bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Towards an RRG analysis of constructions with a morphologcal causaive in some Altaic languages
Authors: Generalova Valeria
Published: March 2021

The present paper examines Bashkir and Kalmyk construction formed from transitive verbs by means of causative suffixes1. We refer to these constructions to “constructions with a morphological causative”. The paper also references other Altaic languages (Mishar Tatar, Nanai, Tuvinian, Khakas). The main focus of the paper is on the valence-increasing behavior of causatives. Primary attention is drawn to the case marking of the Causee since Altaic languages allow several options for that. The paper describes in detail the existing alternation and reviews prior explanations of this phenomenon. It then couches the explanation for the alternation within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar. The analysis identifies that Altaic constructions in question are somehow peculiar compared to general trends. After discussing the advantages and drawbacks of various theoretical interpretations of this peculiarity, we conclude that it is best to link two different causative constructions to two different logical structures. We also suggest constructional schemata for Kalmyk and Bashkir to include in the Linking Algorithm.
Nhìn từ vài bản hòa tấu dữ liệu xã hội
Authors: Vuong Quan-Hoang
Published: March 2021

Bài viết này là bản thu hoạch vài điểm mấu chốt rút ra được trong suốt quá trình thực hiện, phản biện/xuất bản và tiếp tục phát triển nhận thức của ba nghiên cứu. Mặc dù chỉ là ba trong số hơn 100 bài Trung tâm ISR đã xuất bản trong 45 tháng qua, nhưng những gì thu nhận được, trên phương diện tăng trưởng nhận thức và cải thiện kỹ năng, lại rất đáng kiểm đếm. Bài viết này dành cho các nghiên cứu viên để hiểu hơn về quá trình đi đến kết quả, và lý do vì sao chúng được ví như những “bản hòa tấu dữ liệu xã hội nhân văn”. Hy vọng rằng, các bạn sẽ thu nhận để tiếp tục những tìm tòi hay, ý nghĩa, trong những nghiên cứu tương lai.
IMPLEMENTASI PENDIDIKAN DALAM IBADAH QURBAN
Authors: Yusuf Muhammad
Published: March 2021

ibadah kurban hakekatnya mengikuti sunnah keluarga Nabi Ibrahim Alaihissalam, keluarga tauhid dan merupakan contoh yang sangat sempurnah dalam menghambakan diri kepada Allah swt.
Review of “The Accademy of Fisticuffs. Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy” by Sophus A. Reinert
Authors: Simon Fabrizio
Published: March 2021

Book Review of “The Accademy of Fisticuffs. Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy” by Sophus A. Reinert
增加新 SI prefixes 的建议（Suggestion to add the new SI prefixes）
Authors: YANG Zheng-Ling
Published: March 2021

建议增加新的 SI prefixes。第一类方法是设计新的符号；或将现有的符号左右镜像、上下镜像之类。第二类方法是使用大家熟悉的符号。这里建议用剩余的英文、希腊文字母，按照字母表顺序依次表示更大的、更小的国际单位制词头（SI prefixes）。
Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception abilities in the German language
Authors: Suess Nina , Hauswald Anne , Zehentner Verena , Depireux Jessica , Herzog Gudrun , Rösch Sebastian , Weisz Nathan
Published: March 2021

Visual input is crucial for understanding speech under noisy conditions, but there are hardly any tools to assess the individual ability to lip read. With this study, we wanted to (1) investigate how linguistic characteristics of language on the one hand and hearing impairment on the other hand have an impact on lip reading abilities and (2) provide a tool to assess lip reading abilities for German speakers. 170 participants (22 prelingually deaf) completed the online assessment, which consisted of a subjective hearing impairment scale and silent videos in which different item categories (numbers, words, and sentences) were spoken and the task for our participants was to recognize the spoken stimuli just by visual inspection. We used different versions of one test and investigated the impact of item categories, word frequency in the spoken language, articulation, sentence frequency in the spoken language, sentence length, and differences between speakers on the recognition score. We found an effect of item categories, articulation, sentence frequency, and sentence length on the recognition score, but no effect of word frequency or version of the test. With respect to hearing impairment we found that higher subjective hearing impairment is associated with higher test score. We did not find any evidence that prelingually deaf individuals show enhanced lip reading skills over people with postlingual acquired hearing impairment. However, we see an effect of education on enhanced lip reading skills only in the prelingual deaf, but not in the population with postlingual acquired hearing loss. This points to the fact that there are different factors contributing to enhanced lip reading abilities depending on the onset of hearing impairment. Overall, lip reading skills vary strongly in the general population independent of hearing impairment. Based on our findings we constructed a new and efficient lipreading assessment tool (SaLT) that can be used to test behavioural lip reading abilities in the German speaking population.
Chinese Public’s Support for COVID-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West
Authors: Liu Chuncheng
Published: March 2021

Surveillance is never only about surveillance but is embedded in the broader social context, both domestically and internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the surveillance practices of non-Western countries have often been analyzed from the perspective of the West, impacting domestic surveillance policymaking and public perception. However, we rarely know how Western societies’ surveillance practices and discourses may impact how people in non-Western societies understand their own domestic surveillance. Combining data from varied sources, this article examines domestic surveillance during COVID-19 in China and explores how Chinese residents perceive it, with a focus on perceptions that are in relation to the West.
How do meta-organizations affect extra-organizational boundaries? The case of university associations
Authors: Brankovic Jelena
Published: March 2021

How do organizational associations affect extra-organizational boundaries? This chapter addresses this question by looking into the long-established practice among universities to form associations. In order to examine how associations delineate boundaries in universities’ institutional environment, the chapter draws on the scholarly work on categories and conceptualizes associations as meta-organizations. The chapter finds that category-based identities, and other organizational characteristics, enacted to demarcate members from non-members play a central role in this process. In following these lines of demarcation on a sample of 185 national and international university associations a typology emerges, accompanied by a global diffusion pattern. Three sets of institutional conditions are then identified as being conducive to this process: (1) the twentieth-century university expansion and the consolidation of national higher education fields, (2) the intensification of cross-border interaction and the advent of international institutions, and (3) the formation of a global field and the rise of competition as an ideological imperative.
Local awareness based midwifery care in basic level service in the digital era
Authors: Rusmini Rusmini , Hastuti Puji
Published: March 2021

The development of technology and knowledge possessed by humans so that midwifery care and birth care for a woman has also experienced a shift, in which medical midwives have replaced village midwives. This research is a theoretical study by taking several studies on midwifery care and local wisdom and analyzing the theory related to the facts in the field and the author's experience. The results of the studies that have been carried out there are several findings study, including; First, midwifery care that has forgotten the local wisdom of elders, proverbs, pamali and abstinence from traditional healers, smart people, and village midwives so that when a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth, it results in a cesarean section than average. Second, for a woman who has given birth and left local wisdom to inform the irrational world, the baby often cries when it is midnight.
Patterns of the Fall: Adam and Eve in the Old English Genesis A
Authors: McKill Larry N.
Published: March 2021

No serious scholar would argue that an Old English poem deserves critical attention simply because it constitutes such a large percentage of the surviving corpus of OE poetry. Nonetheless, I find it curious, at least, that Genesis A should receive such scant critical attention at a time in which OE scholarship on many minor works has flourished. The reason for this neglect cannot be attributed to its fragmented state, moreover, for such is the condition of many OE poems. Nor can its religious subject-matter, out of fashion for many readers, be singled out, for most OE poetry has a distinctly Christian outlook and is similarly didactic. And studies — largely unpublished dissertations — have indisputably shown that Junius’s appellation Paraphrasis does not adequately describe the poem. Furthermore, because of its length and less immediate appeal than Genesis B (which continues to receive regular scholarly attention), Genesis A is seldom taught to undergraduates and rarely to graduate students, further reducing its exposure to critical analysis.
Popular Piety in the Middle Ages: What is Popular?
Authors: Boyle Leonard E.
Published: March 2021

From the outset of this paper it should be clear that I do not underwrite the term "Popular piety" as it stands. If, from time to time, I do use it, this is, first of all, because it is in my title; secondly, and more important, because, as I hope will become evident as I go along, I am not using it in its accepted sense, as something over and against a higher or "learned" piety, as happens in the dichotomy so favoured by many scholars: "Foi savante — Foi populaire" and "Official piety — Popular Piety."
Incident — History — Exemplum — Novella: The Transformation of History in Chaucer's Physician's Tale
Authors: Fichte Joerg O.
Published: March 2021

Fragment VI or group C of the Canterbury Tales, the so-called floating fragment, begins without head link or introduction with an immediate reference to the source of the Physician's Tale: Livy's monumental compilation, Ab Urhe Condita. The famous Verginia episode to be treated once again by Chaucer, material which had already inspired such authors as Jean de Meung, Boccaccio, and GoWer, is found in early form in the third book of Livy's Roman history: Its mediaeval analogues, as well as Livy's original treatment and Bersuire's French translation of it, were at least partially reproduced in Bryan and Dempster's Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, providing the textual basis for the study of this relatively neglected tale from the mid-sixties on. In order to account for Chaucer's differently accentuated presentation of the historical episode, scholarship has tried to identify and analyse deviations from and alterations to his probable sources, Livy's history and Jean de Meung's Romance of the Rose. The function of Chaucer's additions to the inherited story has been investigated, the differing characterization of the main participants, the narrative development of the plot, and the relationship between the narrator (that is, the Physician) and his story. Also, a number of interpretative readings of the tale have been proposed with some of the varying interpretations finding encouragement in the gap that exists between the meaning suggested in the moralisatio appended to this tale by its teller and that seen in the moralisatio put forth by Harry Baily, the host and leader of the literary 189 190 pilgrimage to Canterbury Moreover, both moralisations seem to fall short of plumbing the full depth of the story -- a fact recognized by recent scholarship.
Историческая геология. Методическое руководство к практическим занятиям: учебно-методическое пособие, [электронное издание сетевого распространения]/ Д.И. Панов, Е.В. Яковишина, И.В. Шалимов, Л.Ф. Копаевич. – 2-е изд., дополненное и переработанное. – М.: «КДУ», «Добросвет», 2021. – 177 с.
Authors: Д.И. Панов , Е.В. Яковишина , И.В. Шалимов , Л.Ф. Копаевич
Published: March 2021

Руководство к практическим занятиям предназначено для студентов Геологического факультета МГУ, изучающих краткий курс «Исторической геологии» в объеме 72 часа на 3 или 4 семестрах II курса. Руководство может использоваться и в других вузах для обучения студентов, слушающих аналогичный курс. Данное «Руководство» состоит из двух частей. Первая часть посвящена общим вопросам «Исторической геологии»: ее содержанию, основным понятиям и методам. Здесь рассматриваются основные историко-геологические документы, каковыми являются строение осадочных и вулканогенных отложений, состав и возраст интрузивных массивов, структура земной коры, рельеф земной поверхности и пр. Подробно рассматриваются основные методы изучения этих документов. Вторая часть практических занятий, посвящена обобщению и систематизации огромного фактического материала, который излагается в лекциях и учебниках при рассмотрении геологической истории Земли. Все занятия проводятся в форме выполнения студентами «заданий» – графических работ: схем сопоставления разрезов, фациальных профилей, фациальных и палеогеографических карт, графиков истории геологического развития, палеотектонических карт для последовательных этапов формирования структуры земной коры континентов. Все «задания» включены в соответствующие разделы курса. Каждому из них предшествует краткое изложение теоретического материала, а в конце даются контрольные вопросы для проверки усвоения материала.
Humanistyka jako zabawa
Authors: Kurowicki Jan
Published: March 2021

W niniejszym artykule staram się wykazać, iż mimo powagi i znaczenia swych zadań humanistyka może być ujmowana jako zabawa. Takie jej postrzeganie wyłania się, gdy patrzy się nań z perspektywy historii naszej kultury umysłowej. Ucieleśnieniem bawienia się w humanistyce jest działalność intelektualna Sokratesa; jej zaprzeczeniem - Jorge, bohater Imienia róży Umberto Eco.
Wokół pojęcia alienacji ekologicznej
Authors: Domeracki Piotr
Published: March 2021

W artykule podejmuję problem operacjonalizacji pojęcia alienacji na gruncie ekofilozofii. Próbuję pokazać, że jest to jedno z kluczowych pojęć ekofilozoficznych. Rezerwuję dla niego określenie „alienacja ekologiczna”. Moją ambicją jest reartykulacja pojęcia alienacji w kontekście fundamentalnego dla filozofii ekologicznej problemu relacji natura – człowiek – kultura. Dokonuję tego w kilku krokach. Najpierw poszukuję źródłowego znaczenia pojęcia alienacji. W tym celu przedstawiam krótki rys etymologiczno-historyczny. W dalszej kolejności podaję przykłady najsławniejszych filozoficznych teorii alienacji. W następnym kroku czynię to samo w odniesieniu do filozofii ekologicznej. Cała procedura służy ostatecznie ujednoznaczniającej precyzacji pojęcia alienacji ekologicznej.
Wzrokowy układ poznawczy jako spektrometr: (część I)
Authors: Harciarek Mirosław Zbigniew
Published: March 2021

W pracy zaproponowano rozumienie wzrokowego układu poznawczego w oparciu o model spektrometru, który pozwala zrozumieć: obiektywizowanie percepcji, wybór informacji ze środowiska oraz rolę zjawiska powidoku w spostrzeganiu. Przedstawiony model ma charakter dwuaspektowy i wyróżnia spostrzeżenia oraz wewnętrzne wrażenia doświadczane jako efekty następcze. Pierwowzorem opisu układu wzrokowego jako spektrometru jest teoria wypływu Helmholtza, która wyjaśnia problem stabilizacji obrazu świata mimo poruszania oczami oraz opisuje związek percepcji z motoryką, współcześnie określany jako tzw. poznanie ucieleśnione. Cały układ wzrokowy to system sprzężenia zwrotnego, w którym zgodnie z koncepcją Helmholtza powidok jest sygnałem sterującym percepcją i przejawem intencjonalności poznawczej. W artykule przedstawiono szereg argumentów, które przemawiają za rozumieniem układu wzrokowego jako spektrometru, a najważniejszym jest percypowanie figury jako jaśniejszejniż tło, na co zwrócili uwagę już psychologowie postaci. W opisie układu wzrokowego jako spektrometru uwzględniono dwa układy wzrokowe opisane przez Milnera i Goodale’a. W zakończeniu pracy przedstawiono propozycje wykorzystania modelu spektrometru do badania procesów poznawczych, podkreślając znaczenie zjawiska powidoku jako przejawu przetwarzania informacji wzrokowych.
Wybrane wątki krytyki utylitaryzmu
Authors: Stoiński Andrzej
Published: March 2021

Tekst dotyczy wybranych problemów związanych z utylitaryzmem jako koncepcją etyczną. Autor prezentuje krótki zarys tej teorii, z uwzględnieniem podstawowego jej podziału na utylitaryzm czynów i utylitaryzm reguł. Zasadniczym przedmiotem zainteresowania są jednak zarzuty formułowane w stosunku do tej doktryny. Przedstawiona krytyka oraz niektóre odpowiedzi na nią dotyczą różnych budzących kontrowersje punktów utylitaryzmu. Wśród nich znajdują się odniesienia do nadmiernych roszczeń wysuwanych wobec sprawców czynów. Inne ujemne oceny odwołują się do trudności przewidywania następstw działań. Kolejne głosy wiążą się z zarzutem ignorowania przez rozpatrywaną koncepcję fundamentalnych intuicji moralnych. W niektórych opiniach podnoszona jest kwestia hedonizmu charakterystycznego dla klasycznej wersji propozycji sformułowanej przez Benthama i Milla. Przedmiotem negatywnego osądu stało się też ignorowanie osobowego kontekstu moralności i idei sprawiedliwości przez koncepcję użyteczności.
The WTO’s legitimization strategy
Authors: Culot Henri
Published: March 2021

This article explains why the World Trade Organization struggles with the problem of its own legitimacy, how it puts forward both procedural and substantial arguments and remains  trapped in the tension between tchem. This paper focussed on the WTO’s own discource to shed light on its presuppositions or, rather, its internal contradictions.
Pojęcie znaku egzystencji i szyfru transcendencji w filozofii Jaspersa: (próba komentarza)
Authors: Żelazny Mirosław
Published: March 2021

Artykuł stanowi próbę autorskiej interpretacji dwóch kluczowych kategorii w filozofii Jaspersa: znak egzystencji i szyfr transcendencji. Pokazane zostało, jaka pomiędzy nimi zachodzi różnica i jakie łączą je relacje. Autorowi szczególnie chodziło o podkreślenie znaczenia Jaspersowskiego terminu „transcendencja”, często niesłusznie pojmowanego jako po prostu zaświaty. „Transcendencja” wywodzi się bowiem od „transcendowania ku” i oznacza takie transcendowanie, które nie zwraca się ani ku przedmiotom świata empirycznego, ani ku ukrytemu charakterowi ludzkiej osoby, którym to charakterem jest egzystencja, a mimo to staje się nieodłączne od ludzkiego działania.
Wolność i wspólnota w liberalnej wizji polityki
Authors: Grabowska Barbara
Published: March 2021

Liberałowie nie negują wartości równości i wspólnoty. Poszukują takich rozwiązań, które pozwalają pogodzić je z wolnością indywidualną. Prowadzi to do koncepcji wspólnoty liberalnej, biorącej pod uwagę różne koncepcje dobrego oraz do liberalnego egalitaryzmu, głoszącego hasło autentycznej równości szans.
Kulturowy topos księgi (przyczynek do interpretacji)
Authors: Banasiak Bogdan
Published: March 2021

Topos księgi należy do najsilniej zakorzenionych motywów w kulturze. Tradycyjnie wiążący się z księgami świętymi, średniowieczną Księgą Natury oraz nowożytną encyklopedią, występujący w filozofii, literaturze, mitach, legendach, religiach i kulturze masowej, oznaczał źródłową prawdę, pełnię sensu, zamknięcie i wyczerpanie, jednym słowem – wiedzę absolutną (metafizyka). Jego nowoczesna wersja (m.in. Sade, Mallarme, Nietzsche, Schulz, Borges) jawi się zaś jako księga-kłącze, czyli niesterowny, acentryczny, niehierarchiczny system otwarty (krytyka metafizyki), którego współczesną (informatyczną) wersję stanowi Internet.
Searching Identity Beyond Generic Boundaries in V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World
Authors: Naeem Ahmad , Jajja Muhammad Ayub
Published: March 2021

This paper aims to explore that the purpose of V.S. Naipaul in synthesizing different features of autobiography, fiction, history, journalism, essay and memoir in The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World is the quest for his socio-cultural and aesthetic identities as a man and a writer. Naipaul acts as a historian, explorer, author, character, narrator and traveler, and changes the novel form in both these books to create a discourse which is placed in the uncertain spaces between fiction and non-fiction. Both the novels are hybrid creations in which Naipaul goes beyond generic boundaries to demonstrate the difficulties in identifying himself within a political, literary, and cultural tradition. This paper also analyzes that the fusion of multiple literary genres in both the novels is meant to describe Naipaul's persistent struggle to make his own world, to become a writer and to convert his personal experience into literary works.
Clericus quidam crimine carnis. Legal and Iconographic Intricacies in Causa 15 of Gratian's Decretum
Authors: Adamczuk Arkadiusz
Published: March 2021

Artykuł podejmuje problem ukazania ikonografii Causae XV w Dekrecie Gracjana. Problem postawiony przez bolońskiego kamedułę dotyczy, po pierwsze, oskarżenia przez kobietę, z którą zgrzeszył duchowny, a po drugie, stosowania tortur w procesie kanonicznym. W obu przypadkach autor Dekretu rozstrzyga problem powołując się również na prawo rzymskie: między innymi cytując Digesta czy Kodeks Dioklecjana. Miniatury ilustrujące tę Causa, a więc i ten sam tekst, różnią się swoją ikonografią w zależności od czasu i miejsca wykonania konkretnego egzemplarza manuskryptu. Wynika to przede wszystkim z odmiennych, lokalnych tradycji prawnych, np. w średniowiecznych państwach włoskich.
Wybrane problemy międzyczasowe w prawie podatkowym w kontekście wskazań katolickiej myśli społecznej
Authors: Kucharski Adam
Published: March 2021

Przedmiotem rozważań jest ukazanie wybranych aspektów intertemporalnego prawa podatkowego, istotnych z punktu widzenia podstawowych wskazań społecznej nauki Kościoła katolickiego. Chodzi o konfrontację wybranych zasad obecnych w obu tych dziedzinach. Zaniechanie troski o etyczne umocowanie prawa, również w omawianym zakresie, może naruszać bowiem godność podatników. Antidotum na tego rodzaju niebezpieczeństwa stanowi przestrzeganie reguł stanowienia prawa z uwzględnieniem zasad: personalizmu, dobra wspólnego, solidarności, sprawiedliwości i pomocniczości, obecnych w nauce społecznej Kościoła katolickiego. Na gruncie polskiego systemu prawnego pewna część reguł realizowanych w ramach tych zasad objęta jest prawną definicją demokratycznego państwa prawa. Ponadto powszechnie znaną granicą aktywności ustawodawczej jest np. zakaz tworzenia prawa działającego wstecz, obowiązek zachowania odpowiedniej vacatio legis, zakaz skrajnego przerostu regulacji. Rzeczywiste respektowanie osobowej wizji człowieka musi skutkować szacunkiem poszczególnych ludzi i instytucji do podejmowanych przez człowieka aktywności (prawa nabyte) i czynionych przez niego planów (interesy w toku). Dobro wspólne i pozostałe zasady katolickiej nauki społecznej winny stale być wezwaniem do większej miłości i zrozumienia sytuacji współobywateli. Z kolei wielkoduszność wobec drugiego człowieka pomaga dostrzec solidarnościowy charakter danin publicznych. Wpisuje się to w konieczność pokornego uznania wzajemnej zależności ludzi oraz ich współodpowiedzialności, w tym za siebie wzajemnie przed Bogiem.
Wyłączenie sędziego w polskim procesie cywilnym na tle europejskich standardów prawa do sądu
Authors: Sekuła-Leleno Małgorzata
Published: March 2021

Instytucję wyłączenia sędziego od rozpoznania sporu należy postrzegać jako gwarancję bezstronności sądu. Wniosek strony może dotyczyć jedynie członka składu orzekającego w danej sprawie. Oczywiście możliwe jest żądanie wyłączenia wszystkich sędziów danego sądu. W tym celu należy jednak uzasad­niać indywidualnie wnioski dotyczące każdego sędziego osobno. Niedopuszczal­ne jest nadużywanie instytucji wyłączenia sędziego tak przez samego sędziego, jak i strony procesu.
The effects of core stabilization training on dynamic balance and pulmonary parameters in patients with asthma
Authors: Develi Elif , Subasi Feryal , Aslan Goksen K. , Bingol Zuleyha
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: In the literature, novel physiotherapy and rehabilitation approaches are getting significant attention as a way to cope with secondary complications in the management of asthma. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of core stabilization exercises combined with the Asthma Education Program (AEP) and breathing exercises in patients with asthma. METHODS: The study sample consists of 40 asthmatic patients (age 52.25 ± 11.51 years) who were randomly divided into a Training Group (TG) (n= 20) and a Control Group (CG) (n= 20). All subjects were included in the AEP, and both groups were trained in breathing retraining exercises (2 times/wk, 6-week duration in the clinic). The core stabilization exercise program was also applied in the TG. Respiratory muscle strength (maximum inspiratory and expiratory pressures), physical activity level (International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form (IPAQ)), health-related quality of life (Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQOL)), functional exercise capacity (six-minute walking test (6MWT)), and dynamic balance (Prokin PK200) were assessed before and after the interventions. RESULTS: The TG showed more significant improvements in MIP (ΔTG:4.55 cmH2O, ΔCG:0.95 cmH2O), IPAQ (ΔTG:334.15 MET-min/wk., ΔCG:99 MET-min/wk.), 6MWT (ΔTG:24.50 m, ΔCG:11.50 m), and dynamic balance sub-parameters compared to the mean difference between the initial assessment and after a 6-week intervention program, which included twelve exercise sessions (p< 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The findings present greater improvements in inspiratory muscle strength, physical activity level, functional exercise capacity, and dynamic balance when core stabilization exercises are included in the pulmonary rehabilitation program for the management of asthma.
The short-term effectiveness of Kinesiology Taping on foot biomechanics in patients with hallux valgus
Authors: Żłobiński Tobiasz , Stolecka-Warzecha Anna , Hartman-Petrycka Magdalena , Błońska-Fajfrowska Barbara
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: Hallux valgus, one of the most common foot disorders, contributes to the formation of pain and changes foot biomechanics. OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of Kinesiology Taping (KT) on foot loading during gait in patients with hallux valgus. METHODS: Forty feet with hallux valgus were examined. Patients wore the KT for a month and the parameters of the foot during gait on a baropodometric platform were measured three times: before taping, immediately after application of taping and after one month’s use. RESULTS: The taping had a statistically significant effect on dynamic foot measurements. The maximum and mean foot load (p< 0.001), foot surface (p< 0.001), ratio of forefoot to hindfoot load (p< 0.01) and the proportions of the lateral and medial foot loading (p< 0.05) all changed. During gait cycle, taping significantly increased the load and surface at the first metatarsal head (p< 0.001) while there was a decrease around the second to fifth (p< 0.001) metatarsal heads. CONCLUSIONS: Using KT to correct a hallux valgus is a procedure that has an impact on the dynamic parameters of the foot during gait. The use of this method could become an alternative to surgical treatment for those patients, who have any contraindication for surgery.
Native American and land-grant collection praxis since NAGPRA
Authors: Pappas Alisa M. , Buchanan Sarah A.
Published: March 2021

Since the granting of Native American materials – excavated in archaeological projects sponsored by federal and state governments across the United States in the 20th century – to public repositories, museum professionals have sought to manage such collections with care. At the University of Missouri, students responding to the local mandate of NAGPRA advocated a public investigation into the issue of Native American collections repatriation in the early 1990s. Their activism in part transformed campus praxis in three ways, effecting ethical shared decision-making, appropriate public access, and policy-level leadership. This paper examines the primary sources generated by students, faculty, and local and national journalists to broadly comprehend how community members continue to address Native collections management and access in a public land-grant university setting.
Comparative evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 IgG assays against nucleocapsid and spike antigens
Authors: Rezaei Mitra , Sadeghi Mohammadhadi , Korourian Alireza , Tabarsi Payam , Porabdollah Mihan , Askari Elham , Mortaz Esmaeil , Mahmoudi Shima , Marjani Majid , Velayati Ali Akbar
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: There are few studies to compare antibody response against anti-spike (S) and anti- nucleoprotein (N) SARS-CoV-2. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the IgG antibody production against S and N antigens of the virus and their correlation with the time and severity of the disease. METHODS: The IgG antibodies against S and N antigens of SARS-CoV-2 in serum specimens of 72 symptomatic patients who tested real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction positive for SARS-CoV-2 were detected using the ELISA technique. Different antibody response was compared and the correlation with the time from disease onset and the severity was evaluated. RESULTS: Forty-eight of 72 (67%) patients tested positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, while 24 (33%) did not have detectable antibodies. Comparison of antibody levels for N and S antibodies showed that they correlate with each other well (r= 0.81; P< 0.001). However, sensitivity of anti-S SARS-CoV-2 IgG and anti-N SARS-CoV-2 IgG was 30% and 60%, during the first 7 days after symptom onset (r= 0.53; P= 0.111), but increased to 73% and 68% at more than 1-week post symptom onset (r= 0.89, P= 0.111), respectively. Cases with positive IgG response showed a decreased CD8+ T cells percentage compared to the negative IgG groups (26 ± 14 vs. 58 ± 32, p= 0.066 in anti-N IgG group and 28 ± 15 vs. 60 ± 45, p= 0.004 in anti-S IgG group, respectively). CONCLUSION: Nearly one-third of the confirmed COVID-19 patients had negative serology results. Lower percent positivity at early time points after symptom onset (less than 1 week) was seen using anti-S SARS-COV-2 IgG kit compare to the anti-N SARS-CoV-2 IgG; therefore, clinicians should interpret negative serology results of especially anti-S SARS-CoV-2 IgG with caution.
Suffix array for multi-pattern matching with variable length wildcards
Authors: Liu Na , Xie Fei , Wu Xindong
Published: March 2021

Approximate multi-pattern matching is an important issue that is widely and frequently utilized, when the pattern contains variable-length wildcards. In this paper, two suffix array-based algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem. Suffix array is an efficient data structure for exact string matching in existing studies, as well as for approximate pattern matching and multi-pattern matching. An algorithm called MMSA-S is for the short exact characters in a pattern by dynamic programming, while another algorithm called MMSA-L deals with the long exact characters by the edit distance method. Experimental results of Pizza & Chili corpus demonstrate that these two newly proposed algorithms, in most cases, are more time-efficient than the state-of-the-art comparison algorithms.
Phonemic Verbal Fluency and Midbrain Atrophy in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Authors: Luca Antonina , Nicoletti Alessandra , Donzuso Giulia , Terravecchia Claudio , Cicero Calogero Edoardo , D’Agate Concetta , Rascuná Cristina , Manna Roberta , Mostile Giovanni , Zappia Mario
Published: March 2021

Background: The neuropsychological profile of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) patients is mainly characterized by executive dysfunction, but the relationship between the latter and midbrain atrophy is still unclear. Objective: The aims of the study were to investigate which test evaluating executive functioning is more frequently impaired in PSP patients and to evaluate the relationship between midbrain-based MRI morphometric measures and executive dysfunction. Methods: PSP patients who had undergone a neuropsychological battery assessing executive functioning with the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), the phonemic verbal fluency F-A-S, the Raven’s Progressive Colored Matrix, and the Stroop word colors test (time and errors) were enrolled in the study. A group of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients matched by age, sex, education, and global cognitive status was selected. All the enrolled patients also underwent a volumetric T1-3D brain MRI. Results: Thirty-five PSP patients and 35 PD patients were enrolled. Patients with PSP as compared to patients with PD showed a significant greater impairment in verbal fluency (16.0±7.9 and 23.4±8.7 words/180 s; p < 0.001) and a significant lower score at the FAB total score (11.5±3.8 and 13.7±3.4; p = 0.013). Midbrain area was significantly smaller in PSP patients than in PD patients (83.9±20.1 and 134.5±19.9 mm2; p < 0.001). In PSP patients, a significant positive correlation between verbal fluency and the midbrain area (r = 0.421; p = 0.028) was observed. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that the phonemic verbal fluency is among the most frequently impaired executive functions in PSP patients and is strongly correlated to midbrain atrophy.
Targeted Therapies for Metabolic Myopathies Related to Glycogen Storage and Lipid Metabolism: a Systematic Review and Steps Towards a ‘Treatabolome’
Authors: Manta A. , Spendiff S. , Lochmüller H. , Thompson R.
Published: March 2021

Background:

Metabolic myopathies are a heterogenous group of muscle diseases typically characterized by exercise intolerance, myalgia and progressive muscle weakness. Effective treatments for some of these diseases are available, but while our understanding of the pathogenesis of metabolic myopathies related to glycogen storage, lipid metabolism and β-oxidation is well established, evidence linking treatments with the precise causative genetic defect is lacking.

Objective:

The objective of this study was to collate all published evidence on pharmacological therapies for the aforementioned metabolic myopathies and link this to the genetic mutation in a format amenable to databasing for further computational use in line with the principles of the “treatabolome” project.

Methods:

A systematic literature review was conducted to retrieve all levels of evidence examining the therapeutic efficacy of pharmacological treatments on metabolic myopathies related to glycogen storage and lipid metabolism. A key inclusion criterion was the availability of the genetic variant of the treated patients in order to link treatment outcome with the genetic defect.

Results:

Of the 1,085 articles initially identified, 268 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility, of which 87 were carried over into the final data extraction. The most studied metabolic myopathies were Pompe disease (45 articles), multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency related to mutations in the ETFDH gene (15 articles) and systemic primary carnitine deficiency (8 articles). The most studied therapeutic management strategies for these diseases were enzyme replacement therapy, riboflavin, and carnitine supplementation, respectively.

Conclusions:

This systematic review provides evidence for treatments of metabolic myopathies linked with the genetic defect in a computationally accessible format suitable for databasing in the treatabolome system, which will enable clinicians to acquire evidence on appropriate therapeutic options for their patient at the time of diagnosis.
Opinions on rehabilitation care of young adults with transversal upper limb reduction deficiency in their transition to adulthood
Authors: Huurneman Kim A.M. , Lankhorst Ilse M.F. , Baars Erwin C.T. , van Wijk Iris , van der Sluis Corry K.
Published: March 2021

PURPOSE: Young adults with transversal upper limb reduction deficiency experience limitations regarding education, employment and obtaining a driver’s license. Contribution of rehabilitation care within these domains has been reported to be inadequate. This study evaluates the needs and suggestions of participants in rehabilitation care. METHODS: Two online focus groups with young adults and parents met during 4 consecutive days. Health care professionals joined a face-to-face focus group. Data analysis was based on framework analysis. RESULTS: The rehabilitation team was mainly consulted for problems with residual limb or for prostheses. Young adults and their parents were mostly unaware of resources regarding education, job selection or obtaining a driver’s license. Professionals stated that these subjects were addressed during periodic appointments. Young adults didn’t always attend these appointments due to limited perceived benefit. To improve rehabilitation care, participants suggested methods for providing relevant information, facilitating peer contact and offering dedicated training programs to practice work-related tasks, prepare for job interviews or enhance self-confidence. CONCLUSION: Periodic appointments do not fulfil needs of young adults with transversal upper limb reduction deficiency. To improve care, rehabilitation teams should offer age-relevant information, share peer stories, and create dedicated training programs.
Clinical overlap of functional neurologic symptom disorder and complex regional pain syndrome in pediatrics: A case report
Authors: Kempert Heidi
Published: March 2021

This case study documents a 13-year-old female who presented to our intensive inpatient chronic pain rehabilitation program with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) of her left leg, which was significantly interfering with her normal daily functioning. She participated in a full day of traditional interdisciplinary therapies, including physical and occupational therapy for 3 hours daily. As assistive equipment was altered or weaned her physical mobility, balance, and tremors worsened and/or increased. As she began advancing her legs more independently (versus requiring physical assist), she demonstrated more variable functional strength and stability, inconsistent balance reactions, and a more unsteady gait pattern. The team was treating her according to her incoming CRPS diagnosis; however, as treatment progressed, her physical and psychological presentation seemed more aligned with diagnostic criteria of functional neurologic symptom disorder (FND). Staff then treated according to the FND diagnosis resulting in successful long-term outcomes. The clinical impact from this case study includes highlighting the commonalities between CPRS and FND clinically, discussing treatment suggestions depending on the diagnosis, and emphasizing key components of family/patient education.
Some issues in creep-fatigue research
Authors: Nonaka Isamu
Published: March 2021

In the component operated at elevated temperatures, the life evaluation should be made in consideration of both creep and fatigue (creep-fatigue) such as the linear damage summation rule. However, the concept of creep-fatigue life evaluation has not spread well in the industry. In order to consider the reason, a series of past creep-fatigue research was surveyed, namely experimental methods, life evaluation procedures and strength design guidelines. As a result, it was revealed that the mechanism of creep-fatigue interaction has not been fully clarified yet, which results in obscuring the necessity of creep-fatigue life evaluation. The necessity of creep-fatigue life evaluation was reviewed and consequently it proved to be necessary in two cases. One is the case where the creep-fatigue interaction is significant for some kinds of material, loading modes and temperatures. The other is one where the amount of creep damage is almost the same as that of fatigue damage even though the creep-fatigue interaction is insignificant.
Treating neuroendocrine neoplasms in the setting of HIV infection
Authors: Hayes Aimee R. , Smith Kate , Liu Man , Jenkinson Simon , Grossman Ashley B. , Youle Mike , Burns Fiona , Thirlwell Christina , Caplin Martyn E.
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND:

There is a paucity of knowledge regarding neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN) in patients with HIV infection.

OBJECTIVE:

To explore the incidence, characteristics and treatment outcomes of NEN in HIV-positive individuals.

METHODS:

This is a single-center, descriptive cohort study. Patients with HIV and biopsy-confirmed NEN were identified from our data registry. Data were collected retrospectively from medical records. Progression-free and overall survival (OS) were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method.

RESULTS:

Nineteen HIV-positive patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NET) ( n = 14), neuroendocrine carcinomas (NEC) ( n = 2) or Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) ( n = 3) were included (median age at NEN diagnosis, 53 years). In 15 (79%) patients, HIV diagnosis preceded NEN diagnosis by a median of 11 years and 14 were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). Of those with data available, 75% had a viral load < 50 copies/ml and mean CD4 771 cells/mm3. The median OS in the NEC/MCC cohort was 8 months (range 5–29). The median OS in the NET cohort was not reached but based on the 25th centile, 75% of patients are expected to survive for at least 57 months. Treatment outcomes will be described.

CONCLUSIONS:

Within the limits of a small descriptive cohort study, we found no evidence in the era of ART that patients with HIV and NEN are diagnosed at a younger age, nor have a poorer prognosis compared with the wider NEN population. Thus, they should receive maximal NEN therapies to support best outcomes.
The aging-related decrease in cVEMP amplitude cannot be accounted for by normalization
Authors: Maheu Maxime , Nooristani Mujda , Kaci Brahim , Moïn-Darbari Karina , Bacon Benoit-Antoine , Champoux François
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (cVEMP) is an electromyogenic measure commonly used in clinic to assess saccule function. The main parameters are peak-peak amplitude and interaural asymmetry ratio (IAR). Several non-vestibular factors may influence these parameters. Notably, a greater EMG contraction level prior to stimulation leads to an increased amplitude. As aging impacts both vestibular structures and muscle propreties, it is still a matter of debate whether the decrease in cVEMP amplitude observed in normal aging is due to EMG differences prior to stimulation or to the effect of aging on the sacculo-collic reflex pathway. At the clinical level, understanding the effect of aging on the relationship between EMG activity and cVEMP response (amplitude, asymmetry ratio) and the effect of normalization is crucial to improving the categorization of healthy versus pathological responses. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether normalization modifies cVEMP amplitude and asymmetry ratios differently in younger and older heatlhy adults. METHOD: cVEMP recordings were conducted in 42 normal healthy participants divided in two age groups: younger (n = 29): mean = 22.79 years old SD = 1.66; and older (n = 13): mean = 69.00 years old SD = 3.61. Air-conducted cVEMP were recorded using Eclipse (Interacoustics, Denmark). The stimulus was a 95 dBnHL tone burst (500 Hz) with rise, plateau and fall time of 1 ms. cVEMP were recorded only when EMG levels were between 50μV and 150μV, using the Eclipse (Interacoustic, Denmark) monitoring system. RESULTS: No significant differences were observed for prestimulus EMG levels between younger and older participants (F(1,83) = 1.13, p = 0.291). However, significant differences between groups were observed for raw cVEMP amplitude (F(1,83) = 14.78; p < 0.001) and corrected cVEMP amplitude (F(1,83) = 21.85; p < 0.0001). A significant positive linear relationship between prestimulus EMG contraction level (RMS) and raw cVEMP amplitude was observed in younger participants (r2 = 0.234; p < 0.001), but not in older adults (r2 = –0.0144; p = 0.056). Finally, no significant differences between younger and older participants were observed for raw amplitude asymmetry ratios (F(1,41) = 0.124, p = 0.726) or normalized asymmetry ratios (F(1,41) = 0.726, p = 0.508). CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that when EMG is monitored and activation of the SCM is sufficient, the observed decline in cVEMP amplitude with normal aging does not seem to be caused by EMG differences and is therefore likely due to the known histopathological modifications of the vestibular system that occurs with normal aging.
An evaluation of serum Otolin-1 & Vitamin-D in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
Authors: Yadav Harsha , Irugu DVK , Ramakrishanan Lakshmy , Singh Archana , Abraham Ransi , Sikka Kapil , Thakar Alok , Verma Hitesh
Published: March 2021

BACKGROUND: Serum otolin-1 is an inner ear protein exclusively expressed in otoconia and cells of vestibule and cochlea. Serum otolin-1 is found to be quantifiable in patients with BPPV. Low Vitamin-D is associated with pathogenesis of BPPV. Since otoconia degeneration contributes to BPPV, lack of Vitamin-D may impact otoconia structure and integrity. OBJECTIVE: We aimed at studying the s.otolin-1 as biomarker and significance of vit-D in BPPV. MATERIAL AND METHOD: 23 patients in test and control groups respectively were chosen within the age of 20 to 65 years. All the patients were diagnosed using Dix Hallpike menouver and head roll test, patients were treated with appropriate Canal Reposition Menouver (CRM). RESULTS: Serum Otolin-1 levels among the test ranged from 366 to 882 pg/mL with mean of 585.17 pg/mL whereas in control group ranged from 223 to 462 pg/mL with mean of 335.26 pg/mL. Mean Vitamin-D levels among the test group was 22.67 ng/mL (Range = 6.3–68.4) and that of control 15.43 pg/mL (Range = 5.4–27.7) respectively. The relationship between the serum Otolin-1 and Vitamin-D was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Otolin-1 levels is increased in BPPV patients and is sensitive in BPPV, specificity needs to be validated. Role of vitamin-D with respect to inner ear proteins needs further investigation.
Томас Эрнест Хьюм и литературное течение имажизма.
Authors:   Alfred Nobel University, Мамедова Д.А.
Published: March 2021

Начало ХХ в. сохранилось в памяти не только рядом сложных общественно-политических событий, но и многими порожденными ими поворотами в сфере литературы, искусства, причем как взлетами, возвышением, так и падениями. Многогранный литературный процесс в британ- ской литературе этого периода завершился созданием новой исторической страницы в мировой литературе. Новым этапом в литературе, начавшимся с окончанием викторианской эпохи (1837– 1901), явилось появление различных литературных течений, новых стилей, форм и качества со- держания, выражение нового, модернистского взгляда на существование и жизнь человека и т. д. Этот этап отличается многими особенностями. Одним из самых интересных литературных собы- тий того периода стало зарождение литературного направления имажизма. Как известно, это ли- тературное движение, возникшее в знак протеста против предыдущего этапа развития поэзии, а именно романтической поэзии, многих черт викторианской поэзии, имеет интересные и одновре- менно сложные творческие принципы. В статье анализируются эти принципы и основные качества имажизма с учетом теоретических взглядов Томаса Эрнеста Хьюма – одного из основоположни- ков этого литературного движения.
Мультиетнолект, етнолект, піджин та контактна мова в контексті побутування української мови в середовищі іноземних студентів Львова.
Authors:   Alfred Nobel University, Данчишин Н.Р.
Published: March 2021

У статті окреслено притаманні мовленню мігрантів явища мультиетнолекту, етнолекту, контактної мови, піджину тощо. Розглянуто особливості цих мовних явищ на прикладі різних мов (німецької, англійської, норвезької та ін.). Зокрема акцентовано увагу на причинах їх утворення. Та- кож окреслено спільності та відмінності між аналізованими лінгвістичними поняттями, основою яких є спрощення граматики мови корінної нації. Аналізовані явища містять велику кількість іноземної лексики, якої немає в літературному варіанті мови. Водночас вони творять нові форми, вибудовують свою специфічну граматику. Узято до уваги досвід іноземних дослідників, які працюють у цій темі, тож наведено приклади з тамтешніх реалій.