bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Medication Status and Gait Mechanics in Older Adults: A Multivariate Analysis
Authors: Gabaldon Josi , Wood Robert , Murphy Eryn , Keeley David W.
Published: December 2019

Background and Purpose:

Falls are the leading cause of unintentional deaths in older adults, with nearly one-third of adults older than 65 years falling annually. Previous work reveals that both medication status and gait changes are contributing factors to falls in older adults; however, it is unknown how these factors interact. Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to examine differences between gait biomechanics as a function of medication status in individuals older than 60 years with a self-reported history of falling. It was hypothesized that differences in gait mechanics would be observed as a function of the number of medications in these individuals.

Methods:

A total of 384 participants, age, mean (SD) = 73.2 (4.2) years; height, mean (SD) = 173.09 (16.4) cm; mass, mean (SD) = 65.45 (5.78) kg, were recruited from across the Southwest United States (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California) by the Electronic Caregiver Mobile Fall Risk Assessment Laboratory. Data for cadence, gait velocity, stride length, swing time, and double-support time were collected using a Walkway gait analysis system. Factor analysis was employed to determine whether the gait characteristics were similar to those observed in previous studies. A multivariate analysis with a follow-up univariate analysis was employed to determine group differences in gait factors and variables according to medication number (≥4 medications, n = 262 vs ≤3 medications, n = 122).

Results:

Results of the factor analysis reveal that the data analyzed in the current study are similar to those observed in previous studies, with cadence (factor loading coefficient [FLC] = 0.745), gait velocity (FLC = 0.922), stride length (FLC = 0.789 for left and 0.790 for right) loading positively on a “pace” factor, swing time (FLC = 0.728 for right and 0.683 for left), and double-support time (FLC= 0.723) loading positively on a “rhythm” factor. The results of the multivariate analysis of variance revealed differences in gait factors across groups according to medication status. Univariate follow-up tests reveal that double-support time is longer and stride length is shorter in persons taking 4 or more medications as compared with those on 3 or fewer medications.

Conclusion:

The findings of this study indicate that certain abnormal gait parameters in participants with a history of falls are associated with taking 4 or more medications. Future studies should examine the extent to which gait changes and medications interact to predict falls.
The Threats of Small-Sided Soccer Games: A Discussion About Their Differences With the Match External Load Demands and Their Variability Levels
Authors: Clemente Filipe M.
Published: December 2019

Small-sided games (SSGs) are regularly used in soccer training. SSGs are used because of their capacity to replicate the demands of a real match or control the overall workload of players. However, some threats may result from the use of SSGs. Thus, it is important to highlight those threats to improve the effectiveness of SSG implementation. Based on that, we examine and discuss comparisons between external load SSGs and real-game scenarios, the intra- and interplayers physical variability during the smaller formats of play, the consequences of SSGs in terms of the proper physical stimulation of players, and injury prevention.
POR UMA PEDAGOGIA DA DIVERSIDADE NO VIÉS DA INTERCULTURALIDADE
Authors: Carneiro João Paulo , Carneiro Blenda Perfeito Ferreira
Published: December 2019

O presente texto abarca a discussão sobre diversidade no âmbito da perspectiva intercultural. Contempla o debate educacional em direitos humanos. Dialoga a conceituação racial com Hall (2014), Munanga (2012, 2014) e Guimarães (2012). No quesito currículo Apple (2011), Arroyo (2011) e Silva (2011), na perspectiva intercultural, Candau (2014). Concluímos que, a pedagogia da diversidade contribui de maneira singular para a construção de uma sociedade democrática no respeito à diferença, a equidade e no empoderamento dos inferiorizados no processo histórico. Possibilitando assim, uma educação na esfera dos direitos humanos.
Holistically addressing motivation and maladaptive traits in anorexia nervosa: Impact on prognosis and treatment outcomes
Authors: Milios Athena
Published: December 2019

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a serious psychiatric disorder, characterized by restriction of energy intake, low body weight, intense fear of weight gain, and a disturbance in body weight self-perception. Severe and Enduring AN (SE-AN) is a long-lasting (typically 5-7 or more years and marked by several unsuccessful treatment attempts) form of AN. Traditional treatments, centering on weight restoration and core eating pathology, may be part of the reason rates of treatment dropout are high and long-term outcomes are poor, particularly in SE-AN. For SE-AN patients, who have a past marked by failed traditional treatment attempts, multidimensional treatments, addressing motivation to change and maladaptive traits, may improve a range of patient outcomes outside of eating-related symptoms, such as quality of life and interpersonal functioning.The objective of this narrative review is to briefly examine motivation-related factors (e.g., hope and readiness to change), experiential avoidance, perfectionism, and obsessive-compulsiveness, and the impact of treatment approaches incorporating these individual characteristics on various patient outcomes. In conclusion, a holistic, multidimensional, person-centred recovery approach that accounts for (a) illness severity/ chronicity, (b) individual traits, and (c) motivational factors (with a secondary focus on weight gain/eating pathology), could improve quality of life outcomes, particularly in SE-AN. Additionally, integrating patient perspectives, insights, and values into developing/testing novel person-centred interventions is paramount in order to holistically address the underlying biopsychosocial causes and perpetuating factors of AN, and to better understand the trajectory of chronicity.
Series: Cardiovascular outcome trials for diabetes drugs Alogliptin and EXAMINE
Authors: Fisher Miles
Published: December 2019

EXAMINE was an FDA mandated cardiovascular outcome trial with alogliptin. In contrast to other cardiovascular outcome trials with DPP-4 inhibitors, it was performed in subjects with a recent acute coronary syndrome. EXAMINE compared alogliptin and placebo in 5,380 subjects with type 2 diabetes and demonstrated non-inferiority for major cardiovascular events (cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke) but not superiority. Data on hospitalisation for heart failure were not included in the principal publication. A subsequent publication showed no overall increase in hospitalisation for heart failure with alogliptin, but when subjects with and without baseline heart failure were separated there was a significant increase in the group without heart failure at baseline. No clear clinical benefit has been established for alogliptin, and there are alternatives such as sitagliptin and linagliptin that are not associated with an increase in hospitalisation for heart failure.
El acoso sexual en la universidad
Authors: Fernández Revoredo Marisol
Published: December 2019

En el presente trabajo planteo que las universidades constituyen espacios en los que se desarrollan culturas institucionales de las cuales el acoso sexual es parte y se ha normalizado históricamente. Como consecuencia de movimientos como #Metoo, Ni Una Menos, Se Acabó el Silencio, entre otros, las estudiantes universitarias y diversas agrupaciones y colectivos han cobrado mucha fuerza y están empezando a demandar políticas para lograr ambientes educativos libres de violencia, especialmente de acoso sexual. A ello en buena parte se debe que, a partir del 2018, se hayan dictado normas importantes para frenar esta forma de violencia, que contienen obligaciones tanto para universidades públicas como privadas. Sin embargo, para enfrentar el acoso sexual en las instituciones de educación superior, la adopción de reglamentos es insuficiente. Se trata más bien de desmontar las culturas institucionales de género que excluyen a las mujeres. Como ejemplo, se presenta el proceso de implementación de una instancia para canalizar denuncias de acoso sexual en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
Evaluación de dos secuencias de código de barras de ADN en germoplasmas de Arracacia xanthorrhiza (Apiaceae) de Ecuador
Authors: Dávila Marta , Laurentín Hernan , Vásquez Freytez Carlos Luis , Paredes-Carreño Sara , Frutos Vanessa , León Olguer
Published: December 2019

El presente estudio evalua el gen de cloroplasto rbcL y la región espaciadora no codificante psbA-trnH de Arracacia xanthorrhiza como posible secuencia de código de barra. Se colectó material vegetal de A. xanthorrhiza en huertos de las provincias de Pichincha, Tungurahua y Cotopaxi, las cuales fueron sembradas en condiciones homogéneas en la Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias de la Universidad Técnica. El análisis del locus rbcL identificó los cinco materiales de A. xanthorrhiza con entre 97 y 99% de homología. La alineación de secuencias del locus rbcL y de psbA-trnH permitió diferenciar dos grupos, el primer grupo con SJ, QU, PP y B, observándose poca diversidad entre ellos, mientras que el segundo grupo está conformado por el material CH cultivado a 3260 m de altitud. En el segundo árbol, se demostró la divergencia entre los materiales colectados en diferentes provincias de la Sierra ecuatoriana, separándolos de acuerdo a su localidad, así como al color de la pulpa de la raíz. La región intergénica no codificadora (psbA-trnH) permitió identificar y obtener la diversidad genética de materiales cultivados de A. xanthorrhiza, provenientes de diversas zonas geográficas de la sierra ecuatoriana, con características morfológicas distintivas. Adicionalmente, esta secuencia pudo diferenciar a A. xanthorrhiza de otras especies de la familia Apiaceae, con lo cual se recomienda como código de barra.
Una nueva localidad y reexaminación de la serie tipo de la lagartija Andina de Machu Picchu Proctoporus machupicchu Mamani, Goicoechea y Chaparro, 2015 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)
Authors: Diaz M. Isabel , Ttito Alex , Mamani Luis
Published: December 2019

Proctoporus machupicchu es una especie de lagartija semifosorial que fue descubierta en dos localidades dentro del Santuario Histórico de Machu Picchu (SHMP), Cusco, Perú. La serie tipo está conformada por dos hembras y un macho, sin embargo, el paratipo macho no posee poros femorales lo cual es incongruente con los machos mencionados en la literatura. En el presente trabajo, reportamos una nueva localidad fuera del SHMP y reexaminamos la serie tipo. Internamente, el paratipo macho no posee vestigios masculinos (testículos y conductos seminíferos) por lo que concluimos que hubo un error en el sexado. Además, reportamos una nueva localidad basado en un macho juvenil colectado en el área de Conservación Privada San Luis (ACP San Luis) de la provincia de La Convención. Este nuevo registro incrementa el rango de distribución de la especie en 20.9 km al noreste y su rango altitudinal de 2760 – 2800 a 2760 – 2966 m de altitud.
Onomastic code in Mandelstam’s poetry
Authors: Kihney Liubov
Published: December 2019

The article explores the principles of anagraming and intertextual cryptography in the work of Osip Mandelstam related to his own name and surname. It is proved that onomastic ciphers dissolved in poetic fabric (embodied in the images of Hagia Sophia, Joseph, the staff, axis, wasp, Hosian, etc.) add up to the author’s myth about the World Tree / World Axis, which, through a system of complex intertextual references, draws into themselves a number of mythological paradigms of world culture. At the same time, the uniqueness of the myth created by Mandelstam lies in the fact that within the author’s system of onomastic correspondences, all images are likened to each other, and their semantic fields become interpenetrable and mobile, which is explained by their ascent to the single sound-semantic code of the poet’s name and surname.
“I sang the reeds as no one sang before me...”: semantics of the swamp in the poetry of K. D. Balmont
Authors: Snezko Julija
Published: December 2019

The article considers the semantics of the swamp in the poetry of K. D. Balmont, whose image, in comparison with other natural images in his works, seems to be insufficiently studied. The work shows its special significance for the poet – it remains relevant throughout his whole artistic path and evolves, enriched with new meanings. This study shows that the semantics of the image of the swamp go beyond the early diabolic discourse (in the framework of which the swamp was analyzed by Hansen-Löve) in a significant group of poems, where the swamp is part of the native space and the habitat of folklore entities. The work concludes that the swamp, in the works of Balmont, is gradually freed from the negative connotations traditionally associated with it and turns from a god-forsaken place into a space where the cycle of life and death is carried out. It can be argued that the dominant in the image of the swamp in the poet’s works is the realm of the plants.
Behavioral basis for building self-stimulating environmental regimes
Authors: Koziuk Viktor , Ivashuk Yurii
Published: December 2019

The effectiveness of self-stimulating environmental regimes in unsteady economic systems is considered in the article on the basis of the conducted behavioral experiment. It is shown that rational choice, as a methodological basis is not always a sufficient prerequisite for the development of effective environmental regimes. It is substantiated that the initial level of well-being may determine the preferences of economic entities regarding environmental benefits. It is noted that in conditions of low priority of social welfare and ecology, at the individual level there is no reason to believe that collective actions to increase the supply of environmental goods will be successful. It is revealed that the potential for replication of altruistic strategies is rather weak, and they are almost entirely offset by rent-invading behavior, while collective actions do not generate a proper emergent order in which opportunistic behavior would be subject to more stringent restrictions. In general, the results of the experiment indicate an increase in the effect of the gap between the individual rational rent-invading choices and the collective result, which leads to the degradation of the environment, which accordingly calls into question the expediency of creating a decentralized mechanism for financing the benefit of «clean ecology» in Ukraine. It is substantiated that in the short term, the very tools of environmental policy that will be based on the use of individuals to benefit from the implementation of such a policy and pushing them out will be potentially successful. However, in the long run, the improvement of the situation in the field of environmental goods may be based on changes in preferences that are not always strictly determined by the level of income, in particular, environmental policy should be associated with those changes in institutional quality and education that would be relevant to changes in preferences.
Theoretical basis of the germination of the concept of balanced regional development
Authors: Khovrak Inna
Published: December 2019

The current reforming of local self-government, territorial organization of authorities and administrative-territorial division in Ukraine require new approaches to managing regional development. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical aspects of the concept of balanced regional development. In the study, the author applies systematic approach, theoretical generalization, method of scientific abstraction, logical-semantic method and graphical method.
The results of the study show that the concept of balanced regional development should be considered through the prism of seven concepts and theories. Thus, regional development theories (individual theories of spatial organization, utilization of the region's potential and innovation and knowledge, as well as theories of social change) help to perceive the region as a coherent system with the potential for development. The concept of sustainable development emphasizes the importance of meeting the needs of today without sacrificing the needs of future generations. The concept of a smart region combines smart governance, economy, mobility, environment, people and lifestyle. The concept of new pragmatism is reminiscent of taking into account, in governing a region, the system of values "profitably, lawfully, non-immorally". In accordance with the concept of reconstructive development, it is advisable to combine the introverted, inclusive and innovative development of the region. Stakeholder theory points to the need to identify the main stakeholders and establish communication between them. At the same time, behavioral theory emphasizes the strengthening of the role of the human factor in regional development, which actualizes the study of the influence of psychological factors.
As a result, the study identified balanced regional development as a long-term process of regional reconstruction with due regard to the existing potential, harmonizing stakeholder interests and establishing communication, optimal balance of environmental, social and economic goals, social justice, cohesion and responsibility.
Understanding the nature and features of balanced regional development is theoretically and practically important as it is capable of enhancing the effectiveness of regional governance.
Effect of aflatoxin B1 alone or co-administered with Mycotox NG on the renal function and morphology of turkey broilers.
Authors: Valchev I. , Grozeva N. , Kanakov D. , Hristov Ts. , Lazarov L. , Dimitrov K. , Binev R.
Published: December 2019

The changes in relative weight of kidneys, blood plasma uric acid, urea, creatinine, calcium and inorganic phosphate, and the morphology of kidneys were investigated in turkey broilers with experimentally induced aflatoxicosis B1 (AFB1) treated or not with a mycosorbent (Mycotox NB). Experiments were carried out with 60 7-day-old female turkey broilers (meat TM strain) divided into one control and five treatment groups (n=10): Group I – control (0 mg/kg AFB1 not supplemented with Mycotox NG); Group II (0.5 g/kg Mycotox NG), Group III (0.2 mg/kg AFB1), Group IV (0.4 mg/kg AFB1), Group V (0.2 mg/kg AFB1 and 0.5 g/kg Mycotox NG) and Group VI (0.4 mg/kg AFB1 and 0.5 g/kg Mycotox NG). The changes in blood parameters were assayed on day 21 and 42. Blood analysis in groups III and IV on day 21 showed increased urea and creatinine concentrations and reduction in blood uric acid, calcium and inorganic phosphate. These changes tended to become more pronounced on day 42. The relative weight of kidneys was increased in groups III and IV after the end of the experiment. Morphological alterations of renal parenchyma in Groups I and II were not present. In birds from group III, desquamation of epithelial cells from the basement membrane, dilated glomerular subcapsular space and round-cell proliferation were noted. In Group V, these changes were far more severe and comprised granular and fatty dystrophy, karyolysis and plasmolysis, necrobiotic to necrotic processes, haemorrhages, congestion. The supplementation of the feed of groups V and VI with the tested toxin binder reduced the severity of reduction of kidneys’ relative weight, magnitude of changes in blood parameters, and the frequency and severity of histological lesions.
Antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence gene encoding intimin in Escherichia coli and Enterococcus isolated from wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Tunisia
Authors: Ben Said Laila , Jouini Ahlem , Fliss Ismail , Torres Carmen , Klibi Naouel
Published: December 2019

The spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in wildlife must be viewed as a major concern with serious implications for human and animal health.Escherichia coliand enterococcal isolates were recovered from faecal samples of 49 wild rabbits(Oryctolagus cuniculus)on specific media and were characterised using biochemical and molecular tests. For all isolates, antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed, and resistance genes were detected by PCR. Molecular typing of isolates was carried out by pulsed-field gel-electrophoresis, andE. colistrains were also tested for the presence of intimin (eae) gene characteristic of rabbit enteropathogenicE. coli.A total of 34E. coliand 36 enterococci [E. hirae(52.8%) andE. faecalis(47.2%)] were obtained. ForE. coli, resistance to tetracycline (94%), streptomycin (62%), ciprofloxacin (47%), trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (35%) and chloramphenicol (6%) was observed. Resistance to third-generation cephalosporins was detected in oneE. colistrain that carried theblaCMY-2andblaTEM-1genes. Class 1 integrons were detected in eight isolates. For enterococci, resistance to tetracycline (63.9%), erythromycin (30.5%), streptomycin (18.2%), and chloramphenicol (5.5%) was detected. Thetet(M)+tet(L),erm(B) and ant (6)-Ia genes were identified in thirteen, seven and three resistantEnterococcusstrains, respectively. Molecular typing showed a high diversity among our strains. Wild rabbits could represent a reservoir ofE. coli, and enterococci carrying antimicrobial resistance genes andE. coliadditionally carrying theeaegene of enteropathogenic pathotypes could both contaminate the environment. our finding seems to represent the first report ofeae-positiveE. coliin wild rabbits.
What feeds the green-eyed monster: sociodemographic and sociosexual determinants of jealousy
Authors: Hromatko Ivana , Fajfarić Marta , Tadinac Meri
Published: December 2019

Although studies consistently show gender differences in emotional vs. sexual jealousy, a substantial part of variance in jealousy is left unexplained. Here, we present two studies with aim to explore other correlates of jealousy, aside from gender. In the first online study (n = 2970), we found that participants who reported being more upset by the emotional infidelity scenario were older and more educated and had a higher income than those who reported being more upset by the sexual infidelity scenario. Those who expressed greater sexual jealousy gave higher ratings of importance of potential partner's mate value. Heterosexual women were more likely to report emotional jealousy than non-heterosexual women. Among men, sexual orientation did not predict type of jealousy. As the role of reproductive status was largely neglected in previous research, in the second study, we used a continuous measure to explore jealousy as a function of age (reproductive vs. post-reproductive; n = 199). We found that the older participants were less jealous overall, and that the previously reported gender differences disappeared in the post-reproductive group. These results provide further support for the notion that jealousy is a context-specific, adaptive response, which diminishes in both intensity and specificity as the threat that it was designed for wanes.
Tillit som förutsättning för skolutveckling. En studie av skolutveckling genom kollektivt lärande i arbetslag.
Authors: Jederlund Ulf
Published: December 2019

Artikeln bidrar till fördjupad förståelse av lokala förutsättningar för skolutveckling genom kollektivt lärande i arbetslag. En longitudinell fallstudie genomfördes av skolutvecklingsprocesserna i fem arbetslag på olika skolor som deltog i ett identiskt, externt utformat, utvecklingsprojekt. Projektet innebar en handledd lärandeprocess där lärarna förväntades utveckla gemensam kunskap och kompetens genom kollektiv reflektion, baserad på synliggjord praktik i form av kollektivt planerade och genomförda elevinterventioner. Interventionerna bestod i kartläggning av skolsvårigheter, filmade samarbetsbaserade lärar-elevsamtal och uppföljningar av dessa, med anpassningar i undervisning och elevarbete. Utfallet av projektet, såsom skattat av lärarna efter två år, varierade stort mellan skolorna. Variationen i utfall, trots att arbetslagen deltagit på jämförbara premisser och med likvärdigt tillförda resurser, är artikelns utgångspunkt.

Intresset riktas mot lärarnas upplevelser i utvecklingsprocessen. Analysen bygger på kvalitativa processdata insamlade före, under och efter projektet. I tematisk analys urskildes tre aspekter av lärares upplevelser av tillit i skolutvecklingsprocessen som centrala; processtillit, kollegial tillit och kollektiv tillit. Övergripande processtillit och kollektiv tillit framstod som förutsättningar för arbetslagens uthållighet i utvecklingsarbetet. Kollegial tillit - tillitsfulla interpersonella relationer och professionellt förtroende lärarna emellan i arbetslaget - framstod som en särskild förutsättning för att lärares praktik skulle synliggöras, och att ett fördjupat kollektivt lärande därmed skulle kunna äga rum. Kollegial tillit och kollektiv tillit är begrepp som återfinns i organisationslitteraturen, medan processtillit är ett begrepp som artikeln förslår.
Classifying Inconsistency Measures Using Graphs
Authors: De Bona Glauber , Grant John , Hunter Anthony , Konieczny Sebastien
Published: December 2019

The aim of measuring inconsistency is to obtain an evaluation of the imperfections in a set of formulas, and this evaluation may then be used to help decide on some course of action (such as rejecting some of the formulas, resolving the inconsistency, seeking better sources of information, etc). A number of proposals have been made to define measures of inconsistency. Each has its rationale. But to date, it is not clear how to delineate the space of options for measures, nor is it clear how we can classify measures systematically. To address these problems, we introduce a general framework for comparing syntactic measures of inconsistency. It is based on the notion of an inconsistency graph for each knowledgebase (a bipartite graph with a set of vertices representing formulas in the knowledgebase, a set of vertices representing minimal inconsistent subsets of the knowledgebase, and edges representing that a formula belongs to a minimal inconsistent subset). We then show that various measures can be computed using the inconsistency graph. Then we introduce abstractions of the inconsistency graph and use them to construct a hierarchy of syntactic inconsistency measures. Furthermore, we extend the inconsistency graph concept with a labeling that extends the hierarchy to include some other types of inconsistency measures.
Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures into Breast Surgical Oncology: Advancing Toward Value-Based Care
Authors: Lagendijk Mirelle , Mittendorf Elizabeth , King Tari A. , Gibbons Christopher , Pusic Andrea , Dominici Laura S.
Published: December 2019

Value in health care is defined as the health outcome achieved per unit of cost. For health care systems, improving value means achieving better outcomes at lower costs. Improving outcomes, including patient-reported outcomes (PROs), as well as more established metrics such as mortality and complication rates, ensures high-quality care. This is particularly true in breast cancer surgery, where survival and recurrence rates are comparable across different surgical approaches. Outcomes reflecting survivorship quality may therefore better inform decision making regarding surgical approaches. PROs can be assessed using validated instruments known as patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). They are obtained directly from patients reflecting their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Ongoing initiatives strive to define PROMs that accurately reflect HRQOL and demonstrate value, with the goal of establishing benchmarks for quality of care. Clinicians caring for patients with breast cancer are well positioned to be involved in defining meaningful measures of value-based breast cancer care. This article reviews value-based breast cancer care in the context of locoregional therapy, with attention paid to the work done by the International Consortium of Health Outcome Measures in which a “standard set” of value-based patient-centered outcomes for breast cancer for international use is defined. In addition, an overview is provided of relevant PROMs and previously reported scores. Recommendations and future challenges for implementation of routine collection of PROs are also discussed.

Implications for Practice

Opportunity exists to act as early adopters of the routine collection of longitudinal patient-reported outcome data for breast cancer, allowing transition of current care to value-based cancer care.
Türkler ve Ölüm / Geçmişten Bugüne Türklerde Ölüm Kültürü
Authors: ŞEKER Aziz
Published: December 2019

"Edward Tryjarski, Türkler ve Ölüm / Geçmişten Bugüne Türklerde Ölüm Kültürü, çev. Hafize Er, Pinhan Yayıncılık, İstanbul 2012, 639 s. (ISBN: 978.605.5302-06-1)." künyeli kitabın tanıtımı yapılmıştır.
Increasing Business Cycles Synchronization: The Role of Global Value Chains, Market Power and Extensive Margin Adjustments
Authors: de Soyres Francois , Gaillard Alexandre
Published: December 2019

In this note, based on de Soyres and Gaillard (2019a, 2019b), we argue that the propagation of shocks across countries through trade linkages is large and propose the first model that accounts for such propagation with a magnitude in line with the data.
How Well Does Economic Uncertainty Forecast Economic Activity?
Authors: Rogers John , Xu Jiawen
Published: December 2019

Despite the enormous reach and influence of the literature on economic and economic policy uncertainty, one surprisingly under-researched topic has been the forecasting performance of economic uncertainty measures. We evaluate the ability of seven popular measures of uncertainty to forecast in-sample and out-of-sample over real and financial outcome variables. We also evaluate predictive content over different quantiles of the GDP growth distribution. Real-time data and estimation considerations are highly consequential, and we devote considerable attention to them. Four main findings emerge. First, there is some explanatory power in all uncertainty measures, with relatively good performance by macroeconomic uncertainty (Jurado, Ludvigson, and Ng, 2015). Second, macro uncertainty has additional predictive content over the widely-used excess bond premium of (Gilchrist and Zakrajsek, 2012) and the National Financial Conditions Index. Third, quantile regressions for GDP growth indicate strong predictive power, especially at the lower ends of the distribution, for all uncertainty measures except the VIX. Finally, we construct new real-time versions of both macroeconomic and financial uncertainty and compare them to their ex-post counterparts used in the literature. Real-time uncertainty measures have comparatively poor forecasting performance, even to the point of overturning some of the conclusions that emerge from using ex-post uncertainty measures. \
Physical, Chemical, Microbiological and Sensory Characteristics of a Probiotic Beverage Produced from Different Mixtures of Cow's Milk and Soy Beverage by Lactobacillus acidophilus La5 and Yoghurt Culture
Authors: Šertović Edina , Sarić Zlatan , Barać Miroljub , Barukčić Irena , Kostić Aleksandar , Božanić Rajka
Published: December 2019

The aim of this paper is to determine nutritive, functional, microbiological and sensory properties of probiotic beverages produced from different volume ratios of cow's milk and soy beverage (25:75, 50:50 and 75:25). Pure cow’s milk and soy beverage served as control samples. Fermentation was performed at 43 °C by a combined culture consisting of the probiotic strain Lactobacillus acidophilus La5 and yoghurt culture. Viable counts of La5 strain in the produced beverages ranged from 7.52 to 8.20 log CFU/mL, which is above the probiotic minimum (106 CFU/mL). Lactic acid was the most prevalent organic acid in all samples (660.1 to 1003.0 mg/100 mL). The fatty acid profiles of fermented beverages were as follows: the mass fraction of saturated fatty acids was 22.2–82.7 %, of unsaturated fatty acids 22.3–77.8 % and of polyunsaturated fatty acids 15.5–65.9 %. The main soy sugars were transformed well (80 % stachyose and 50 % raffinose conversion) into lactic acid during fermentation. Functional probiotic beverages were successfully produced from different volume ratios of cow's milk and soy beverage by L. acidophilus La5 and yoghurt culture. Mixing cow's milk with soy beverage significantly improved the sensory properties of the product, especially its smell, taste and colour. The acceptability test showed good acceptance by potential consumers of all fermented beverage samples except for the sample made from 100 % soy beverage. In the end, the obtained results represent a good basis for optimisation of the ideal volume ratios of cow's milk and soy beverage for production of fermented beverages characterised by good viability of probiotic bacteria as well as by good functional, nutritive and sensory characteristics.
Medical pluralism, boundary making, and tuberculosis in Lambaréné, Gabon
Authors: Cremers Anne Lia
Published: December 2019

Scholars of medical pluralism are interested in how healers position themselves and their healing practices within a therapeutic landscape, and how patients navigate an array of therapeutic traditions. Based on fieldwork in Lambaréné, Gabon, this article examines the discursive practices of tuberculosis patients and healers, finding that therapeutic traditions were kept separate. Examining a national programme that fosters traditional medicine, I show how the Gabonese government engages in practices of boundary making by reinforcing traditional healers’ position within the Gabonese therapeutic landscape. This research confirms popular paradigms of boundary making within the medical pluralism debate, wherein boundaries are produced and crossed to contrast, strengthen, purify, and divide the therapeutic landscape. Additionally, formal state-sponsored discursive practices refer to a merging of traditional medicine and biomedical medicine. This stands in contrast with patients’ and healers’ discursive practices, and their wariness of fluid or adaptive boundary-making processes. To explain this, I introduce the concept of ‘conventional boundary making’ and then analyse it in the context of tuberculosis and in relation to theories of state power, Gabonese therapeutic identity politics, and structural violence.
Worlds in a bottle
Authors: Neely Abigail H.
Published: December 2019

In this article, I call for an object-centered ethnography to illuminate the ontological multiplicity that marks the worlds of health and healing that people inhabit. Focusing on a sports-drink bottle filled with a remedy from a faith healer in rural South Africa, I explore the ‘partial connections’ that link the world of global health and the world of traditional healing through objects and bodies. Drawing on medical anthropology focused on global health and medical pluralism as well as scholarship from the ontological turn, I argue that global health programs are limited by their failure to recognize the ontological multiplicity their target populations inhabit.
The MSM category as bureaucratic technology
Authors: Biruk Cal (Crystal)
Published: December 2019

The MSM category has traveled far and wide from its invention in US public health worlds in the late-1990s, migrating as well into anthropological scholarship that is critical of its reductionist, biomedicalized, Western, and de-eroticizing logics. While much has been written about ‘MSM’ as a flawed category that misdirects resources in health worlds, or as an imported nominalization that grafts awkwardly onto ‘real’, local, sexual, and gendered selves, my interest in this article is in revisiting the MSM category as a technology that facilitates linkages, processes, and dynamics constituting projects that take form in performance-based aid economies. Long-term, if episodic, work within projects targeting MSM deepens our understandings of the transformations and travels of the MSM category, beyond the dominant biomedical and cultural frames that characterize most anthropological literature. After briefly describing an NGO focused on LGBTI rights that I work with in Malawi, I present vignettes to analyze the work done by the MSM category in sociotechnical infrastructures. I closely read paperwork practices in NGO worlds to illustrate how the MSM category operates as a bureaucratic technology and a unit of accounting and measurement that is the engine behind the reproduction and performativity of projects. Throughout, I highlight how the patchy, contingent, frenetic, and unpredictable rhythms of aid economies are crucial context for understanding the workings of the MSM category. Finally, I reflect on how anthropologists’ embeddedness in such projects might reconfigure the meanings, tempos, and methods of anthropological work and writing.
Making up MSM
Authors: Lorway Robert , Fan Elsa , Thomann Matthew
Published: December 2019

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ALGILANAN AŞIRI NİTELİKLİLİĞİN İŞ TATMİNİ VE İŞTEN AYRILMA NİYETİ ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ: ÖRGÜT TEMELLİ ÖZSAYGININ DÜZENLEYİCİ ROLÜ
Authors: ACARAY Ali
Published: December 2019

Algılanan
aşırı niteliklilik çalışanların sahip oldukları eğitim, beceri, deneyim,
yetenek gibi özelliklerinin işin gereklerine göre fazla olmasıdır. Çalışanların
kendilerini bu şekilde hissetmeleri, onların iş tatmini ve işten ayrılma
niyetlerini olumsuz olarak etkileyebilmektedir. Bu olumsuz sonuçlar da çeşitli
mekanizmalar yoluyla azaltılabilir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, algılanan aşırı
nitelikliliğin iş tatmini ve işten ayrılma niyeti üzerine etkisinde örgüt
temelli özsaygının düzenleyici rolünü incelemektir. Çalışmanın verileri kolayda
örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak bankacılık sektöründe tam zamanlı olarak çalışan
316 örneklemden anket tekniğiyle toplanmıştır. Çalışmanın sonuçları algılanan
aşırı nitelikliliğin çalışanların iş tatminleri azalttığını ve işten ayrılma
niyetlerini ise artırdığını ortaya çıkarmıştır. Örgüt temelli özsaygı da algılanan
aşırı nitelikliliğin hem iş tatmini hem de işten ayrılma niyeti üzerine
etkisinde düzenleyici bir etkiye sahiptir.
ÇOKKÜLTÜRLÜ TOPLUM YAPILARINDA DEĞİŞEN AİDİYET ALGILARI: YENİ TOPLUMLAR, YENİ AİDİYETLER
Authors: ÇAĞIRKAN Barış
Published: December 2019

Toplumsal aktörler insanlık tarihi boyunca her dönemde farklı biçimlerde toplum veya topluluklara aidiyet algısı inşa etmişlerdir. Ancak, aidiyet algısı inşa süreçleri toplumsal değişmelerden fazlaca etkilenmiş ve her dönemin kendi paradigmaları çerçevesinde bu süreçler de farklılaşmıştır. Modern dönemde ana akım toplumun yapısal özelliklerine bağlı olarak tek bir faktör üzerinden inşa edilen aidiyet algısı, günümüz çokkültürlü toplumlarında artan mobilizasyon ve kitle iletişim teknolojilerinin gelişmesi ile birlikte daha küçük gruplar halinde ve bireylerin toplumsal hayatta girmiş olduğu sosyalizasyon süreçlerine bağlı olarak, toplumsal aktörler aynı ana akım toplum içinde farklı şekillerde aidiyet algısı inşa etmişlerdir. Toplumsal aktörlerin inşa ettiği bu yeni aidiyet algıları hibrit aidiyetler olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Değişen aidiyet algıları aynı zamanda bireylerin ‘biz’ ve ‘onlar’ algısını da değiştirmiştir. Modern öncesi dönemde genel olarak güvenlik endişesi ile oluşturulan biz ve onlar algısı, günümüz çokkültürlü toplumlarında dijital ortamlarda hobiler, spor, serbest zaman aktiviteleri vb. gibi farklı faktörler üzerinden oluşturulan topluluklar içinde şekillenmektedir.
Professional Motivation of Preschool Teachers: Work or Creative Activity?
Authors: Shakirova Elena
Published: December 2019

This study draws upon modern motivation theories to formulate a hypothesis on associations between teachers’ interest in creative work and their professional motivation. Research was performed to select and justify forms of preschool teacher training that would promote teachers’ creative motivation for developing an enriched learning environment for children. Between 2016 and 2019, 50 teachers of preschool institutions in Ivanovo and Ivanovo Oblast were surveyed using a questionnaire to identify the primary sources of their professional motivation. Such sources were found to be related to appropriation of collective goals, awareness of the importance of one’s work, and personal perception of the profession. The findings are used to devise the mechanisms of motivating teachers to engage in creative activities to develop an enriched learning environment. The article provides examples of need-satisfaction oriented conditions to promote teachers’ intrinsic motivation, encourage and support their autonomy and initiative. Enriched preschool learning environment is regarded as a specific domain of teachers’ creative activity to boost their creative self-expression and thus provide conditions for a comprehensive child development.
Educational Resources: Saturation or Satiety?
Authors: Agranovich Mark
Published: December 2019

The article explores the methodological issues of education system evaluation. Such evaluation, based on the comparative analysis of national and regional education systems, is an important source of information for education policy design and implementation through educational development programs. The existing approaches to and methods of education system evaluation are discussed. It is shown that they are based on internal indicators, not those perceived by end users or the effects external to the system. Even though there have been some objective reasons for using such approach, it remains unclear to what extent its results reflect the educational outcomes for the end users― that is, individuals, society, and economy? Statistical analysis methods are applied to OECD education statistics to investigate the relations between the education indicators characterizing the level of educational attainment, education accessibility, and the amount and quality of the resources involved, on the one hand, and the outcome effects for individuals, society, and economy. Where such relations are observed, they tend to be non-smooth and only manifest themselves up to a certain point in the vast majority of cases. Such cessation of growth in the outcome indicators that happens after achieving certain levels of resources involved, educational attainment, and other education indicators can be described as oversaturation or satiety effect. Inferences about the limitations and conditions of applying education indicators in education system evaluation are drawn from the findings.
Ideological Phantoms of Civilisation and Culture: Identity and Tolerance
Authors: Beregovaya Natalia Yu. , Karlova Olga A.
Published: December 2019

The article considers the philosophical aspect of defining the immanence and attribution of the concept of “tolerance” to the culture itself. The subject of the research is especially relevant due to the modern processes that are happening in the global world, and the difference in key methodological positions of modern Russian and Western science on this issue today. The purpose of this study is to clarify the philosophical basis of the existing opposition of societies with traditional ethical cultures (Russia, China) and the ‘new-type’ poly-state European ethnic community. Based on the analysis of current social processes in Russia and Europe using the comparative historical method, modelling methods and model extrapolation in the field of culture studies, social psychology and political science, the article identifies the main approaches to ethnic and social identity, their cultural and ideological components. The authors prove the hypothesis that culture requires designation of its border with another culture, recognition of this border, which distinguishes and confirms cultural semantics. Denial of this fact is a method of ideological manipulation of the ethno-social consciousness of society in the framework of globalisation processes
From Peripheral to Integral? A Digital-Born Journalism Not for Profit in a Time of Crises
Authors: Hermida Alfred , Young Mary Lynn
Published: December 2019

This article explores the role of peripheral actors in the production and circulation of journalism through the case study of a North American not-for-profit digital-born journalism organization, The Conversation Canada. Much of the research on peripheral actors has examined individual actors, focusing on questions of identity such as who is a journalist as opposed to emergent and complex institutions with multiple interventions in a time of field transition. Our study explores the role of what we term a ‘complex peripheral actor,’ a journalism actor that may operate across individual, organizational, and network levels, and is active across multiple domains of the journalistic process, including production, publication, and dissemination. This lens is relevant to the North American journalism landscape as digitalization has seen increasing interest in and growth of complex and contested peripheral actors, such as Google, Facebook, and Apple News. Results of this case study point to increasing recognition of The Conversation Canada as a legitimate journalism actor indicated by growing demand for its content from legacy journalism organizations experiencing increasing market pressures in Canada, in addition to demand from a growing number of peripheral journalism actors. We argue that complex peripheral actors are benefitting from changes occurring across the media landscape from economic decline to demand for free journalism content, as well as the proliferation of multiple journalisms.
Isotope geochemistry of sulfur: implications for origin and distribution of sulfur in Isparta Angle of Western Taurus Belt, SW, Turkey
Authors: KUMRAL Mustafa , DONER Zeynep
Published: December 2019

The study area is located between Isparta and Burdur cities in Turkey, in an area of 350 km2. According to sulfur isotope (δ34S) data of samples calculated δ34S (‰) values are between 0.0447-0.0449 and the variation range [Δ(δ34S)] is 7.7. These values suggest a genetic environment that suitable for shale formation. When it was examined the volcanic rocks in the region, it has shown that the rocks were quite poor in point of sulphide ores, it has been found Triassic bituminous shale, oil seepages in vicinity. Previous researchers asserted that the sulfur must have been originated from the volcanism. However, isotopic and geochemical analyses, detailed field surveys of volcanic rocks suggest that the sulfur has organic origin and may have occurred in shale environment. It is thought that the sulfur may have been thrusted to the surface by hydrothermal water and gas in the end of the volcanism.