bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Evaluation and management of neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury: Current practice among physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists in Turkey
Authors: Akkoç Yeşim , Ersöz Murat , Çınar Ece , Gök Haydar
Published: June 2021

Objectives: This study aims to determine the current trends in evaluation and management of neurogenic bladder secondary to spinal cord injury (SCI) among Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) specialists in Turkey.

Materials and methods: Between September 2013 and November 2013, a total of 100 PMR specialists from 18 different provinces of Turkey were included in the study. A 23-item questionnaire was developed to evaluate the current practice on assessment and follow-up of upper and lower urinary tract dysfunction. The questionnaire was delivered via e-mail to the participants routinely providing care for patients with SCI and all responses were obtained electronically.

Results: For surveillance of the upper urinary tract dysfunction, 93% of the participants preferred ultrasonography. A total of 59% of the participants favored an annual assessment and 36% preferred six-month intervals. Multichannel urodynamics, voiding cystourethrography combined with urodynamics, and video-urodynamics were preferred by 62%, 25%, and 10% of the participants, respectively for surveillance of the lower urinary tract. Urodynamic evaluation was performed annually by 51% of the participants. In patients with detrusor overactivity unresponsive to the combination of intermittent catheterization (IC) and anticholinergic agents, 66% preferred to increase the dose and 22% preferred to switch to another medication. For treatment of areflexic bladder, 78% preferred IC and 12% preferred the Credé' or Valsalva maneuvers. Treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria was not favored in patients on IC and indwelling urethral catheter by 33% and 44% of the participants respectively. Totally, 84% participants preferred to administer antibiotics for 10 to 14 days for the treatment of symptomatic urinary tract infection.

Conclusion: Our study results indicate that there are some differences in the current practice of PMR specialists for surveillance and management of SCI patients with neurogenic bladder. These results also emphasize the need for development of guidelines and implementation of continuous medical education activities in this field.
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the household waste flow during the containment period
Authors: Mohamed Kaizouri , Amina Mesbahi-Salhi , Mouaz Madoui Bachir El , Zihad Bouslama , Wafa Rezaiguia
Published: June 2021

The first COVID-19 case in Algeria, was registered on February 25, 2020, it concerns an Italian national. On November 5, 2020, the total number of infected persons reached 60169 cases and keeps on rising to the point that the curve does not follow the normal law. The present work tries to illustrate another implication caused by the coronavirus pandemic. We focus on the amount of waste produced during the containment caused by the coronavirus epidemic. Targeting three engineered landfill centers (ELCs) located in northeastern Algeria occupying three important wilayas (states) that are Guelma, Eltaref and Annaba, in different population densities. A variable trend increase in household waste quantity is determined during this study. Guelma shows an increase of about 20%, however, Eltaref shows an increase of 11%, while Annaba shows an increase of about 14%. An increase of the quantities of waste entering the landfills during the pandemic, which will have enormous impacts on technical management, on the leachate flow with its heavy environmental impacts and which will cause an early saturation of the cells, especially with the stopping of the recycling process due to security measures. This study highlights the need to re-examine the current management system in order to better manager similar crises in the future.
Toxicity assessment of dimethyl carbonate following 28 days repeated inhalation exposure
Authors: Seo Dongseok
Published: June 2021

Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) has been used as a reagent in methylation reactions, can be used as paints, coatings, and adhesives, and is a chemical that is being used increasing, which poses a health hazard to workers who handle it. So, the toxic reactions of F344 rats with inhalation exposure to 600, 1600, and 5000 ppm concentrations for 6 hours, 5 days a week, 4 weeks was evaluated. During the exposure period, general signs were observed, body weight and food consumption were measured, and hematologic and blood biochemical tests, organ weight measurements, necropsy, and histopathological examination were performed after the end of exposure. During the exposure period, dimethyl carbonate was exposed to an average of 599.26±31.40, 1614.64±80.79 and 5106.83±297.13 ppm in the chambers of the T1, T2 and T3 test groups, respectively. During the test period, general signs, weight change, food consumption, organ weight measurement, necropsy, and histopathological examination did not show any effects related to exposure to the test substance. However, as a result of blood and blood biochemical tests, an increase in AST, ALP, APTT, and PT levels was observed. From these results, it is judged that liver is the target organ when repeated inhalation exposure of dimethyl carbonate, the test substance, for 4 weeks, and the exposure-related effects of the test substance were observed at PT and ALP levels up to 600 ppm exposure concentration, but NOEC (No Observed Effect Concentration) was determined to be less than 600 ppm because it was not judged as an adverse effect.
Quantum-Resistant Network for Classical Client Compatibility
Authors: Lin Te-Yuan , Fuh Chiou-Shann
Published: June 2021

Quantum computing is no longer a thing of the future. Shor’s algorithm proved that a quantum computer couldtraverse key of factoring problems in polynomial time. Because the time-complexity of the exhaustive keysearch for quantum computing has not reliably exceeded the reasonable expiry of crypto key validity, it is believedthat current cryptography systems built on top of computational security are not quantum-safe. Quantumkey distribution fundamentally solves the problem of eavesdropping; nevertheless, it requires quantumpreparatory work and quantum-network infrastructure, and these remain unrealistic with classical computers.In transitioning to a mature quantum world, developing a quantum-resistant mechanism becomes a stringentproblem. In this research, we innovatively tackled this challenge using a non-computational difficulty schemewith zero-knowledge proof in order to achieve repellency against quantum computing cryptanalysis attacks foruniversal classical clients.
Cloud-Based Multi-Robot Path Planning in Complex and Crowded Environment Using Fuzzy Logic and Online Learning
Authors: Zagradjanin Novak , Rodic Aleksandar , Pamucar Dragan , Pavkovic Bojan
Published: June 2021

This paper considers an autonomous cloud-based multi-robot system designed to execute highly repetitive tasksin a dynamic environment such as a modern megastore. Cloud level is intended for performing the most demandingoperations in order to unload the robots that are users of cloud services in this architecture. For path planningon global level D* Lite algorithm is applied, bearing in mind its high efficiency in dynamic environments. In orderto introduce smart cost map for further improvement of path planning in complex and crowded environment, implementationof fuzzy inference system and learning algorithm is proposed. The results indicate the possibility ofapplying a similar concept in different real-world robotics applications, in order to reduce the total paths length,as well as to minimize the risk in path planning related to the human-robot interactions.
Aufhören oder Weiterdenken? Zur Frage des Umgangs mit Carl Schmitt. Eine Debatte mit Jean-François Kervégan
Authors: Heller Jonas , Mateo Marina Martinez
Published: June 2021

Why should we read Carl Schmitt, an authoritarian and at times convinced National Socialist jurist, today? What could we gain and learn from Schmitt’s thought that would be of more than historical interest? And how should his indissolubly ambivalent texts be dealt with, methodologically and theoretically? With this special issue we aim to pursue these questions in a debate with Jean-François Kervégan, whose book “Que faire de Carl Schmitt?”, provides a fruitful starting point for this. Our claim will be, with Kervégan, that thinking with Carl Schmitt today means not so much to engage with his answers, but rather to take up his questions and to bring them beyond the form he gives them, to reopen them in order to enable new approaches to contemporary problems of the state, the law and democracy.
Exportsicherheit
Authors: Breimhorst Simone
Published: June 2021

The economic shock in Brazil at the beginning of the 1950s posed a massive threat to West Germany’s export trade because Hermes, the export credit insurance provider that had been founded only shortly beforehand, proved to be deficient as it did not sufficiently cover the transfer or conversion risk involved. This case thus created a situation which required drastic action, during the course of which intensive and complex negotiations between countless actors from the state and the private sector collapsed. The subsequent compromise of covering the transfer or conversion risk, which was finally found two years later, then provided the greater security the foreign trade sector desired and demanded.
Sorge und Sorgekonflikte in der ambulanten Pflege
Authors: Schniering Stefanie
Published: June 2021

Faced with a variety of conflicts relating to concern and care, caregivers often find themselves in a difficult situation. On the basis of episodic interviews with nurses, which focus on caring for people living alone with dementia, this study develops a theory on caregivers feeling torn between personal involvement and reification, and elaborates it in a typology of interpretation patterns, thus combining grounded theory methodology and critical theory. Since the conditions of professional care are permeated by reification and humiliation, individual attempts to solve the problem have remained unsuccessful. Solving these problems can only succeed in society as a whole.
Gesamtschuldnerische Vorstandshaftung
Authors: Hoss Juliane
Published: June 2021

Die Verfasserin widmet sich dem Gesamtschuldnerregress unter Vorstandsmitgliedern einer Aktiengesellschaft. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, dass eine Regressbeschränkung qua gesellschaftlicher Fürsorgepflicht anzuerkennen ist, werden ihre Auswirkungen auf den Gesamtschuldnerregress dargestellt. Weiterer Untersuchungsgegenstand ist die Bildung interner Haftungsquoten. Hierbei gelangt die Verfasserin zu dem Ergebnis, dass die konkrete Ausformung der Überwachungspflicht infolge einer horizontalen Aufgabendelegation die Höhe der Haftungsquoten der Vorstandsmitglieder unmittelbar beeinflusst. Die Untersuchung endet mit Überlegungen zur Regresssicherung und zeigt hierbei kautelarjuristische Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten auf.
Simulation of Birefringence and Polarization Mode Dispersion Characteristics in Various Commercial Single Mode Fibers
Authors: Saktioto Toto , Zairmi Yoli , Erlinda Sopya , Veriyanti Velia
Published: June 2021

Single mode optical fiber operation for long haul distance communication media has rapidly developed. Several efforts are implemented to reduce and control the attenuation and absorption of signal propagation. However, fiber parameters still experienced interference with internal and external factors that result birefringence and polarization mode dispersion such as bending power losses, signal widening and increasing wavelengths. In order to reduce and optimize the interference which is experimentally difficult to demonstrate because of the very long fibers hence a numerical simulation is set with perspective of twisted fiber disorder as a function of wavelengths and fiber geometry. The simulation evaluates the various refractive indices, radius of fibers and wavelength sources. The quality of optical fiber interference can be identified from the twisted power losses values with different variations of twisted radius. This model obtained indicates the greatest power losses occurring as a function of radius, refractive indices and wavelength. The results show that normalized frequency value has important role in determining the effectiveness the optical fiber performance and stability of power deliver. The addition of wavelength can affect the fibers experiencing birefringence and polarization mode dispersion occurring at wavelength of telecommunication regimes.
Quantum Signal over Optical Fiber
Authors: Roshidah Yusof Nor , Ali Norshamsuri , Alwee Aljunid Syed Junid Syed , Rashidi Che Beson Mohd , Endut Rosdisham
Published: June 2021

This chapter aims to address the quantum signal role and properties in optical fiber application mainly in quantum communication. It covers the general discussion on quantum bits and optical waveguiding properties. The highlight of this chapter lies in the discussion of the quantum fictitious force of anti-centrifugal force which was first reported in 2001. Under this condition, the free particle experience an attractive potential towards the rotating center of a bent waveguide structure. A lot of theoretical work has been carried out to observe this quantum phenomenon. However, no intensive experimental work has been carried out to date. With the advancement of nano-fabrication technology and quantum experimental, it provides a bright potential to observe these phenomena. Thus, we proposed a promising material of Lithium Niobate on Insulator to serve as a waveguiding platform to study this quantum effect experimentally. The discussion is extended to perceive the relation between Schrodinger and Helmholtz’s equation corresponding to this effect.
An Assessment of the Impact of the Tourism Sector on Regional Economic Development in Gauteng Province, South Africa
Authors: F. Meyer Daniel
Published: June 2021

South Africa is facing three main developmental problems, including high levels of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. The tourism sector allows for a relatively easy entry into the local market for small businesses and entrepreneurs and has the potential to create jobs and subsequently, income. Tourism development could be utilised as a driver for economic growth and development. The main objective of this research was to assess the impact of the tourism sector on economic growth and development in South Africa, focusing on the Gauteng Province which, is the economic hub of the country and even Africa. The methodology utilised was based on a quantitative design, using secondary time series pooled panel data approach including, all the municipal entities in the region. Annual data from 2000 to 2019 were used to analyse the impact of tourism on economic growth and development. Tourism variables include measurements such as tourism spending and international tourism trips. Results confirm the tourism-growth nexus and the sector allows ease of market entry for small businesses, resulting in employment creation and income for the poor in developing regions if promoted via effective policy implementation, even in regions where tourism is not the leading sector.
The Importance of Exposure Assessment in Blue Collar Jobs: Construction as an Example
Authors: Dasgupta Priyadarshini
Published: June 2021

Exposure to musculoskeletal disorder (MSDs) risk factors are not only common but also omnipresent in almost every workplace. The purpose of this chapter is to describe how we can attempt to reduce the exposure to the risk factor in order to attain a reduction in negative physiological outcomes (like injuries and illnesses). Blue collar jobs are often subject to heavy manual handling and intervening these jobs with any new technique is burdensome. This chapter gives the example of construction job as a blue collar and hard to reach job in which an intervention was implemented in a systematic way.
Prevention of Cesarean Scar Defects: What Is Possible?
Authors: Litzka Christian , Schnabel Annegret , Emilia Solano Maria , Köninger Angela
Published: June 2021

Defect healing of the uterotomy at ceasarean section (CS) results in a morphological und probably functional disruption of the anterior uterine wall. Clinical sequelae concern subsequent pregnancies with a broad range of complications before and during pregnancy as well as at birth. In the following chapter, we provide an overview about the definition, diagnosis, symptoms and pathogenetical mechanisms of CS scar defects. Keeping in mind the pathogenesis allows to introduce preventative approaches.
LabVIEW and Open Embedded System
Authors: Quang Duc Trinh
Published: June 2021

In this chapter, discussions about the applications based on LabVIEW with a typical open embedded system such as Arduino. Instead of the applications with use of National Instrument hardware, an user can build an low-cost microcontroller-based system which user interface and procedure designed in LabVIEW. Recently, Arduino-based applications are one of interested developments, the embedded system is designed with the low-cost microcontroller of ATMEGA2560 and easy to program with IDE (Interface Development Environment). However, the difficulties of Arduino-based applications are user interface design while LabVIEW is an excellent utilities for the panel designs. The limitation of some LabVIEW applications is the requirements from combination with high performance NI hardwares. Under interactions between LabVIEW and IDE library designed by Arduino, the low-cost system can be easily built for experiments or prototype designs.
Advancements of Spraying Technology in Agriculture
Authors: Ahmad Fiaz , Khaliq Aftab , Qiu Baijing , Sultan Muhammad , Ma Jing
Published: June 2021

Plant protection activities are most important practices during crop production. Application of maximum pesticide products with the sprayer. The application of fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides is one of the most recurrent and significant tasks in agriculture. Conventional agricultural spraying techniques have made the inconsistency between economic growth and environmental protection in agricultural production. Spraying techniques continuously developed in recent decades. For pesticide application, it is not the only sprayer that is essential, but all the parameters like the type and area of the plant canopy, area of a plant leaf, height of the crop, and volume of plants related to plant protection product applications are very important for obtaining better results. From this point of view, the advancement in agriculture sprayer has been started in last few decades. Robotics and automatic spraying technologies like variable rate sprayers, UAV sprayers, and electrostatic sprayers are growing to Increase the utilization rate of pesticides, reduce pesticide residues, real-time, cost-saving, high compatibility of plant protection products application. These technologies are under the “umbrella” of precision agriculture. The mechanized spraying system, usually implemented by highly precise equipment or mobile robots, which, makes possible the selective targeting of pesticide application on desire time and place. These advanced spraying technologies not only reduces the labour cost but also effective in environmental protection. Researchers are conducting experimental studies on the design, development and testing of precision spraying technologies for crops and orchards.
Between Chaos and Cosmos
Authors: Barnes Stephen D. ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

Ernesto Grassts rhetorical theory proves helpful in illuminating William Faulkner's conception of humanity's dependence upon language. For both Grassi and Faulkner, language—the fundamental human art—serves metonymically, pointing toward humanity's need for other forms of artifice. Through the use of artificial means, the species is able not merely to survive, but to flourish, to prevail Characters in Faulkner's novels, such as Quentin Compson and Darl Bundren, who seek to transcend human verbalityI conventionality manifest forms of psychic disintegration. Like Faulkner, Grassi considers the attempt to escape artiflce as an act of insanity. Contrariwise, Grassi uses the term folly to refer to the willing recognition of the need to accept theforms of human artifice that allow the species to thrive.
Growing Up Through the Ages
Authors: Manson Michael ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

This paper examines three novels over a two and a half century period—Tom Jones, Great Expectations, and I Am Charlotte Simmons—from the time when the Bildungsroman was just being explored to the present when some are arguing that the form is dead. We shall argue rather that the genre necessarily changes as concomitant ideas change, in particular, the evolving ideas of what an adolescent is and what freedom and maturity mean. Furthermore, we shall claim that the Bildungsroman genre presents us with a tension in the modern (and postmodern) world that may be intractable.
Movement strategies ASJ the basis for creating transcendence in the composition of The Tree of Life by Ivana Stefanović
Authors: Teparić Srđan
Published: June 2021

The composition The Tree of Life by Ivana Stefanović, for string orchestra, was written in 1997. It is composed of several entities of similar meaning, which derive from one motif. This fact alone suggests that this composition is essentially a powerful allegory that achieves a complex picture of the birth of human life and its development. The compositional techniques of decorating, superimposing and improvisation are powerful metaphors that indicate the flowering of living wood. From the analytical point of view, the composition by Ivana Stefanović is interesting to observe for it avoids postmodernist procedures. On the contrary, it is like reinterpreting the modernist idea of construction, but tying itself to the transcendent metaphor of life. The aforementioned procedures, which render their perpetual branching to be perceived as a single entity, lead to a complete musical gesture that begins, matures, and ends in transcendence. The common mode of all the procedures used in this piece is the movement that arises from one constant, a pulsation. Musical gestures related to several strategies will be examined in an analytical way. The first is decorating, which is directly related to similar strategies: growing, blooming and improvisation. The binding together of such situations leads to the creation of a unique musical gesture that points to life itself. Such symbolic unity, from the beginning to the end, has been realized in a transcendent mode. In this capacity, the composition The Tree of Life by Ivana Stefanović stands aside from most of the usual stylistic procedures of the time in which it was created. The combination of the strategies used points to a ludic game of linking the pulsation, that is, movements, which stand in direct union with the inexpressible sphere of symbolic, that is, unstoppable eternal currents. The work deals with the analysis of strategies by which motor musical movements, as symbols, at the signifying level, are placed as gestures of expressing the transcendent. Moving lines and their collisions, places for creating prolongation, spreading and shrinking of the texture with the change of its layers, development of motifs with the pronounced application of the variation procedure, all these procedures will be treated as methods of building a unique tree of life. The composer began her narrative network with the basic motif cell, with the first statement, "in the beginning it was [...]". Based on the identification and method of combining the compositional strategies of the movement, it will be possible to prove the thesis of a transcendental musical gesture, formed as a result of the complex interrelations between the individual meaningful units.
Anxieties over technology in Yugoslav interwar music criticism: Stanislav Vinaver in dialogue with Walter Benjamin
Authors: Cvejić Žarko
Published: June 2021

In Paris in late 1935, the exiled German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin completed the first version of his well-known 'artwork essay', The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility. In that essay, Benjamin famously welcomed the loss of 'aura' in art, the mystique, quasi-religious quality of unique, original, authentic, and aesthetically autonomous works of art, due to the advent of mass reproduction of artworks on an industrial scale, especially in the new arts of photography and cinema, rendering many of those quasi-religious qualities of 'auratic' art obsolete. Benjamin welcomed this in accordance with his leftist, anti-fascist political agenda, hoping that the loss of 'aura' would open art to politicization, communism's (or, at any rate, Benjamin's) response to fascism's aestheticisation of politics. That same year, 1935, in Belgrade, the capital of what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Serbian-Jewish poet, intellectual, and literary and music critic Stanislav Vinaver wrote an essay titled Mehanička muzika (Mechanical Music). In his essay, Vinaver focused on the advent of technical reproduction in and its effects on music, an art largely ignored by Benjamin. Unlike his more famous contemporary, Vinaver was alarmed by the new technologies of radio and the gramophone record and their perceived negative impact not only on traditional music, performed live on traditional, acoustic instruments, but on organic life in general, replacing it with a mechanical surrogate carried by the waves of a dehumanizing technology. Vinaver's views were probably shaped by his passionate championing of modernism in Serbian and Yugoslav literature and music alike, which is evident not only in Mehanička muzika, but also in his criticism in general. Two more important factors may have also been the influence of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, Vinaver's one-time professor at the Sorbonne, and his valorisation of intuition in thought and artistic creativity, as well as Vinaver's somewhat nostalgic view of music as the only true and self-referential art, a view reminiscent of the re-conception of music in the early German Romantics such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, F. W. J. Schelling, and Arthur Schopenhauer, later taken up and elaborated by such disparate figures as the German music theorist Eduard Hanslick, English essayist Walter Pater, and Vinaver's own modernist hero Arnold Schönberg. Ironically, although Vinaver shared much of Benjamin's leftist politics, he did not see such a positive potential in the mechanical reproduction of music, but, perhaps, only another sign of humanity's headlong March toward self-destruction in a total war, on the wings of an aestheticised technology and instrumental reason run amok, no longer serving humanity but turning against it.
Annulling the trauma: Neoclassicism as a modernist (?) antidote to society's ills
Authors: Bralović Miloš
Published: June 2021

The First World War ended a hundred years ago. This historical event of colossal proportions significantly changed both European and world history. And it is very probable that in the following years (that is, the 1920s), this event influenced many 'calls to order', to paraphrase the title of Jean Cocteau's infamous 1923 essay. Therefore, in this paper, we first examined (in the most general terms) overall historical conditions which influenced the emergence of neoclassicism in Paris, before and shortly after The Great War. With this in mind, we also examined the overall conditions of the emergence of neoclassicism in Serbian music, which (acknowledging several modest attempts before The Second World War) appeared as a (sort of) dominant movement significantly later, compared to its French counterpart, that is, in the 1950s. At this point, the only correlation between the two neoclassicism is that they both appear after significant, primarily destructive, historical events. Therefore, having in mind that after two wars of vast proportions, contexts changed, we examined the ways by which the composers (that is Igor Stravinsky and Milan Ristić, as case studies) tried to find a stable way into mainstream art and, to some extent, redevelop their poietics.
Mondrian's "transdance": Transposition of music and dance movements into painting
Authors: Kolić Neda
Published: June 2021

The syntagm, Mondrian's "transdance" is a term with which the author wanted to symbolically indicate the main research interest presented in this paper, that is, the examination of how the basic stance, steps and movements in the Foxtrot and, implicitly, the main elements of jazz, i.e. melody, rhythm, harmony, are transposed into the particular visual compositions - Fox Trot A (1930) and Fox Trot B (1929). All of these particular art forms (dance, painting, and music), though very different in the aesthetical and poetical respect, are nevertheless connected with one essential element - movement, as a measure of both time and space. In this consideration of painting as a temporal, and not only a spatial object, the visual art discourse is influenced by the vocabulary of the art of music and of dance. Thus, this paper should be understood as the author's intimate observation of time-space transpositions (at the wider level), as well as the author's discussion about the latent (interdisciplinary) 'dialogue' which the painter, Piet Mondrian, aka "The Dancing Madonna", conducted with dance and music (in the strictest sense). This premise is explored from several aspects, but none of them deviates from the main methodological course, determined by the "interdisciplinary model of musicological competence" (Veselinović-Hofman).
Creative cognition in composing music
Authors: Bogunović Blanka
Published: June 2021

In this paper we presented an overview of theoretical and empirical research in a domain of cognitive psychology of music, psychology of creativity and interdisciplinary studies concerning the creative cognitive processes in composing music, with an intention to bring them into connection and to raise questions about further research. We brought into focus the cognitive processes in composing music since the key role of cognitive mechanisms and processes, next to the emotional experience and imagery, was shown in our previous research. The wide scope of knowledge, within a time span of some 35 years, was introduced covering the following themes - generative models of creative cognition, metacognitive strategies in composing, the relation between creativity, knowledge and novelty, creativity in the social-economical context. We paid attention to the several crucial theoretical models, some of them developed on the basis of exploration of compositional practices, one of the first being John Sloboda's psychological Model of typical compositional resources and processes (1985), that gave a global overview of the relevant components of the composing behavior. Psychology of creativity gave several process models that can be applied in a field of composing music. One of them, developed by Wallas (1926) and adapted for music making by Lehmann, Sloboda and Woody (2002), is the well-known theory of the creative process stages. We considered as the most prominent the Creative cognition approach formulated by Smith, Ward and Finke (1997) and their Geneplore model (1992). The authors listed a wide range of processes that are crucial for creativity, nevertheless they are engaged in the generative or exploratory phase. In our paper, we discussed metacognitive strategies engaged in a process of composing while considering music creation as a self-regulated activity. Further on, the relation between immersion, knowledge, the production of heuristic ideas and the cognitive strategies of problem solving were brought into focus. It was pointed out that quality of the creative outcomes will be influenced by the extent of the person's long-term knowledge structures, drawn intentionally or intuitively during the process, and by the manner in which the elements of that knowledge are accessed and combined. The social and cultural factors were considered in a frame of several confluent models, first of all Csikszentmihalyi's systems theory of creativity (2004), focused less on the creative person but on involving multiple factors. Simonton took into account massive and impersonal influences from the Zetgeist or Ortgeist and grouped them into four categories: cultural factors, societal factors, economic and political factors (2004). Further on, models and concepts, new research methodologies and new technology, that were developed specifically in a domain of music creation, as well as their results, were presented.
From Kerman to Merzbow: Notes on the metamorphoses of music analysis at the turn of the millennium
Authors: Kubíček Jiří
Published: June 2021

This paper aims to delineate changes in the approach to music analysis over the last decades of the nineteenth century and to examine different possibilities in analysing works which have a characteristic that virtually excludes the use of traditional methods. The starting point is Joseph Kerman's criticism of music analysis, formulated in the 1980s, which - together with successive discussions - reflects a tendency towards abandoning the excessively academic and formalizing approach to analysis, moving from an attempt at an objective analysis of a work towards an interpretation that also focuses on the listener. Since the mid-twentieth century, electroacoustic music has been one of the areas where the use of traditional analysis was inconvenient. Since electroacoustic music began to lose its exclusive, academic character in the 1990s in relation with the development of computer technologies, the question of its interpretation and finding suitable listener strategies has kept coming to the fore. This paper shows the possibilities of approach to this music in relation to its specificities. The last part of the paper focuses on a specific example from one fringe genre: noise music, specifically the subgenre japanoise. In its peak period in the 1990s, this sound production was probably the furthest away from what is usually associated with the term music. Based on an analysis of a selected composition, the inadequacy of the traditional approach and certain alternatives to grasping such music will be demonstrated. The very end of the paper features some current results which relate to, or result from, the study's conclusions.
Pedagogical work of Vesna Mikić
Authors: Sabo Adriana
Published: June 2021

This paper focuses on the teaching work of Vesna Mikić, PhD (1967-2019), full professor at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Considering that she was tied to this institution throughout most of her professional career, the paper will offer an outlook on the curricula of the subjects which she taught over the years, and an attempt to shed light on her approach to teaching and to the subject matter she taught. In addition, the paper will focus on her work as a mentor, and attempt to pinpoint a number of aspects that connected her work as a scholar, pedagogue and mentor.
Like in the old days: Concerning the piece …and I need a room to receive five thousand people with raised glasses… or …what a glorious day, the birds are singing 'halleluiah'…by Ana Sokolović
Authors: Miladinović-Prica Ivana
Published: June 2021

The article offers a discussion of …and I need a room… (2013), a piece for large chamber ensemble by Serbo-Canadian composer Ana Sokolović (Ana Sokolović), inspired by songs by the former Belgrade rock band Ekatarina Velika (EKV, Ekatarina Velika, EKV; "Catherine the Great"). Dedicated to the 1980s urban generations of former Yugoslavia, the work occupies a unique place in its author's oeuvre, by virtue of opening, on the one hand, a world of memory concerning her own youth, and relaying, on the other hand, a message about the large amount of cultural capital that the music of EKV commands and, furthermore, about all that it represents for her. The composer's existential bond with the music made by one of former Yugoslavia's most influential rock acts informs her own creative procedures in this piece, actualizing the postmodernist principle of play, which in fact results in voiding the work's referential material of meaning by means of a procedure that simulates working in the medium of electronic music.
'Roots in the age of Youtube': Old and contemporary modes of learning/teaching in Serbian frula playing
Authors: Nenić Iva
Published: June 2021

During the first two decades of new millennium Serbian frula playing has been transformed from traditional to neotraditional practice, grew from aural to digitally mediated musical expression and shifted from a relative continuity with the past to specific revivalistic tendencies. The mode of learning of the music has also transformed from aural transmission and memorization without a teacher to combined tutoring and learning via listening to digitally available sources. This paper traces the modes of learning of folk aerophone frula throughout the twentieth century and up to the present, and moreover analyzes how the relation of the teacher and the pupil, although being a recent invention in frula practice, serves as a counterbalance to the mediatized way of learning (of) music.
(Re)positioning art music in contemporary traditional and digital mass media/radio context
Authors: Karan Marija
Published: June 2021

This paper discusses, actualizes and problematizes the representation and treatment of art music in the context of contemporary mass media radio discourse, in its traditional and digital/internet formats. The thesis is that understanding the content of high culture and art music is key to the social and cultural progress of the audience, and that it implies the clear views of the creator of the work of art music, on the one hand, and the experience of the recipient - that is, the audience, on the other hand. In this context, traditional and digital mass media must continue to act as the main transmitters/mediators of musical creation. Through the prism of art music on the radio, the types and ways of the operation of contemporary (meta) mass media are detected, as well as the effect of the reception of elements of mass/media culture on the audience. The critical-analytical-interpretive method interprets the phenomenon of artistic music on the radio and contributes to the research of the impact on the audience with music as the key parameter of mass media discourse.
Information and communications technologies and multimedia content as motivational factors for new generations of students
Authors: Marković-Blagojević Marija , Medić Zorica , Cogoljević Maja , Milićević Raica
Published: June 2021

This paper deals with the theoretical analysis of the principles of efficient use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning, which can contribute to the advancement of the teaching process and motivation of students/pupils in the achieving the planned activities. Apart from the theoretical analysis, the results of empirical research are also presented in the paper. They tested and practically confirmed that there is a significant influence of the application of ICT and enriching the teaching material with multimedia content and also the effects in contemporary teaching of information technology. The primary intention of this paper is to point out the importance of the introduction of ICT to the teaching process with the aim of a significant improvement of students'/pupils' learning through the increase of their motivation and efficiency in learning, and at the same time the improvement in the performance of the educational system.
Laplace, Hansen-Sargent and Beveridge-Nelson a note towards unified business application
Authors: Andrić Vladimir , Nenadović Sanja
Published: June 2021

The paper derives the equivalence condition between the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition and the Hansen-Sargent prediction formula in continuous time using Laplace transforms. The results presented show how the Hansen-Sargent prediction formula is relevant not just for present value discounting but also for the trend-cycle decomposition of cash flow streams in corporate finance.
Dataset from HDX-MS Studies of IgG1 Glycoforms and Their Interactions
with the FcγRIa (CD64) Receptor
Authors: Anderson Kyle W. , Scott Kerry , Karageorgos Ioannis L. , Gallagher Elyssia S. , Venkata S. Tayi , Butler Michael , Hudgens Jeffrey W.
Published: June 2021

This document presents hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) data from measurements of three purified IgG1 glycoform samples, predominantly G0F, G2F, and SAF, in isolation and in complexation with the high-affinity receptor, FcγRIa (CD64). The IgG1 antibody used in this study, aIL8hFc, is a murine-human chimeric IgG1, which inhibits IL-8 binding to human neutrophils.
L’autorité de la règle de rattachement en droit international privé : regards croisés vietnamo-québécois
Authors: Ly Van Anh , Ngo Quoc Chien
Published: June 2021

L’efficacité du droit international privé dépend essentiellement de la mise en oeuvre des règles de rattachement. Toutefois, l’autorité de ces règles est rarement prévue dans les législations nationales. La question se pose alors de savoir si le juge est obligé de mettre en oeuvre d’office les règles de rattachement afin de déterminer sa compétence et la loi applicable dans un litige transnational et s’il le faudrait. Laissée au juge, l’autorité de ces règles connaît une évolution constante, ce qui donne au droit international privé un caractère souple, certes, mais crée également l’insécurité juridique en défaveur des justiciables. Conçus dans un louable souci de chercher des solutions en vue de remédier à cette insécurité juridique, les développements jurisprudentiels sont-ils assez mûrs pour être codifiés ? Dans la perspective du projet de codification du droit international privé vietnamien, les auteurs ont mené une étude comparative et critique des solutions prétoriennes et des solutions retenues dans certains pays de tradition civiliste, en particulier au Québec en raison de ses riches pratiques judiciaires depuis l’entrée en vigueur de la codification en 1994, qui pourrait permettre de tirer des enseignements pour le Vietnam dans ce domaine qui éprouve un besoin particulier d’amélioration.
An Uncommonly Difficult Business
Authors: Byers Clare
Published: June 2021

In eighteenth-century London, publishing began to transition from a patronage system to a commercial business. An increase in literary reviews accompanied the shift. Publishing by subscription emerged as an evolving form of patronage where authors received monetary support from readers before publication. Women authors found subscription publishing welcoming as a means to avoid the commercial marketplace. Some authors used this publishing method in the name of seeking charitable support. Reviewers linked subscription publishing to female authors and acts of charity as reviewers attempted to circumvent the problem of potentially alienating their own readership, who could be subscribers. Through rhetorical analysis of 171 digitized bound volumes of 11 of London’s literary review periodicals, this paper argues that reviewers’ treatment of women authors and the associated use of subscription publications led to a disparaging perception of both by London’s growing reading public.
Populisme de gauche et conscience noire
Authors: Ajari Norman
Published: June 2021

Dans la continuité de leurs travaux communs des années 1980, Ernesto Laclau et Chantal Mouffe ont développé parallèlement une nouvelle théorie du populisme. Cet article la définit comme une double ontologie du politique, qui fait droit à la fois à l’inimitié, ou dimension dissociative, et à la délibération, ou dimension associative du politique. Pour distinguer leur approche des populismes de droite, Laclau et Mouffe recourent à un anti-essentialisme intransigeant qui écarte l’histoire des éléments décisifs pour la construction d’un sujet politique. Ce faisant, ils assimilent les mouvements anticoloniaux et antiracistes conséquents au conservatisme ou à la réaction. Une insuffisante problématisation de la question raciale et du militantisme antiraciste, souvent invoqué mais jamais analysé par les auteurs, sont à la source de ces confusions. Cela exige une reformulation du populisme de gauche dont la question du pluralisme pourrait fournir le point de départ.
Daudzfunkcionālu porainu materiālu izstrāde uz mālu un stikla atkritumu bāzes un to īpašību izpēte
Authors:   , Šiškins Andrejs
Published: June 2021

Promocijas darbs veltīts porainas keramikas iegūšanai no Latvijas māliem un sadzīves atkritumiem – stikla lauskām. Izmantojot efektīgus tehnoloģiskos paņēmienus, piemēram, smalcināšanu dezintgratorā un šlikera uzputošanu dispergatorā ar kavitācijas efektu, darba gaitā iegūta poraina un augsti poraina mālu-stikla keramika, pētītas tās īpašības un praktiskās izmantošanas iespējas. Promocijas darbā ir ievads, literatūras apskats, eksperimentālās daļas, rezultātu izvērtējums, secinājumi un izmantotas literatūras saraksts.
SUDSTVO I SUDSKI POSTUPAK U SREDNjOVJEKOVNOJ BOSANSKOJ DRŽAVI
Authors: ̌Novakovic Filip
Published: June 2021

U radu će biti predstavljena analiza razvitka sudskog postupka i organizacija sudstva u srednjovjekovnoj bosanskoj državi, odnosno govoriće se o pravosudnoj funkciji kao jednoj od najistaknutijih odlika svake državne tvorevina. Pored predstavljanja opštih instituta procesnog prava srednjovjekovne Bosne, biće govora o nastanku i vrstama „stalnih“ sudova. Posebnu pažnju obratićemo i na specifičnosti bosanske srednjovjekovne države i srednjovjekovnog prava čije nam je razumijevanje neophodno kako bismo dobili potpuniju sliku o životu toga doba. Biće govora i o uticaju pravnih poredaka drugih evropskih država koji su imali značajan učinak u razvoju pravne tradicije na prostorima Bosne.
Simulation of a single-stage evaporator system integrated with a mechanical vapor compressor for concentrating the electrolytic system KNO3 – H2O
Authors: Karic Ervin , Alic Rejha
Published: June 2021

A simulation of a single-stage evaporator system integrated with a mechanical com- pressor for a case study (concentrating the electrolytic system KNO3 – H2O) was performed. A mathematical model of the subsystem of a single-stage evaporator, a mechanical compressor, and superheated steam seeding is presented. Microsoft Excel with VBA (Visual Basic for Application) was used to solve the mathematical model. The model was solved by an iterative method where the values of the in- let stream temperature and the salt concentration in the concentrated stream at the evaporator outlet were assumed. The process parameters of the system have been determined. Since the goal of any industrial process is to minimize costs and maximize products, the impact of mean temperature difference changes on satu- ration water consumption and molar salt content in the concentrated stream was presented. 106.92 kg/h of freshwater are required to obtain 18% by weight of salt in a concentrated stream, while 432.30 kg/h of fresh water are required to obtain 25% by weight of salt in a concentrated stream. Consumption of heating steam ranged from 1760.31 to 4473.4 kg/h depending on the average temperature dif- ference. By increasing the temperature differences from 10 to 25 ◦C, the amount of transferred upper lines increases from 1025 to 2750 kW, which is an advantage of increasing the mean temperature difference. The disadvantage of the larger tem- perature difference is the increase in the power of the mechanical compressor from 97.02 to 384.12 kW.