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Hydrophilic Sugars for Enhancing Dissolution Rate of Cilostazol: Effect of Wet Co-Processing
Authors: Bazeed Alaa Yosf , Nouh Ahmed , Essa Ebtessam Ahmed , El Maghraby Gamal
Published: May 2021

Background: Cilostazol is an anti-platelets drug with considerable antithrombotic effects in vivo. Therefore, it is widely used by elderly patients. However, it suffers from poor bioavailability due to its low aqueous solubility. The objective of this work was to enhance the dissolution of cilostazol with the aim of formulating fast dissolving tablets for geriatrics and those of swallowing difficulties. Methods: Ethanol-assisted co-grinding of cilostazol with sugar-based excipients was adopted. Sucralose and mannitol were used for this purpose as hydrophilic excipient as well as taste improving agents. The obtained products were investigated regarding differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and in vitro drug dissolution. Fast disintegrating tablets were prepared and evaluated. Results: Thermal behavior of the developed products reflected reduced crystallinity, it also suggested possible existence of new crystalline species with sucralose. Eutexia was also suggested for mannitol mixtures, that was supported by X-ray diffraction data. SEM indicated size reduction with the deposition of the drug as submicron particles over the excipient surface. Co-processing markedly improved cilostazol dissolution compared to unprocessed drug. The optimized formulations were successively formulated into fast disintegrating tablets. Conclusion: This investigation introduced the wet grinding strategy with sugar excipients as a platform for the formulation of easy to use tablets with optimum drug release.
Intestinal Failure and Short Bowel Syndrome in Crohn’s Disease: A Systematic Review
Authors: Boemer Hayslan Theobaldo , Garcia Ramirez Ana Valéria , Ribas Filho Durval
Published: May 2021

Crohn's disease (CD) is an inflammatory, chronic and progressive disease that affects the digestive tract. Despite optimized drug therapy, the risk of multiple surgical interventions over the years is high, leading the patient to develop short bowel syndrome (SBS). Thus, adequate management in the postoperative period directly interferes with the long-term prognosis. Initially, most of these patients, due to hydro electrolytic disorders and absorptive incapacity inherent in SBS, will need parenteral nutritional support. According to the patient's residual digestive profile and according to nutritional management (oral, enteral, and/or parenteral), the intestine will evolve in its adaptive capacity. During this period, control agents are used for motility and intestinal secretion and, if necessary, GLP-2 agonists (intestinotrophic). In cases refractory to these treatments, we can still indicate surgical procedures to control motility, increasing intestinal length, and, finally, transplantation. CD is recurrent, and patients with SBS need a multidisciplinary approach with continuous monitoring to provide better intestinal rehabilitation and consequent quality of life.
Simulación y desarrollo de horno termo solar para el cocimiento de alimentos
Authors: Linares-Enríquez Alejandro , Garduño-Díaz Aldair Renato , Nieto-Trujillo Héctor Aaron , García-Ávila Jorge Luis
Published: May 2021

This project implements a solar thermal oven for cooking food based on solar radiation to generate heat and transform food for consumption and, with it, have a sustainable proposal for renewable energy with the use of solar energy, an entrance to sustainability according to the sustainability objectives required for our country; The oven prototype establishes economic profitability, since there will be no expense for any type of fuel, allowing a more eco-friendly life with the environment, which will allow us an alternative focused on caring for the planet, the project is a solar thermal oven for cooking food, through the use of solar energy, specifically radiation and heat transfer, which obtains the temperature with a solar thermal system powered by a pump with a high pressure, which will move a thermal fluid through a coil which surrounds the oven from the inside and following the base of a sensor make a recirculation of the same which would avoid the increase in the cost of LP or natural gas and even firewood, which represents money invested for certain sectors of the population. Oven, Solar thermal, C
Efecto de la temperatura de bulbo seco y humedad relativa en la sensación térmica
percibida en espacios exteriores en clima cálido seco
Authors: Bojórquez-Morales Gonzalo , Luna-León Aníbal , Romero-Moreno Ramona , Jiménez-López Verónica
Published: May 2021

Conditions of the thermal environment in outdoor spaces determine not only its quality, but also the risk of morbidity from remaining in it. The objective of this research was to estimate the effect of dry bulb temperature and relative humidity on the perceived thermal sensation in outdoor spaces in hot dry climate. The thermal comfort adaptation approach was used with the thermal sensation interval means method, the analysis considered three activity levels for the warm period (with 823 observations) and cold period (with 863 observations), and the adaptation level of subjects based on their thermal sensation. The results indicate that even when the critical effect is due to the dry bulb temperature, the relative humidity has an important effect on the perceived sensation.
Política de indexação na prática
Authors: Oliveira Lais Pereira de , Vieira Sara da Cruz , Martínez-Ávila Daniel
Published: May 2021

Aborda a política de indexação no contexto do ensino em Biblioteconomia. Objetiva correlacionar a dinâmica de planejamento e constituição da política, voltada a uma biblioteca escolar, à formação biblioteconômica em Indexação e Resumos. Constitui pesquisa descritiva de abordagem qualitativa, com aplicação do método do estudo de caso, posto que se volta à realidade em um lócus específico, qual seja o cenário acadêmico de formação no curso de graduação em Biblioteconomia da Universidade Federal de Goiás, tecendo interpretações detidas a esse universo. A investigação foi executada a partir de pesquisa documental comparativa, sustentada no roteiro de atividades que orientou o trabalho prático e na política de indexação construída durante a disciplina. Os resultados demonstram uma conexão importante entre essas vias no caso estudado, na medida em que o arsenal teórico relativo aos elementos da política foi trabalhado e colocado em prática. Conclui-se, com a construção dessa política, que é valoroso sempre considerar as características da unidade de informação para elaborar uma política de indexação que seja condizente com a sua realidade, se adaptando da melhor forma às necessidades dos usuários que utilizarão os produtos frutos da indexação de assunto. Além de se compreender o quanto é relevante utilizar as práticas presentes na indexação para a organização das informações.
O socjologii twórczości naukowej na marginesie biograﬁi Norberta Eliasa
Authors: Dominiak Łukasz M.
Published: May 2021

This text contains initial reﬂections on the subject of the academic biography of Norbert Elias from the perspective of the theory of ritual interactions. The author outlines the spatial-temporal conditions that produced the emotional energy in Elias’s works and to a large degree determined his great popularity in the second half of the 20th century and now.
Spory o rolę historii w sferze publicznej na współczesnej Ukrainie
Authors: Skłokin Wołodymyr
Published: May 2021

This article discusses the debate over the social meaning of history occurring between proponents and opponents of the national paradigm in contemporary Ukrainian historiography, in the context of recent paradigmatic changes in historiography in the West. The debate centers on two competing views of the proper relation of academic history writing to politics and society. After pointing out the limitations of these two dominant perspectives, the author ends the article by discussing possible solutions, particularly John Tosh’s idea of a critical public history, which is practiced in Ukraine by Jarosław Hrycak.
„Ta Ukraina, to ona w wojnie i w wojnie…”. Wyobrażenia o przeszłości w życiu społecznym Zachodniej Ukrainy po 1991 roku
Authors: Linkiewicz Olga
Published: May 2021

Research by students of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw, conducted in the years 1992–2010 in various regions of western Ukraine, shows that in rural communities and in areas with low levels of urbanization local ties and knowledge transmitted within the family circle and the neighborhood community play a large role in maintaining identity and a strong group separateness. An important element of local knowledge is imagining about the past. This article describes selected ideas about past and recent history. The author suggests that knowledge about the past is read and interpreted within the framework of a religious worldview, which constitutes the basis of the common cosmology of the communities examined. Hence local narratives about the past have a different nature, and vary both from historiography and from the dominant transmissions in the western Ukrainian national discourse of collective memory. They are actualized in daily life and serve to build adaptive social strategies.
Archiwizacja, reanaliza, rewizyta. O nowych pojęciach i nowych podejściach w badaniach jakościowych
Authors: Filipkowski Piotr
Published: May 2021

This article discusses the theoretical and methodological arguments for the archivization of qualitative data in the social sciences, particularly sociology. These arguments are preceded by the presentation of selected research and documentary undertakings (including film) that consist in a return to specific persons and places (or data) after an interval of some years by the same researchers or their successors. Ethnographic revisits are a specific kind of such return. The author reviews and systematizes revisitations in the conviction that the theoretical tools and methodological approaches that have been worked out there—with the characteristic autoreflexiveness of contemporary anthropology—can be used at least in part in new qualitative analyses of sociological data in archives, including the Qualitative Data Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy and Sociology.
(Selektywne) zwierciadło bazy danych. O dwóch wymiarach baz danych w kontekście Archiwum Badań nad Życiem Codziennym
Authors: Nosal Przemysław
Published: May 2021

The aim of this article is to show the socio-cultural ambivalence of databases. On the one hand, they are perceived as impersonal technological representations providing their users with objective information. On the other, they are the result of intentional human action, were created in a speciﬁc context, and serve the realization of some purpose deﬁned by their creators. The metaphor that arises from this duality is that of a mirror—reﬂecting the image of the world, but at the same time deforming it in various manners. The author presents the three main aspects of databases’ ambivalence. The ﬁrst is the question of selecting the material for the database: the material’s ostensible objectivity and the subjective nature of the choice. The second is the question of the exhibition of cultural content within the framework of the database: the tension between an ideologically neutral presentation of the world and the strategy of exhibition. The third subject raised is the use of databases: full access for users, a framework imposed by the creators, or somewhere in between.
Europejskie archiwa danych jakościowych
Authors: Karkowska Marta
Published: May 2021

This article concerns the archiving of qualitative data in Europe. Its aim is to present selected models of archivization of this type of material in various European institutions, including the British ESCS (Economic and Social Data Service Qualidata) belonging to the UK Data Archive, the Austrian WISDOM (Wiener Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Dokumentation und Methodik), the Irish IQDA (Irish Qualitative Data Archive), the German ALLF (Archiv für Lebenslaufforschung), or the OSA (Open Society Archives) operating in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. The examples mentioned give rise to reﬂections on the need, potential, and limitations of conducting a similar project in Poland. The author discusses the results of the ‘Interpretive Research into Life Styles: Digitalization, Archivization, and Methodological Revisitation’ pilot project and the Archive of Qualitative Data pilot project of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
O Stefanie Żółkiewskim
Authors: Hopfinger Maryla
Published: May 2021

The author writes about Professor Stefan Żółkiewski’s theoretical concepts and three decades of scholarship, beginning with the 1960s and including lectures at the University of Warsaw’s Department of Polish Philology, directing work in the Department of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, initiating interdisciplinary studies of contemporary culture, editing journal ‘Kultura i Społeczeństwo’, and popularizing semiotics. The author writes about Professor Żółkiewski’s connection with the Institute of Literary Research, of which he was the founder and ﬁrst director, and about the establishment of the Workshop on Research into Literary Culture and the creation of a new discipline—knowledge of literary culture. The author remembers Professor Żółkiewski as her mentor and friend.
Władza społeczna — alternatywa w czasach kryzysu
Authors: Ślósarski Bartosz
Published: May 2021

This article provides a comparative analysis of the functioning of direct democracy within two social movements, operating in different socio-cultural conditions: the American student movement of the 1960s, and the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) move ment of 2011. The author assumes that the idea of direct democracy is evolving in terms of tactics and consistently developing in the course of succeeding social movements and struggles. To prove the point, the author analyzes student counter-culture organizations and OWS in regard to their relation to violence, the idea of alternative governance by the social movement, human relations inside the movement, and the concept of the enemy in respect to which the alternative is being formed.
Elity administracyjne. Misja i odpowiedzialność
Authors: Pańków Irena
Published: May 2021

This article contains the results of research and analyses concerning the administrative elite forming in contemporary Poland. Particular attention is paid to relations between politics and the administration and between civil servants and politicians, as well as to the manner in which the administrative elite perceive their tasks and responsibilities. The article is based on in-depth interviews conducted in 2013 with 50 department directors and vice directors in Polish ministries.
Postpolityczna demokracja nieufnych. Na marginesie esejów Iwana Krastewa
Authors: Budyta-Budzyńska Małgorzata
Published: May 2021

In his essays, collected in In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders? and Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest, Ivan Krastev questions the state of contemporary democracy. He describes it as ‘post-political’ because while procedures are observed, democratic elections take place, and governments are sometimes replaced, nothing of substance changes in politics and voters lack any sense of having influence or that their votes actually matter. Democracy is obviously in crisis and a variety of solutions to this predicament have been proposed: even more elections more direct democracy, or more transparency. Or perhaps a remedy to the crisis of democracy will stem from protests and from ‘taking to the streets’—these being ‘alternate means’ of doing politics? Krastev criticizes all the above proposals, concluding that none is satisfactory or likely to restore trust in democratic institutions. Perhaps democracy ought not to be superficially improved, but instead rethought from the be ginning? The author points to several questions that should be taken into account in thinking about a new form of democracy. She also considers whether the mass protests of the 2010s were a new phenomenon and involved new ideas for doing politics, or were typical modern social movements, only on a global scale and employing novel instruments of mobilization.
Od miejsca do nie-miejsca. Drugie życie podziemi Dworca Centralnego w Warszawie
Authors: Kurenda Magdalena
Published: May 2021

The metamorphosis of Warsaw’s Central Station and its underground passages is the story of Poland’s system transformation, of the process of adapting Poland’s economy to the world economy, to the free market model, and of strategies for managing the public space in the face of general commercialization and privatization. Finally, it is the story of the results of these processes for social life. The author, using the category of invisibility, observes the processes and social phenomena that were either brought to the fore or marginalized, or eliminated, from social life during the aesthetic transformation of the station and its underground passages. She shows that ordinarily the ostensible modernization of a structure is in reality a manifestation of the economic and social gentrification of that part of the city. At the same time, seeing the domination of international chains and the short life span of local businesses, and analyzing the division of the underground commercial space between global and local brands, she concludes that it symbolizes the consolidation of the peripheral position of Polish ‘post-transformation’ businesses in regard to global businesses.
„Wychodzenie z cienia” przez sport — analiza procesu ujawnienia i samoakceptacji własnej niepełnosprawności
Authors: Niedbalski Jakub
Published: May 2021

Disabled people are a social category that is very often at the effect of the stereotypes and prejudices prevalent in society. Frequently such persons suffer marginalization or exclusion. A disability can be the source of a stigma that defines the life of a human being both in the individual and social dimension. Only a portion of disabled personsmanage to counteract the social stigmatization effectively, and above all to overcome their own fears about appearing in public with a body that is not fully functional. The author presents the changes occurring in the lives of persons with physical disabilities after their engagement in sports activities. Using Fritza Schütze’s theory of process structures and Anselm Strauss’s work on identity, he tries to show that engaging in sports could make it possible for a disabled person to move from a trajectory of suffering as a stigmatized person toward a biographical plan of action involving specific turning points and a reconstruction of the person’s ego.
Życie bez pracy
Authors: Tarkowska Elżbieta
Published: May 2021

The author considers unemployment in Poland in the first years of the twenty-first century as a cause of the growth in poverty and the ensuing social exclusion. These phenomena are connected but not identical. They are also defined differently. In contrast to various conceptions of poverty that seek its causes in the values and behaviors of individuals, the category of social exclusion stresses the social dimension—the impacts of a society that excludes and marginalizes. The author writes about the meaning of work in Polish society and gives examples of unemployed people’s feelings in connection with not having work, drawn from their own writings. She would like to see these viewpoints taken into consideration in sociological research.
Kultura i niepewność
Authors: Tarkowska Elżbieta
Published: May 2021

This article concerns uncertainty, which is considered by many social theorists (forinstance, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Daniel Bell, Eric Hobsbawm) to be a charac-teristic trait of the contemporary world. Uncertainty is produced by rapid, multidimen-sional changes in the conditions around us—by their instability and unpredictability—and by a lack of future vision. Continual change becomes an element of everyday life.Culture understood as a collection of permanent meanings, norms, and values loses itsordering function—it no longer serves to elucidate the world; the past does not providehelpful examples. There is an expansion of mutability, a multiplicity of possible choices,and an excess of information—which paradoxically, like its lack in an isolated society, isa cause of uncertainty, fear, and presentist thinking. In Polish society, these phenomenaare strengthened by tradition and the sense of economic insecurity accompanying thesystemic transformation.
Co to znaczy być artystą/artystką?
Authors: Krajewski Marek , Schmidt Filip
Published: May 2021

Who is an artist? Questions over how to define this role divided the makers of the project The Invisible Visual: Visual Art in Poland—Its State, Role, and Significance. The authors’ sources of data were the results of a nationwide survey, a survey of graduates of the Polish Academy of Fine Arts in the years 1975–2011, and in-depth interviews with seventy individuals in the field of visual arts. The authors were able to establish, first, that persons working in the art field give different definitions from those beyond its bounds; second, that artists, decision-makers, curators, and critics try to defend the sense and autonomy of their activities against ways of thinking and acting that are typical of other areas of the social world (while they are themselves engaged in disputes over who has a right to call him- or herself an artist and what is and isn’t good art); and third, being an artist is marked by a difficult-to-cross boundary, as is shown by the common necessity of supplementing artistic work by other sources of income and the high risk of failure in an artistic career.
Od ojczyzny prywatnej do więzi ideologicznej. Arumuni — naród, któremu nie jest potrzebne państwo
Authors: Nowicka Ewa
Published: May 2021

This article is devoted to the contemporary process of the ethnic mobilizing of stateless European peoples. The Aromanians, who live in all the countries of the Balkan peninsula but have never experienced lasting statehood, are an example. Currently, members of the young Aromanian intelligentsia are creating a transnational, supra-state community by evoking old symbols and new myths: the cult of symbolic places, historic events, figures, family micro-histories (genealogies), and a common language and values. Access to modern means of communication plays an important role in the process. In the author’s opinion, a modern transnational people is emerging from the politically unformed — but culturally specific — Romance-language community of the Balkans. The group could be considered a “recovered community,” which is based on an ideological construction utilizing carefully selected elements of common history and culture.
Czy Brandon Sullivan powinien się wstydzić? Granica między patologią a życiem
Authors: Iwaszkiewicz Agnieszka
Published: May 2021

This article contains an attempt to determine the role of psychotherapy in constructing contemporary intimate relations in the postmodernist culture of individualism. The author bases her reflections on the hero of Steve McQueen’s film Shame. The movie’s protagonist, Brandon Sullivan, and his sister, are metaphors of such relations. The author asks whether psychotherapy, in desiring to help create proper models of attachment, contributes to the pathologization of contemporary ties and their culture, and whether it is a source of suffering where there should be room to respect free choice.
„Rozumienie granic, granice rozumienia”. Parę uwag pokonferencyjnych na temat związków między psychoterapią a społeczeństwem
Authors: Biały Kamila
Published: May 2021

This article contains meta-commentary on the statements of theoreticians and practitioners concerning the connections between psychotherapy and changes in contemporary society in regard to identity and relations. It also concerns various types of understanding of these areas ensuing from the field of practice and the field of science, and the connections being produced between them, including those that are unintended.
Irlandzcy Trawelerzy i status mniejszości etnicznej
Authors: Radzewicz Edyta
Published: May 2021

The Irish Travellers, a native, traditionally migratory group, were recently accorded formal recognition in the Republic of Ireland, ending more than three decades of political negation of Traveller ethnicity by the Irish authorities. Awarding the Travellers the status of ethnic minority should lead to changes in state policy, which previously perceived the Travellers and their way of life in terms of a social problem; above all, there should now be hope for a new, more equal social position for the Travellers in today’s increasingly diverse Ireland. The author discusses the mobilization of the Irish Travellers and the circumstances of their being awarded ethnic minority status. She also considers the Travellers’ attitudes to the question, on the basis of her own field work conducted among the Traveller community in Galway in western Ireland.
Konkurs na Europejską Stolicę Kultury jako czynnik zmiany. Doświadczenia polskich miast
Authors: Kubicki Paweł , Gierat-Bieroń Bożena , Orzechowska-Wacławska Joanna
Published: May 2021

This article contains an analysis of the “ECC effect,” that is, the long-term change produced in Polish cities by participation in the competition for European Capital of Culture 2016, which lasted in Poland from 2007 to 2011. The authors concentrate on four basic subjects: (1) city identities; (2) city images; (3) the influence of new cultural institutions on the socio-cultural fabric of cities; and (4) the development of cultural policies and the Europeanization of Polish cities. Their findings are based on the research project “The ECC Effect: In Search of New Urban Narratives,” which was commissioned by the IMPART Festival Office and conducted in 2016 in 7 of the 11 candidate cities: Gdańsk, Katowice, Lublin, Łódź, Poznań, Szczecin, and Wrocław. The authors claim that the competition for European Capital of Culture indubitably initiated extensive transformation processes in Polish cities. It led to an improvement in their images more openness and internationalization, and to a redefinition of the role of culture in innovative development policies.
Relational Work in Lifestyle Enterprising: Sustaining the Tension between the Personal and the Commercial
Authors: Andersson Cederholm Erika
Published: May 2021

This article focuses on the negotiated distinction between commercial and non-commercial spheres of life through the phenomenon of lifestyle entrepreneurship. Lifestyle entrepreneurship is a concept used for a form of self-employment, based on the business owner’s own hobby or lifestyle. The article is based on a study of lifestyle enterprising in the tourism and hospitality industries in southern Sweden. The study comprises ethnographic interviews, field observations, and go-alongs with owners of small businesses that can be described as commercial homes, such as bed & breakfast and farm stay. The article uses the context of lifestyle entrepreneurs to theorize and discuss the dynamics of blurring and/or marking the distinction between personal and commercial relations. The theoretical point of departure is the notion of relational work in combination with the notion of sociological ambivalence. By combining these two strands of literature it is argued that the business owners’ narrative practices sustain ambiguity and blurred boundaries, rather than draw lines, between commercial and non-commercial spheres. It is also argued that lifestyle-oriented work identity constructs a friendship-oriented form of service encounter, reinforced by a market where emotional closeness emerges as an experience product.
Double Time-Bind in Paid Domestic Work: (Migrant) Workers and Their Employers in Italy and Poland
Authors: Cojocaru Olga , Rosińska Anna
Published: May 2021

This paper puts forward a two-sided approach to late capitalist time regimes in paid household work by comparing the experience of time of domestic workers and domestic employers. Their time-related strategies are confronted with the aim of revealing common underlying patterns as well as possible divergences. First, migrant domestic workers’ strategies to cope with the (time) particularities of domestic work (e.g. asynchronies, free time deficit, long working hours, boredom) are analysed. Second, the experience of time of professionally active domestic employers, who in turn are pressured in their professional lives and employ domestic workers to meet these demands, is examined. The authors argue that domestic employers’ and workers’ time regimes interact and reinforce one another, creating a double time-bind. The data are drawn from Cojocaru’s research project on migrant domestic workers in Italy and Rosińska’s research on employers as well as local and migrant workers in Poland.
Lost in Transitions? Biographical Experiences and Life Strategies of Young Precarious Workers in Poland
Authors: Mrozowicki Adam , Karolak Mateusz , Krasowska Agata
Published: May 2021

This article discusses conditions, properties and consequences of life strategies of young people in Poland in the context of the rise of precarious, low paid and uncertain employment. The analysis is developed against the background of the debates about three transitions, to adulthood, flexible and precarious labour market and changing political-economic regime. Based on the tentative analysis of 45 biographical narrative interviews with young people, aged 18–30, in various forms of temporary, low-paid jobs, and unemployed, a typology of coping with the three transitions is proposed, including four types: proletarian, postetatist, projectarian and entrepreneurial. The typology reflects the logics of stories’ told by young people, the desired relationships between the world of work and world outside work, as well as the relevance of resources and reflexivity for the transitions among the types of life strategies in coping with precarity. The authors conclude that the “normalization of precarity,” manifested into the emergence of institutional action schemes which define insecure employment as an expected pattern of occupational careers, encounters its biographical limits within each types. It is suggested that these “gaps and cracks” in the institutionalization of insecurity might represent important sources of young people collective mobilization in various spheres of political and social life despite an overarching individualization of their life strategies.
Making a Living: How Middle-Class Couples in Warsaw Start and Practice a Household
Authors: Olcoń-Kubicka Marta , Halawa Mateusz
Published: May 2021

This article is a study of the domestic monetary and financial life of young middle-class couples in Warsaw, Poland, and its suburbs. We use ethnographic evidence presented as case studies to illuminate the practices in which our interlocutors actively appropriate, mobilize, and transform money and finance to pursue moral visions of the good life. The article focuses on the household understood in processual terms of ongoing negotiations between moral and market dimensions. The first section is focused on the ways in which young couples perform relational work aimed at achieving or maintaining moral order. Couples match the diverse possible uses of money at home to their changing notions of the kind of couple they are or wish to become. The second section proceeds from the observation of a widening gap between rising middle-class aspirations and economic possibilities in contemporary Poland and explores the practices of negotiating various forms of assistance from parental households. The third and final section argues that the incursion of technologies into domestic life means that artifacts like software or digital banking increasingly materialize and mediate morality and thus actively contribute to the shaping of the household as a project of a good life.
Poza granicami wzroku. Uwagi na temat książki Kamila Pietrowiaka Świat po omacku
Authors: Niedbalski Jakub
Published: May 2021

The aim of the essay is to discuss Kamil Pietrowiak’s work Świat po omacku. Etnograficzne studium (nie)widzenia i (nie)sprawności (2019) [The World by Feel: An Ethnographic Study of (Not) Seeing and (Dis)Ability]. In his book, Pietrowiak introduces and explains the cognitive limitations of blind people and social perceptions of blindness itself, which shape everyday life for people in this group. Pietrowiak’s analyses and reflections are based on the results of ethnographic research (collaborative ethnography) conducted among the blind, their family members and friends, and the employees of institutions and organizations working on their behalf. The author of the essay believes that Pietrowiak’s approach is innovative and that he has made a valuable contribution to the subject, especially in consideration of the general level of scholarly and popular knowledge of disabilities.
Metal substrate modulation for realizing a more compact whispering-gallery microcavity
Authors: Yu Jiaxin , Yang Liquan , Gu Fuxing
Published: May 2021

The compact cavity is always conducive to the integration and application of the devices based on whispering gallery modes. However, it is a challenge to strike a balance between the pursuit of a smaller cavity and higher quality. Here, we propose a low-loss cavity by combining a microsphere with a metal substrate, thereby compressing the cavity size by 24%. In addition, the substrate-modulated cavity is found to have a higher confinement factor and Purcell factor, showing the good prospect for realizing high-performance compact lasers.
CURB-65, HYPOXEMIA AS SEVERITY PREDICTORS AND FEMALE GENDER AS POOR OUTCOME INDICATOR IN COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA (CAP)
Authors: Srivastav Shrey Kumar , Prasad Anurag , Kashyap Richi , Deshmukh Ajoy
Published: May 2021

BACKGROUND - CAP is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, so early
prediction of severity and outcome is required for further management of CAP patients.
OBJECTIVES - To assess the severity of CAP by using CURB-65 scoring system and status of hypoxemia in the patients who
presented in emergency and outpatient department and gender specic outcome in the patients who are admitted in inpatient
department.
METHODOLOGY - A prospective, observational study which included all adults attending the EMD, OPD and admitted in IPD
fullling the inclusion criteria.
RESULTS - Out of 47 males and 23 female (total 70) patients admitted through EMD or OPD, 56 patient (80%) had low CURB
score, 63 patients (90%) had hypoxemia, 53 patients (75%) presented with age of more than 65 years, 50% (7 out of 14) patients
with high CURB-65 were confused. 13 out of 23 females (56%) patients had less stability and longer hospital stay as compared
to 12 out of 47 male (26%) patients.
CONCLUSION - CURB-65 scoring system was not adequately helpful in deciding the severity and further management while
hypoxemia and age emerged as good individual predictors for severity of CAP while female gender was associated with poor
outcome and longer hospital stay. Hypoxemia even with low CURB-65 score helped in severity assessment and ICU admission.
FNAC SPECTRUM OF LYMPHADENOPATHY IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
Authors: Gupta Shilpa , Srivastava Shanu , Patil Prabhavati
Published: May 2021

Background – The aim of this study was to identify the pattern of pathologies on FNA of supercial lymph
nodes in a tertiary hospital over a period of one year.
Methods – The data pertaining to our reports given to the patients who underwent FNAC evaluation of supercial lymph nodes
was analysed to determine age distribution of patients, group of lymph nodes involved and distribution of pathologies
diagnosed .
Results – Majority of patients were adults. Cervical group of lymph nodes were most commonly involved. Granulomatous
lymphadenitis was the predominant diagnosis in our series 39%.
Conclusion – Fine needle aspiration evaluation is a quick, easy, relatively non traumatic and in expert hands, a reliable method
of diagnosing the pathology of underlying enlarged supercial lymph nodes. Granulomatous lymphadenitis was the most
common causes of lymph node enlargement in our series.
CARRYING ANGLE OF ELBOW IN INDIAN CHILDREN - WHAT IS THE NORM?
Authors: Jadhav Pravin Uttam , Banshelkikar Santosh , Sheth Binoti A.
Published: May 2021

INTRODUCTION: Knowledge of normal value of carrying angle is important while managing injuries
around elbow. However there is paucity of literature documenting carrying angle in Indian children.
Inuence of various factors like age, sex, height, weight on carrying angle is still debated. With this study we tried to bridge this
gap in knowledge.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted cross sectional study of 1893 children in the age group of 3 to 15 years. Student
having history of previous fractures, orthopaedic deformities, neurological conditions were excluded. To assess the effect of
the age, the patients were separated into ve cohorts: 3 to 5, 5 to 7, 7 to 9, 9 to 11, 11 to 13 and 13 to 15. The carrying angle of
elbow was measured using universal standard extendable goniometer. To avoid interobserver variability, all measurements
were recorded by a single orthopaedic surgeon with 5 years postgraduate experience.
RESULT: Carrying angle was more in females 9.67 (SD 3.16) compared to males 8.33 (SD 2.63). . We observed increasing value
of carrying angle with age. Pearson correlation coefcient showed carrying angle had positive correlation with age (r= 0.5, P<
0.001), height(r= 0.5, P< 0.001). However BMI Z score, which is weight adjusted for age and sex did not show any correlation
with carrying angle and no signicant difference was noted between carrying angle on right and left side.
DISCUSSION: Finding of our study differed with available literature in respect to lower value of carrying angle in both males
and females. We did not found changes in carrying angle on left or right side in contrast to previous studies showing larger
carrying angle in dominant side. Further studies with larger sample size are required in this aspect.
Effect of Compactive Efforts on Hydraulic Conductivity of Black Cotton Soil Treated with Cassava Peel Ash
Authors: Adeyemo K. A , Yunusa G. H. , Bello A. A.
Published: May 2021

This paper presents the results of laboratory investigation carried out on the effect of compactive efforts on the hydraulic conductivity of black cotton soil treated with Cassava Peel Ash (CPA) at 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24% CPA treatment. Index properties, hydraulic conductivity and cation exchange capacity tests were carried out. Specimens were prepared at moulding water contents 2% dry, OMC, 2% wet and 4% wet of optimum moisture content using British Standard Light (BSL), British Standard Heavy (BSH) and West African Standard (WAS) compactive efforts. The results show that hydraulic conductivity value generally decreases as the CPA concentration is increased in the blend. At optimal 16% CPA treatment level, hydraulic conductivity values are 1.74 x 10-8, 1.40 x 10-8 and 8.42 x 10-9 cm/s for BSL, WAS and BSH energy levels. Cation exchange capacity (CEC) test was also conducted to further investigate the water holding capacity of the natural and treated specimens; the CEC indicates that CPA had positive contribution on the hydraulic conductivity of the treated specimens especially as CPA content is increased. This study revealed that hydraulic conductivity decreases to its minimum at higher compactive effort.
Application of Knowledge Management by Indigenous Contracting Firms for Construction Project Delivery
Authors: Rasheed A. S
Published: May 2021

This study aims to assess readiness of Nigerian Indigenous Contractors (NIC) to adopt Knowledge Management (KM).This is achieved by identify in requirements for adopting KM; evaluating NICs preparedness to meet these requirements; and examining benefits of KM to NICs. Purposive sampling technique was adopted for the survey. Fifteen factor requirements for adoption of KM was identified from literature and structured into a questionnaire which was administered to NICs. Eighty-four copies of questionnaires were retrieved from the total sample size of 129, representing 65% response rate. Data was analyzed using percentages, and Relative Importance Index (RII). The factor requirements used for the survey achieved a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.70 showing a high relationship between them. Results revealed that management’s strategic plan to adopt KM; and training/education of personnel are factors highly prioritized by NICs, but mechanism to enhance storing & retrieval of knowledge is yet to exist in 98% of the NICs sampled. Improvement of profitability and process enhancements are considered more important by NICs amongst derivable benefits from KM. The Study concluded that NICs are not yet prepared to adopt KM but are willing to explore its benefits for improved organisational performance.
Mıhitar Goş'un Kanunnamesi ve Orta Çağ Ermeni Toplumunda "Ötekiler" Üzerine Bir İnceleme
Authors: ÖZTÜRK Erdi
Published: May 2021

Ermeniler, 12. yüzyıla kadar birtakım kilise kanun derlemeleri hazırlasalar da sosyal hayatı düzenleyecek millî bir kanunnameye sahip değillerdi. 1184 yılında Mıhitar Goş tarafından yazılan kanunname bu ihtiyacı gidermeyi amaçlamış ve Ermeni tarihinin ilk millî kanunnamesi olmuştur. Mıhitar Goş’un kanunnamesi Ermeni toplumunu derinden etkilemiş ve uzun yüzyıllar dünyanın çeşitli yerlerindeki Ermeniler tarafından kullanılmıştır. Eser Türk tarihi açısından ayrı bir öneme sahiptir. Kanunnamenin Anadolu’da Türk hâkimiyetinin sağlandığı zamanlarda yazılmış olması sebebiyle eser, dönemin sosyo-kültürel yapısının anlaşılması açısından önemli veriler sunar. O yüzden bu çalışma bir taraftan kanunnamenin yazılış amacı, kaynakları, uygulanması ve Ermeni toplumuna etkileri üzerinde yoğunlaşırken, diğer taraftan içeriğindeki kanun maddeleri üzerinden Orta Çağ Ermeni toplumunda “ötekilerle” ilişkilerin nasıl düzenlendiğini ortaya çıkarmayı amaçlamıştır. Bu bağlamda kanunnamenin maddeleri iki farklı Ermenice baskısından incelenmiş, yer yer İngilizce tercümesinden faydalanılmıştır. Bunun yanı sıra eser ve dönemle ilgili yapılmış ikincil kaynaklardan da yararlanılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonucunda, Mıhitar Goş’un kanunnameyi Ermenilerin “ötekilerle” kuracakları etkileşimi engellemek ve kendi benliklerini kaybetmemeleri amacıyla yazdığı görülmüştür. Ancak kanun maddeleri üzerinde yapılan incelemeyle Orta Çağ Ermenilerinin “ötekilerle” karşılıklı etkileşime girdikleri ve bunun sonucunda kültürler arası evliliklerin, ihtidaların yaşandığı ortaya konmuştur.
The Effect of Good Corporate Governance on Production Effectiveness
Authors: Kanya Nita
Published: May 2021

PT. PLASTIKATAMA is an industrial technology company that runs its business in the production of air pollution control equipment, anti-corrosion equipment, electro-coating systems, chemical tanks, and industrial technology goods made from fiberglass, plastic, and metal as basic materials. Constraints that are being experienced by PT. PLASTIKATAMA, namely the production process is still ineffective, this can be seen from the lack of achievement of targets such as there are still obstacles in the timeliness of producing products, the inaccurate quality of the products produced. The purpose of the author in conducting research is: to know the implementation of Good Corporate Governance at PT. PLASTIKATAMA, to determine the effectiveness of production at PT. PLASTIKATAMA, knowing the influence of Good Corporate Governance on the production process on the effectiveness of the production of PT. PLASTIKATAMA. The results of this study can be used as input and information about the implementation of Good Corporate Governance so that it can be used as a basis for determining the effectiveness of the company's production. For employees at PT. PLASTIKATAMA provides information about the effectiveness of company production and Good Corporate Governance.
MARKETING DE GUERRILHA COMO FERRAMENTA PARA DEFESA E PROMOÇÃO DE DIREITOS DAS MULHERES NEGRAS: O CASO MAJU E A CAMPANHA PUBLICITÁRIA DA ONG CRIOLA
Authors: Lopes Amanda , Ciribeli João Paulo , Mendes Wanderson De Almeida , Mendes Wesley De Almeida
Published: May 2021

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar as estratégias para a escolha de comentários e analisar os resultados da campanha. Para uma melhor compreensão, foi utilizada a análise semiótica, além de uma análise de conteúdo para descrever e interpretar o conteúdo de toda classe de documentos e textos. A pesquisa classifica-se como básica e qualitativa. Foi feita uma entrevista com a diretora de comunicação da agência W3Haus, segundo a qual se conclui que os resultados com a campanha foram satisfatórios e conseguiram mostrar que as pessoas não estavam invisíveis na internet, podendo ser rastreadas e encontradas; além disso, a campanha teve uma grande repercussão na mídia nacional e internacional, que é uma das características do Marketing de Guerrilha.
Análisis de necesidades de aprendientes haitianos: diseño, validación y aplicación del instrumento
Authors: Toledo Vega Gloria , Quilodrán Francisco
Published: May 2021

En este estudio se diseña, valida y aplica un instrumento de análisis de necesidades para implementar mejoras en la enseñanza–aprendizaje de español como lengua extranjera entre adultos haitianos en Chile. Su aporte consiste en la conformación de un set de ítems que exploran las necesidades, intereses y estilos de aprendizaje de la mencionada comunidad de aprendientes. El instrumento contempla siete dimensiones que permiten indagar sobre el conocimiento de la lengua meta, la valoración del español, las características del profesor ideal de ELE, la organización y el ambiente de la clase, los estilos de aprendizaje, la evaluación y la motivación para estudiar español entre los haitianos. Aplicado el análisis de necesidades a un grupo de 113 aprendientes, validamos el instrumento en cuanto a su consistencia interna, para que pueda ser aplicado a posteriores grupos de aprendientes haitianos que reciben clases de ELE en Chile. Finalmente, resumimos los resultados del análisis de los 113 informantes, aportando sugerencias didácticas de acuerdo a los datos aportados por nuestro instrumento.