bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Solubilities and solubility products of thorium hydroxide under moderate temperature conditions
Authors: Nishikawa Shogo , Kobayashi Taishi , Sasaki Takayuki , Takagi Ikuji
Published: April 2018

The Th solubilities of the sample solutions that initially contained Th(OH)4(am) prepared by undersaturation and oversaturation methods in the pHcrange of 2.0–8.0 in a 0.5 M ionic strength solution of NaClO4and HClO4and stored at aging temperatures (Ta) of 298, 313 and 333 K were investigated in this study. After a certain period of time up to 40 weeks depending onTa, supernatants of the sample solutions were ultrafiltrated through 3 kDa membranes under the measurement temperature (Tm) of 298, 313 and 333 K. Size distributions of the colloidal species were investigated by ultrafiltration using membranes with different pore sizes ranging from 3 to 100 kDa, and the solid phases were examined by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The solubility of the sample solutions obtained after aging atTa=298 K using undersaturation method with continuous shaking was similar to those of dried precipitate of Th hydroxide. The solubilities obtained after aging atTa=313 and 333 K were lower than those atTa=298 K. The XRD spectra suggested that the crystallization of the solid phase proceeded under these elevated temperatures. The solubility of the sample solutions obtained after aging atTa=333 K using the oversaturation technique were similar to those prepared by undersaturation method and aged at the sameTa. A slight temperature dependence of the apparent solubilities on theTmwas observed in the sample solutions prepared by both methods. The solubility products$({K_{{\text{sp,}}{T_{\text{a}}}}}({T_{\text{m}}}))$after differentTaandTmwere determined from the solubility analysis. The observed increase in the formation constant$({K_{{\text{s,}}{T_{\text{a}}}}}({T_{\text{m}}}))$of Th4++(4+x)H2O(1)⇌Th(OH)4·xH2O(s,Ta)+4H+with increasingTmindicated that the reaction was endothermic. The enthalpy change$(\Delta_{r}H_{m\_ T_{\text{a}} \to {\text{cr}}}^{\circ} )$between the solid phases of Th(OH)4·xH2O(s,Ta) and ThO2(cr) suggested that the solid phase transformation from Th(OH)4·xH2O(s,Ta) to ThO2(cr) contains an endothermic process.
Microgels as efficient adsorbents for the removal of pollutants from aqueous medium
Authors: Naseem Khalida , Hussain Farooqi Zahoor , Zia Ur Rehman Muhammad , Atiq Ur Rehman Muhammad , Ghufran Maida
Published: April 2018

Due to their responsive behavior, high stability, and reusability, microgels have gained importance as adsorbents for the removal of aqueous pollutants such as heavy metals, nitroarenes, organic matter, and toxic dyes. However, there are few challenges that need to be addressed to make microgels as potential adsorbents for the removal of aqueous pollutants. This review article encircles the recent developments in the field of microgel usage as adsorbents for the extraction of aqueous pollutants. Many factors that influence the adsorption of pollutants such as pH, temperature of the medium, agitation time, pollutant concentration, microgel dose, and feed contents of microgels have been discussed in detail. Different adsorption isotherms as well as the kinetic and thermodynamic aspects of the adsorption process have also been enlightened to interpret the insight of the adsorption process. Microgel recovery from the reaction mixture as well as reusability is discussed from the financial point of view. The biodegradability of microgels induced due to the incorporation of specific biomacromolecules is also discussed.
Neurological and psychiatric disorders in psoriasis
Authors: Amanat Man , Salehi Mona , Rezaei Nima
Published: April 2018

Psoriasis used to be known as a skin disorder; however, it can now be considered as a systemic disease with the involvement of multiple organs. Neurological and psychiatric disorders are some of the associated problems that can be observed in patients with psoriasis. Stroke, multiple sclerosis, seizure, migraine, restless leg syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and myasthenia gravis are the reported neurological diseases, while depression, bipolar mood disorder, anxiety, psychosis, cognitive impairment, personality disorders, sexual disorders, sleep disturbance, and eating disorders are the recognized psychiatric presentations in patients with psoriasis. Herein, the neurological and psychiatric disorders of psoriasis are described.
Incorporating oxygen-free copper to improve the microstructure and mechanical properties of friction-stir-welded joints for aluminum alloys
Authors: Huang Her-Yueh , Yang Chung-Wei , Deng Wen-Yao
Published: April 2018

The main objective of the present work was to establish a friction-stir-welding process to weld dissimilar metal joints on AA6082 and AA6066 aluminum alloy plates. Joints were made while varying tool rotation speed at a constant traveling speed and at the same time adding oxygen-free copper reinforcement inside the weld nugget for the purpose of analyzing the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of the joint. Results showed that the morphology of the microstructure in the weld nugget changed significantly with rotation speed. Optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive spectroscopy analyses revealed that oxygen-free copper particles could be uniformly dispersed into the weld nugget because of higher rotation speeds. Because of the presence of reinforcement particles homogenously distributed inside the nugget zone, the mechanical properties, such as ultimate tensile strength and hardness of weld joint, were greatly improved.
Bilingual representation of distance in visual-verbal sign systems: A case study of Guo Xi’s Early Spring
Authors: Jiang Chengzhi
Published: April 2018

The purely cognitive semantic approach to verbal distance representation has recently been enriched from the perspective of visual perception theory. Focusing on visual pragmatic effects, the present paper will use distance cues as a set of analytical tools and adopt the cognitive-functional model proposed elsewhere to further explore the issue of visual-verbal coherence through Guo Xi’sEarly Springand the bilingual museum catalogue entries attached to it, in physical exhibitions or virtual museums, with a particular view to explaining how a linguistics- or stylistics-based analysis endorses the interpretation of a specific artwork on discursive and cultural levels.
Interpretant, pure rhetoric, and semiotics of poetry
Authors: Algooneh Juneghani Masoud
Published: April 2018

One of the main components of the Peirce’s semiotics is interpretant, which is formed through the interaction of representamen and object in the mind of the subject. As meaning-production is an endless, infinite process, it is the interpretant that plays a key function in this process; in fact interpretant leads to the revival of some other sign and consequently makes the signification go on in an endless route. Peirce, taking this in mind, asserts that the study of the rules by which an interpretant leads to the revival of another new sign could be established under a comprehensive topic of pure rhetoric. However, the question of pure rhetoric and its rules is almost completely neglected in his writings and his arguments in this regard are no more than a couple of pages. As a result, the present research tries not only to analyze and justify the rules proposed by Peirce, but also investigate theoretically their application in the semiotics of poetry. The researcher, accordingly, by proposing a new model, tries to open up an infinitesimal aperture to the world of semiotics. This goal is somewhat achieved.
Successful Treatment of CAPD Peritonitis Caused by Moraxella Catarrhalis
Authors: Pilcevic Dejan
Published: April 2018

Peritonitis remains a major complication of peritoneal dialysis which is usually caused by saprophytic gram positive microorganisms originated from skin. Here, I report an unusual case of peritonitis due to Moraxella catarrhalis.

A male, 59 age, on peritoneal dialysis modality because ESRD due to diabetic nephropathy was admitted to our hospital due to CAPD peritonitis. After initial empiric treatment and identification of this infrequent causer, he was submitted to two week antibiotic treatment with complete recovery and good prognosis.

Peritonitis is the major cause of peritoneal dialysis failure which requires prompt recognition of the causative agent for successful treatment.
Vocational Education and Training, Vocational Baccalaureate or Academic High School? An Empirical Analysis of Social Selective Transitions to Upper Secondary Education in the German-Speaking Part of Switzerland
Authors: Becker Rolf , Glauser David
Published: April 2018

We analyze the educational decision at the end of compulsory schooling in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. In order to reveal the social selectivity of this decision we adapted the theory of subjectively expected utility to the Swiss context. We apply and test an innovative model with panel data. The variation of achievement and educational decision across social classes largely explains the selectivity of this transition.
The Everyday Life of a Homo Sacer. Enclave Urbanism in Podgorica, Montenegro
Authors: Brković Čarna
Published: April 2018

This article ethnographically follows the everyday life of a homo sacer—a young Roma woman who has lived her whole life in a camp for displaced persons. The camp has been built for Roma, Ashkalias, and Balkan Egyptians who in 1999 fled from the violence in Kosovo to Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. The key aim of the article is to see what happens with the concepts of ‘homo sacer’ and ‘bare life’ when ethnographically engaged in the context of Southeastern Europe. The article argues that ethnographic fieldwork in urban settings reveals in what way a homo sacer has an everyday life and a complex sociopolitical existence, and that camps are urban formations that can be related to very different sociohistorical and political projects.
The Politics of Simulation. Fake Repairs in a Serbian Industrial Town
Authors: Jovanović Deana
Published: April 2018

The author explores reparations of urban sites in Bor, a copper processing town in eastern Serbia. She looks at recent attempts at reparations carried out by an industrial company in the context of the town’s and the company’s ‘revival’. She explores ethnographically how the reparations were seen as deceptions, temporary, partial, fake, and superficial, but simultaneously praised as ‘at least something’. The author argues that this ambivalence, which consisted of simultaneous positive and negative dispositions towards the promise the repairs held, resulted in people’s involvement in the ‘politics of simulation’ of the town’s and the copper company’s ‘revival’. She also shows how through people’s hope for order, and through their hope of being moral state subjects, the state became an object of emotional investment.
How to Lose Cases and Influence People
Authors: Hinkle Rachael K. , Nelson Michael J.
Published: April 2018

Dissenting opinions are common in the US Supreme Court even though they take time and effort, risk infuriating colleagues, and have no precedential value. In spite of these drawbacks, dissents can potentially contribute to future legal development. We theorize that dissenting justices who use more memorable language are more successful in achieving such long-term impact. To test this theory, we amass an original dataset of citations to dissenting opinions extracted directly from majority opinion text. We further leverage these texts to build an algorithm that quantifies the distinctiveness of dissenting language within a dynamic context. Our results indicate that dissents using more negative emotion and more distinctive words are cited more in future majority opinions. These results contribute to our understanding of how language can influence long-term policy development.
Influence of conventional and extended CT scale range on quantification of Hounsfield units of medical implants and metallic objects
Authors: Ese Zehra , Kressmann Marcel , Kreutner Jakob , Schaefers Gregor , Erni Daniel , Zylka Waldemar
Published: April 2018

We report on the suitability of two different ranges of Hounsfield units (HU) in computed tomography (CT) for the quantification of metallic components of active implantable medical devices (AIMD). The conventional Hounsfield units (CHU) range, which is traditionally used in radiology, is well suited for tissue but suspected inappropriate for metallic materials. Precise HU values are notably beneficial in radiotherapy (RT) for accurate dose calculations, thus for the safety of patient carrying implants. Some of today’s CT machines offers an extended Hounsfield units (EHU) range. This study presents CT acquisitions of a water phantom containing various metallic discs and an implantable-cardioverter defibrillator (IPG). We show that the comparison of HU values at EHU and CHU ranges clearly reveals the superiority and accuracy of EHU. Some geometrical discrepancies perpendicular to slices are observed. At EHU metal artifact reduction algorithms (MAR) underestimates HU values rendering MAR potentially inappropriate for RT.
An acoustic waveguide-based approach to the complete characterisation of linear elastic, orthotropic material behaviour
Authors: Johannesmann Sarah , Düchting Julia , Webersen Manuel , Claes Leander , Henning Bernd
Published: April 2018

In this paper, a method for the characterisation of orthotropic, plate-shaped material samples is presented. Ultrasonic plate waves are excited at different angles and then detected. Then, a two-dimensional simulation model can be used to inversely estimate a set of material parameters for each angle of propagation. After merging these individual results into a global set of parameters, the material’s elastic behaviour can be described for arbitrary load directions. The procedure is exemplarily applied to characterise continuous-fibre reinforced polymers.
Purification and biochemical characterization of a β-cyanoalanine synthase expressed in germinating seeds of Sorghum bicolor (L.) moench
Authors: Amiola Ruth Ololade , Ademakinwa Adedeji Nelson , Ayinla Zainab Adenike , Nkechi Ezima Esther , Agboola Femi Kayode
Published: April 2018

Background

β-Cyanoalanine synthase plays essential roles in germinating seeds, such as in cyanide homeostasis.

Methods

β-Cyanoalanine synthase was isolated from sorghum seeds, purified using chromatographic techniques and its biochemical and catalytic properties were determined.

Results

The purified enzyme had a yield of 61.74% and specific activity of 577.50 nmol H2S/min/mg of protein. The apparent and subunit molecular weight for purified β-cyanoalanine synthase were 58.26±2.41 kDa and 63.4 kDa, respectively. The kinetic parameters with sodium cyanide as substrate were 0.67±0.08 mM, 17.60±0.50 nmol H2S/mL/min, 2.97×10−1 s−1 and 4.43×102 M−1 s−1 for KM, Vmax, kcat and kcat/KM, respectively. With L-cysteine as substrate, the kinetic parameters were 2.64±0.37 mM, 63.41±4.04 nmol H2S/mL/min, 10.71×10−1 s−1 and 4.06×102 M−1 s−1 for KM, Vmax, kcat and kcat/KM, respectively. The optimum temperature and pH for activity were 35°C and 8.5, respectively. The enzyme retained more than half of its activity at 40°C. Inhibitors such as HgCl2, EDTA, glycine and iodoacetamide reduced enzyme activity.

Conclusion

The biochemical properties of β-cyanoalanine synthase in germinating sorghum seeds highlights its roles in maintaining cyanide homeostasis.
Wendlandia exserta: a pertinent source of antioxidant and antimicrobial agent
Authors: Shahzadi Tayyaba , Riaz Tauheeda , Abbasi Muhammad Athar , Mazhar Farhana , Shahid Muhammad , Ajaib Muhammad
Published: April 2018

Objective

The aim of the present investigation was to assess the antioxidant, antibacterial and antifungal activities of various fractions of Wendlandia exserta (Roxbukan Pansara).

Methods

The methanolic extract of W. exserta (Roxbukan Pansara) was dissolved in water (distilled) and then partitioned with solvents e.g. n-hexane, CHCl3, EtOAc and n-BuOH consecutively. Antioxidant potential of above mentioned fractions and remaining aqueous fraction was checked by four methods. Antimicrobial activity was examined by four bacteria and four fungi by the disc diffusion method by using a standard, as positive control.

Results

The aqueous fraction displayed maximum value of diphenyl picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) radical inhibition (85.94%±0.35) with an IC
50 value of 415.31±0.26 μg mL−1. The aqueous fraction also displayed the maximum ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) value [64.5±0.15 μg of trolox equivalents (TE)] as well as maximum inhibition of lipid peroxidation (42.32%±0.59) and maximum value of total phenolic contents (87.10±1.10). However, the n-BuOH fraction was found to display the maximum value of total antioxidant activity (0.529±0.76). The fractions also displayed good antimicrobial activity against various microorganisms.

Conclusions

It was concluded that polar fractions of W. exserta showed good antioxidant and antimicrobial activity, so these might be useful in pharmacological preparations.
Major biological activities and protein profiles of skin secretions of Lissotriton vulgaris and Triturus ivanbureschi
Authors: Karış Mert , Şener Doğancan , Yalçın Hüsniye Tansel , Nalbantsoy Ayşe , Göçmen Bayram
Published: April 2018

Objective

The aim of this study was to determine the total protein amounts, protein profiles, in vitro cytotoxicities, antimicrobial activities and hemolytic effects of skin secretions of the Lissotriton vulgaris and Triturus ivanbureschi.

Methods

Skin secretions were obtained, clarified, supernatants snap-frozen then lyophilized. Total protein amounts were determined by BCA assay kit. Protein profiles were revealed by the SDS-PAGE. The cytotoxicity and antimicrobial activity were determined by using MTT assay and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) method. Hemolytic effects were measured on rabbit red blood cells.

Results

Lissotriton vulgaris and T. ivanbureschi skin secretions have totally 18 and 20 protein fractions. IC50 values were detected between 1.40 and 40.28 μg/mL. The MIC results were found between 7.8 and 250 μg/mL. Lissotriton vulgaris skin secretion showed low hemolytic effect while T. ivanbureschi skin secretion showed high hemolytic effect.

Conclusion

This study is the first report showing the potential of L. vulgaris and T. ivanbureschi skin secretions for cytotoxicity, antimicrobial and hemolytic activity as an alternative therapeutic approach for traditional uses. Further studies need to focus on purification of the active components from these skin secretions and mode of action on cancer cell lines and microorganisms as anti-agents.
Wittgenstein and the Theatre of Confession
Authors: Idziak-Smoczyńska Urszula
Published: April 2018

In this article we perform a juxtaposition of Wittgenstein’s confession with the art of drama. Our aim is to transpose the private language argument criticizing the ostensive definition of internal objects (beetle in a box thought experiment) onto confession and the art of drama performance. The play (possibly called “game”) of the actor is not an expression of his soul interior, but an autonomous necessity in the most decisive meaning – which means: the only thing to be done. Correspondingly, confession doesn’t express any interior misery – it is an acting (the double sense of this word will be further developed), the only possible acting within these conditions, the only possible response to one’s condition – a condition of mutilation where human misery appears very distinctly. Confession creates neither a relation of power (as Foucault was demonstrating in his late writings) nor a form of emotional exhibitionism but a language game consisting on words judging oneself, immune to interpretation, explanation, and vanity coming from their expression. Irreplaceable words become the agent of salvation.1

This article is the effect of great encounters that helped me – a non-Wittgensteinian – to “see” Wittgenstein perhaps more than understand his philosophy. I should first address many thanks to Dr. Ilse Somavilla who welcomed me on the beautiful roof of the Brenner Archives in Innsbruck together with its director Prof. Ulrike Tanzer (Thank you!). It is through Ilse Somavilla’s writings and archive editing work that I could engage myself and follow her on a path of reading Wittgenstein with a sensibility for religion and art.

I owe also a lot of thankfulness to Prof. Alois Pichler for long lasting, repeated hospitality in the Wittgenstein Archives at the Bergen University and great patience for my plans of developing research plans about Wittgenstein in the Polish Galicia. The ability to visit these two places, Norway and Austria, have left inside myself a Wittgensteinian imagery that creates the scenography of my philosophical attempt inside this article. My research would not be possible without receiving the scholarship of the Republic of Austria OEAD for which I also express my deep gratitude.

I am also very grateful to Kasia Mala for her linguistic revision of my article.

And finally, what triggered this Winn-gensteinian performance were unforgettable dinners with Maja, my Mother Agata, and my son Światopełek – to say they were inspiring is not enough…
“What belongs to a language game is a whole culture.”
Authors: Brusotti Marco
Published: April 2018

Wittgenstein remarks that “What belongs to a language game is a whole culture”, and that describing the language games in which the “words we call expressions of aesthetic judgement” are used implies describing “the culture of a period” (LA 1966: 8). Without aiming at a full reconstruction, the paper addresses the gradual emergence of the close conceptual connection between “language game” and “culture” in Wittgenstein’s manuscripts. The apparently obvious idea that “language game” and “form of life” (or “culture”) belong together or even coincide was originally missing. The paper picks out few episodes from Wittgenstein’s philosophical development. The first chapter shows that the topic of cultural diversity emerges in Wittgenstein’s reception of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, but still plays only a limited role in his first criticism of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough. The second chapter discusses the emergence of the term “language game” and establishes that Wittgenstein’s first language games do not yet imply something like an “anthropological view”. Real and imaginary “peoples” and “tribes” make their first appearance in remarks that ascribe a “primitive” arithmetic to them (chapter 3). Finally, with an eye to the possible influence of Sraffa and Malinowski, the fourth section shows how the Brown Book conceives translation as holistic cultural comparison.
Wittgenstein’s Criticism of the “Atmosphere” Conception of Meaningin PI § 117
Authors: Giesewetter Stefan
Published: April 2018

In recent years, so-called “therapeutic” readings of the later Wittgenstein have centered on the claim that his treatment of questions involving “meaning” should not be seen as playing a foundational role for his approach of treating philosophical problems by clarifying the grammar of expressions. As they argue, the treatment of problems involving “meaning” should not be seen as playing a special role for this approach as such. Now in Philosophical Investigations §117, Wittgenstein is bringing in his criticism of the “atmosphere” conception of meaning – which he links directly to his approach of clarifying the grammar of expressions figuring in philosophical problems. Assuming the widespread view that what should be pitted against this “atmosphere” conception are remarks clarifying the grammar of “meaning”, the problem apparently confronting therapeutic readings here is that the clarification of the grammar of this particular word might thus appear to assume yet a special relevance for Wittgenstein’s clarificatory approach as a whole. My aim in this paper is to show that this dilemma is not a real one – by showing that there is actually a problem with the view that remarks clarifying the grammar of “meaning” could play a privileged role in debunking the type of misconception Wittgenstein introduces in PI § 117.
Bengali Women’s Writings in the Colonial Period: Critique of Nation, Narration, and Patriarchy
Authors: Chakraborty Sanchayita Paul , Chakraborty Dhritiman
Published: April 2018

Critical engagements like the first autobiography written by a Bengali woman, Rasasundari Devi, and the non-fictions by Kailashbasini Devi, Krishnabhabini Das, and other women writers in the second half of the nineteenth century contested the imagined idealization of the Hindu domesticity and conjugality as spaces of loveableness and spiritual commitment. They criticized coercion in child-marriages and the forceful injunctions of the Hindu scriptures on both married and widowed women. Such rhetoric of quasi empowerment needs to be disaggregated to perpetuate issues of ‘double colonization,’ ‘dual-hold’ in feminism in India. The question is whether there can be any grounds of women’s agency in the Indian tradition. Eurocentric critiques are ill-equipped to politicize all modalities of a culture of social exclusion in Hindu imaginaries. Henceforth, as questions of equality, emancipation, and empowerment are fiercely debated in the public domain in contemporary India, we need to argue how immanent dissenting woman subjectivity can originate to counteract multiple patriarchies formed in Indian immediacies.
»But You Shall Surely Report Concerning Him:« In Defense of the Priority of LXX Deuteronomy 13:9
Authors: Quick Laura
Published: April 2018

In diesem Artikel überdenke ich die Vorschläge von Bernard M. Levinson bezüglich der Textgeschichte, Übersetzung und Interpretation des zweiten Gesetzes in Dtn 13. Während Levinson Belege aus neuassyrischen Verträgen nutzte, um die Priorität des MT von Dtn 13,9 gegenüber den unterschiedlichen Varianten der LXX zu stützen, schlage ich vor, dass nordwestsemitische Inschriften, die Sefire-Verträge, ein wichtiger alternativer Zeuge für die Vertragsbildung im Alten Orient und insbesondere in der nordwestsemitischen Erscheinungsform dieser Tradition sind.
Return from Exile: Diglossia and Literary Code-Switching in Ezra 1–7
Authors: Hogue Timothy
Published: April 2018

Bisherige rhetorische Analysen des Sprachwechsels im Buch Esra wurden durch ihre Fokussierung auf die Zweisprachigkeit beschränkt. Diese Studie wird einen neuen Ansatz für die Poetik von Esr 1–7 angesichts der neueren soziolinguistischen Forschungen über Diglossie und Sprachideologie vorschlagen. Der Schriftsteller von Esra hat literarisches Codeswitching benutzt, um kontrastierende Sprachvarietäten, die besondere ideologische Haltungen vorgeschlagen haben, nebeneinander zu stellen. Durch den Wechsel zwischen Hebräisch, Reichsaramäisch und einer aramäischen Landessprache hat der Schriftsteller eine literarische Reflexion der Diglossie, die das achämenidische Juda charakterisiert hat, erstellt. Er hat sein Codeswitching geordnet, um den Übergang der Judäer von einer Diasporagemeinde in eine stabilisierte Minderheit und die ideologischen Gespräche, die mit diesem Übergang einhergegangen sind, zu spiegeln. Dabei hat er sprachliche Bezugspunkte für das Publikum gestellt, um sich in diesen Gesprächen zu projizieren. Das Codeswitching des Schriftstellers spiegelt also die Rückkehr des Judäers aus dem Exil und lädt das Publikum ein, ihr neues symbolisches Vaterland zu akzeptieren.
The Nature of Prophecy in Hos 9:7–9
Authors: Kelly William L.
Published: April 2018

Dieser Artikel schlägt eine neue Lösung für den schwierigen hebräischen Text von Hos 9,7–9 vor. Obwohl der Text oft nach einem Paradigma der »wahren« und »falschen« Prophetie gelesen worden ist, bieten die Textdetails nicht viel Unterstützung für diese Ansicht. Nach der Übersetzung des hebräischen Textes und der Erläuterung seiner Hauptthemen, argumentiert dieser Artikel gegen Lesungen, die auf ein Paradigma der »wahren« und »falschen« Prophetie angewiesen sind, und schlägt eine neue Lösung für die Crux in 9,8a vor. Statt einer Aussage über die ideale Rolle eines Propheten, findet sich hier eine Beschreibung des Versuchs Israels, den Willen JHWHs zu erkennen.
Itis-Kombinatorik auf den Diskussionsseiten der Wikipedia: Ein Wortbildungsmuster zur diskursiven Normierung in der kollaborativen Wissenskonstruktion
Authors: Gredel Eva
Published: April 2018

This paper presents a corpus study of talk pages on Wikipedia combining morphologic and discourse linguistics approaches. The study reveals that –itisis a highly productive suffix in meta(-linguistic) discourses of the online-encyclopaedia: Wikipedia authors using word formation products with the suffix –itis(e. g.NewstickeritisorWhatsAppitis) try to standardise the collaborative knowledge production with the help of these linguistic innovations. The corpus analysis delivers evidence for the fact that certain linguistic innovations and special types of word formation characterise the community of Wikipedia authors and their discourse traditions. Thereby, this paper contributes to the discussion about digital discourse analysis of natively digital data taking stock of the Wikipedia corpora in the German Reference Corpus (Deutsches Referenzkorpus). The peculiarities of Wikipedia's data will be explained, modes of analysis discussed and the challenges of the suggested integration of morphology and discourse linguistics will be explored.
Audioguidekommunikation als kommunikative Praktik
Authors: Spieß Constanze , König Katharina
Published: April 2018

The paper discusses a practice-based approach to the linguistic analysis of audioguide communication. Based on a corpus of 20 audioguide aggregates of visual arts museum exhibitions, specific and recurrent patterns are outlined (opening routines, different patterns of speaker selection, positioning within the given museum space) which suggest that audioguide communication has to be conceptualised as a mediatised practice and as a located or “location-bound” practice. The authors argue that a practice-based approach enables more comprehensive studies which also take the actual in-situ use of audioguide aggregates into account.
Phrasale Konstruktionen als Basis narrativer Routinen
Authors: Lasch Alexander
Published: April 2018

The article focuses on the non-agent construction of the ASKRIPTION ofaussehen(er sieht mitgenommen aus, see basically Lasch 2016a) in the center of the considerations. On the basis of a corpuslinguistic evaluation of the KERN corpus at the DWDS it is shown that and why this construction belongs to the repertoire of linguistic patterns, which are especially established for descriptions in narrative texts.
Die Verdoppelung des Rassismus im Antirassismus
Authors: Jacob Günther
Published: April 2018

„Kulturelle Vielfalt“, „interkulturelle Kompetenz“, „Community“ und „Respekt“ sind die Stichworte eines neuen identitären Antirassismus. Am Beispiel eines türkischen Community-Radios in Hamburg wird gezeigt, wie dieser kulturrelativistische Antirassismus die Migrationspolitik prägt und auch Komplizenschaften mit islamisierten Rechten produziert.
Was will Edward Saids Orientalismus?
Authors: Khawaja Irfan
Published: April 2018

Der Essay legt dar, dass das Gründungsdokument der postkolonialen Studien aufgrund ernsthafter logischer Inkonsistenzen überhaupt gar keine stringente, diskutierbare These aufweist. Stattdessen dient Saids rhetorische Strategie in erster Linie dazu den Islam gegen Kritik zu immunisieren, dabei bedient er sich ausgerechnet der Mittel, die er dem Orientalismus zum Vorwurf macht.
Characterising Dynamic Instability in High Water-Cut Oil-Water Flows Using High-Resolution Microwave Sensor Signals
Authors: Liu Weixin , Jin Ningde , Han Yunfeng , Ma Jing
Published: April 2018

In the present study, multi-scale entropy algorithm was used to characterise the complex flow phenomena of turbulent droplets in high water-cut oil-water two-phase flow. First, we compared multi-scale weighted permutation entropy (MWPE), multi-scale approximate entropy (MAE), multi-scale sample entropy (MSE) and multi-scale complexity measure (MCM) for typical nonlinear systems. The results show that MWPE presents satisfied variability with scale and anti-noise ability. Accordingly, we conducted an experiment of vertical upward oil-water two-phase flow with high water-cut and collected the signals of a high-resolution microwave resonant sensor, based on which two indexes, the entropy rate and mean value of MWPE, were extracted. Besides, the effects of total flow rate and water-cut on these two indexes were analysed. Our researches show that MWPE is an effective method to uncover the dynamic instability of oil-water two-phase flow with high water-cut.
Surface Enhanced DNP Assisted Solid-State NMR of Functionalized SiO2 Coated Polycarbonate Membranes
Authors: Kumari Bharti , John Daniel , Hoffmann Paul , Spende Anne , Toimil-Molares Maria Eugenia , Trautmann Christina , Hess Christian , Ruff Philip , Schulze Marcus , Stark Robert , Buntkowsky Gerd , Andrieu-Brunsen Annette , Gutmann Torsten
Published: April 2018

Surface enhanced solid-state NMR by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP SENS) enables the characterization of the inner-pore surface functionalization of porous etched ion-track membranes exhibiting low specific surface areas compared to typical SBA- or MCM-type mesoporous silica materials. The membranes were conformally coated with a 5 nm thin SiO2 layer by atomic layer deposition. This layer was subsequently modified by aminopropyl silane linkers that allow further functionalization via the terminal amine group. The results evidence that in principle DNP SENS is a capable tool to analyze more complex porous systems, e.g. bioinspired functional etched ion-track membranes down to the molecular level. These results are relevant also for single nanopore systems, for which a direct analysis of the channel surface functionalization is not feasible by classical characterization methods. The applicability of DNP SENS to complex porous systems requires the optimization of the sample preparation and measurement parameters.
Surface-Charge Dependent Orientation of Water at the Interface of a Gold Electrode: A Cluster Study
Authors: Fazio Gianluca , Seifert Gotthard , Rapacioli Mathias , Tarrat Nathalie , Joswig Jan-Ole
Published: April 2018

A gold/water interface has been investigated with the DFT-based self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) method using a cluster model. Born–Oppenheimer molecular-dynamics simulations for mono-, bi-, and trilayers of water on the surface of a Au55 cluster have been computed. We have demonstrated the applicability of this method to the study of the structural and dynamical properties of the gold/water-multilayer interface. The results of the simulations clearly show the charge-dependent orientation and the corresponding polarization of the water sphere around the gold cluster. However, it was also shown that this polarization is restricted almost only to the first solvation shell. This illustrates the rather short-range screening behavior of water. The present study builds the basis for further investigations of metal/electrolyte interfaces on a reliable atomistic level, avoiding the problems of spurious artifacts in models using periodic boundary conditions.
Hacia una literatura de disidencia sexual en México con dos Bildungsromane bisexuales: Púrpura, de Ana García Bergua, y Fruta verde, de Enrique Serna
Authors: Bisbey Brandon Patrick
Published: April 2018

En este artículo propongo una lectura de las novelas mexicanas Púrpura, de Ana García Bergua, y Fruta verde, de Enrique Serna, como representaciones de la bisexualidad que se insertan en, y a la vez rompen con, una tradición literaria que retrata la homosexualidad masculina. Leo el empleo de la ironía y el performance de género en los textos como señalamiento de las contradicciones y dificultades sociales que conllevan la orientación bisexual. El diálogo de las obras con la tradición de la novela de formación problematiza la expresión de sexualidades no normativas y plantea una crítica de las identidades sexuales basadas en el binarismo hetero / homosexual. Sostengo que estas obras deben ser incluidas en y analizadas dentro de la tradición literaria mexicana que retrata sexualidades disidentes, entre las cuales la bisexualidad ha sido una identidad marginada.
Elsinore: un cuaderno de escritura
Authors: Salazar Torres Fernando
Published: April 2018

La idea general del artículo propone el relato Elsinore: un cuaderno como una novela de formación, cuyos rasgos estéticos permiten notar el aspecto biográfico del autor en el proceso de formación que va tomando el protagonista. La notable relación que conquista Elizondo entre escritura, memoria y sueño, junto a la hibridez que constituye, permiten analizar a la narración como la textualidad onírica del autor, la cual es el relato mismo; es decir, la escritura que se presenta como una obra acabada, que es un pasado, traído a la actualidad mediante la memoria, es sueño.
Modos de subjetivación
Authors: Farías Rangel Gerardo
Published: April 2018

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De El discreto, de Gracián, a El hombre mediocre, de José Ingenieros, tres siglos de modernidad olvidada
Authors: Mora García José Luis
Published: April 2018

Durante mucho tiempo se ha sostenido que España, y los países latinos en general, habrían carecido de filosofía. Y eso ha llevado a negar que hubiéramos tenido modernidad. Este artículo, estableciendo un puente entre dos obras bien distantes entre sí, El discreto (1646), de Baltasar Gracián, y El hombre mediocre (1913), de José Ingenieros, prueba la naturaleza del pensamiento filosófico escrito en lengua española que se apoya en una forma literaria en cuanto se atiene a la existencia misma de las personas y de las cosas sin renunciar a las ocasiones. Esta estrategia exige universalizar a partir de los tipos y no de las ideas porque tiene como objeto la vida como realidad radical.
Escritura y esquizofrenia
Authors: Solórzano Esqueda Lilia
Published: April 2018

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¿Es posible una teoría del conocimiento en Miguel de Unamuno?
Authors: Montaño Montero Luisa
Published: April 2018

¿Es posible hablar de una teoría del conocimiento en Miguel de Unamuno? Responder a esta pregunta nos exige recorrer su obra para encontrar sus ideas en torno al problema, pues nunca planteó una epistemología explícita. Su concepción de la razón, considerada como algo más que en su aspecto lógico-matemático, condicionará su visión del conocimiento. Al reconocerle un aspecto histórico y vital la abrirá a otros modos de realidad inaccesibles a la razón pura. Si el mundo cambia, la razón ha de modificarse a su vez para conocerlo. La “intuición” y el “lenguaje” serán los instrumentos para acceder a esas realidades. Ambos conceptos estarán fundamentados en su idea de hombre como esencialmente mutable e histórico. Por tanto, Unamuno se insertó en una tradición filosó- fica en la que cobraban valor aspectos hasta entonces olvidados.
El materialismo de Marx. Discurso crítico y revolución Bolívar Echeverría México, Itaca, 2011
Authors: Ortega Esquivel Aureliano
Published: April 2018

El materialismo de Marx. Discurso crítico y revolución Bolívar Echeverría México, Itaca, 2011
El encuentro con el otro Ryszard Kapuściński España, Anagrama, 2007
Authors: Ferro Vidal Luis Enrique
Published: April 2018

El encuentro con el otro Ryszard Kapuściński España, Anagrama, 2007
La ceguera del cíclope Aureliano Ortega Esquivel Universidad de Guanajuato, 2009
Authors: Gámez Guerrero Marevna
Published: April 2018

La ceguera del cíclope Aureliano Ortega Esquivel Universidad de Guanajuato, 2009
La Teoría Crítica como género
Authors: Caballero Rodríguez Beatriz
Published: April 2018

Este artículo arguye que, dadas las particularidades y los objetivos de la Teoría Crítica de la Escuela de Frankfurt, las clasificaciones tradicionales resultan inapropiadas. A pesar de su carácter utópico, su género no es la literatura utópica, puesto que la Teoría Crítica se define por mucho más que su objetivo: la auto-realización del ser humano. De la misma manera, tampoco encaja cómodamente dentro de las etiquetas de ensayo o discurso académico. De hecho, encasillarla en cualquiera de estos géneros supondría una domesticación de su discurso que afectaría su impacto. La tesis que aquí defiendo es que la Teoría Crítica se debe considerar mucho más que un simple rótulo que agrupe el trabajo de los miembros de la Escuela de Frankfurt; se refiere a la naturaleza idiosincrática de su trabajo entendido como la combinación de su objetivo, metodología, contenido y estilo. Es precisamente el conjunto de estas características lo que debe ser considerado como un género en sí mismo. El discurso de la Teoría Crítica sólo puede situarse, entonces, en una posición de desafío y rebeldía frente a los patrones establecidos de pensamiento y expresión al reconocer su particularidad como género diferenciado.
Eternidad y belleza. Tránsitos entre Schopenhauer y Borges
Authors: Acosta Escareño Javier
Published: April 2018

Este artículo revisa algunos aspectos del binomio belleza-eternidad en la poética de Jorge Luis Borges, a partir de su relación con la filosofía del arte en Arthur Schopenhauer. Se analiza así la relación entre poesía y saber desarrollada por el filósofo pesimista y recogida por Borges.
Eugenio Montejo o de poetizar sobre el fracaso como una manera de estar en el mundo
Authors: Rangel López Asunción del Carmen
Published: April 2018

En “El alfabeto del mundo”, el venezolano Eugenio Montejo intenta restablecer la unión entre el hombre y la naturaleza; en este poema, en particular, se advierte su propensión por descifrar el orden secreto del cosmos y se pone en evidencia su conciencia, como poeta moderno, de la imperfección del lenguaje, incluido el poético. La palabra, entonces, está imposibilitada para decirlo todo, para abarcarlo todo, tarea que, sin embargo, busca realizar afanosamente el sujeto lírico. En el artículo, además, se describe de qué manera aparece poetizado el mito de Orfeo y cómo hay una inclinación a incorporar el universo mítico a la esfera de comprensión y explicación del hombre y su mundo. Estos tópicos, a propósito de su poética, guardan una profunda relación con ciertos presupuestos del movimiento romántico.
Escaparates del tiempo, galería de vidas. Ensayo sobre el diario privado y la construcción de la intimidad en México durante el fin de siglo, Juan Pascual Gay San Luis Potosí, El Colegio de San Luis / Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 2010
Authors: Pérez Sánchez Luis Felipe
Published: April 2018

Escaparates del tiempo, galería de vidas. Ensayo sobre el diario privado y la construcción de la intimidad en México durante el fin de siglo, Juan Pascual Gay San Luis Potosí, El Colegio de San Luis / Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 2010
La confrontación de ontología y epistemología en el pensamiento gadameriano
Authors: Bárcenas Ramón
Published: April 2018

Heidegger formula una de las tesis filosóficas más radicales del siglo XX: la distinción puntual entre los estudios sobre lo óntico y los análisis ontológicos. Este planteamiento da lugar a la escisión fundamental entre la epistemología, cuyo tema es el ser-objeto, y la hermenéutica ontológica, que analiza el carácter de ser del existir. Uno de los intentos más notables por poner en juego estas dos posturas tan distanciadas se encuentra en la filosofía gadameriana, la cual se caracteriza por sostener que la comprensión verdadera acontece bajo la forma del diálogo. Este trabajo revisa si el esfuerzo gadameriano por aproximar la epistemología a la ontología tiene lugar bajo la forma del diálogo hermenéutico.
Poder y dominio en las relaciones culturales entre Europa y América Latina
Authors: Ortega Esquivel Aureliano
Published: April 2018

El presente trabajo pretende llamar la atención sobre algunas consideraciones de orden teórico e histórico-filosófico que debemos tener en cuenta cuando emprendemos la tarea de explicar y comprender las formas que históricamente han adoptado las relaciones culturales entre Europa y América Latina. Con ese fin, se considera pertinente incluir y articular crítica y reflexivamente en nuestras investigaciones históricas e histórico-filosóficas tres consideraciones imprescindibles: a) el hecho de que nuestras naciones son resultado de un largo proceso de conquista y colonización europea; b) que dicho proceso fue programado y ejecutado bajo las determinantes económicas, jurídicas y políticas del modo de producción capitalista y de su máxima expresión cultural: la Modernidad; y c) que a pesar de ello han existido, desde siempre, discursos opositores o de emancipación que tensan críticamente aquellas relaciones culturales que nos permiten pensar una contrapropuesta cultural a la impuesta por un mundo occidental y, más allá, en la necesidad y la posibilidad de construir un proyecto civilizatorio propio.
El gobierno de sí y de los otros. Curso en el Collège de France, 1982-1983 Michel Foucault (traducción de Horacio Pons) Buenos Aires, FCE, 2009
Authors: Servín Uribe Sara María
Published: April 2018

Reseña del libro El gobierno de sí y de los otros. Curso en el Collège de France, 1982-1983 Michel Foucault (traducción de Horacio Pons) Buenos Aires, FCE, 2009
En torno a la nueva visión de Husserl
Authors: San Martín Javier
Published: April 2018

El presente texto es un extracto de la primera lección del curso impartido en Guanajuato en la primavera del año en curso. Su objetivo es determinar los contenidos que configuraron la interpretación convencional de Husserl, para destacar lo que sería el objetivo del curso: la noción del “nuevo” Husserl. El ensayo consta de cinco apartados. En el primero se presenta el contenido global de la obra pública de Husserl. El segundo se dedica a explicar la noción del “nuevo” Husserl. El apartado tres procura exponer los rasgos del Husserl convencional. El cuatro está dedicado a ver la cadena de autores que nos han transmitido al “nuevo” Husserl. Para terminar, en el apartado quinto se hace referencia a algunos textos de Gaos sintomáticos de la comprensión convencional de Husserl.
Fatigue Damage Characteristics Considering the Difference of Tensile-Compression Modulus for Asphalt Mixture
Authors: Lv Songtao , Wang Xiaoyang , Liu Chaochao , Wang Shuangshuang
Published: April 2018

In order to reveal the difference and correlation of tensile modulus, compressive modulus, and flexural modulus, the four-point bending fatigue test is used on two kinds of asphalt mixtures—rock asphalt modified asphalt mixture and styrene butadiene styrene block copolymer modified asphalt mixture, were conducted using closed-loop test system. The fatigue damage variable was defined by the modulus attenuation based on the theory of damage mechanics, and the modulus attenuation equation was deduced. Under the same conditions, the initial value and the critical value of the tensile modulus were less than those of the compressive modulus, but the critical damage value and the attenuation slope of the tensile modulus were larger than those of the compressive modulus. The attenuation models of the tensile and compressive modulus of the asphalt mixture during the bending fatigue test were established. Based on the fatigue test results, a new concept of design and analysis was developed, in which the corresponding modulus and its evolution law is chosen according to its actual stress state at each point of asphalt pavement. The results indicate that under the bending fatigue stress state, there exists great differences between the attenuation law of the modulus of tension and compression for asphalt mixture and that the attenuation rate of tensile modulus is greater than that of compressive. Therefore, the tensile zone results in greater damage; the pavement structure of the tensile zone is damaged, which should be given more attention.