bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Tracheobronchomalacia as a Rare Cause of Chronic Dyspnea in Adults
Authors: Uyar Meral , Sanli Maruf , Kervancioglu Selim , Taskin-Dogan Berna , Bakir Kemal , Dikensoy Oner
Published: January 2017

Objective: To emphasize the importance of a careful clinical evaluation to prevent unnecessary interventions and treatments. Clinical Presentation and Intervention: A 76-year-old female patient had been diagnosed with asthma during previous admissions to different hospitals. She had also undergone fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) on 2 occasions for evaluation of right middle lobe atelectasis observed on computed tomography. A repeated FOB revealed tracheobronchomalacia and nodular bronchial amyloidosis. A silicone Y stent was inserted, but the dyspnea increased. Excessive granulation tissue developed, and the patient died despite ventilatory support. Conclusion: The stenting technique used did not prevent the development of respiratory failure and death in this patient. Hence, a surgical procedure could be considered as an alternative to stenting in such cases.
O programa bolsa família e o mercado de trabalho informal: uma análise de impacto da ação Brasil carinhoso
Authors: Nazareno Luísa De Azevedo
Published: January 2017

O presente artigo objetiva verificar a existência de impactos da ação Brasil Carinhoso em uma eventual escolha pela informalidade por parte dos seus beneficiários. Parte-se de grupos de controle e tratamento, criados a partir das PNADs 2011 e 2012, compostos por indivíduos ocupados elegíveis ou potencialmente elegíveis ao benefício. O principal resultado encontrado aponta para uma relação significativa e negativa entre o recebimento do benefício Brasil Carinhoso e a escolha pela informalidade. Entre as possíveis explicações para tanto, levanta-se a hipótese de que o benefício alivie restrições de liquidez na busca por empregos. Testes de robustez, contudo, não sustentam a conclusão
A revision of the tropical/temperate amphipod genus Dulichiella Stout, 1912, and the description of a new Atlantic genus Verdeia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae)
Authors: LOWRY J. K. , SPRINGTHORPE R. T.
Published: January 2017

The melitid amphipod genus Dulichiella Stout, 1912, is revised. Based on examination of type material or new material from near type localities, we redescribe D. anisochir (Krøyer, 1845) from Brazil, D. appendiculata (Say, 1818) from the south-eastern United States, D. australis (Haswell, 1879) from eastern Australia, D. cotesi (Giles, 1890) from the Andaman Islands, D. cuvettensis Appadoo & Myers, 2005 from Mauritius, D. fresnelii (Audouin, 1826) from the Red Sea, D. pacifica Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005 from Australasia and D. spinosa Stout, 1912 from California. Based on published illustrations and new material we describe six new species: D. guinea sp. nov. from western Africa; D. lecroyae sp. nov. from the south-eastern United States; D. oahu sp. nov. from Hawaii; D. terminos sp. nov. from south-eastern Mexico; D. tomioka sp. nov. from Japan and D. tulear sp. nov. from Madagascar. The new genus Verdeia is described for two established species, Melita grandimana Chevreux, 1908 from the Cape Verde Islands and Melita subchelata Schellenberg, 1925 from Namibia. We provide a key to the world species of these genera.
Globalization, transnational human capital, and employment in the European Union
Authors: Medrano Juan Díez
Published: January 2017

The literature claims that the returns to transnational human capital (THC) are considerable and extend beyond firms that use it. This article critically appraises this claim and for the first time compares the employment returns to three types of THC: fluency in foreign languages, study abroad, and friendship ties abroad. The Eurobarometer 73.3 reveals that fluency in English alone is related to employment status, a relationship that based on the statistical evidence presented here may actually be spurious. The findings reflect that demand for THC is less strong and THC has less signaling and symbolic value than the literature assumes.
Uninformed Voters and Corrupt Politicians
Authors: Klašnja Marko
Published: January 2017

Repeated studies have shown that voters in mature democracies often do not punish corrupt politicians. The majority of existing explanations focus on institutions and their effect on voters’ ability to monitor politicians. In this study, I examine the differences between voters with varying levels of political awareness. The previous literature provides contradicting expectations, suggesting that both the low- and high-awareness voters may be less tolerant of corruption. Drawing on several decades of data on corruption and voting in the U.S. congressional elections, I find that the high-awareness voters are on average less likely than the less politically aware to vote for corrupt incumbents. This association appears to stem from the high-awareness voters’ greater knowledge and better understanding of incumbents’ involvement in corruption. However, partisanship mitigates the differences between the low- and high-awareness voters, as the highly aware are more partisan, and strong co-partisans are more willing to forgive corrupt incumbents.
Sub-impacts of simply supported beam struck by steel sphere—part II: Numerical simulations
Authors: Qi Xiaoli , Yin Xiaochun
Published: January 2017

This part of the article describes numerical simulations of the problem investigated experimentally. A three-dimensional finite element model of elastic–plastic for sphere falling on beam has been implemented using the nonlinear dynamic finite element software LS-DYNA. From the numerical simulations, it was found that the LS-DYNA is suitable to study complex sub-impact phenomenon, and good agreement is in general obtained between the simulation and experimental results. The numerical simulations show that the initial impact velocity, equivalent elasticity modulus, contact curvature radius of the sphere, and equivalent mass have great influence on the contact–impact time of the sub-impact, and an applicable range of the theoretical expression of contact–impact time of the sub-impact was determined. In addition, the numerical simulations demonstrate the ratios of maximum amplitudes of the first-, second-, and third-order vibrations to the maximum amplitudes of the beam vibrations, and the phase angle of the first-order vibration will change suddenly when the sub-impacts occur. Furthermore, the occurrence conditions of the sub-impacts were clarified numerically. It was found that the occurrence conditions of the sub-impacts can be represented by a mass ratio threshold, and the thickness or length of the beam has also a great influence on the occurrence of the sub-impacts. Once the sub-impacts occur, which would result in an uncertain behavior of the apparent coefficient of restitution.
Network synthesis and parameter optimization for vehicle suspension with inerter
Authors: Chen Long , Liu Changning , Liu Wei , Nie Jiamei , Shen Yujie , Chen Guotao
Published: January 2017

In order to design a comfortable-oriented vehicle suspension structure, the network synthesis method was utilized to transfer the problem into solving a timing robust control problem and determine the structure of “inerter–spring–damper” suspension. Bilinear Matrix Inequality was utilized to obtain the timing transfer function. Then, the transfer function of suspension system can be physically implemented by passive elements such as spring, damper, and inerter. By analyzing the sensitivity and quantum genetic algorithm, the optimized parameters of inerter–spring–damper suspension were determined. A quarter-car model was established. The performance of the inerter–spring–damper suspension was verified under random input. The simulation results manifested that the dynamic performance of the proposed suspension was enhanced in contrast with traditional suspension. The root mean square of vehicle body acceleration decreases by 18.9%. The inerter–spring–damper suspension can inhibit the vertical vibration within the frequency of 1–3 Hz effectively and enhance the performance of ride comfort significantly.
Using functional analysis diagrams to improve product reliability and cost
Authors: Michalakoudis Ioannis , Childs Peter , Aurisicchio Marco , Harding James
Published: January 2017

Failure mode and effects analysis and value engineering are well-established methods in the manufacturing industry, commonly applied to optimize product reliability and cost, respectively. Both processes, however, require cross-functional teams to identify and evaluate the product/process functions and are resource-intensive, hence their application is mostly limited to large organizations. In this article, we present a methodology involving the concurrent execution of failure mode and effects analysis and value engineering, assisted by a set of hierarchical functional analysis diagram models, along with the outcomes of a pilot application in a UK-based manufacturing small and medium enterprise. Analysis of the results indicates that this new approach could significantly enhance the resource efficiency and effectiveness of both failure mode and effects analysis and value engineering processes.
‘Why have we funded this research?’: On politics, research and newsmaking criminology
Authors: Murray Kath
Published: January 2017

In recent years, the value, or otherwise, of newsmaking criminology has generated considerable debate within academia. On the one hand, critics have argued that such approaches risk devaluing academic enterprise, for instance, privileging style over substance; on the other hand, proponents argue that newsmaking can promote more informed, progressive discourse in societies that are already saturated with crime and justice issues. Taking a different tack, this article argues that newsmaking criminology can provide a vehicle for controversial or ‘difficult’ research findings, and serve to hold authorities to account. Using a case-study approach, the article shows how police executives and government officials sought to undermine a critical report on the use of stop and search in Scotland by deploying a range of ‘neutralization’ techniques; and how, via media coverage, the findings nonetheless gained traction, prompting legal reform. The article also acknowledges the risks and limitations of newsmaking, and argues that fundamental problems remain apropos the production and dissemination of critical policing research in Scotland.
The influence of duodenally-delivered Shakuyakukanzoto (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang) on duodenal peristalsis during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a randomised controlled trial
Authors: Fujinami Haruka , Kajiura Shinya , Nishikawa Jun , Ando Takayuki , Sugiyama Toshiro
Published: January 2017

Background

Anti-cholinergic agents may be used to inhibit duodenal peristalsis, but they may have adverse effects. Shakuyakukanzoto (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang) has an anti-spasmodic effect and has been used before for oesophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy. This randomised clinical trial aimed to evaluate the inhibitory effect of Shakuyakukanzoto on duodenal peristalsis, and its usefulness when administered into the duodenum just before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

Methods

Participants were recruited between June 2008 and December 2010. All were aged ≥18 years and provided written informed consent. Exclusion criteria were: acute pancreatitis, a history of ischemic heart disease, prostatic hypertrophy or glaucoma, and altered/postsurgical upper gastrointestinal anatomy. The recruited participants were randomly assigned to the Shakuyakukanzoto group and control group. Shakuyakukanzoto 100 mg/mL solution or placebo (warm water) was administered directly as a spray into the duodenum during endoscopy. Efficacy was evaluated by observing the extent of duodenal peristalsis and assessing the difficulty of cannulating the common bile duct, the required time (RT) from administration to inhibition of duodenal peristalsis and the stop duration time (DT, the duration for which peristalsis was inhibited). Side effects were evaluated by measuring serum potassium concentration after ERCP.

Results

Of 28 participants, 15 were assigned to the Shakuyakukanzoto group and 13 to the control group. Duodenal peristalsis was inhibited in eight of the 10 eligible participants (80.0%) in the Shakuyakukanzoto group and none (0%) of the nine eligible participants in the control group (P = 0.026). In the Shakuyakukanzoto group, mean RT (±standard deviation) was 76.0 ± 23.9 s and DT was 11.3 ± 4.2 min. No adverse effects were observed in the Shakuyakukanzoto group during or after ERCP.

Conclusion

Duodenal peristalsis can be inhibited by spraying Shakuyakukanzoto solution directly into the duodenum.

Trial registration UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) UMIN000011469
Monitoring the accumulated water soluble airborne compounds deposited on surfaces of showcases and walls in museums, archives and historical buildings
Authors: Skytte Lilian , Rasmussen Kaare Lund , Svensmark Bo , Ryhl-Svendsen Morten , Brimblecombe Peter
Published: January 2017

Background

Cultural heritage objects are subject to the deposition of a multitude of airborne pollutants even when kept inside museums, archives, historical buildings or showcases. Some of the pollutants are quickly deposited onto any available surface, including the interior walls and CH objects themselves. This might make the compounds seem absent from analyses of indoor air samples.

Context and purpose of the study

A new method of detecting water soluble pollutants without taking samples from the interior walls or from the CH objects themselves has been developed. The method involves sampling the pollutants accumulated on a surface near the CH object, e.g. a nearby wall or an interior glass surface of a showcase. The samples were obtained by gently flushing the surface with deionised water to collect the ions readily removed from the surface. The method was tested on a variety of surfaces.

Results and main findings

The flushed water were analysed with IC (Ion Chromatography) and ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) and included ions of Al, As, Ba, Ca, CH3COOH, Cl, Co, (COOH)2, Cr, Cu, F, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, NH4, Ni, Pb, S, Sb, Si, Sn, Sr, Ti and Zn, and the ions NO3
−, PO4
3−, and SO4
2−. The resulting concentrations were converted to µEq, providing the ionic balance and the relative amounts of the ions and elements present. Ionic balance was observed on smooth and inert surfaces, but in some cases the chemistry of the wall contributed to the flush water. Solid samples of some of the surfaces have been analysed by XRF to clarify these more complex situations.

Conclusions

Clear results appear from smooth or well defined surfaces, whereas more complex situations arise when the underlying surface itself contributes to the flush water. The method is working very well and is easy and cheap to implement by curators and conservators, who can the send the flush water to specialized laboratories.

Brief summary

A new methodology capable of monitoring the accumulated airborne deposits on surfaces in showcases and historic buildings is presented and tested. The method is cheap and is easy to implement by curators and conservators and allows the assessment of threats to the CH objects which are not always observed by analyses of the indoor air.
Methadone evaluation: Can primary care enable patients to recover?
Authors: Fernandez Jeff , Asea Lawrence , Cormack Ita
Published: January 2017

The Government's approach to tackling drug misuse highlights a need for increased responisbility of individuals to work with those who are there to support them to tackle their dependence. This article outlines the Primary Care Alcohol and Drug Service (PCADS) in Islington, London, presenting results of the 2015 methadone dose review audit. The article also presents a case study to highlight how service users can recover.
Bandages and band-aids build knowledge and trust
Authors: Brown Paula
Published: January 2017

Exploring health and illness through role-play activities can involve all seven areas of learning of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and can help children to explore issues of concern to them.
Iconoclast artists: Creating spaces for improbable friendships
Authors: Russell Matthew , Lizama Marlon
Published: January 2017

Iconoclast is a growing community of young artists that provides unique support and encouragement for hundreds of students from five of Houston’s public schools and two juvenile detention centres. Founded in 2014 by Marlon Lizama and Matthew Russell, Iconoclast is seeking to cultivate a new imagination among the next generation of young writers, poets and visual artists. Located primarily in the inner city, Iconoclast seeks to nurture improbable friendships that span the boundaries of race, religion, socio-economic groupings and ethnicity, and give the art that emerges a platform. By coming together to write, discuss ideas and perform, Iconoclast is building a different reality for our students and our city. In the following article, drawn from interviews with Mick Gowar, Marlon Lizama and Matthew Russell, I trace the roots of Iconoclast in their own personal histories, outline the achievements of Iconoclast so far, and set out their hopes for the future of the project.
Alienated majesty (redux): Geoffrey Hill and ‘a theology of language’
Authors: Helms Travis
Published: January 2017

This article offers a critical ‘appreciation’ of Geoffrey Hill and his ‘theology of language’, specifically as it is embedded in his prose essays and sequences of poetry. By examining Hill’s remarks on language’s fallenness and poetry as ‘an act of at-one-ment’, and by demonstrating the ways in which three of Hill’s poetic sequences embody or enact those claims, it underscores the ways in which Hill continues the work of ‘theo-poetic’ thinkers such as Milton, Coleridge, Emerson and Whitman – and importantly departs from it. Situated in the context of this tradition, Hill is given tribute as a highly original theological thinker.
Reviews
Authors: Giubilaro Chiara , Comberiati Daniele , Cianetti Alessandra
Published: January 2017

African Migrants and Europe: Managing the Ultimate Frontier, Lorenzo Rinelli (2016)

London and New York: Routledge, 187 pp.,

ISBN: 9781138800519, h/bk, £90

The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature, Simone Brioni (2015)

Oxford: Legenda, 176 pp.,

ISBN: 9781909662643, h/bk, £55

Portable Borders: Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984, Ila Nicole Sheren (2015)

Austin: Texas University Press, 212 pp.,

ISBN: 9781477302262, h/bk, £45.00; p/bk, £17.99
Timbuktu in Terror: Architecture and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Africa
Authors: Apotsos Michelle Moore
Published: January 2017

In March 2012, the West African nation of Mali experienced a military coup that paved the way for a regional Islamic coalition known as Ansar Dine to seize control of the northern parts of the country. After imposing a highly conservative form of Islamic governance on the region, Ansar Dine went on to perpetrate numerous violent and devastating acts upon the architectural landscape in and around Timbuktu in the name of that doctrine. Yet the nature of the architectural sites selected for destruction, and the performative, almost ritualistic quality of these processes of erasure, suggest that perhaps the impetus behind Ansar Dine’s actions were less straightforward. This article explores the motivations behind Ansar Dine’s iconoclastic programme in Timbuktu through the lens of the city’s identity as both a historical intersection of global currents and a contemporary site of international heritage. Viewed through the lens of these identities, Ansar Dine’s destructive campaign extends beyond an exercise in religious orthodoxy to become a mode of self-fashioning a globally extremist identity.
The emerging ‘Alternative’ journalism paradigm: Arab journalists and online news
Authors: Douai Aziz , Moussa Mohamed Ben
Published: January 2017

The shifting political landscape in the Middle East and North Africa have riveted the world’s attention and drawn media scholars’ scrutiny to the ‘Arab Internet’ at large. Despite this attention, research on the ‘Arab Internet’ has not received its due, and it is even more limited when it comes to exploring online news and journalism. Scholarly works and mainstream media commentary on the subject continue to be predominantly anecdotal with little support from grounded data and evidence. Striving to fill this gap, we argue in this article that the Internet’s seeds of the ‘Arab Spring’ were fomenting for years, slowly but perceptibly transforming Arab news and journalism. To understand these social upheavals requires a dissection of ‘online journalism’, i.e. the new forms of journalistic practice facilitated by the Web. This article analyses the burgeoning online journalism field in the Arab world, and debates the journalism shifts wrought by the Internet, and the future of journalism practices in the Arab world. We argue that Arab online journalists are constructing a new mode of professional practice, best described as ‘alternative’ journalism practice.
Revisiting online banner advertising recall: An experimental study of the factors affecting banner recall in an Arab context
Authors: Khattab Lina , Mahrous Abeer A.
Published: January 2017

This study focuses on identifying the factors that affect online banner advertising recall in Egypt. Based on previous literature and an exploratory study, three main independent variables were chosen to examine their simultaneous effect on advertising recall. These variables are exposure duration (Short/Long), task orientation (Surfer/Goal) and website context (Simple/Complex). Also, two moderating factors – the level of involvement and attitude towards websites – were considered in order to study their effect on the relationship between the examined independent variables and advertising recall. An experimental factorial design (2×2×2) was used to examine the effect of each of the possible scenarios and combinations of independent variables on ad recall. A non-probability quota sample was used. The results showed that 34% did not even remember seeing an ad on the website and only 10% recalled the brand name correctly from the first question. Only a significant interaction effect of exposure duration, task orientation and website context on ad recall was found.
Gender and critical media-information literacy in the digital age: Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria
Authors: Mudhai Okoth Fred , Wright Bianca , Musa Aliyu
Published: January 2017

In 1985 Kenya hosted the UN World Congress on Women to tackle gender-based violence (GBV) and enhance women’s standing generally, but recently, in 2014, the country experienced a wave of public stripping of women – some captured on video and distributed via social media. These human rights violations, especially in Nairobi, happened in a nation that has witnessed three decades of pro-women activism bloom and whose constitution prescribes gender equity, with recent laws toughening punishment for sexual offences. Yet similarly worrying waves of GBV have occurred in other African countries. Focusing on Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, we use constructivist theory of framing and discourse analyses of media and interview texts to examine the extent to which purposively selected digital era change agents use mainstream and social media to aid critical literacy in their capacitybuilding bid to alter retrogressive attitudes harmful to women’s rights and progress.
Twitter and the Oscar Pistorius trial
Authors: Scott Katy
Published: January 2017

Twitter is an instrument for sharing and communication employed by professional reporters, citizen journalists and everyday users. The platform provides space for everything from the live reporting of breaking events to the discussion of the unfolding of these events. This study explores how South African journalists are challenging and adapting traditional journalistic conventions in their live tweeting of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. It examines the tweets of five South African journalists covering the trial, focusing especially on the role of the journalist in terms of their commitment to objectivity, accountability as well as their gatekeeping role.
Mapping experience in reportage drawing
Authors: Netter Louis
Published: January 2017

Reportage drawing is a revelatory act that combines the challenges of quick, gestural drawing with a level of accuracy in the depiction of people and places. Add to that the complications of working in sometimes hostile or, at the very least, less than ideal environments and you have a highly unique drawing act. Reportage drawing, through its quick execution necessitated by environmental flux and other conditions, also provides a window into the genesis of the drawing. The momentary, intuitive process fluctuates between the observed, the imagined and the remembered. Looking at the way in which the drawing is rooted to the in situ experience and notions of place, artists engage in reportage drawing in highly individual ways, balancing intent with the demands of observation in fluid environments. Experience here is twofold: the experience of negotiating the location and the experience of drawing itself. Through interviews conducted with reportage artists Jill Gibbon, Gary Embury as well as my own work and reflections, the aims and intentions of the artists will be compared and contrasted, and tensions between the journalistic and social commentary aims will be explored through individual practice. Jill Gibbon’s practice and research looks at the potential in reportage drawing for political, even radical, expression. Her War Mart work is explored here, which clearly reveals her reportage process, secretly drawing at an arms trading event in London and creating evocative commentary through her hurried, immediate drawings. Gary Embury is the editor of the Reportager website, which provides a crucial platform for contemporary reportage practice. His work is characterized by raw observation and his declared aims for his work are journalistic. This work has great immediacy and reveals the simultaneity between observation and action in drawing. Through a narrative of the experience creating their work in differing environments, the work will be seen as the summation of experience and the complex intentions and self-imposed limitations of the artists, contributing to an intimate look at contemporary reportage practice.
The transitional state and the ambivalences of actor training
Authors: Tuisku Hannu
Published: January 2017

This article investigates the transitional aspect of actor training, especially the role of transitional turmoil as part of an actor’s training process, and the ambivalences that turn up in training situations that seek to create transitions. Drawing on the psychophysical actor training by Jouko Turkka at the Theatre Academy Helsinki in the 1980s and interviews of his former students the author studies the relationship between the aim to foster the appearance of both the transitional and the creative state and deliberate destabilizing acts that lead to apparent violations of the actor students’ integrity. What features of this kind of training can we adopt and what should we delete in our search for modern, ethically sustainable ways of training? At the same time the author has to ask, are the things that destabilize us, possessing the potential to change us, the things that we truly remember?
Materializing virtual reality: The performativity of skin, body and costume in Tobias Bernstrup’s artwork
Authors: Kjellmer Viveka
Published: January 2017

Swedish artist Tobias Bernstrup (b. 1970) works with multimedia, music, performance, video and computer games. He creates fictional alter egos in his works and returns to his characters in an ongoing re-mediation, digitally or in real-world artistic performances. In explicit stage costumes made of latex, leather and metal, Bernstrup performs in the interface between digital character, human being and artwork. The costume becomes a bearer of physical experiences, a bridge between the portrayed and the perceived. Through our gaze, bodily experiences are transferred in the form of embodied knowledge or haptic vision. Materiality conveys meaning and communicates with our tactile memory through glossy latex, cold metal or bare skin. The costume is a paradoxical entity: both an inseparable part of the artist’s body in the performance process and something that can be removed, yet remains part of the character. The nude body onstage can be seen as another costume, the bare skin serving as an interface between visual and physical experience. Bernstrup and his virtual alter egos slip between existences where skin, body and costume tie his virtual and physical realities together.
Sleeve notes: PJ Harvey’s Gothic world
Authors: Gardner Abigail , Flint-Nicol Katerina
Published: January 2017

Leg-of-mutton sleeves, Victorian mourning feathers, stiff, white governess dresses; Harvey’s costumes for her performances on stage and in music video for the three albums White Chalk (2007), Let England Shake (2011) and The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016) position her as English Gothic. Referencing literary and cinematic readings of the term, this article argues that Harvey performs an English, Victorian Gothic. We argue that she recuperates the female Gothic for contemporary times allowing it resonance beyond its literary and cinematic beginnings. Drawing on some of those literary and cinematic debates on the Gothic and the eerie, we consider how her costumes across these albums showcase ‘remnants’ both of the past and, of the forgotten. Harvey stitches those stories into her performances, allowing her to present spectres of both the past and present in the form of the forgotten, excluded and misunderstood.
Exhibition Review
Authors: Lennox Patricia
Published: January 2017

I Vestiti Dei Sogni: La Scuola Dei Costumisti Italiani Per Il Cinema, Museo Di Roma, Palazzo Braschi, Rome, 17 January–22 March 2015
Pop Star to Opera Star: Labour, skill and value in musical performance
Authors: Till Nicholas
Published: January 2017

The British TV show Pop Star to Opera Star (2010/2011) was a contribution to a well-worn reality TV genre in which people are challenged to undertake a professional activity in which they have no prior experience. In this article I examine the way in which popular challenge programmes such as Pop Star to Opera Star, which suggest that highly skilled activities can be ‘faked’ with no more than a few day’s training, stage what art theorist John Roberts describes as ‘the generalised deskilling of labour under capitalism’. And I argue that in particular, the historical transvaluation of musical performance skills throughout the capitalist era exposes the contradictions that are inherent in both social and cultural constructions of the value of labour under capitalism.
Heritage, home and heredity: Performing English cultural identity in The Last Ship
Authors: Macpherson Ben
Published: January 2017

This article considers the performance of English cultural identity through a reading of Sting’s semi-autobiographical musical, The Last Ship, seen on Broadway in 2014. Drawing on historical concepts of English identity and studies of regional social identity in Wallsend – the north-east English town where The Last Ship is set, I suggest that the musical presents an English identity that is uneasy with its present, and a songwriter uneasy with his past. Specifically, I consider the three iterations of the title song, considering the intrinsic relationship between myth and material environment. First, in a sermon by the local parish priest, Jim O’Brien, ‘the last ship’ offers a metaphor that locates the northern shipbuilding industry as a global bastion of British heritage. In a version by shipyard foreman Jackie White, the display of quixotism evidences a parochialism and localism that configures a specific version of ‘home’ and community—one which did not find resonance with a Broadway audience. Finally, the third iteration is read as a performance of heredity and familial reconciliation, the song of a writer – and a nation – at sea, struggling to find harbour.
Performance Reviews
Authors: Graziano John , Lodge Mary Jo
Published: January 2017

CABIN IN THE SKY, BOOK BY LYNN ROOT, LYRICS BY JOHN LATOUCHE, MUSIC BY VERNON DUKE, DIRECTED BY REUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON New York, City Center, February 2016

THE COLOR PURPLE, BOOK BY MARSHA NORMAN, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY BRENDA RUSSELL, ALLEE WILLIS AND STEPHEN BRAY, DIRECTED BY JOHN DOYLE Bernard R. Jacobs Theater, New York, 20 February 2016
Hubungan Antara Resistensi Insulin dan Tekanan Darah pada Anak Obese
Authors: Umboh Adrian , Kasie Jully , Edwin Johannes
Published: January 2017

Latar belakang. Obesitas merupakan masalah yang penting dengan prevalensi yangcenderung meningkat serta berhubungan dengan penyakit metabolik antara lainhipertensi dan resistensi insulin. Mekanisme terjadinya hipertensi pada obesitas sangatkompleks, salah faktor yang berperan adalah adanya resistensi insulin.Tujuan. Untuk mengetahui hubungan antara resistensi insulin dan tekanan darah padaanak obese.Metoda. Penelitian bersifat analitik observasional dengan desain cross sectional yangdilakukan pada anak SMP kelas 1 hingga kelas 3 berusia antara 11 hingga 15 tahunyang memiliki IMT > persentil ke-95 di Wenang Kota, Kotamadya Manado pada bulanJuli hingga Agustus 2004. Pemeriksaan basal insulin darah puasa dengan menggunakanmetode radioimmuno assay (RIA). Tekanan darah diukur 2 kali selama 2 hari berturutdan hasil merupakan rerata ke-2 nilai tersebut. Definisi pre-hipertensi bila tekanan darahsistolik =120 mmHg dan tekanan darah diastolik =80 mmHg serta resistensi insulinbila insulin darah puasa = 18 μU/mL.Hasil. Diantara 72 anak diteliti, didapatkan hasil 24 anak (33,33%) menderita resistensiinsulin terdiri dari 13 anak laki-laki (54,17%) dan 11 anak perempuan (45,83%). Anakobese yang disertai resistensi insulin memiliki nilai median tekanan darah sistolik lebihtinggi secara bermakna dibandingkan tanpa resistensi insulin (p=0,006). Dijumpai86,11% anak obese memiliki tekanan darah sistolik =120 mmHg dan 93,06% tekanandarah diastolik =80 mmHg. Terdapat hubungan antara insulin darah dan tekanan darahsistolik (rs=0,297, p=0,018) dan ada hubungan antara insulin darah dan tekanan darahdiastolik (rs=0,298, p=0,011).Kesimpulan. Sebagian besar anak obese menderita pre-hipertensi, namun hanyaditemukan korelasi linier yang sangat lemah antara resistensi insulin dan tekanan darah.
Pemantauan pH Esofagus pada Bayi Tidak Mempengaruhi Aktivitas dan Pola Makan, Namun Mengkhawatirkan Persepsi Orangtua
Authors: Hegar Badriul , Budi Setia , Kadim Muzal , Firmansyah Agus
Published: January 2017

Latar belakang. Pemantauan pH esofagus (pH-metri) merupakan pemeriksaan bakuuntuk mendiagnosis refluks gastroesofagus (RGE) pada bayi. Hasil pH-metri dipengaruhioleh pola makan dan aktivitas bayi, sedangkan pengaruh prosedur pH-metri itu sendiriterhadap pola makan dan aktivitas bayi belum banyak dilaporkan.Tujuan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui apakah prosedur pH-metrimempengaruhi pola makan dan aktivitas sehari-hari serta bagaimana persepsi orangtuaterhadap prosedur pH-metri.Metoda. Tiga puluh bayi berumur 6-12 bulan dilakukan pH-metri. Orangtua diberikuesioner berisi pertanyaan yang berhubungan dengan pola makan dan aktivitas anakselama pemantauan berlangsung serta persepsi orangtua terhadap prosedur pH-metri.Untuk analisis statistik, setiap variabel dikelompokkan menjadi ’tidak berubah’ dan’berubah’ untuk pola makan dan aktivitas anak, serta ’positif’ dan ’negatif’ untuk persepsiorangtua. Setiap variabel dianalisis berdasarkan hasil pH-metri (’normal’ atau abnormal’).Hasil. Perubahan pola makan terdapat pada 17% bayi sedangkan perubahan aktivitaspada 20% bayi. Kedua hasil tersebut tidak berbeda baik pada hasil pH-metri normalmaupun hasil pH-metri abnormal. Dua puluh tujuh persen orangtua mempunyai persepsipositif terhadap prosedur pH-metri.Kesimpulan. Prosedur pH-metri tidak menyebabkan perubahan pola makan danaktivitas bayi, walaupun demikian hanya sekitar 27% orangtua yang menganggapprosedur pH-metri sebagai prosedur yang tidak mengkhawatirkan.
Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping In Gastric Cancer Surgery: Current Status
Authors: Bara Tivadar , Bara Tivadar , Neagoe Radu , Sala Daniela , Gurzu Simona , Jung Ioan , Borz Cristian
Published: January 2017

Lymphonodular metastases remain an important predictive and prognostic factor in gastric cancer development. The precise determination of the lymphonodular invasion stage can be made only by extended intraoperative lymphadenectomy and histopathological examination. But the main controversy is the usefulness of extended lymph dissection in early gastric cancer. This increases the duration of the surgery and the complications rate, and it is unnecessary without lymphonodular invasion. The identification of the sentinel lymph nodes has been successfully applied for some time in the precise detection of lymph nodes status in breast cancer, malignant melanoma and the use for gastric cancer patients has been a controversial issue. The good prognosis in early gastric cancer had been a surgery challenge, which led to the establishment of minimally invasive individualized treatment and acceptance of sentinel lymph node mapping. The dual-tracer method, submucosally administered endoscopically is also recommended in sentinel lymph node biopsy by laparoscopic approach. There are new sophisticated technologies for detecting sentinel lymph node such as: infrared ray endoscopy, florescence imaging and near-infrared technology, carbon nanoparticles, which will open new perspectives in sentinel lymph nodes mapping.
Case Report: Endoscopic Management of Sleeve Gastrectomy Fistula
Authors: Roşu Alexandra Floriana , Ferreira Carlos Noronha , Ribeiro Luis Carrilho , Velosa José , Zlatian Ovidiu Mircea
Published: January 2017

Background. Morbid obesity is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Bariatric surgery is the best option to manage obesity. Vertical gastrectomy is safe and effective but sometimes complicate with hemorrhage, fistulas and stenosis. Fistulas can be solved by conventional surgery or interventional endoscopy.

Case presentation. We describe a morbidly obese patient with vertical gastrectomy who developed complications after surgery. Immediately after surgery the patient developed sepsis. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy excluded fistula. One month later a peri-gastric abscess developed due to a fistula orifice in the distal esophagus, treated with argon plasma and two double pigtail plastic stents placed endoscopically to drain the abscess. The stents were removed two weeks later and was placed a covered metallic stent in the distal esophagus. Six weeks later the metallic stent was removed and the orifice closed. Four months later the patient developed sepsis. Computer tomography revealed a subdiaphragmatic abscess and endoscopy revealed a 2 mm fistula orifice at the previous site, treated with argon plasma and two trough-the-scope clips that closed it. There were no further incidents after two years of follow-up.

Conclusions. Early diagnosis and endoscopic approach can resolve these complications without the morbidity and increased mortality risk of surgical re-interventions.
Optimum Drafting Conditions Of Polyester And Viscose Blend Yarns
Authors: Hatamvand Mohammad , Mirjalili Seyed Abbas , Fattahi Saeid , Bashir Tariq , Skrifvars Mikael
Published: January 2017

In this study, we used an experimental design to investigate the influence of the total draft, break draft, distance between the aprons (Clips) and production roller pressure on yarn quality in order to obtain optimum drafting conditions for polyester and viscose (PES/CV) blend yarns in ring spinning frame. We used PES fibers (1.4 dtex × 38 mm long) and CV fibers (1.6 dtex × 38 mm long) to spin a 20 Tex blend yarn of PES (70%)/CV (30%) blend ratio. When the break draft, adjustment of distance between of aprons and roller pressure is not reasonable, controlling and leading of the fibers is not sufficient for proper orientation of the fibers in the yarn structure to produce a high quality yarn. Experimental results and statistical analysis show that the best yarn quality will be obtained under drafting conditions total draft of 38, 1.2 break draft, 2.8 mm distance between of aprons and maximum pressure of the production top roller (18daN).
Mandatory Pension System and Redistribution: The Comparative Analysis of Institutions in Baltic States
Authors: Dunajevas Eugenijus , Skučienė Daiva
Published: January 2017

Mandatory pension systems occupy a central role in the system of social security because of the share of social expenditure in national economies. One of the goals of pension system is to redistribute incomes among individuals. However, it is not clear how the intentions to redistribute incomes coincide with the outcomes. In this paper, we will study the difference between the intentions as they are articulated within institutions, with the outcomes that are generated by them. We use the method of comparative institutional analysis in order to find out the differences. Our comparative institutional analysis is based on the grammar of institutions that is proposed by Crawford and Ostrom. Also, in order to understand the differences, we will compare the institutions in relatively similar cases – the Baltic States. The results show that there is a gap between the intentions and outcomes to redistribute incomes among individuals. The findings from the comparative institutional analysis suggest that the most redistributive old age pension system is in Estonia. However, according to the factual information from Eurostat, the greatest distributive effect is produced by the mandatory pension system of Lithuania.
Adsorption with chemical reaction in porous catalyst pellets under alternate concentration fields. Uniform temperature case
Authors: Bizon Katarzyna , Tabiś Bolesław
Published: January 2017

The work concerns the dynamic behaviour of a porous, isothermal catalyst pellet in which a simultaneous chemical reaction, diffusion and adsorption take place. The impact of the reactant adsorption onto the pellet dynamics was evaluated. A linear isotherm and a non-linear Freundlich isotherm were considered. Responses of the pellet to sinusoidal variations of the reactant concentration in a bulk gas were examined. It was demonstrated that the dynamics of the pellet is significantly affected both by accounting for the adsorption and by the frequency of the bulk concentration variations. The sorption phenomenon causes damping of the concentration oscillations inside the pellet and damping of its effectiveness factor oscillations. Depending on the frequency of the concentration oscillations in the bulk, the remarkable oscillations can involve an entire volume of the pellet or its portion in the vicinity of the external surface.
Confined fluidization of fines in fixed bed of coarse particles
Authors: Buczek Bronisław , Zabierowski Piotr
Published: January 2017

Experiments on a confined fluidized bed system with various shapes of particles have been presented in the paper. Its influence on hydrodynamic properties in the whole range of gas velocity has been analysed. Relations allowing calculation of the Richardson-Zaki-type equation coefficients, including description of inter-particle void and gas pressure drop in such systems have been determined. Necessary condition for confined fluidization of non-spherical coarse particles has also been determined.
Comparison of particular logistic models’
adoption in the Czech Republic
Authors: Vrbová Petra , Cempírek Václav
Published: January 2017

Managing inventory is considered as one of the
most challenging tasks facing supply chain managers and
specialists. Decisions related to inventory locations along
with level of inventory kept throughout the supply chain
have a fundamental impact on the response time, service
level, delivery lead-time and the total cost of the supply
chain. The main objective of this paper is to identify and
analyse the share of a particular logistic model adopted
in the Czech Republic (Consignment stock, Buffer stock,
Safety stock) and also compare their usage and adoption
according to different industries. This paper also aims to
specify possible reasons of particular logistic model preferences
in comparison to the others. The analysis is based
on quantitative survey held in the Czech Republic.
Problems of Legal Definition of Family Farm in Poland
Authors: Puślecki Damian
Published: January 2017

The paper discusses the issues relating to the legal definition of the family farm as the foundation of the agricultural system in Poland. According to Article 23 of the Constitution of 1997, the family farm is the basis of the Polish agricultural system. By means of analysing the provisions of the Constitution and the Act on the Agricultural System, the paper points out current tendencies in the Polish agricultural system. The main aim of this article is to identify individual elements of the legal definition of the family farm and to evaluate already existing solutions on the matter. The final part of the paper presents de lege ferenda postulates.
The Measurement of Human Capital Methods
Authors: Miciuła Ireneusz
Published: January 2017

Nowadays, knowledge and technology is a key factor supporting socio-economic development. Human capital gained crucial importance for the development, and became a major factor of the success. This paper attempts to expose the nature and components of human capital. The aim of this paper is to present the specificity and components of human capital, and to discuss the methods of measurement and the dilemmas of their practical application. Nowadays, the advantage is achieved thanks to unique and difficult to copy resources. One such resource is human capital, whose identification and measurement becomes a key task for both countries and companies.
Using Sectoral Indexes to Discount the Exercise Price of Employee Stock Options
Authors: Majewska Agnieszka
Published: January 2017

Employee stock options (ESOs) are an instrument in compensating top management of corporations. In the literature, they are described as a variable component of remuneration of a long-term character (Borkowska, 2012). There are six characteristic elements of the ESO: a grant date, the ESO plan duration, employees entitled to receive options, vesting criteria, a vesting period, and an exercise price. The article refers to the exercise price. The remuneration of employees is determined by the option’s intrinsic value, i.e. the difference between the current stock price and the exercise price. This difference affects the costs incurred by a company in relation with their incentive stock option plan. In this connection, the exercise price of stock options needs to be analysed.

The literature shows that usually the strike price is equal to the stock market’s value at the time the option is granted. The options issued with an exercise price equal to the market value of the company’s stock on the date of the grant usually lead to at-the-money options. Walker (2009) mentions that almost all options issued by US firms have been such type of options. Hence, the options with exercise prices less than the prices of the underlying assets have been rarely observed. One of the solutions can be discounting the exercise price by using sectoral indexes, which are sensitive to changes on a particular market.

The purpose of this paper is to address several aspects of specifying the exercise price in ESOs. The research shows how sector indexes can be used to discount it. Using sectoral indexes in determining the exercise price can partly limit the unreasonably high profits from the ESO. The literature does not provide ready-made formulas of exercise prices based on specific variables. The aim of the research is to present and apply the formula of the exercise prices in which sectoral indices are used to discount.

The data are from the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and include those companies that revealed the information concerning their incentive programs in 1999–2013. The relevant data come from annual reports, current reports, supervisory boards’ resolutions, and press announcements.