in a wider circumference of American racial issues and attitudes deserves exploration. Scholars and readers need to probe Fitzgerald's racial imaginary, even when we sense he is less centrally engaged by this key subject than we might be in our ideological climate. This article positions the Jules Peterson portrayal as a test case in examining Fitzgerald's narrative choices in his fourth novel. In his impulses, Fitzgerald recreated the tensions in the American popular culture at large with regard to the consumption of racialized sexual images in early modernism. Toni Morrison's analysis in Playing in the Dark depicts race and blackness in American fiction as composed of “the associative language of dread and love that accompanies blackness.” Applying Morrison, the argument here is not as centered on Fitzgerald's “views on race,” however they may be interpreted with evidence from his own era. Rather it is concerned with his conscious and unconscious representations of a racialized fictional American imaginary that dictates repetitive usage of color and thus influences our readings of Tender Is the Night. Jules Peterson is the bold summoning of a troubled emblem from Fitzgerald's racial and gendered imagination, rendering possibilities and nightmares that burst the bounds of his major novel.
Las voces y los ecos
Authors: Flores Peñafiel Alfinio
Published: January 2020

Este ensayo discute tres formas en las que consultar fuentes originales puede beneficiar el campo de la educación matemática. El primer beneficio es evitar los peligros de depender demasiado de fuentes secundarias, tales como la repetición de errores relativos a hechos, sobresimplificar, malinterpretar, y matices o asuntos que se pierden en la traducción. El segundo beneficio es ganar una perspectiva histórica de los cambios en el área y atribución del crédito para las ideas. El tercer beneficio es la oportunidad de aprender de los grandes maestros, tanto del presente como del pasado
Unifying the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Application Process Under a Single Accreditation System: A Primer
Authors: Aiyer Amiethab , Sankar Vignesh , Summers Spencer , Rush Augustus , Kaplan Jonathan R. M. , Varacallo Matthew , Marsh J. Lawrence , Levine William N.
Published: January 2020

In 2020, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Osteopathic Association will merge creating a single accreditation system for graduate medical education in the United States under the National Residency Match Program. The goal of this merger is to ensure nationwide consistency in purpose and practice of medical care in the United States, specifically in the context of residency education and training for the next generation of physicians. The proposed impact is still speculative since we do not know what lasting effects, if any, this merger will have on subspecialties such as orthopaedic surgery. There are many considerations that medical school advisors need to take into account when guiding their students applying to residency after the match merge. The newly unified accreditation system will pose additional competition, considering that there will be more applicants than spots available in competitive specialties, including orthopaedic surgery. These are important caveats to keep in mind as the residency application process is evolving actively. It is the authors' hope that concepts discussed in this article stimulate further discussion, catalyze research, and optimize the ability for students to succeed in the match process.
SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC WARFARE
Authors: BOMBA Alina , KUBISIAK Paweł
Published: January 2020

The article presents definitional issues as well as the objectives and tools associated with the concept of economic warfare. It also highlights the changes in the existing approach to the issue of economic warfare. The topics presented as a conflict occurring nowadays in the relations between states and countries as well as other participants in international relations. Furthermore, an attempt was made to analyze the social consequences arising from the usage of the measures of economic warfare. Additionally, the authors show the forecast of the future trends of the issues discussed.
GEOPOLITICS OF MOTORWAYS
Authors: FALKOWSKI Mariusz
Published: January 2020

The author of the article presents the geopolitical analysis of the current arrangement of motorways in Poland. The article includes a historical outline of establishing the network of motorways and an analysis of strategic documents concerning their planning. The article also shows the causes of their present arrangement and analyses the needs for changing it as it is now because of its disintegrating influence on the social and economic development. Moreover, the article presents a new original arrangement of a motorway network which should contribute to the economic development of Poland.
COLONEL EDWARD CZOPÓR (1887- ?). OFFICER OF 2ND REPUBLIC OF POLAND. CONTRIBUTION TO BIOGRAPHY
Authors: JASKULSKI Waldemar
Published: January 2020

The author presents the figure of Colonel Edward Czopór. This officer originally served in the Russian Army and as its soldier took part in World War I. In November 1918 he joined the Polish Army. In the years 1924-1928 he served in educational establishments, where he was promoted to colonel. Then he commanded an artillery regiment. From 1932 until the outbreak of war he served in leadership positions in the ordnance branch.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF COMPLEX PARAMETRIC GAME TREES FOR INVESTIGATIONS OF DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF MACHINE SYSTEMS
Authors: DEPTUŁA Adam , PARTYKA Marian
Published: January 2020

The paper concerns the application of dependence graphs and game tree-structures for the analysis and synthesis of the dynamic properties of machine systems. Graph distributions starting from various beginning vertices are presented in this paper. In order to illustrate the acceptable subsystems of parent machine system, similarities and differences between complex parametric trees are also given. It is also possible to find the part common to all the game tree-structures and describe it over separate design or operational parameters.
The examination of the heart rate regulation in healthy people with the stochastic tests methods
Authors: Kotava Aksana
Published: January 2020

Background: The determination of relations between the complexity of the cardiovascular system regulation and the com-plexity of the test signal is not a fully solved problem. The elimination of this uncertainty can be done using stochastic test signals and power value which changes are random.Aim of research: To compare the reaction of cardio - vascular system during the deterministic and random loads.Material and methods:In the research,h two types of physical loads were used: the traditional bicycle ergometer test with stepwise increasing load and 3 minutes steps duration and test with a stochastic pseudonormal load values distribution and 30 seconds steps duration. Results: It is established that the average load required to achieve a submaximal heart rate was 509 W for the traditional and 445 W for the stochastic test, respectively. The time of obtained submaximal heart rate during stepwise-increasing load was 7 min., whereas during the stochastic load significantly less - 5min. The results show that the limit of efficiency of the cardio-vascular system during stochastic load test is achieved faster than during deterministic load test.Conclusions: Stress tests using random loads can be useful for the athletes training. Supposedly, the use of stochastic loads must be effective during rehabilitation of patients with cardiovascular diseases, for instance the increasing of the physical load time in each stage can be used in order to reach steady state. Also, the proposed study confirms the perspectives of non-linear and stochastic methods in the diagnosis of the cardiovascular system diseases.
Videogames in the Light of Transmedia Narratology and the Concept of Storyworld
Authors: Kubiński Piotr
Published: January 2020

The article approaches videogames from the perspective of transmedia narratology. The fi rst part raises the question whether videogames can be treated and analyzed as a medium with a narrative potential, referring briefl y to the debate called „ludology vs. narratology”. The second part of the article concentrates on the concept of the storyworld and examines its usefulness in the context of selected videogame genres, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as a specifi c example. The fi nal part enumerates the elements that contribute to the narrativity of videogames and points out the topics for further narratological investigations.
Women and the Kingdom of Ambiguity: Black Comedy in "Solistki"
("Female Soloists")
Authors: Spólna Anna
Published: January 2020

The paper discusses the uses of black humour in women’s poetry after 1989, collected in the anthology Solistki (2009). The humour underlying these poems is subversive.
A cruel joke may serve the purpose of individuation, provocation, or protection from suffering. Poetic narratives highlight the grotesque aspects of the world in order to uncover
the stigmatising stereotypes of gender or the pressure of social norms grounded in lies.
They become axiological gestures, stressing the independence of heroines. Tragicomic
laughter is occasionally a form of casting a spell on reality, playing with the macabre
– a protest against illness and death. A clownish mix of humour and terror consciously disrupts the logic of communication, showing the blurred limits of frank confession
in postmodern poetry. Poetic works by the ‘female soloists’ are intertextual, autotelic,
polystyle. They are characterised by an exaggerated creativity of imagery that refl ects
a paradoxical, fl uid reality. Poetry by women moves from a poetic joke to a serious existential and philosophical statement.
Theory, what theory?
Authors: Cunningham Valentine , Wnuk Agnieszka
Published: January 2020

The article addresses the problem of postmodern theory, showing that despite its global academic uniquity, it creates a heterogeneous mix that is extremely hard
to defi ne and understand, even among scholars. Additionally, the article demonstrates
that many modern theoretical conceptions, in fact, have been derived from nineteenth-
-century and older ideas, which makes theory something akin to a palimpsest.
Thick Aestheticism and Thin Nativity
Authors: Jacoby Russell , Bocheński Tomasz
Published: January 2020

Russell Jacoby’s essay targets the technique of „thick description” popularized
by an anthropologist Clifford Geertz. The negative impact of this infl uential scholar
on the interpretative practice in many humanistic fi elds results in the aestheticization
of the academic writing severed from factual and ethical circumstances. On the one
hand, this tendency works in unison with the cynical indifference nourishing the posture
of the contemporary intellectuals who reject judging in the name of respecting cultural
otherness. On the other hand, it leads to paradoxical effects like those when claims
for treating all social matters only in terms of their constructiveness and historicity place
the alleged reformists very close to conservatives; both groups refer to the particular
at the cost of the universal.
Witkacy – Schulz – Gombrowicz
Authors: Nalewajk Żaneta
Published: January 2020

The article presents the original achievements of three writers: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz. The text indicates the sources of their inspiration, and describes their reception, and formal experiments. Confrontation of these three types of oeuvre is based on the belief that the legacy of these authors is not merely a part of Polish and European Modernism, but substantially enriches all literature of that time. The article situates the literary achievements of the three Modernist writers in the context of the Modernism and the artistic endeavors of Polish writers in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The Wolyn text in Russian literature of nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Authors: Wasiljew Jewgienij
Published: January 2020

The article discusses the most important works of Russian literature connected with Volyn. Such regional themes appear in the works of both great authors and less signiﬁ cant or forgotten ones. The basic interpretative category is the Volyn text, understood as a combination of history, myth and landscape of Volyn. The article also presents the literary life in Volyn and the signiﬁ cance of Russian authors.
The Schoolgirl trills of Zuzanna Gincburżanka
Authors: Kiec Izolda
Published: January 2020

The article is devoted to the youthful lyrics of Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1944), a Polish poet of Jewish descent and a victim of the Holocaust. She was brought up in Rivnne in Volyn, in the atmopshere of social, moral and artistic changes in the 1920 s. The young poet touched upon various aspects of modernity in her earliest literary works written for the secondary-school magazine „Echo School”. Her work is a defense of the youthful lyric as a form adequately expressing emotions and identity. It is also a defense of biography, an important source of literary creation and a context of reading.
Socio-economic factors of patients of a military sanatorium in Krynica Zdrój and selected elements of their lifestyle
Authors: Zwolińska-Mirek Katarzyna , Mirek Janusz , Cygnar Elżbieta , Proszowska Jolanta
Published: January 2020

Introduction: One of the crucial factors influencing the lifestyle and health-related behaviors undertaken by people is their social and economic situation. Apart from material status, the level of education plays a significant role. Social and economic factors are major determinants influencing population health. The socio-economic situation may significantly affect the health-related behaviors undertaken in the group in question. The paper attempts to assess the impact of the socio-economic background of patients with mobility dysfunctions and comorbidities, undergoing the spa and rehabilitation treatment on their health-related behaviors. The study was supposed to answer the question whether undertaking health-related behaviors is dependent on the socio-economic factors of the patients in the study. The study constitutes only one of the elements of broader analysis of health-related behaviors covering patients undergoing sanatorium treatment. Material and methods: The group included in the study consisted of 450 patients (300 women and 150 men) undergoing spa and rehabilitation treatment at the 20 Military Spa and Rehabilitation Hospital in Krynica-Zdrój. Patients were referred to sanatorium treatment mainly due to mobility dysfunctions but also due to comorbidities. Diagnostic survey was used as a research method and the author’s own questionnaire specifically designed for its purpose was applied. The questions concerned physical activity, nutrition, use of psychoactive substances and preventive examinations. The analysis of the patients’ medical documentation provided the authors with objective information about the results of laboratory tests, current health problems and ailments as well as the course of the applied treatment. Research and conclusions: The education level together with economic status of the respondents have a statistically significant impact on the form of selected physical activity in the group under study. Patients with average income went for walks more often while remedial gymnastics was often practiced by patients with monthly net income above PLN 1.500. No statistically significant correlations between the education level and economic status of the patients and the regularity of meals as well as the number of hours devoted to sleep was stated. The correlation between the frequency of stays in sanatorium and the place of residence, education level, type of work performed as well as wealth level was not found.