bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Public-Private Partnership Magyarországon – Miért nem működik, és hogyan működhetne?
Authors: Kozma Miklós
Published: November 2020

A cikkben ismertetett kutatási projekt vizsgálati területe a public-private partnership (PPP), gazdálkodástani szemszögből nézve. A kutatással a szerző célja az volt, hogy megvizsgálja, a PPP-ben szerepet vállaló üzleti fél milyen sajátosságokkal szembesül e konstrukció keretében működve, mik a főbb teendői a siker érdekében, illetve milyen külső és belső sikerfeltételek alakítják munkáját. A PPP-ben melyek a két szerződő fél együttes értéknövelésének feltételei? Az elemzés eredményeképpen a PPP fogalmi értelmezésével kapcsolatosan kijelenthető, hogy a Magyarországon alkalmazott megoldások nem tekinthetők PPP-nek a fogalom szigorú értelmezése alapján. A PPP alkalmazásának célja az eddigi magyarországi projektek esetében elméleti szempontból nézve rendhagyó volt: a fő mozgatórugója a PPP-projektek kezdeményezésének a finanszírozás megoldása volt. A projektek elvi lényegét jelentő értéknövelés gyakorlati értelmezése torzult. Az állami fél számára a projektek értéknövelése arra összpontosult, hogy megfelelő minőségű szolgáltatás létrejöjjön, rövid távon kigazdálkodható finanszírozás mellett. A vállalkozóval való partneri együttműködéshez a vizsgálati időszakban adott szabályozás keretei között az állami fél nem volt képes megfelelően fellépni. Érdemben nem valósult meg a PPP lényegét jelentő kifinomult kockázatmegosztás. Az empirikus adatgyűjtés 2008-ban történt, azóta a magyarországi PPP projektek iránti érdeklődés alább hagyott. A kutatás eredményeként megfogalmazott javaslatok alapján várható, hogy idővel, az ilyen típusú fejlesztések újraindulhatnak, nagyobb eredményesség ígéretével.
A karriermotívumok változásának hatásai a magyarországi hallgatók vállalkozásindítási elképzeléseinek alakulására
Authors: S. Gubik Andrea , Farkas Szilveszter
Published: November 2020

A magyar felsőoktatásban tanulók a jövő sikeres vállalkozói lehetnek, ezért nagyon fontos feltérképezni elképzeléseiket a vállalkozásindításról, és meghatározni, hogyan lehet ezeket kedvező irányba elmozdítani. Magyarország 2006-ban csatlakozott a Szt. Gallen-i Egyetem (Svájc) által koordinált GUESSS (Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey) kutatáshoz, amely a hallgatók vállalkozásindítással kapcsolatos elképzeléseit és vállalkozási tevékenységét kérdőíves adatfelvétel segítségével vizsgálja. A cikk négy adatfelvétel eredményeit felhasználva arra vállalkozik, hogy bemutassa a hallgatók karrierelképzeléseinek legjellemzőbb vonásait és a 2006 óta kibontakozó változások vállalkozásindítási elképzelésekre gyakorolt hatásait.
The relationship between online convenience, online customer satisfaction, buying intention and electronic word-of-mouth
Authors: Le-Hoang Phuong Viet
Published: November 2020

The purpose of this research aims to explore, measure, and analyze the relationship between online convenience, online customer satisfaction, buying intention, and electronic word-of-mouth (E-WOM) of the customers via the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and three model regression. To conduct the research, the author distributed 300 surveyed questionnaires, and the author collected 285 valid respondents. The results showed that online convenience, which has seven dimensions about convenience, includes access, search, evaluation, attentiveness, transaction, possession, post-possession convenience affect online customer satisfaction. Furthermore, as a result, online customer satisfaction influences online buying intention and electronic word-of-mouth. Based on that, the research recommends the necessary solutions to improve the buying intention and encourage customers to do E-WOM. Besides, this research opens a new field for further research in Vietnam.
Judenhass und Judenmission. Das Verhältnis der Hamburger Evangelisch-Lutherischen Landeskirche zum Judentum
Authors: Linck Stephan
Published: November 2020

How does a Lutheran church behave towards Jews when its tradition cultivates deep-seated hatred of Jews, but sees the theological task of missionizing them to Christianity? Using the example of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamburg, the essay tries to understand how the relationship with Judaism developed during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. In the Nazi era, the church welcomed racist anti-Semitism, but did not introduce the »Aryan paragraph« in the church. She partially and only secretly fulfilled her duty to protect baptized Jews and their descendants as church members. It was only in the 1950s that a changed attitude towards Judaism began and for the first time there started a dialogue.
Re-entry prediction of objects with low-eccentricity orbits based on mean ballistic coefficients
Authors: Wei Zhang , Wen Cui , Xiuhong Wang , Dong Wei , Xing Liu
Published: November 2020

During re-entry objects with low-eccentricity orbits traverse a large portion of the dense atmospheric region almost every orbital revolution. Their perigee decays slowly, but the apogee decays rapidly. Because ballistic coefficients change with altitude, re-entry predictions of objects in low-eccentricity orbits are more difficult than objects in nearly circular orbits. Problems in orbit determination, such as large residuals and non-convergence, arise for this class of objects, especially in the case of sparse observations. In addition, it might be difficult to select suitable initial ballistic coefficient for re-entry prediction. We present a new re-entry prediction method based on mean ballistic coefficients for objects with low-eccentricity orbits. The mean ballistic coefficient reflects the average effect of atmospheric drag during one orbital revolution, and the coefficient is estimated using a semi-numerical method with a step size of one period. The method is tested using Iridium-52 which uses sparse observations as the data source, and ten other objects with low-eccentricity orbits which use TLEs as the data source. We also discuss the performance of the mean ballistic coefficient when used in the evolution of drag characteristics and orbit propagation. The results show that the mean ballistic coefficient is ideal for re-entry prediction and orbit propagation of objects with low-eccentricity orbits.
Silver nanoparticles: synthesis, characterisation and biomedical applications
Authors: Almatroudi Ahmad
Published: November 2020

Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing field due to its unique functionality and a wide range of applications. Nanomedicine explores the possibilities of applying the knowledge and tools of nanotechnology for the prevention, treatment, diagnosis and control of disease. In this regard, silver nanoparticles with diameters ranging from 1 to 100 nm are considered most important due to their unique properties, ability to form diverse nanostructures, their extraordinary range of bactericidal and anticancer properties, wound healing and other therapeutic abilities and their cost-effectiveness in production. The current paper reviews various types of physical, chemical and biological methods used in the production of silver nanoparticles. It also describes approaches employing silver nanoparticles as antimicrobial and antibiofilm agents, as antitumour agents, in dentistry and dental implants, as promoters of bone healing, in cardiovascular implants and as promoters of wound healing. The paper also explores the mechanism of action, synthesis methods and morphological characterisation of silver nanoparticles to examine their role in medical treatments and disease management.
How did Xenophanes Become an Eleatic Philosopher?
Authors: Brémond Mathilde
Published: November 2020

In this paper, I investigate how Xenophanes was ‘eleaticised’, i.e. attributed theses and arguments that belong to Parmenides and Melissus. I examine texts of Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus in order to determine if they considered Xenophanes as a philosopher and a monist. I show that neither Plato nor Aristotle regarded him as a philosopher, but rather as a pantheist poet who claimed, in a vague way, that everything is one. But Theophrastus interpreted too literally Aristotle’s claims and was the first to make Xenophanes a proper monist philosopher.
Behavior of non-reinforced and reinforced green mortar with fibers
Authors: Thanon Dawood Eethar , Hani Abdullah Mafaz
Published: November 2020

The behavior of non-reinforced green mortar with fibers has been observed. Different green mortar mixes have been prepared using different percentages of waste glass powder (WGP), steel slag (SG) and silica fume (SF).The properties of flow, density, ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), compressive and flexural strengths have been tested for such green mortar in the first phase of the experimental work. The selected green mortar mix that gives good properties with the acceptable ranges of cement replacement by such cementitious materials has been utilized to achieve the second phase of the experimental work. Thus, the uses of human hair fibers, sisal fibers and stainless steel nails fibers in the form of individual and hybrid fibers system and testing for the same properties mentioned above have been performed. The third phase includes the cost estimation for the said mortar. Whereas, the last phase deals with analysis of the results using the integrated AHP and TOPSIS method for selection the best performance of the green mortar. The results of mono sisal fiber, human hair fiber and stainless nails fiber by 0.75, 0.75 and 2% of volume fraction respectively, exhibited the highest increase in compressive strength, flexural strength, UPV and density compared with other percentages.
When Objects Misbehave
Authors: Knutson Sara Ann
Published: November 2020

This article explores new possibilities for the interpretation of myths. It asks how people in the past configured their world and its complex interactions, to which their orally-constructed stories bear witness. It is assumed here that myths contain structures of belief, cognition, and world-making beyond their immediate subject matter. This article focuses specifically on the preservation of material objects in myths throughout their transmission from changing oral narratives to written form. We should not assume that objects in oral traditions simply color the narratives; rather, these representations of materials can provide clues into the mentalities of past peoples and how they understood the complex interaction between humans and materials. As a case study, I examine the Old Norse myths, stories containing materials that reinforced Scandinavian oral traditions and gave the stories traction, memory, and influence. In doing so, this article hopes to help bridge materiality studies, narrative studies, and folklore in a way that does not privilege one particular source type over another. The myths reveal ancient Scandinavian conceptions of what constituted an “object,” which are not necessarily the same as our own twenty-first century expectations. The Scandinavian myths present a world not divided between active Subject, passive Object as the Cartesian model would enforce centuries later, but rather one that recognized distinctive object agencies beyond the realm of human intention.
How and why Polish peasants (do not) talk about the Holocaust
Authors: Grochowski Piotr
Published: November 2020

In this article I discuss how images of the Holocaust are contained in Polish oral narratives and the special way of transmitting them among peasants. Based on materials collected during ethnographic research conducted by Dionizjusz Czubala in the 1970s and 1980s in the southern part of the Świętokrzyskie Province in Poland I try to show, how traditional stereotypes concerning Jews and social relations influence the way of shaping and transmitting stories about the Holocaust. Analysing a sample of texts, I am arguing that core motif connects to the economic aspects of Polish-Jewish relations before and during the Second World War. I also claim that these recollections circulated in a situation that can be described as a pact of silence and therefore fulfilled several significant functions, among which the most important were: a) building and framing knowledge about past events, b) protection of the good reputation of the local community, c) maintaining relatively correct neighbourly relations, d) setting social status by stigmatizing economic contacts with Jews.
The Ant and the Lion: Reassessing Philological-Folklore Approaches toReinhart Fuchs
Authors: Ermacora Davide
Published: November 2020

Scholars have long attempted to situate the ant-episode from the twelfth-century German poemReinhart Fuchsin a broad folklore framework. Concerned with conventional matters such as origin, function and transmission, they have broken up this episode into different motifs and referenced folktales and legends from widely separate times and places. The aim of this paper is to reassess these earlier philological-folklore approaches. I will rely on a multi-source method and examine, in comparative terms, three interconnected semantic narrative units: the enmity between ants and lions; the lion’s sickness triggered by the revenge of the ant, which crawls into the lion’s head; and the stratagem for expelling the head-insect with a sweating cure.
Husserl’s Transcendentalization of Mathematical Naturalism
Authors: Hartimo Mirja
Published: November 2020

The paper aims to capture a form of naturalism that can be found “built-in” in phenomenology, namely the idea to take science or mathematics on its own, without postulating extraneous normative “molds” on it. The paper offers a detailed comparison of Penelope Maddy’s naturalism about mathematics and Husserl’s approach to mathematics in Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929). It argues that Maddy’s naturalized methodology is similar to the approach in the first part of the book. However, in the second part Husserl enters into a transcendental clarification of the evidences and presuppositions of the mathematicians’ work, thus “transcendentalizing” his otherwise naturalist approach to mathematics. The result is a moderately revisionist view that takes the existing mathematical practices seriously, calls for reflection on them, and eventually gives suggestions for revisions if needed.
Can Suicide Preserve One’s Dignity? Kant and Kantians on the Moral Response to Cognitive Loss
Authors: Altman Matthew C.
Published: November 2020

Kantian defenders of suicide for the soon-to-be demented claim that killing oneself would protect rather than violate a person’s inherent worth. The loss of cognitive functions reduces someone to a lower moral status, so they believe that suicide is a way of preserving or preventing the loss of dignity. I argue that they misinterpret Kant’s examples and fail to appreciate the reasons behind his absolute prohibition on suicide. Although Kant says that one may have to sacrifice one’s life to fulfill a moral duty, suicide is not morally equivalent to self-sacrifice because it involves treating oneself merely as a means. Furthermore, people facing the onset of dementia would not protect their dignity by killing themselves while they are still rational and would not avoid a demeaning existence.
Zooming in on agentivity: Experimental studies of DO-clefts in German
Authors: Kretzschmar Franziska , Brilmayer Ingmar
Published: November 2020

Despite the importance of the agent role for language grammar and processing, its definition and features are still controversially discussed in the literature on semantic roles. Moreover, diagnostic tests to dissociate agentive from non-agentive roles are typically applied with qualitative introspection data. We investigated whether quantitative acceptability ratings obtained with a well-established agentivity test, the DO-cleft, provide evidence for the feature-based prototype account of (Dowty, David R. 1991. Thematic proto-roles and argument selction. Language 67(3). 547–619) postulating that agentivity increases with the number of agentive features that a role subsumes. We used four different intransitive verb classes in German and collected acceptability judgements from non-expert native speakers of German. Our results show that sentence acceptability increases linearly with the number of agentive features and, hence, agentivity. Moreover, our findings confirm that sentience belongs to the group of proto-agent features. In summary, this suggests that a multidimensional account including a specific mechanism for role prototypicality (feature accumulation) successfully captures gradient acceptability clines. Quantitative acceptability estimates are a meaningful addition to linguistic theorizing.
“Use the mirror now” – Demonstrating through a mirror in show dance classes
Authors: Douglah Jessica
Published: November 2020

This article investigates how a significant part of the learning process within show dance classes is performed, namely multimodal demonstrations. In particular, it focuses on how the mirror is used as a tool during demonstrations. The data consist of video recordings and ethnographic fieldwork among young adults practicing show dance. Three single cases undergo in-depth analysis using an EMCA (ethnomethodology conversation analysis) approach. The analysis shows that the understanding of a multimodal demonstration is watched into being and that the mirror functions as an extension of the teacher. In addition, the use of the mirror changes over the course of the ongoing demonstration. The participants agree on how to use the mirror and that there is a symmetrical order for how the mirror is used, which means that the responding participant follows the way of using (or not using) the mirror that is introduced by another participant. As such, this article contends that use of the mirror is a well-established practice. The article concludes by highlighting the positive effect on the learning situation when a mirror is used for demonstration in show dance classes.
Value chain for agritourism products
Authors: Morales-Zamorano Luis Alberto , Camacho-García Alma Lourdes , Bustamante-Valenzuela Ana Cecilia , Cuevas-Merecías Imelda , Suarez-Hernández Ángel Manuel
Published: November 2020

This work was developed as part of a study on the potential of agritourism in Baja California, Mexico, and had its origin in the discovery of great opportunities for economic development in rural areas with the use of alternative tourism. The main objective was to analyze the links of value along the chain of agro-tourism services, which allow increasing the attractiveness of tourism proposals in agricultural companies. To achieve this, tours of 100 ranches or agricultural companies were conducted in the San Quintín Valley, Baja California, as a case study. With the use of indicators and comparative interpretations of the photographs obtained, potential products were selected as tourist attractions. The way to increase the value of each identified link was discussed, and finally a proposal was made for a value chain for agritourism destinations, describing the set of primary and support activities to be considered for the whole proposed chain. It is concluded that the success of any agritourism product will depend on the differentiation of the business concept offered, the access to new markets, the articulation between the proposed links, as well as the development of skills of the human talent that participates in each link of the chain.
Explaining Substance: Aristotle’s Explanatory Hylomorphism inMetaphysicsZ.17
Authors: Mié Fabián
Published: November 2020

Aristotle’s main thesis inMetaphysicsZ.17, which takes substance to be a principle and a cause of some sort (1041a9–10, 1041b7–9,b30–31), is of a piece with the assumption that hylomorphic compounds are unified wholes (1041b11–12) – an assumption that proves critical to settling an important controversy about the form-matter relationship in that chapter, i. e. whether matter and form are mutually indistinguishable or rather just accidentally the same. By rejecting these interpretive options, this paper argues that form and matter are bound together by an essential link which, nevertheless, is able to preserve both(i)the different explanatory roles that each of those principles play vis-à-vis specific substances and(ii)the compound’s proper unity.
Kognitive Homogenisierung, schulische Leistungen und soziale Bildungsungleichheit
Authors: Esser Hartmut , Seuring Julian
Published: November 2020

Die Differenzierung der Bildungswege nach den kognitiven Fähigkeiten wird damit begründet, dass sie eine für das Lernen förderliche Homogenisierung der schulischen Umgebung ermögliche, die allen beim Erwerb schulischer Kompetenzen zugutekäme. Dagegen wird angeführt, dass die Differenzierung keine sonderlichen Effekte habe, sondern eher nur die Effekte der sozialen Herkunft verstärke. Diese Auffassung gilt als Standardposition. Der Beitrag untersucht auf der Grundlage eines allgemeinen theoretischen Modells die Effekte einer unterschiedlich strikt geregelten Differenzierung auf die Leistungen in der Sekundarstufe. Grundlage sind Daten der „National Educational Panel Study“ (NEPS) für die deutschen Bundesländer mit ihren erheblichen Unterschieden in der Regelung der Differenzierung. Danach gibt es bei einer strikten Differenzierung keine Verstärkung der Effekte der sozialen Herkunft, wohl aber eine Zunahme der Leistungen in der Sekundarstufe, speziell in der Kombination mit einer homogeneren Zusammensetzung der Schulklassen nach den kognitiven Fähigkeiten. Das gilt gerade für die Kinder in den Schulklassen der unteren Bildungswege mit geringerem Leistungsniveau. Dort fallen die Leistungen am geringsten bei kognitiver Homogenität und einer liberalen, am besten bei Homogenität und einer strikten Differenzierung aus. In den Schulklassen mit höherem kognitiven Niveau ist die Streuung dagegen gleichgültig, dort wäre die kognitive Heterogenität eher sogar besser. Die Befunde widersprechen der Standardposition deutlich, womöglich wohl, weil in den bisherigen Analysen die theoretisch erforderlichen Daten nicht zur Verfügung standen oder die nötigen Analysen nicht vorgenommen wurden, insbesondere nicht in den Beiträgen mit den bisher meist verwendeten internationalen Vergleichsstudien.
Topological densities of periodic graphs
Authors: Shutov Anton , Maleev Andrey
Published: November 2020

We propose a new method to calculate topological densities of periodic graphs based on the concept of layer-by-layer growth. Topological density is expressed in terms of metric characteristics: the volume of the fundamental domain and the volume of the growth polytope of the graph. Our method is universal (works for all d-periodic graphs) and is easily automated. As examples, we calculate topological densities of all 20 plane 2-uniform graphs and 14 carbon allotrope modifications.
Variación y cambio en la formalización de la interrogación retórica en la historia del español
Authors: Enrique-Arias Andrés
Published: November 2020

This paper aims to investigate the specific mechanisms that contribute to formalizing the rhetorical interpretation of interrogative sentences throughout the history of Spanish. To this end, data from a corpus of biblical translations from the 13th to the 20th centuries are analyzed. As Biblical Hebrew and Latin use explicit elements to signal direct polar questions, it is relatively easy to locate a large number of passages with interrogative sentences, and then, examine the distribution of the translation equivalents used in the Spanish versions. The interrogative particles of Hebrew and Latin thus articulate a grammaticalized procedural meaning for which Spanish does not have an equivalent explicit marker. The systematic examination of the strategies that Spanish translators use to adapt these structures to their vernacular is therefore a way of accessing the intuitions of speakers from different periods in the history of Spanish in regard to the formulation of the rhetorical interrogative.
Metales trazas (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu) en el poliqueto Americonuphis reesei (Clase: Polychaeta), en la playa El Salado, Aguadulce, Panamá
Authors: Rodríguez Diana , Villalaz Janzel R. , Goti Italo , Leone Orlando , Gómez H. Juan Antonio
Published: November 2020

Se determinó la concentración de metales trazas Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu en el homogeneizado de todo el tejido del poliqueto Americonuphis reesei, en tres estaciones de muestreo en la playa El Salado, bahía de Parita, en temporada seca de 2017. En cada estación, se establecieron tres puntos de colecta, separados por 50 m entre sí. Las muestras fueron digeridas con ácido nítrico y los metales se determinaron por espectrofotometría de absorción atómica. Los máximos valores registrados fueron el Fe, con promedio de 581.98 µg·gˉ¹, seguido del Mn con 25.71 µg·gˉ¹. Los valores más bajos se reportaron para el Zn, 16.05 µg·gˉ¹ y el Cu, 3.52 µg·gˉ¹. Existe correlación significativa entre los metales Fe y Mn (r= 0.95), Mn y Cu (r= 0.71) P < 0.01 y altamente significativa entre Fe y Cu (r= 0.64) P < 0.002. Las tallas de los poliquetos, medidos con cinta métrica, en las estaciones 1 (río Santa María) y 3 (Palo Blanco) no presentaron diferencias significativas, pero en El Playón hubo diferencias con respecto a las otras. Las tallas y los metales no se relacionaron. Los valores entre los puntos de colecta indican que existe diferencia significativa de Mn y Fe en las zonas 1 y 3, y de Fe entre la 1 y 2. Los metales detectados en los tejidos no suponen riesgo, ya que están por debajo de los valores de los estándares establecidos.
EL PAPEL DE LA OCDE EN LA DIFUSIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE POLÍTICAS EDUCATIVAS: EL CASO DE LA AUTONOMÍA ESCOLAR CON RENDICIÓN DE CUENTAS
Authors: Verger Antoni , Fontdevila Clara , Parcerisa Lluís
Published: November 2020

La OCDE ha desempeñado un papel activo en la construcción y la difusión de la autonomía escolar con rendición de cuentas (SAWA por sus siglas en inglés) como un modelo internacional de política educativa. Como mostramos en este artículo, lo ha hecho activando tres mecanismos de gobernanza, a saber, la recolección de datos, la evaluación de las políticas educativas y la generación de ideas sobre políticas. La OCDE ha desempeñado un papel proactivo en la teorización de las políticas SAWA, adaptando este modelo a una amplia gama de problemas y enmarcándolo de manera suficientemente flexible para acomodar diferentes preferencias políticas. En gran medida, el potencial de la OCDE para promover el cambio educativo reside, por un lado, en su capacidad de articular creencias causales y creencias normativas en la generación de políticas y, por el otro, en su capacidad de abrir ventanas de oportunidad a través de las que introducir sus recomendaciones de políticas, como las políticas SAWA, en debates educativos nacionales.
CONVERGÊNCIAS E DIVERGÊNCIAS NA FORMAÇÃO INICIAL DO PROFESSOR NO BRASIL E PORTUGAL
Authors: Marim Vlademir , Procópio Tharles Vilela
Published: November 2020

Esse estudo tem como objetivo analisar as convergências e divergências no contexto sociopolítico e educativo na formação inicial do professor no Brasil e em Portugal. Refletiu-se sobre a importância da universidade na formação docente para a melhoria da qualidade da educação e as propostas de ensino voltadas para a formação dos futuros docentes, embasadas nas leis que regulamentam e regem o sistema de ensino e a compreensão e seleção dos dados sociopolítico e educativo do Brasil e de Portugal. Como metodologia de pesquisa foi utilizada a metodologia comparada, composta das fases: descritiva, interpretativa, justaposição e comparativa. A partir da justaposição e análise dos dados foi possível perceber a importância da formação inicial dos professores, destacando as propostas, projetos e leis que normatizam o processo de ensino, apontando a necessidade de formar docentes com competências e habilidades que proporcionem a qualidade do ensino e aprendizagem. No estudo realizado, ficou evidente a necessidade de um olhar crítico e propostas de políticas públicas eficazes para a consolidação da qualidade do ensino e da formação inicial dos professores, que são os protagonistas, com os alunos, de todo o processo de ensino e aprendizagem.
Synthesis of Сircuit of Сombined Automation with Reducing Area of Nano-PLA
Authors:   Electronics Zielenogorski University, Barkalov Oleksandr O. , Titarenko Larisa A. ,   Electronics Zielenogorski University, Vizor Yaroslav Ye. ,   V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Matvienko Oleksandr V. ,   V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Published: November 2020

A method is proposed targeting reducing the area of combined automation circuits implemented with nano-PLAs. The method is based on optimal state assignment for Moore automation taking into account the existence of pseudo equivalent states. The proposed method allows reducing the area of nano-PLA required for implementing the circuit, as compared to a trivial two-level circuit. In this case, a part of the circuit implements the functions of Moore FSM. The results of research are given, as well as an example of synthesis.
Smart Enterprise – Basic Properties and Directions of Development
Authors:   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Meytus V.Yu. , Morozova A.I. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Taran L.Yu. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Kozlova V.P. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Muzaliova V.O. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine
Published: November 2020

The work is devoted to the development of methods aimed at improving the intellectual level of existing production. This approach allows you to increase the overall level of intelligence associated with the implementation of the basic functions of the enterprise. At the same time, it is possible to solve not only tasks at the initial level of intelligence that an enterprise possesses, but also subsequently apply this method to solve more complex problems in deeper stages of the intellectual development of a smart enterprise.
Technology of Acoustic Monitoring, Detection and Localization of Objects in the Controlled Area
Authors:   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Volkov Oleksandr Ye. , Taranuha Volodimir Yu. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Linder Yaroslav M. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Volosheniuk Dmytro O. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine, Sieriebriakov Artem K. ,   International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems of the NAS and MES of Ukraine
Published: November 2020

An algorithm for determining the distance to the sound source based on amplitude and frequency characteristics was developed. The algorithm is implemented in the Matlab software environment.
Por una crítica ontológica de la ideología del emprendimiento
Authors: Torres Oviedo Carlos Fernando , Misoczky Maria Ceci
Published: November 2020

La especificidad de las formulaciones ontológicas de Lukács es afirmar que la posición teleológica es el fundamento ontológico del ser social. Si toda praxis expresa una conexión con el conocimiento y la consciencia, resulta que las respuestas prácticas son siempre mediadas por algún tipo de producción espiritual. Así, la ideología tiene un rol como parte de la previa ideación. La crítica ontológica es crítica de las estructuras sociales que generan y demandan teorías con funcio­nes prácticas para garantizar su reproducción. Para hacer la crítica ontológica del emprendimiento, presentamos una sistematización de su trayectoria histórica y conceptual. Después, criticamos las estructuras que lo generan y lo necesitan para reproducirse y ampliarse: el neoliberalismo, enten­dido como el modo contemporáneo de existencia del capitalismo. En seguida, identificamos el fundamento ontológico de la ideología del emprendimiento: el individualismo y su función en la distención de conflictos sociales latentes en una sociedad en que, aparentemente, desaparecen las relaciones entre capital y trabajo y, por lo tanto, las clases sociales. Lo específico es que el traba­jador alienado de sus circunstancias, como el real productor de valor, ahora se aliena de su propia condición de trabajador, transmutada idealmente en emprendedor.
Morphological features of the placenta in preeclampsia according histochemistry
Authors:   Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine, Ventskovskaya I.B. , Aksonova A.V. ,   Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine, Lagoda N.M. ,   Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: November 2020

One of the important stages in analyzing the causes of complications of pregnancy and childbirth, particularly preeclampsia, is considered to be a natural morphological study of the placenta. The main direction of research is to identify morphological of diagnostic and prognostic criteria of preeclampsia in general, and special lesions of structures of the placenta in particular. The objective: to study the morphological features of the placenta in pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia varying severity according histochemistry and prediction of the potential cardiovascular risks in the future. Patients and methods. Histochemical study of the placenta of women whose pregnancy was complicated by preeclampsia (PE). The first group consisted of placentas from 12 women with mild PE; group II - 9 placentas from women with moderate and severe PE; III group (control) consisted of 15 placentas from women without obstetric and somatic pathology and signs of PE. Comprehensive evaluation of structural features of the placenta included macroscopic examination, organometry and review histology. Results. In the placenta of pregnant women mainly with moderate and severe PE detected in the decidua basalis of individual macrophages with pronounced soudaniennes cytoplasm; thrombosis in the majorsince space, discirculatory disorders in form of ischemic infarcts and compensatory-adaptive reactions according to the type of angiomatosis of individual villis; in the vessels of the placenta and decidual shell identified phenomen of atherosis of the different degree of severity. Conclusion. In women with PE in placenta revealed disorders of lipid metabolism,which may indicate its involvement in the pathogenesis of this disease continue to be one of the prognostic criteria of risk of the development of atherosclerosis and one of the first signals to metabolic disturbances. Key words: preeclampsia, placenta, histochemistry, thrombosis, atherosis, angiomatosis.
Threat of premature birth: psycho-social aspects
Authors:   Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kyiv, Ukraine, Zhuk S. , Schurevska O. ,   Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: November 2020

The objective: to study the psychological characteristics of women’s status in one of the most common complications of pregnancy - the threat of termination of pregnancy, depending on the level of stress load. Patients and methods. We have studied the psychological status (the Holmes-Rahe level of psychosocial stress, the Spielberg-Hanin level of anxiety, V.I.Dobryakov’s related to a pregnancy test, diagnosis of psychological defense mechanisms, assessment of quality of life) 60 pregnant women with threat of premature birth in the third trimester of pregnancy. Surveyed women were divided into 2 groups: group 1 included 30 pregnant women – forced migrant of Donetsk and Lugansk area and 2 group – 30 pregnant women who resided in Kiev. Results. At the same clinical picture of the threat of premature birth we detected discrepancy between the subjective assessment of their condition in women – forced migrants: a high level of situational and personal anxiety, decrease in physical (physical functioning, role-physical functioning) and psychological (social functioning, role emotional functioning) health, doubtful and pathological subtypes of gestational dominant. This creates prerequisites for complications of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum future period and requires the participation of psychologists in the work with this category of patients. Conclusion. So, revealed a discrepancy between the objective clinical signs similar obstetric pathology (on the example of threatened abortion) in pregnant women with different levels of stress load and their subjective evaluation of their condition that affects their psychological status. This should be reflected in individually tailored therapy and be mainstreamed into the work of obstetricians and gynecologists with these patients, and requires mandatory participation of psychologists in the work with this category of patients. Key words: pregnancy, the threat of premature birth, stress, psychological status.
Forms of physical activity of the elderly
Authors:   Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland, Czarnecki Piotr , Podgórska-Bednarz Justyna ,   Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland, Perenc Lidia ,   Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland
Published: November 2020

Introduction. Physical activity is known to be an important factor influencing health throughout human life. This issue has become crucial for public health due to the aging of the population in both developed and developing countries. Aim. is to present a literature review on the forms of physical activity undertaken by the elderly, as well as on issues related to physical activity and the population aging. Material and methods. The study was prepared on the basis of a review of Polish and foreign literature. The following databases and data sources were used: EBSCO, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar. An additional source of data were the websites of the Central Statistical Office. Strictly defined key phrases were used during the collection of literature. The work has been divided into thematic subsections on the aging of the society, the impact of physical activity on health and the main topic, i.e. forms of physical activity selected by the elderly. Analysis of the literature. The number of elderly people in Polish society has increased by almost 3.7 million over three decades. Therefore, an important topic is prophylaxis aimed at increasing the number of days in good health, largely covering the broadly understood activation of the elderly. The available data indicate that only 12% of elderly people undertake physical activity once a week. The most common form of spending free time actively is walking (as many as 73% of people in this population declare this form of physical activity in one of the presented studies). Conclusion. Organized forms of physical activity are undertaken much less frequently by the analyzed age group mainly due to financial limitations and limited availability of sports infrastructure.
An iliac artery aneurysm
Authors:   Department of Neurology, MSWiA Hospital, Rzeszów, Poland, Leksa Natalia ,   Department of Anatomy, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland, Leksa Dawid ,   Rzeszów Center for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Rzeszów, Poland, Gałuszka Łukasz ,   Rzeszów Center for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Rzeszów, Poland, Uryniak Adam ,   Rzeszów Center for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Rzeszów, Poland, Aebisher David ,   Department of Photomedicine and Physical Chemistry, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland, Galiniak Sabina ,   Department of Biochemistry and General Chemistry Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland, Bartusik-Aebisher Dorota ,   Department of Biochemistry and General Chemistry Medical College of Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland
Published: November 2020

Introduction. Isolated common iliac artery aneurysms (CIAs) are rare. The rarer are rupture of the common iliac artery. We can treat them surgically: classic or endovascular. Open surgery has a main role in the management of aneurysms not suitable for repair by endovascular techniques. Aim. The aim of the study is to present the possibility of occurrence of such a disease at a young age, to indicate non-characteristic symptoms that may predict the above-mentioned disease entity at the level of a primary care physician or SOR. Review of medical publications from 2000-2019 regarding guidelines or methods of conduct in that cases. Description of the case. A patient 39 years old, admitted to the Department of Vascular Surgery, in an interview: about 15 years ago severely beaten, as a result of injuries total loss of hearing, memory and basic skills such as: speech, writing, reading, hospitalized over 6 months. Conclusion. Good rehabilitation and patient persistence restored cognitive skills. Advances in surgical has lowered the mortality and morbidity rates even in patients.
Knowledge of modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among university undergraduates in Ibadan, Nigeria
Authors:   Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, Oyewole Oyediran Emmanuel , Solabi Ayodele ,   Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Published: November 2020

Introduction. Undergraduates in many institutions live a lifestyle that could predispose them to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular-related. Previous studies on modifiable risk factors (MRFs) against NCDs had focused mainly on adults, whereas young people should be prime targets for prevention programmes. Aim. This study was aimed at investigating knowledge of MRFs against cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) among university undergraduates in Ibadan, Nigeria. Material and methods. A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted, where 500 undergraduates participated. Data were collected using Focus Group Discussion (FGD) guide and validated questionnaire. Data analyses were conducted using thematic approach and bivariate methods at 5% levels of significance, respectively. Results. Mean age was 22.8 }3.0 years and 51.4% were females. The majority reported that their fathers (82.8%) and mothers (83.0%) had no hypertension history. The FGD revealed that students were knowledgeable of MRFs and preventive behaviours but still engaged in unhealthy lifestyle practices. The MRFs identified included excessive alcohol consumption (85.4%), unhealthy diet (77.6%), physical inactivity (75.2%) and smoking (70.2%). Respondents (56.4%) had good knowledge of MRFs against CVDs; 57.0% had fair lifestyle practices and 54.8% had good knowledge of preventive behaviour against CVDs. Conclusion. Gender was significantly associated with knowledge of CVDs preventive behaviours. Institutional-based lifestyle modification programmes, using peer group education is suggested.
Prevalence of Vitamin B12 Deficiency and its Associated Factors among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Metformin from a District in Malaysia
Authors:   Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II, Kota Bjaru, Kelantan, Malaysia, Krishnan Gayathri Devi , Zakaria Miza Hiryanti , Yahaya Norhayati
Published: November 2020

Introduction. Vitamin B12 deficiency is more common among metformin-treated subjects although the prevalence is variable. Many factors have been associated with this. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency and its associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) who are on metformin. Methodology. A total of 205 patients who fit eligibility criteria were included in the study. A questionnaire was completed, and blood was drawn to study vitamin B12 levels. Vitamin B12 deficiency was defined as serum B12 level of ≤300 pg/mL (221 pmol/L). Results. The prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among metformin-treated patients with type 2 DM patients was 28.3% (n=58). The median vitamin B12 level was 419 (±257 ) pg/mL. The non-Malay population was at a higher risk for metformin-associated vitamin B12 deficiency [adjusted odds ratio (OR) 3.86, 95% CI: 1.836 to 8.104, p<0.001]. Duration of metformin use of more than five years showed increased risk for metformin-associated vitamin B12 deficiency (adjusted OR 2.06, 95% CI: 1.003 to 4.227, p=0.049). Conclusion. Our study suggests that the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus on metformin in our population is substantial. This is more frequent among the non-Malay population and those who have been on metformin for more than five years.
Perception of discretionary accounting for business combinations. An ethical approach
Authors: Maruszewska Ewa Wanda
Published: November 2020

This paper investigated how Polish students of accounting perceive the lack of precision of accounting regulations for business combinations. It was hypothesized and confirmed that young accountants show the propensity to exercise discretion in the accounting for business combinations to the detriment of faithfulness of financial information. The study is based on a survey questionnaire of 91 accounting faculty students. The responses suggest that the unethical usage of flexibility in accounting is justified by many situational factors. Although it is difficult to generalize the results, the findings are useful in demonstrating how ethical enhancement is needed in both education and accounting regulations
«New Reading» as a Form of Consumption of a Modern Media Product
Authors:   Ural Federal University, Oleshko E. V.
Published: November 2020

The problems of adaptation of modern media texts to the main consumer site — mobile devices and social media are considered, changes in the culture of text consumption and the emergence of new visual formats and a shift in the attention of researchers towards optimization of visual culture are analyzed.
Genre Aspects of Implementation of Surrealist Code in Literature
Authors:   Ivanovo State University, Gorelov O. S.
Published: November 2020

The article analyzes the genre conditions for the actualization of the surrealist code one of the style codes of literature. Analysis of the conditions for the implementation of such a style code allows to determine the boundaries of style, as well as its transformation in recent times. Of particular interest is the appeal of the authors to the formula genres of both marginal literature and mainstream. This contributes to the manifestation of the surrealist code in literature and other art forms of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Study of Personality Predictors of Risk Behaviour of Students
Authors:   Ural Federal University, Chalikova O. S.
Published: November 2020

The article presents the results of a study of risk behaviour and its personal predictors regarding the students. Risk behaviour is considered as a symptom complex of traits that are related to each other and manifest in different areas. The traditional methods of A. Schubert and M. Zuckerman, as well as the new DOSPERT method of E. W. Weber for Russian research, were used as diagnostic methods. Risk behaviour is considered as a three-component phenomenon. The basic property that affects the choice of risk behaviour is the willingness to take risks. Personality traits associated with different risk situations correspond to preferred risk behaviour strategies. These strategies are manifested in different areas of life and are determined by experience. The study identified predictors of reasonable and unreasonable risk as different mechanisms of risk behaviour.