bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Radiographically screened periodontitis is associated with deteriorated oral-health quality of life: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Mendes José João , Viana João , Cruz Filipe , Garrido Lisetty , Jessen Iolanda , Rodrigues Joana , Proença Luís , Delgado Ana Sintra , Machado Vanessa , Botelho João
Published: June 2022

Periodontitis is greatly related to worse perceived oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL), yet this association has never been explored using radiographically screened periodontal bone loss. Here we have radiographically screened patients for periodontitis via a validated method and assessed its association with measures of OHRQoL. From a total of 10,267 participants (6,112 females and 4,155 males), self-reported general health questionnaire, body mass index, self-reported oral health behaviours, panoramic x-rays and the oral health impact profile (OHIP-14) were gathered. Radiographically screened periodontitis was measured through a radiographic-based periodontal bone loss (R-PBL) approach. We compared the respective variables according to the R-PBL status and explored using multiple logistic regression adjusted for the significant variables. Overall, patients with periodontitis shown significantly different sociodemographic, health measures and oral hygiene characteristics. All domains of the OHIP-14 were significantly worsened in the periodontitis group, and further confirmed through adjusted logistic regression (p<0.001). Active smoking, number of missing teeth, sex and age were the most impactful variables in this relationship. Our results demonstrate the existence of a link between radiographically screened periodontitis and OHRQoL, mostly upheld by active smoking, number of missing teeth, sex and age.
Using an antimalarial in mosquitoes overcomes Anopheles and Plasmodium resistance to malaria control strategies
Authors: Paton Douglas G. , Probst Alexandra S. , Ma Erica , Adams Kelsey L. , Shaw W. Robert , Singh Naresh , Bopp Selina , Volkman Sarah K. , Hien Domombele F. S. , Paré Prislaure S. L. , Yerbanga Rakiswendé S. , Diabaté Abdoullaye , Dabiré Roch K. , Lefèvre Thierry , Wirth Dyann F. , Catteruccia Flaminia
Published: June 2022

The spread of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes and drug resistance in Plasmodium parasites is contributing to a global resurgence of malaria, making the generation of control tools that can overcome these roadblocks an urgent public health priority. We recently showed that the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum parasites can be efficiently blocked when exposing Anopheles gambiae females to antimalarials deposited on a treated surface, with no negative consequences on major components of mosquito fitness. Here, we demonstrate this approach can overcome the hurdles of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and drug resistant in parasites. We show that the transmission-blocking efficacy of mosquito-targeted antimalarials is maintained when field-derived, insecticide resistant Anopheles are exposed to the potent cytochrome b inhibitor atovaquone, demonstrating that this drug escapes insecticide resistance mechanisms that could potentially interfere with its function. Moreover, this approach prevents transmission of field-derived, artemisinin resistant P. falciparum parasites (Kelch13 C580Y mutant), proving that this strategy could be used to prevent the spread of parasite mutations that induce resistance to front-line antimalarials. Atovaquone is also highly effective at limiting parasite development when ingested by mosquitoes in sugar solutions, including in ongoing infections. These data support the use of mosquito-targeted antimalarials as a promising tool to complement and extend the efficacy of current malaria control interventions.
Políticas de aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior en Bolivia: de la vanguardia a la retaguardia
Authors: Chambi Zabaleta Willy W.
Published: June 2022

En el primer lustro de la década de los noventa, Bolivia estuvo a la vanguardia en la generación de políticas públicas de aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior, junto a países como Argentina y Colombia; sin embargo, las políticas bolivianas no llegaron materializarse, dejando así a Bolivia como el único país de la región que no cuenta con una agencia de acreditación de la calidad de la educación superior. Otros países de la región han consolidado sus agencias de acreditación, logrando mejorar la calidad de sus instituciones universitarias y sus programas académicos. Este manuscrito intenta una descripción de las razones que habrían frustrado la iniciativa boliviana, narra las experiencias de Argentina y Colombia y cierra puntualizando qué puede aprender Bolivia para recuperar el tiempo perdido.
Language Weaponization in Society and Education
Authors: Pentón Herrera Luis Javier , Bryan Kisha C.
Published: June 2022

In this article, we introduce the special issue Language Weaponization in Society and Education. We begin the manuscript with a preface, sharing an event that transpired during the dissemination of the Call for Proposals. We then situate the special issue in the literature by providing a brief overview of the term language weaponization and by providing a clear definition to frame the special issue. We end the article by introducing all the articles in the special issue.
Weaponization of French and Rejection of Maghrebi Arabic in a French High School
Authors: Pell Sandrine
Published: June 2022

This article draws on a four-month ethnography in a rural French high school. Through analysis of ten Franco-Maghrebi students’ communicative resources, experiences of schooling, and narratives, along with educators’ perspectives, the study shows that the students’ home languages were rejected and perceived as a threat to France’s hegemony. At the same time, French was weaponized and imposed as the legitimate language. However, the results indicate that these youths had a desire to maintain a link with their heritage language and culture, and that Islam, with its related socioliteracy practices, could represent an alternative discourse. Through a postcolonial lens, the article examines how policies to ensure the dominance of French culture and language have delegitimized the cultures and languages of its minorities, of which immigrants from the Maghreb constitute the largest and most marginalized non- European minority. Further, it demonstrates how institutional practices and sociopolitical discourses contribute to discrimination, inequity, and an exclusive school environment.
Weaponizing and De-weaponizing Antiracist Discourse
Authors: De Costa Peter I. , Her Lee , Lee Vashti
Published: June 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump’s branding of the virus as the “China” or “Wuhan” virus, anti-Asian sentiment has swept through the United States, resulting in developments involving antiracist discourse. Our commentary draws upon these events and other recent incidents in the United States to demonstrate the power that words have when weaponized for particular ideologies or groups. Adopting McConnell-Ginet’s (2020) notions of semantic authority and semantic mastery, the commentary further delves into how racist discourse, when successfully weaponized through social media and political groups, creates tensions for teachers and administrators in the language classroom. Next, we highlight two examples of anti-Asian racism to show not only the psychological but also the physical harm that comes from weaponized language. Our commentary concludes with a call for students to be more critically aware of prevalent discourse through antiracist pedagogical resources (Anya, 2021; Baker-Bell, 2020; Flores & Rosa, 2019) in language and literacy education, and the role professional organizations have in supporting antiracist ideologies through their own form of countermeasures via statements of support.
CLUSTERS: ARE THEY PROPITIOUS ECOSYSTEMS WHEREIN SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURS CAN THRIVE?
Authors: MUTLUCAN Nigar Çağla
Published: June 2022

We live in an era marked by climate change issues, gaping social inequalities, and natural resource depletion. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is focused on profits but obtaining financial gain to the detriment of the environment and society is not sustainable. Future generations should also be able to meet their own needs. Therefore, sustainable entrepreneurs have an essential role in sustainable development efforts by creating financially viable and innovative business models that create environmental and social value. Clusters might contribute to this process by their dynamic structure that creates synergy among multiple actors. The literature review revealed that the impact of clusters on sustainable entrepreneurship is under-researched and that there is a gap. This article explores how sustainable entrepreneurship can emerge and thrive in clusters by reviewing the relevant literature on these concepts and analyzing several clusters fostering sustainable entrepreneurship. Finally, the article concludes with suggestions for the Turkish business context.
Service-driven Advocacy: From Tourists’ Felicity to Preeminent Destination Loyalty
Authors:   Sunway University Business School, Sunway University, Malaysia, Cheng Boon-Liat , Abu Nor Khalidah ,   Bank Rakyat School of Business, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (BRSBITE), Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Malaysia, Yap Ching Seng ,   Faculty of Business, Curtin University, Malaysia, Mansori Shaheen ,   Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST), Malaysia, Cham Tat-Huei ,   UCSI Graduate Business School, UCSI University, Malaysia
Published: June 2022

Innovative endeavours targeting the tourism industry has prevailed as crucial attempts in cultivating tourist satisfaction and restoring destination image, while overcoming severe backlash of the Covid-19 pandemic in recent years through reconstructing destination loyalty. Founded above the established groundwork of Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) Theory, this study aims to examine the influence of service innovation on destination loyalty in the Malaysian tourism industry. A self-administered survey was conducted among 400 international tourists who visited Malaysia. Usable data was collected from 322 international tourists and analysed using the structural equation modelling technique. Obtained findings indicate the significance of interrelationships between service innovation, tourist satisfaction, destination image, and destination loyalty, with destination image being a mediating factor on tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty. Given intense competition of the tourism industry within the Asia Pacific region, current results are useful for tourism practitioners to formulate and implement effective and innovative marketing strategies towards sustainable competitive advantage. Generated knowledge enables tourism practitioners to benchmark service innovation practices in creating positive destination image, tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty.
Sprawozdanie z Międzynarodowej Konferencji Naukowej „Simplifications of administrative procedure”, Poznań, 16–17 września 2021 r.
Authors: Rozczyński Beniamin
Published: June 2022

Sprawozdanie z Międzynarodowej Konferencji Naukowej „Simplifications of administrative procedure”, Poznań, 16–17 września 2021 r.
Ustanowienie świętego patrona miast, gmin, powiatów i województw
Authors: Świderski Krzysztof
Published: June 2022

The subject of this article is the procedure for selecting a saint of the Roman Catholic Church patron saint for the city, municipality or wider territory. The establishment of a patron saint is within the competence of the confessional authority, in particular, the bishop and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sac-raments. The procedure consists of three stages: the election, acknowledgement and affirmation of the patron saint. The church’s current regulations regarding the election of patron saints are contained in two documents of the Holy See. The municipal council, the poviat council and the assembly of the province pass a res-olution on the patron at the stage of his election by the society and the clergy. The above-mentioned authorities do not take part in the next two stages. Entities of territorial self-government only have a supporting vote. They cannot independently establish a patron saint, regardless of the decisions of the ecclesiastical authorities. The position of administrative courts that the resolutions of the constitutive au-thorities of entities of territorial self-government belong to the category of public administration matters is unjustiﬁed. The decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is addressed to a given diocese and not to local self-government authorities. The patron saint is established for a city, mu-nicipality, poviat, or for an area that does not have administrative borders. Entities of territorial self-government must respect the autonomy of the church authorities, and public authorities should be impartial in religious matters. Therefore, entities of territorial self-government do not have the competence to establish a patron saint for the promotion of a municipality, district or self-government of the voivodship. However, they can refer to saint persons at the symbolic level, for example, in the coat of arms or the names of streets and squares. This also applies to schools and hospitals run by local self-government authorities.
Poetic Listening in Pastoral Care: Listening to the Poems that People Are
Authors: Walton Martin , Bregman Kees , Deenen Els
Published: June 2022

Can listening as one listens to or reads poetry complement narrative approaches in pastoral care? The fragmented, open ended, metaphorical and episodic character of what people tell in pastoral encounters is often more like poetry than story. Applying instruments of poetic analysis to what people tell, opens new insights into those texts, whether originally written or oral. That experimental, heuristic practice in poetic reading finds a complement in reflections on characteristics of poetry and on narrative and poetic modes of practical theology. That results in a congeniality of theological and poetic reading in attention to metaphor, fragments, framing and reframing.
A Sense of Something Else for Me: Search for Meaning in Life and Transcendence in Spouses of People with Mental Illness
Authors: Ojalammi Jonna M. P.
Published: June 2022

In this article, I investigate search for meaning in life and transcendence in spouses of people with mental illness. Research related to the topic is scant. I interviewed 16 Finnish spouses and partners in narrative, semi-structured interviews, and analyzed the data narratively. The interviewees perceived mental illness as a threat to meaning. In the search for meaning, transcendence referred to hope, humor, wishing, and imagining. The search for meaning and transcendence were connected through the fragile “sense of something else for me” as detachment from the spouse’s illness reality. Implications for pastoral theology can be found above all in Christian hope.
Generalized Surrogacy and the COVID Crisis
Authors: Hansen Danielle Tumminio
Published: June 2022

This article examines how the systemic sin of neoliberalism affects pandemic relationships, specifically considering how its emphasis on autonomy can result in relational abuse and erode a recognition of our fundamental interdependence as human beings. To contextualize the argument, this article employs a case study of tip baiting in the United States during the COVID-19 crisis to explain how neoliberalism concretely results in harm that can be identified as a form of systemic sin.
Segmented Secrecy as Catholic Ecclesial Practice: The Case of Gay Priests
Authors: Hoover Brett
Published: June 2022

While social scientists have long studied secrecy as a cultural practice, theologians have neglected it as an ecclesial practice. This article examines “segmented secrecy” as an ecclesial practice, that is, secrets kept or divulged in different social networks in a segmented manner. That secrecy is examined in the lives of gay priests in Roman Catholic ecclesial settings in the United States. After a brief sociological analysis of secrecy, the theological analysis reckons first with the ethics of segmented secrecy, arguing for segmented secrecy as a “burdened” form of the virtue of honesty. Next it turns to segmented secrecy as an ecclesial practice, a provisional way of securing protection for marginal persons amidst the larger eschatological protect of the church in the world, despite some moral hazards involved.
Journey towards an unreachable destiny: parental struggles in the intergenerational transmission of Chinese as a heritage language in Australia
Authors: Wang Lanting , Hamid M. Obaidul
Published: June 2022

This article investigates Chinese-Australian parents’ ideologies and visions about the maintenance of Chinese as a heritage language (CHL) as well as their struggles in using family language policy (FLP) as defence and coping mechanisms to address tensions associated with the transgenerational transmission of CHL. Language policy defined as an assemblage of ideologies, practices and management and parental agency understood as parents’ capacity to pursue their visions are deployed within Curdt-Christiansen’s dynamic model of FLP that accommodates a complex interplay of internal and external factors. The study focuses on 15 parents who were committed to and made agentive efforts to maintain CHL and transmit it to their next generations. Using interviews, parents’ visions based on their children’s future CHL proficiency and their agentive efforts around CHL transmission were examined. The findings revealed sharp contrasts between parents’ future visions and their lived experiences of struggles at present. Anticipating the eventual loss of CHL among their future generations in the Australian context, the parents struggled to negotiate FLP to combat the foreseeable language shift and defend their visions. The findings have implications for individuals, families, communities, institutions, and policies concerning the maintenance of heritage languages in Australia and globally.
Identifying ELF: an interdisciplinary perspective on social categories in lingua franca research
Authors: Jenks Christopher
Published: June 2022

Researchers have a number of methodological tools and theoretical frameworks at their disposal when examining how English language identities are constructed in lingua franca encounters, including a conversation analytic understanding of an “emic social reality”; according to this perspective, a speaker’s identity falls within the interests of a researcher if, and only when, it is made relevant through social interaction. This paper builds on this tradition by studying how language identities can be understood from multiple analytic perspectives, including from an emic perspective. Drawing from a corpus of chat room data, the study examines how the social categories used by interactants to engage in identity work, such as categories that are inherently deficit in orientation (e.g., foreign language learner), may not precisely align with the preferred categories used in the lingua franca literature, such as categories that are more positive in nature (e.g., expert language user). These observations are used to explore some of the general methodological issues that exist when situating an analysis of identity within the study of lingua franca interactions.
The analysis of fire ignition frequency calculation for small modular light water reactors
Authors: Jiang Hong , Liu Zihan , Peng Changhong
Published: June 2022

With the release of reports such as NUREG/CR-6850, the calculation of ignition frequency concerning general large-scale Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) has matured. However, there is currently a lack of methods for calculating the ignition frequency in the case of Small Modular Light Water Reactors (SMRs). By studying the calculation of ignition frequency reported in NUREG/CR-6850, we propose a method for calculating the ignition frequency in SMRs, which is based on the generic ignition frequency at the component level. The problem of counting ignition sources is discussed in detail, and we determine the component-level ignition frequencies due to different types of ignition sources. In order to improve the calculation of the ignition frequency in SMRs, this paper provides two methods, which are based on the prior lognormal distribution and the prior Gamma distribution, respectively, for updating ignition frequency. We also consider the effect of the accumulation of fire events on the posterior mean determined by both methods. In this paper, we suggest that the method based on the prior lognormal distribution should be used in the initial stage of updates of ignition frequency. As data for plant-specific events accumulate, the approach based on the prior Gamma distribution should be considered.
Uniformly asymptotic normality of the weighted estimator in nonparametric regression model with φ-mixing errors
Authors: Zhuansun Chenlu , Zhang Gongxuan , Yan Kedong
Published: June 2022

Consider the following nonparametric model: Y

ni
=g(x

ni
)+ε

ni
, 1 ⩽ i ⩽ n, where

x

n
i

∈

A

$ x_{ni}\in \mathbb{A} $

are the nonrandom design points and

A

$ \mathbb{A} $

is a compact set of ℝ
m
for some m=1, g (·) is a real valued function defined on

A

$ \mathbb{A} $

, and ε

n1, ⋅, ε

nn
are zero mean φ-mixing random errors with finite moment of 2+δ order for some δ>0. Under some general conditions, we obtain the uniformly asymptotic normality of the weighted estimator of g (·). The rate of Berry-Esseen bound can approximate O(n
−1/4) under some appropriate conditions. The validity of the main results is partially illustrated via a numerical simulation.
Experimental and theoretical study of the dye-sensitized solar cells using Hibiscus sabdariffa plant pigment coupled with polyaniline/graphite counter electrode
Authors: Joseph Innocent , Louis Hitler , Okon Emmanuel E. D. , Unimuke Tomsmith O. , Udoikono Akaninyene D. , Magu Thomas O. , Maitera Oliver , Elzagheid Mohamed I. , Rhyman Lydia , Ekeng-ita Emmanuel I. , Ramasami Ponnadurai
Published: June 2022

In this research work, the extraction, characterization, device fabrication, and theoretical investigation of Hibiscus sabdariffa plant extract, for possible application in solid DSSCs, are reported. The plant extract was analyzed using FT-IR and UV–Vis spectrophotometry. Polyaniline on graphene was used as the counter electrode whereas titanium (IV) oxide was used as the photo anode for the fabricated DSSCs. The experimental results obtained for the open circuit voltage, short circuit current density, field factor, maximum power and conversion efficiency are 0.925 V, 0.073 A/cm2, 1.43, 1.04 W, and 0.044 % respectively. The excited states of anthocyanin (delphinidin) and quercetin, the most stable structures of Hibiscus sabdariffa plant extract, were studied using density functional theory method. In addition, the theoretical open circuit voltage, light harvesting efficiency, coupling constant, free energy change, and HOMO–LUMO energy gap were predicted for the photovoltaic properties. The theoretical results suggest that quercetin has relatively better photovoltaic properties and, hence, potentially a better dye for solar cell application.
L’accompagnement entrepreneurial comme activateur de performance : cas de la BSTP Cameroun
Authors: Pouka Pouka Marie Romuald , Nomo Théophile Serge
Published: June 2022

La littérature sur les structures de soutien et sur les programmes d’aides aux PME (pépinières, incubateurs, financements, achats gouvernementaux réservés aux PME, incitations ou exonérations fiscales, subventions, etc.) est abondante. Toutefois, les évaluations quant à la performance et à la pertinence de certains de ces organismes et programmes le sont moins, notamment dans les pays en développement. Par exemple au Cameroun, la majorité des recherches s’articulent autour du financement des PME, de la fiscalité ou des pratiques de gestion. Aussi, cet article examine le lien entre une de ces structures, soit la Bourse de sous-traitance et de partenariat (BSTP) et la performance des PME. L’objectif est d’évaluer les impacts des programmes de la BSTP sur la performance des PME, d’en relever les limites et de proposer quelques suggestions pour mieux les étoffer. Nos résultats démontrent que c’est à travers deux axes bien définis des programmes de la BSTP, soit le programme Profilage et le Programme de Développement des Fournisseurs (PDF), que la performance des PME se fait sentir. Les autres programmes se sont avérés inefficaces.

The literature on support structures and support programs for SMEs (incubators, clusters, financing, government purchases reserved for SMEs, tax incentives or exemptions, subsidies, etc.). is abundant. However, evaluations of the performance and relevance of some of these agencies and programs are less so, particularly in developing countries. For example, in Cameroon, most research focuses on SME financing, taxation, or management practices. Also, this article examines the link between one of these structures, i.e. the Outsourcing and partnership Exchange (SPX), and the performance of SMEs. The objective is to evaluate the impacts of its programs on the performance of SMEs, to identify their limits and to propose some suggestions to better expand them. Our results show that it is through two clearly defined axes of the SPX programs, i.e. the Profiling program and the Suppliers Development Program, that the performance of SMEs is felt. The other programs have proven ineffective.
L’impact de la gestion du risque de crédit sur la performance des banques commerciales canadiennes
Authors: Gouiaa Raef , Ouedraogo Mikaela
Published: June 2022

La question générale de cette étude est de comprendre l’impact du risque de crédit sur la performancedes banques canadiennes. Les résultats permettent de confirmer que la gestion efficace du risque de crédit a un effet positif sur la performance des banques canadiennes et que l’augmentation du risque de crédit entraîne une diminution de la performance financière et boursière. Les résultats permettent également d’infirmer que certains ratios tels que les prêts sur les dépôts et sur l’actif affectent positivement la performance opérationnelle. Cette recherche met clairement en évidence un éclairage et une meilleure compréhension des déterminants du risque de crédit, et sa pertinence à promouvoir les politiques de gestion de ce risque, d’où une meilleure performance des banques.

The general question of this study is to understand the impact of credit risk on the performance of Canadian banks. The results allow to confirm that effective management of credit risk has a positive effect on the performance of Canadian banks and that increasing credit risk leads to a decrease in financial and stock market performance. The results also confirm that certain ratios such as debt to deposit and debt to asset positively affect operational performance. This research clearly highlights a clarification and a better understanding of the determinants of credit risk, and its relevance to promote policies for managing this risk, hence the better performance of banks.
La trajectoire du crédit communautaire au Québec : innovation, résistance et recomposition
Authors: Tremblay Suzanne , Langevin Marie , Alberio Marco
Published: June 2022

Notre article présente l’évolution et la trajectoire du microcrédit dans le monde et au Québec, dans uncontexte de transformation socioéconomique globale. Le modèle du crédit communautaire québécois est encore ancré dans le champ de la finance solidaire. Il se base sur de petites organisations dédiées au crédit communautaire ainsi qu’au développement social et local. Nous nous penchons aussi sur les pratiques des organismes de crédit communautaire pour trouver des pistes de solution afin de répondre aux problèmes d’intégration à l’emploi, dans un contexte de fragmentation du marché du travail, de précarisation de l’emploi et de montée de l’entrepreneuriat. L’analyse des pratiques des organismes de crédit communautaire qui s’inscrivent dans l’économie sociale et solidaire révèle aussi certains paradoxes, notamment l’intégration socioéconomique des personnes marginalisées par des solutions individualisées comme celle de l’entrepreneuriat privé et le travail autonome.

This article presents the evolution and trajectory of microcredit in the world and in Quebec, in a context of global socioeconomic transformation. The Quebec community credit model is still rooted in the field of solidarity finance. It is based on small organizations dedicated to community credit, and social and local development. The text also examines the practices of community credit organizations in order to find solutions to the problems of employment integration in a context of labour market fragmentation, job insecurity and rise of entrepreneurship. The analysis of the practices of community credit organizations that are part of the social and solidarity economy also reveals certain paradoxes, particularly the socio-economic integration of marginalized people through individualized solutions such as private entrepreneurship and self-employment.
Complete Revascularization Showed A Better Cardiac Function Improvement In Patients With Low Ejection Fraction
Authors: Soetisna Tri Wisesa , Nugraha Wiraga Adi , Rokim Fitri Setyani , Namretta Lisca , Pradana Muhammad Bagus Ronidipta , Utama Digjaya
Published: June 2022

Purpose: This study aimed to compare postoperative ejection fraction (EF) in response to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) among patients with preoperative EF <35% and >35%.
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in a single institution using clinical data of 660 patients undergoing elective on-pump CABG in 2018-2019. Patients were classified into two groups based on preoperative left ventricle ejection fraction (<35% and >35%). The primary endpoint was the change of postoperative ejection fraction.
Results: In this study, 72 patients had preoperative left ventricle ejection fraction <35% (group A) while the other 588 patients had ejection fraction >35% (group B). Among both groups, the duration of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and aortic clamp (AxC) were not significantly different (P > 0.05). The transformation of pre- and postoperative EF in groups A and B was significantly different (2.91+10.31 vs. -0.14+4.57, P < 0.001). There was a significant difference in the duration of ICU stay (73.42+112.55 vs. 34.43+64.99, P < 0.001) and postoperative ventilatory support (25.54+43.92 vs. 16.42+45.87, P < 0.008) between group A and B.
Conclusion: Low preoperative EF showed better improvement in cardiac function after surgery. We concluded that the result could be affected by revascularization of hibernating myocardium.
Evaluation of Early Postoperative Period Results of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Taking Oral Anti-Diabetics Or Insulin Medications, With Microalbuminuria and Normal Creatinine Levels After Coronary Artery Bypass
Authors: Gemalmaz Huseyin , Unal Cihan , Gültekin Yıldırım
Published: June 2022

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most important complications after cardiac surgery and is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality. Diabetes mellitus also is one of the main risk factors for renal dysfunction in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). In this study, we aimed to compare the early postoperative period results of type 2 diabetes patients taking oral antidiabetics (OAD) or insulin medications, with microalbuminuria and normal creatinine levels after CABG.
Methods: Eighty patients with type 2 diabetes and taking OAD or receiving insulin medication all with normal creatinine levels with microalbuminuria were included in this study. Preoperative creatinine values of the patients, albumin levels in spot urine, creatinine levels on the postoperative 3rd day, duration of ventilation, amount of drainage, length of stay in the intensive care unit, length of stay in the hospital, mediastinitis, and mortality rates were recorded.
Results: A statistically significant increase in creatinine was found in both taking OAD type 2 diabetes and insulin medication with microalbuminuria. When the two groups were compared with each other, the increase in creatinine levels of the patients using insulin was higher than the patients taking OAD. It also was statistically significant.
Conclusion: According to the result of our study, it can be suggested that postoperative creatinine elevation is observed in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with microalbuminuria and with normal creatinine levels, either having insulin medication or not. The elevation is higher in patients having insulin medication, while other results are similar, except for impaired renal function.
Şam Havzası –10. Yüzyılda Dımaşk’ta Ulemâ ve İlmî Hayat– Adlı Eserin Yöntem ve Muhteva Değerlendirmesi
Authors: SARİ Adem
Published: June 2022

Türkiye’de ilahiyat çalışmalarında dönem ve bölge çalışmaları nicelik açısından ön sıralarda bulunur. Ömer Elbeyli’nin 2018’de Hicrî IV. (X.) Yüzyılda Dımaşk’ta Ulemâ ve İlmî Hayat başlığıyla doktora tezi olarak hazırlanan ve 2021 Aralık’ta Şam Havzası –10. Yüzyılda Dımaşk’ta Ulemâ ve İlmî Hayat– adıyla yayımlanan eserinin de bölge olarak seçilen Dımaşk ve dönem olarak seçilen 4./10. yüzyıl olması bakımından Türkiye’de üzerinde çok durulmayan bir konu başlığını kapsadığı söylenebilir.
Diario del año de la peste: las fronteras porosas entre la prosa documental y la ficción realista
Authors: Munive Morales Mario
Published: June 2022

No son pocos los textos que han transitado entre los territorios del periodismo y la literatura. Diario del año de la peste, publicado en 1722, cruzó tantas veces las fronteras de ambas modalidades discursivas que se ha convertido en un clásico. Tres siglos después de su publicación, el libro de Daniel Defoe se sigue leyendo como novela realista, libro de memorias, reportaje periodístico o documento histórico. Este artículo explora las lecturas que ha suscitado en la academia en el último medio siglo, pero también en la recepción de públicos diversos en distintos contextos generacionales. Indaga, asimismo, en los propósitos del autor y en el debate que su carácter híbrido y fronterizo ha generado. Nuestro propósito es poner en cuestión la dicotomía construida entre dos formas expresivas, supuestamente excluyentes, y visibilizar los puentes y vecindades que se construyeron y cultivaron de manera furtiva entre el periodismo y la literatura.
La herencia gráfica de los tocapus en el pallay de los tejidos de Chinchero
Authors: Valle Sánchez Luis Kimil
Published: June 2022

En el Perú Antiguo la importancia de los tejidos se distingue por su alta calidad y riqueza estética, pero sobre todo por su función como soporte para la transmisión de información y complemento de una memoria oral. Dentro de la variedad de imágenes representadas en este medio destacaron los tocapus, un lenguaje gráfico que durante el Tahuantinsuyo fueron parte de un sistema de comunicación (Eeckhout 2004). El significado de los tocapus se perdió (Murúa, ([1613] 1946), sin embargo, durante la colonia mantuvo una continuidad de representación en los tejidos y en los keros. Nuestro objetivo es identificar las relaciones de los tocapus incaicos y su vínculo con el lenguaje gráfico del pallay en la comunidad textil de Chinchero, uno de los principales focos prehispánicos de producción de tejidos del departamento de Cusco. Esta investigación es de carácter descriptiva. Realizamos un análisis formal a un tejido incaico con tocapus y obtuvimos patrones compositivos que utilizamos para comparar con la actual iconografía textil de Chinchero. Para ello nos hemos basado en fuentes etnohistóricas, literatura de sintaxis visual y semiótica de la imagen, además de un trabajo de campo realizado en centros textiles de la comunidad. Los resultados obtenidos nos permiten inferir que el lenguaje gráfico de los tocapus permanece en los diseños andinos, como un vestigio visual que fue modificado y adaptado a las nuevas narrativas del contexto social andino a través de los siglos.
Representaciones del neoliberalismo en la narrativa peruana contemporánea
Authors: Fowks Jacqueline
Published: June 2022

Si bien existen importantes trabajos académicos acerca de la representación ―en la narrativa de ficción― de las sociedades latinoamericanas moldeadas por el sistema neoliberal desde la década de los años 70, hay un vacío acerca de la literatura peruana. Pese a que en el consenso internacional el Perú es presentado como un país ejemplar desde que implantó el modelo económico neoliberal, dicho sistema significó la eliminación de derechos sociales y laborales y el empequeñecimiento del Estado ―al punto de no ser un contrapeso al poder o a la corrupción de los agentes económicos o los poderes fácticos en un escenario de libre mercado. Siguiendo a Wendy Brown, el neoliberalismo es un fenómeno global que implica una política económica, una forma de gobernanza y un orden de la razón; en tal orden, la economía es la medida para valorar esferas y actividades antes no sujetas a ese criterio. Así, es pertinente analizar cómo tales aspectos son representados ―y con qué metáforas― en la narrativa desde la década de los años 90. En un corpus de novelas de Pilar Dughi, Victoria Guerrero y Carlos Villacorta, y cuentos de Ulises Gutiérrez Llantoy, Carlos Yushimito y Karina Pacheco son elementos clave de la narración: el trabajo precario y el precariado, la reducción del Estado, el escape y el éxito económico, la desigualdad, la maximización del valor del capital, la visión gerencial de las cosas, los discursos del emprendedurismo y de la atracción de inversiones, entre otros.
La esencia de la cosmovisión andina en el Teatro campesino: un análisis endoexpansivo
Authors: Cárdenas Campos José Manuel
Published: June 2022

El presente artículo estudia la cosmovisión andina en el libro Teatro campesino de Víctor Zavala Cataño. En el texto, los personajes andinos se reconocen como parte de la naturaleza y reflejan tres aspectos derivados de la relacionalidad: “correspondencia”, “complementariedad” y “reciprocidad”. Por esta razón, se plantea un análisis “endo-expansivo” de algunas categorías andinas; es decir, interpretamos primero la esencia del cosmos (kama) hasta ocuparnos del tiempo y espacio: la pacha.
María y los niños pobres de Leonidas Zegarra Uceda y la narración paramétrica
Authors: Villacorta Santamato Jorge Luis
Published: June 2022

Al estudiar el largometraje artesanal pequeñoburgués María y los niños pobres (2010) de Leonidas Zegarra Uceda (2/2/1949-29/12/2020), cineasta peruano, en el marco de la narración paramétrica, teorizada por Noël Burch y David Bordwell, se puede demostrar su originalidad formal como flujo de técnicas fílmicas en cuanto la organización de sus parámetros no se asemeja a la de otras obras hasta donde se conoce. Adicionalmente, en el marco teórico de la sociología de Pierre Bourdieu, se puede demostrar con ejemplos históricos que los artistas e intelectuales que toman posición por la innovación formal en el cine, propia de la práctica del “distanciamiento estético”, lo hacen en lucha contra la “estética popular” sobre la cual la producción industrial dominante en el mercado elabora formas estandarizadas que pretende son los modelos legítimos de “arte cinematográfico”.
Una defensa de la hipótesis de la modularidad masiva basada en Carruthers y Crawford de acuerdo con las bases teóricas de la psicología evolucionista moderna
Authors: Cruzado Torre Mike Christian
Published: June 2022

La psicología evolucionista (PE) sostiene la hipótesis de la modularidad masiva (HMM), en la que la mente es entendida como un conjunto de módulos que cumplen una función específica para revolver problemas adaptativos recurrentes en nuestro ambiente de adaptación evolutiva. Este conjunto formaría parte de la naturaleza humana y el objetivo de la PE es identificarlos y explicarlos en términos distales. Sus detractores arguyen que la concepción modular es inconsistente con el conocimiento teórico y empírico actual. A partir de los trabajos de Carruthers y Crawford defenderé que varias de las críticas contra HMM asumen la concepción modular de Fodor (F-módulos), quien enfatiza el aspecto intencional. Sin embargo, la PE destaca la funcionalidad biológica, concibe los módulos como rasgos adaptativos que evolucionan por sus efectos en la reproducción diferencial; es decir, módulos darwinianos (D-módulos) y los entiende como sistemas de procesamiento de información especializados. Ello les da un matiz distinto al carácter innato y encapsulado de la concepción modular, por lo que las implicancias y los supuestos teóricos y empíricos también varían. Finalmente, aclaradas estas confusiones conceptuales y brindando evidencia factual, se concluye que la HMM es epistemológicamente viable.
Cantos religiosos quechuas en el cementerio de Nueva Esperanza
Authors: Limachi Arévalo Juan Edgar
Published: June 2022

En este trabajo haremos un acercamiento a los cantos religiosos en lengua quechua, como el “Apu Yaya Jesucristo” y su variante encontrada en el cementerio de Nueva Esperanza, en el distrito de Villa María del Triunfo, ubicado en la zona sur de Lima. ¿Cuáles son sus variantes y similitudes en contextos diferentes, tomando como referencia la versión usada en la catedral de la ciudad del Cusco, donde tiene sus raíces a fines del siglo XVI? Asimismo, buscaremos una aproximación a las particularidades del canto fúnebre “Siwarcito” (aya taki), dedicado durante los funerales en este camposanto por los deudos en honor a sus seres queridos fallecidos. Haremos referencia a estudios previos de Montoya (2010), Durston (2010), Pilco Paz (2005), Mannheim y Firestone (2017). El trabajo será enfocado desde el punto de vista sociolingüístico y con una metodología de análisis cualitativa.
La crítica a la modernidad desde los Manuscritos de Huarochirí
Authors: Hernández Soto Javier Eduardo
Published: June 2022

Planteamos una crítica a la modernidad desde los mitos andinos, especialmente los de los Manuscritos de Huarochirí. Para realizar dicho cometido nos acercamos a la obra de Franz Hinkelammert, sobre todo su estudio sobre la razón moderna, y cómo esta genera nuevos mitos para encubrirse, justificando la explotación y el dominio mundial. En diálogo con este filósofo queremos mostrar la posibilidad de pensar críticamente la modernidad desde otro horizonte, el de la cultura andina, pues al mismo tiempo que surgen los mitos modernos elabora también mitos críticos de la modernidad, que pueden reivindicarse como parte de un amplio movimiento de resistencia.
Variaciones diastráticas en la praxis discursiva del español cusqueño
Authors: Rojas Anaya Yanina
Published: June 2022

El análisis de las variaciones diastráticas en situaciones naturales es fundamental por el aporte a las ciencias del lenguaje, ya que así se puede identificar la forma de expresión que se tiene en diferentes contextos. La observación directa y la entrevista empleada en esta investigación muestran características peculiares del español cusqueño en la praxis discursiva, en las que se verifica la alternancia de códigos por influencia de una lengua A en una lengua B, lo que le da algunas diferencias significativas, vistas desde la dialectología y la sociolingüística. Estas variaciones se presentan a partir de la muestra seleccionada por conveniencia, en la que se consideraron los aportes de 70 sujetos, entre varones y mujeres, procedentes de zonas urbanas y rurales, todos ellos con un nivel de conocimiento de la lengua hablada.
Verdad, objetividad y evolución. La teoría evolucionista darwiniana desde el enfoque de la epistemología de Karl Popper
Authors: Jaimes Álvarez Freddy Roberpierre
Published: June 2022

En este ensayo se exponen las ideas de Karl Popper en torno al problema de la verdad, la objetividad, la falsación y la lógica deductiva, y cómo estas se relacionan con la teoría de la evolución darwiniana. Se defenderá la idea del carácter evolutivo de las ideas popperianas sobre el conocimiento, en general, y el conocimiento científico en particular, con atención especial en cómo la teoría de la evolución de Darwin juega un papel muy importante en el desarrollo de una epistemología evolutiva popperiana. Se inicia con una exposición sobre el aporte de Popper a la epistemología y, luego, del papel que tiene la teoría darwiniana de la evolución en el desarrollo de una visión de la ciencia como generadora de teorías y progreso a través del método deductivo.
El recurso narrativo en la obra dramática El zoo de cristal de Tennessee Williams
Authors: Guerrero Espinoza Luis Javier
Published: June 2022

En su obra teatral El zoo de cristal (1944), Tennessee Williams incluye un singular recurso narrativo que se replica de principio a fin de la historia. Este artículo busca dar cuenta de la relevancia de la narrativa en el texto de Williams a partir de criterios dramáticos. En primer lugar, estudiamos la relación de la narratividad en el teatro y cómo ha ido evolucionando en el tiempo. Luego, planteamos algunas pautas de teoría dramática para los criterios de observación del texto. Finalmente, abordamos la utilización de la narrativa en la propuesta de Williams contrastando con aspectos autobiográficos, declaraciones del escritor, fragmentos de la trama, entre otras fuentes.
Todas las sangres: un mundo posible
Authors: Félix Benites Edwin
Published: June 2022

El propósito del presente ensayo es explicar que la novela Todas las sangres se encuentra dentro del estatuto ficcional. El análisis parte de las ideas expuestas por los participantes en la segunda mesa redonda, el 23 de junio de 1965, organizada por el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Los críticos literarios calificaron el trabajo de José María Arguedas como una obra sociológica; en cambio, los científicos sociales cuestionaron que la novela no era una fotografía válida para estudiar y analizar la realidad peruana. Estas percepciones sociológicas desestimaron la calidad estética y el carácter ficcional de obra literaria. Es decir, confundieron la representación artística de un mundo posible, con un documento social que debía reflejar la realidad. Todas las sangres es una construcción desde un estatuto ficcional que no debe reflejar la realidad en su sentido estricto, sino lo que debiera ser.
Sujetos de la enunciación del locutor en “El hombre que no había hecho nada”
Authors: Medina-Huamán Josué-Yared
Published: June 2022

En esta investigación se estudia el poema “El hombre que no había hecho nada” de La torre de las paradojas (1926) mediante el locutor y su relación con los sujetos de su enunciación. Como resultado, el locutor del poema representa el todo de los actantes mediante la focalización textual en sus partes u objetos. Así, se concluye que los actantes permanecen incomunicados debido a sus perspectivas contrapuestas para valorar el mismo objeto.
Concepto de lo barroco en Travesía de extramares (1950)
Authors: Mostacero Castillo Jonathan Ramiro
Published: June 2022

Esta investigación tiene por objeto el estudio del concepto de lo barroco como un aspecto fundamental en la visión de la existencia del poemario Travesía de extramares de Martín Adán (1950). Con la finalidad de examinar  la influencia barroca en la obra, se utilizaron los textos  Los exilios interiores de  Lauer (1983) y César Vallejo, Martín Adán, Emilio Adolfo Westphalen de Bendezú (2006). Del primero se observará el aspecto barroco relacionado al hermetismo; del segundo, el examen de los poemas analizados. Por otro lado, se indagará en la noción de lo barroco en D’Ors, donde se exhibe el mencionado término a la manera una categoría supratemporal en constante contraposición a lo clásico. Las consecuencias de nuestra investigación  logran contemplar la visión de lo barroco como un concepto de oposición, en lugar de un estilo literario estricto.