bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Effect of the Arab Spring Revolution on the Yemeni Economy
Authors: Al Katheri Maroa Nasser
Published: May 2019

The economic and humanitarian conditions of the Yemeni population have been deteriorating. The variable that affects the Yemeni economy is the foreign exchange rate of the Yemeni currency. In 2014, one US Dollar equaled to 240 Yemeni Ryal. In 2018, one US Dollar equals 700 Yemeni Ryal. The massive leap of the value of the Yemeni Ryal against the US Dollar, paired with the stabilization of the public sector occupation salaries, deeply affected the quality of life of the Yemeni citizen. Furthermore, the leap of the Yemeni Ryal value leads to the increase of the merchandise prices as well as the price of public services. The decrease of the value of the Yemeni Ryal against the US Dollar is one variable that is assisting the levels of poverty in Yemen. However, this chapter believes that economic mismanagement and the foreign exchange rate are essential variables that explain the increase of poverty levels in Yemen.
Applications of a Birefringent Lens as an Optical Image Processing Device
Authors: Mandal Surajit
Published: May 2019

A uniaxial birefringent crystal lens with its optic axis perpendicular to the system axis and sandwiched between two properly oriented linear polarizers behaves as an isotropic lens with a radially varying complex mask on its pupil plane. The proposed system may be adapted for both apodization and enhanced resolution just by rotating one of the two linear polarizers even when it is illuminated with a polychromatic source of light. Hence, the system may find applications in the fields of spectroscopy and astronomy. In general, it behaves as a double focus lens. However, by varying the birefringent lens parameters, it is possible to obtain a noticeably large depth-of-focus compared to an identical isotropic lens. An optical imaging system with large depth-of-focus is a prerequisite for many fields of applications particularly for microscope imagery, medical imaging, as well as for automatic inspection in microelectronics industry.
Posthuman Being
Authors: Woodcock John Christopher
Published: May 2019

With the enormous chaotic changes taking place today, contemporary artists are showing us a vast and mystifying range of artworks that show glimpses of nascent worlds coming into being and just as quickly disappearing into oblivion. The author explores a world that seems to be gaining some traction—the world of the posthuman. Contemporary art is showing glimpses of this still-forming world in artworks produced from a collision between or interpenetration of virtual reality and empirical reality, giving rise to weird, horrific, and sometimes strangely beautiful forms. Then the author seeks to penetrate “behind” this posthuman art to the activity of the artist, in order to find the original “bringing forth” (Heidegger) of posthuman artworks. This move reveals the fundamental place of revelation and prophecy as the origin of any artwork and thus indicates the essential nature of the posthuman world.
Bridging Cultures
Authors: Tarboush Einas Albadawi
Published: May 2019

This literature review focuses on exploring the existing body of research that examined the schooling experiences of Syrian refugee children living in the United States. It also attempts to identify the gap previous studies did not bridge to enrich the body of knowledge. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian children and families have had to negotiate the perils of displacement. As could be expected, the education of these Syrian refugee children has been held at a crossroads as families attempt to find both security and a renewed sense of prosperity abroad. The researcher's hope is that a more in-depth analysis of the lived dynamics of Syrian refugee children in American schools will reveal something more significant in regards to how schools and their educators can expect to find success with their foreign-national student populations, as well as providing refugee families with useful tools in navigating the complexities of American public schools.
Design of Crowd Creative Collaborative Education Model Based on PBL
Authors: Sun Xinbo
Published: May 2019

The global information technology revolution puts forward the following requirements for higher education: education mode transforms from experience education to overall education; education mechanism transforms from traditional management to comprehensive governance; the educational goal transfers from the traditional knowledge to the ability training. In such a macro educational background, the structural contradictions in China's higher education have triggered the supply-side reform of education. The implementation of this reform to Northeastern University requires us to vigorously promote the excellent education action plan in view of the current teaching reality and local difficulties in Northeastern University to change the logic of unilateral teaching into the logic of co-creating education. Based on comprehensive learning of PBL education paradigm, the author of this chapter, based on his own teaching practice and reflection of educational philosophy, puts forward the collaborative education mode of crowd innovation and gives the basic framework of this model. On this basis, specific cases and suggestions are given.
Rethinking Environmental Education
Authors: Li Fenghua
Published: May 2019

This chapter brings a participatory learning experience on PBL at Aalborg University in Denmark. Based on the inherent wholeness of the human-nature ecosystem, interdisciplinary, sustainability-oriented teaching philosophies in environmental education endeavor for the appeal of more concern the value of life, aiming at promoting greater sensitivity to critical thinking, individual happiness, and social responsibility. Problem-based learning may be an effective way to realize the action competence of students by solving real problems and adjusting their behavior and finally to compass transformative learning and lifelong learning.
Online appendix 1:Invertebrates on isolated peaks in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site, South Africa
Authors: Armstrong Adrian J. , Brand Robert F.
Published: May 2019

A survey to document and describe the alpine flora and various focal faunal taxa on six isolated inselberg-like peaks (total area of 31.9 ha), all 3000 m or higher, located in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site, South Africa, was undertaken in early summer in 2005. Study of the fauna of these peaks should be informative because the impacts of controllable anthropogenic threats on the invertebrate communities on them should be minimal or absent in comparison with those on the main massif. A total of 341 invertebrate individuals representing 61 species were recorded from the focal taxa (Oligochaeta, Gastropoda and certain groups of Insecta, i.e. focal taxa within the Blattoidea, Dermaptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera). The 61 species recorded consisted of two species from the Oligochaeta, one species from the Gastropoda and 58 species from the Insecta. Eleven species (one from the Oligochaeta, ten from the Insecta) are endemic and 11 species (one from the Oligochaeta, ten from the Insecta) are probably endemic to the Drakensberg Alpine Centre, constituting 36.1% of the total species recorded. The results suggest that the Drakensberg Alpine Centre (DAC), as for plants, is a centre of endemism for invertebrates. Cluster analysis showed that the species composition of the two northern peaks, Sentinel and Eastern Buttress, clustered together, separate from a cluster formed by the Outer Horn, Inner Horn and Dragon’s Back and from the cluster formed by the southernmost peak, Cathkin. Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling results indicated that distance from the Sentinel, the most northerly peak sampled, and mean minimum temperature for July had the strongest correlations with the species data, reflecting change over a straight-line distance of nearly 60 km in a south-easterly direction.Conservation implications: Only a small proportion (ca. 5.5%) of the DAC is conserved, the majority of which lies in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site. Conservation of more of the DAC, including more of its latitudinal extent, is required to adequately conserve its unique plant and invertebrate communities.
Online appendix 1:Collection stewardship constrained by resources: The management of religious archives in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal region
Authors: Garaba Francis
Published: May 2019

A survey using questionnaires, observation and interviews was conducted in 2011 to ascertain the collection stewardship strategies of archival repositories with religious archives in Pietermaritzburg. The study concluded that there was a need to establish a religious archives group in order for the voice of ecclesiastical archives to resonate across South Africa. Through this group, it is hoped that there will be greater coordination and networking amongst the archival repositories. The help of associations such as the South African Society of Archivists, the Oral History Association of South Africa and the South African Preservation Group could greatly assist in fostering best practices in archival management. To champion this worthwhile cause, it would be ideal to come up with an Open Day on religious archives to serve as an advocacy platform. These recommendations are made against a backdrop of the poor state of religious archives in Pietermaritzburg, resulting from acute underfunding and which threatens the survival of this record in the long term.
The effects of the global surface curvature on Makyoh-topogaphy imaging
Authors: Riesz Ferenc
Published: May 2019

The effects of the global curvature of the reflecting surface on Makyoh (magic-mirror) topography imaging is analysed based on a geometrical optical model. It is shown that the effects can be taken into account by introducing an equivalent screen-to-sample distance which is a function of the real screen-to-sample distance and the global curvature. The special limiting cases are discussed and analysed for practical applications. Full Text: PDF ReferencesK. Kugimiya, "“Makyoh”: The 2000 year old technology still alive", J. Cryst. Growth 103, 420 (1990). CrossRef P. Blaustein, S. Hahn, "Realtime inspection of wafer surfaces", Solid State Technol. 32, 27 (1989). CrossRef Z.J. Pei, G.R. Fisher, M. Bhagavat, S. Kassir, "A grinding-based manufacturing method for silicon wafers: an experimental investigation", Int. J. Machine Tools Manufacture 45, 1140 (2005). CrossRef F. Riesz, "Makyoh topography: a simple yet powerful optical method for flatness and defect characterization of mirror-like surfaces", Proc. SPIE 5458, 86 (2004). CrossRef T. Hirogaki, E. Aoyama, R. Machinaka, H. Sueda, K. Ogawa, J. Japan Soc. Precision Eng. 73, 96 (2007). CrossRef G. Saines, M.G. Tomilin, "Magic mirrors of the Orient", J. Opt. Technol. 66, 758 (1999). CrossRef W.E. Ayrton, J. Perry, "The Magic Mirror of Japan. Part I", Proc. Roy. Soc. London 28, 127 (1878). CrossRef M.V. Berry, "Oriental magic mirrors and the Laplacian image", Eur. J. Phys. 27, 109 (2006). CrossRef F. Riesz, "Sensitivity and detectability in Makyoh imaging", Optik 122, 2115 (2011). CrossRef Z.J. Laczik, "Quantitative Makyoh topography", Opt. Eng. 39, 2562 (2000). CrossRef F. Riesz, "Geometrical optical model of the image formation in Makyoh (magic-mirror) topography", J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 33, 3033 (2000). CrossRef F. Riesz, "Camera length and field of view in Makyoh-topography instruments", Rev. Sci. Instr. 72, 1591 (2001). CrossRef J. Szabó, F. Riesz, B. Szentpáli, "Makyoh Topography: Curvature Measurements and Implications for the Image Formation", Japan. J. Appl. Phys. 35, L258 (1996). CrossRef F. Riesz, "Non-linearity and related features of Makyoh (magic-mirror) imaging", J. Opt. 15, 075709 (2013). CrossRef A.V. Gitin, "System approach to image formation in a magic mirror", Appl. Opt. 48, 1268 (2009). CrossRef
Repeatability of force production as a measure of kinaesthetic sense in seagoing sailors and recreational sailors
Authors: Blacha Ryszard , Zaton Krystyna , Piwowarczyk Piotr , Jastrzebska Agnieszka , Szczepan Stefan
Published: May 2019

Purpose

The unstable environment and the swaying, rolling, and pitching motions experienced when offshore sailing may disturb motor function and negatively affect personal safety. The aim of the study was to investigate changes in lower limb kinaesthetic sense in sailors after spending time onboard a seagoing vessel.

Methods

The study involved 39 subjects, of which 13 were professional sailors (PS) (age = 22.56 ± 0.83 years), 13 were recreational sailors (RS) (age = 31.50 ± 7.35 years), and 13 served as a non-sailor group (NS) (age = 21.02 ± 0.82 years) with no sailing experience. PS attended a 1-month on-sea training course, RS attended a 1-month seagoing cruise, and NS did not sail or participate in any congruent activity during the study duration. Kinaesthetic sense was quantified before and after the interventions by a force-matching task in which the force production accuracy (FPA) was measured on a custom-designed kinesthesiometer. The participants performed 5 right and left single-leg extensions at a force perceived to be equal to 10 kg (98 N).

Results

Right and left limb FPA increased in PS by 0.70% and 79.12% and in RS by 18.97% and 20.26%, respectively. In NS, right and left FPA decreased by 6.97% and 1.42%, respectively. Only the difference for left limb FPA in the PS group achieved statistical significance (p = 0.0006).

Conclusions

A 1-month sailing intervention reduced lower limb kinaesthesia as measured by the accuracy of reproducing a pre-specified force magnitude.
Clinical characteristics and disability in patients with knee osteoarthritis: real world experience from Bulgaria
Authors: Georgiev Tsvetoslav
Published: May 2019

Objectives

Although knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of impaired functioning among older adults globally, little is still known about the complex mechanisms of disability accumulation in these patients. The aim of the study was to analyze the clinical parameters of patients with KOA in a Bulgarian population and to determine which of these clinical characteristics define disability to the greatest extent.

Material and methods

Patients aged 40–80 years with symptomatic KOA were included. The assessment tools for pain, clinical disease severity, and disability were the pain visual analogue scale (VAS) and disease-specific questionnaires: Algofunctional Index of Lequesne, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities OA Index (WOMAC), and the Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index (HAQ-DI), respectively. Radiographs of the knees were obtained and graded according to the Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) system.

Results

One hundred and thirty-two patients (81% women) participated in the study. The median values of VAS (mm), WOMAC, Lequesne, and HAQ-DI scores were 52, 37.5, 11, 0.88, respectively. Men had milder disease, resulting in lower VAS, WOMAC, Lequesne, and HAQ-DI scores and less structural damage compared to women (p < 0.05). WOMAC index correlated positively with age of the patients but not with duration of the complaints. Patients with severe and very severe pain did not differ in their HAQ-DI, disease severity and KL grading. WOMAC physical function score and Lequesne index were independent predictors for the HAQ-DI in patients with KOA.

Conclusions

Bulgarian patients with KOA had moderate disability which showed a strong relationship with physical function of WOMAC and disease severity. Multiple layers of causality coexist to determine the knee pain in Bulgarian patients with KOA.
Eosinophilic fasciitis (Shulman’s disease): review and comparative evaluation of seven patients
Authors: Urzal Joana , Cimbron Miriam , Mendonça Teresa , Farinha Fátima
Published: May 2019

Objectives

Eosinophilic fasciitis (EF) was described in 1974 by Shulman as a rare fibrosing connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. An undetermined trigger is thought to lead to the degranulation of eosinophils that interact with fibroblasts and express fibrogenic cytokines including the transforming factor of tumor growth a and b and interleukins 1 and 6. The purpose of this study was to summarize seven cases of EF in a central hospital.

Material and methods

This was a retrospective and descriptive study of a population with EF of a central hospital. All patients diagnosed with EF in a hospital unit were admitted to the study between January 1, 2005, and April 30, 2018.

Results

A total of seven patients diagnosed with EF were analyzed. The median age of the population at the time of diagnosis was 56 years, and 57% of the patients were women. All patients had elevated peripheral eosinophilia and sedimentation rate, and only one patient had hypergammaglobulinemia. All patients had edema and cutaneous thickening of the limbs, 57% had constitutional symptoms, and 57% had inflammatory arthritis with joint contracture. Prednisolone (PDN) therapy was initiated in all patients, and only in two was the association of PDN with methotrexate (MTX) initially performed. In one patient triple therapy of PDN, MTX, and cyclosporine was required. At the time of this publication, only one patient maintains active disease, and tocilizumab has been initiated.

Conclusions

Recent studies show a more favorable response from the combination of PDN and MTX than from PDN alone. Considering the rarity of the disease, more long-term studies are needed regarding the etiopathogenetics, progression, recurrence of EF, and new effective therapies.
Sexual dysfunction among women with systemic lupus erythematosus: might it reflect cardiovascular disease burden?
Authors: Patoulias Dimitrios
Published: May 2019

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Mondiale rechtvaardigheid afdwingen
Authors: Olsthoorn Johan
Published: May 2019

Enforcing Global Justice: War, Necessity and Rights of Armed Resistance of the World’s Poor

Global justice theorists have long focused on the nature and grounds of duties of the affluent to alleviate the plight of the global poor and to realize justice worldwide. The last few years has seen a flurry of work that shifts perspective to the agency and remedial rights of the global poor. Suppose due assistance is not forthcoming. Could this give the severely deprived a just cause to secure their basic rights by armed force? If so, under which conditions is it all-things-considered morally permissible for them to resort to violence? This article contrasts two possible ways of grounding and conceptualizing remedial rights of armed resistance against economic injustice. Some modern global justice-based accounts endow the global poor with limited rights to wage defensive war to force the affluent to comply with duties of global justice. The old right of necessity conditionally entitles the severely deprived to use armed force to secure access to privately-owned resources and spaces to meet urgent needs. While lethal force will on both accounts be seldom all-things-considered morally permissible in practice, my analysis reveals that the old right of necessity is, for better or worse, a more capacious ground for armed resistance than modern human rights of subsistence, as it sidesteps the issues of indeterminate and underdetermined moral liability.
‘Drei Braets und was Anmerkungen’1
Authors: Vandevoorde Hans
Published: May 2019

The communist poet Marc Braet (1925-1923) has been a major mediator between the East and the West during the postwar period, especially between the German Democratic Republic and Belgium. In the first place, I investigate how different forms of cultural transfer from the GDR to Belgium came about, and which role Braet played in them, particularly with regard to an anthology of GDR poets, De groene bomen (1971, [The Green Trees]). Secondly, I present a case that in agreement with the histoire croisée sheds light on the transfer in the opposite direction, an anthology with German translations of Braet’s poems. The translation by Hans Joachim Schädlich came out as Mein endlos beflaggtes Schiff, a publication by Volk und Welt that kept dragging on from 1975 until 1981. A reconstruction of the whole publication process based on research of the records gives an impression of the way in which the network of translators, proof readers and officials worked. Finally, I compare this publication with a Russian anthology of poems by Braet in order to highlight the transnational dimension of the cultural transfer and the important role the German language played in this process. On the one hand the different cases show how literature was ideologically instrumentalized, and on the other hand the case of Braet illustrates how a steered reception can have unexpected consequences, such as a very early and remarkably profetical selection of valuable GDR poetry in translation.
Notes on rhopalosomatid wasps of Dominican and Mexican amber (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae) with a description of the first fossil species of Rhopalosoma Cresson, 1865
Authors: Lohrmann Volker , Ohl Michael , Michalik Peter , Pitts James P. , Jeanneau Laurent , Perrichot Vincent
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Rhopalosomatidae are a family of aculeate wasps that are
ectoparasitoids of crickets as larvae and are predominantly distributed pantropically.
The published fossil record of the family is scarce. Here, we report three
new fossil rhopalosomatid wasp specimens from Dominican and Mexican amber.
Rhopalosoma hispaniola Lohrmann sp. nov. is described and documented
from Dominican amber by two separate inclusions – one of each sex. An
additional fossil female Rhopalosoma is described and documented
from Mexican amber but is not named due to the insufficient preservation of the
fossil. The new fossils, which are morphologically intermediate between
Townes' isopus and poeyi species groups, do not only
represent the first fossil records of an extant genus of this peculiar
family but also the first records of the family in Dominican and Mexican
amber.
A REVIEW ON CITIZEN SCIENCE (CITSCI) APPLICATIONS FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Authors: Kocaman S. , Anbaroglu B. , Gokceoglu C. , Altan O.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. The traditional way of doing science has been changing with the recent movements on open science, open data and the world-wide spread of volunteer activities. With the help of technological advancements, in particular mobile technologies, do-it-yourself kits and free online education sources, ordinary citizens may contribute to scientific processes based on their interest and abilities. Citizen Science (CitSci) is an active research agenda which draws the interest of scientists from different disciplines. It investigates the various contributions that citizens could do to improve scientific process. These contributions are utilized in diverse areas ranging from biology to environmental monitoring to classification of galaxies, all of which have a spatiotemporal dimension. The emerging developments in spatial information science allow the public to understand their environment better and efficiently. In this way society would have the means to deal with complex modern problems including but not limited to water/air pollution monitoring and mapping a region after a natural disaster to aid relief and recovery efforts. In addition, there is a growing public demand for research projects involving CitSci; because such collaborative efforts can be critical to achieve sustainability goals. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview on the state-of-the art methods and applications where CitSci is a crucial component in different phases of disaster management, from environmental protection to risk analysis and aid provision. Use of CitSci methods in disaster situations can be vital for different reasons, such as acquisition of local and most current information, organization of help during emergency, development of instant rescue plans, accurate information dissemination, and monitoring of the post-disaster influences to the society and the environment. Open issues on the use of CitSci methods in disaster management, such as data quality, technical and management-related barriers, open-standards and interoperability, and volunteer engagement, will also be discussed.
GEOINFORMATION APPROACH FOR COMPLEX ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE NATURAL HAZARD
Authors: Nikolova V. , Zlateva P.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Natural hazards are existence of natural components and processes, which create a situation that could negatively affect people, the economy and the environment. In this concern, they are associated with the probability of negative impacts and they are considered as limiting factors for people's lives and activities. Rising public awareness about natural hazards could improve the quality of life, save financial resources and even save lives. Methodological issues of complex analysis of multiple natural hazards in geographic information system (GIS) environment are presented in the current paper on the example of floods and landslide assessment. The complicated nature of natural hazards and the interrelations between natural components require a complex analysis of natural hazard factors and an integrated assessment taking into account all aspects of different hazards as well as the overall hazard resulting from a probable simultaneous occurrence of several adverse natural phenomena. A special attention is given to the data as one of the most important component of the analysis. Different data formats and particularities of spatial data interpretation in GIS environment are considered. Having regard the nature of the data and the phenomenon being evaluated, different GIS spatial analysis tools (fuzzy overlay, weighted sum, interpolation) are applied together with mathematical analyses. The results of the current research and suggested approach could support decision makers in territorial planning and risk management.
DEVELOPING SEISMIC INTENSITY MAPS FROM TWITTER DATA; THE CASE STUDY OF LESVOS, GREECE 2017 EARTHQUAKE: ASSESSMENTS, IMPROVEMENTS AND ENRICHMENTS ON THE METHODOLOGY
Authors: Arapostathis S. G. , Lekkas E. , Kalabokidis K. , Xanthopoulos G. , Drakatos G. , Spirou N. , Kalogeras I.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. This article presents an effort to validate and further improve a previously published innovative approach for drawing macroseismic intensity maps from data extracted from sources of volunteered geographic information (VGI). Our approach involves classification of macroseismic observations (extracted from social media sources) to values of the EMS 98 intensity scale, leading to the drawing of isoseismal maps. The earthquake of June 12th, 2017 (Mw 6.3) that occurred off the south coast of Lesvos Island, Greece, was used as a case study; its main shock was located at depth of about 13 km. This specific event, which claimed the life of a woman and caused at least 15 injuries due to collapsing buildings and falling debris (mainly in the town of Vrissa), was chosen for the specific geomorphological characteristics of the meizoseismal area, time of occurrence and distribution of damage. Twitter was chosen as a VGI source mostly for reasons of consistency with the original published work, generating comparable findings that can be assessed more readily to facilitate further development of the methodology. Results of the dataset analysis include the drawing of the isoseismal maps from Tweets published within different time periods (6 h, 12 h, 24 h, 48 h); and the identification of various text patterns regarding the evaluation of the macroseismic observations that result into intensity values. The present work offers additional empirical evidence regarding the validity of the methodology presented in the scientific literature, and further enriches it by providing additional text patterns and specific improvements related to the classification of the information in certain values of seismic intensity. Assessment of the results is enriched by the progress that has been noted in the field and has been presented in the international scientific literature since 2016.
Examining Employee’s Compensation Satisfaction and Work Stress in A Retail Company and Its Effect to Increase Employee Job Satisfaction
Authors: Prasetio Arif Partono , Agathanisa Chita , Luturlean Bachruddin Saleh
Published: May 2019

Employees are considered as important asset of business organization.Their satisfaction in doing the job is vital to the performance achievement, both for individual and organization. The retail industry also face similar challenge to develop program that enhance job satisfaction for employee. This study examine the relationship among compensation, work stress, and job satisfaction in a retail company in Samarinda. Questionnaires were distributed to 146 employees and a total of 107 usable responses were returned. Data analysis conducted by using regression with bootstrapping and found that compensation did not have effect on work stress. On the other hand, compensation has significant positive relation towards job satisfaction. Work stress also have effect on job satisfaction but in reverse direction (negative). With this kind of relation, work stress obviously did not mediate the relation between compensation and job satisfaction. Retail organization still need to develop interesting compensation packages to keep the satisfaction level of the employee. If they want to help employee to manage the stress level, compensation is not the right solution. The effect of work stress against job satisfaction is relatively small, which mean organization need to combine compensation with other factors if they want to enhance job satisfaction.
Secular Power, Sectarian Politics: The American-Born Irish Elite and Catholic Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Authors: McGrath Patrick
Published: May 2019

This paper takes as its subject the complex ethnic, religious, and political entanglements of the American-born Irish elite of nineteenth-century New York City. Because historians have traditionally viewed the Irish famine as a watershed event in the history of organized Catholicism in New York, the contributions of American-born Irish elites to Irish Catholic political culture have largely gone unnoticed. Having come of age in the early nineteenth century, when institutional Catholicism had scant presence in the Empire City, these lawyers, politicians, and statesmen embraced a secular and metropolitan identity that allowed them to mix easily with the city’s Anglo-Dutch Protestant ruling class. However, mass immigration at midcentury, coupled with growing nativist persecution of the Catholic Church, forced these elites to navigate a middle ground between the secular world of New York politics and the rising sectarianism of the Irish immigrant community. Ultimately, these men would leverage their influence within the Democratic establishment—which at the time remained tied to the pro-slavery Southern elite—to advance the institutional interests of the Church, while reaping personal benefits from the growing power of the Irish vote. Though never fully assimilated into the immigrant community, they nonetheless adapted Irish Catholicism to the hardscrabble world of machine politics, forging an alliance between the Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Tammany Hall that would endure for half a century.
Meromorphic functions whose certain differential polynomial share a polynomial
Authors: Majumder Sujoy , Mandal Rajib
Published: May 2019

In this paper, we use the idea of normal family to investigate the uniquenessproblems of meromorphic functions when certain non-linear dierential polynomial sharinga nonzero polynomial with certain degree. We obtain some results which will not only rectifythe recent results of P. Sahoo and H. Karmakar [9] but also improve and generalize somerecent results of L. Liu [7], H. Y. Xu, T. B. Cao and S. Liu [12] and P. Sahoo and H.Karmakar [9] in a large extent.
Efeitos da caminhada nórdica no perfil antropométrico e composição corporal de pessoas com doença de Parkinson: ensaio clínico randomizado
Authors: Marques Priscila Antunes , Monteiro Elren Passos , Fagundes Alex De Oliveira , Costa Rochelle Rocha da , Martinez Flávia Gomes , Pagnussat Aline De Souza , Peyré-Tartaruga Leonardo Alexandre
Published: May 2019

Introdução: A doença de Parkinson (DP) é caracterizada por distúrbios motores, aumentando risco de quedas e inatividade física. Objetivo: Analisar perfil antropométrico e composição corporal, antes e após um programa de treinamento de caminhada nórdica (CN) e caminhada livre (CL). Métodos: Os 33 sujeitos foram randomizados em dois grupos experimentais: CL (n = 16) e CN (n = 17) para realização das 12 sessões de treinamento. Resultados: Relação cintura/quadril reduziu (2,2%, p = 0,022) para o CL. O somatório total das dobras cutâneas reduziu em 4,3% no grupo CN (p = 0,012), e 4,7% no grupo CL (p = 0,012), sem diferença entre os grupos. O período de treinamento não promoveu alterações significativas na massa corporal (p = 0,808), IMC (p = 0,392), nas massas magra (p = 0,834), gorda (p = 0,721) e óssea (p = 0,348), bem como nos percentuais de gordura (p = 0,887). Conclusão: O treinamento promoveu melhora antropométrica efetiva para ambos os grupos.
Genotypic methods for epidemiological typing of Staphylococcus aureus
Authors: Kasela Martyna , Malm Anna , Nowakowicz-Dębek Bożena , Ossowski Mateusz
Published: May 2019

Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen causing both hospital and community-acquired infections. S. aureus strains are often resistant to commonly used antibiotics, thus development of techniques to rapidly identify and genotype is essential in order to control the dissemination of multidrug resistant strains of S. aureus in the environment, which could lead to an epidemic. Typing methods can be divided into those based on phenotypic and those based on genetic characteristics of the examined microorganism. The most reliable genotypic methods in S. aureus epidemiological studies were described. These would include the following: Plasmid Profile Analysis (PPA), Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), Multi-Locus Sequence Typing (MLST), Spa Typing, Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD), Amplified-Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP), Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP), Multiple-Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS). All of these methods have been compared in terms of their reproducibility, costs, time of analysis, differentiation potential and exemplary applications in epidemiological studies of S. aureus. Despite there being a variety of methods currently used for genotyping, not all of them meet the criteria set by different kinds of epidemiological investigations. Because of the large amount of generated data and decrease of costs, the most popular methods used for S. aureus genotyping are based on sequencing techniques.
Virtual Subjectivity: Existence and Projectuality in Virtual Worlds
Authors: Vella Daniel , Gualeni Stefano ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: May 2019

This paper draws on the notion of the ‘project,’ as developed in the existential philosophy of Heidegger and Sartre, to articulate an understanding of the existential structure of engagement with virtual worlds. By this philosophical understanding, the individual’s orientation towards a project structures a mechanism of self-determination, meaning that the project is understood essentially as the project to make oneself into a certain kind of being. Drawing on existing research from an existential-philosophical perspective on subjectivity in digital game environments, the notion of a ‘virtual subjectivity’ is proposed to refer to the subjective sense of being-in-the-virtual-world. The paper proposes an understanding of virtual subjectivity as standing in a nested relation to the individual’s subjectivity in the actual world, and argues that it is this relation that allows virtual world experience to gain significance in the light of the individual’s projectual existence. The arguments advanced in this paper pave the way for a comprehensive understanding of the transformative, self-transformative, and therapeutic possibilities and advantages afforded by virtual worlds.
Three new species of the genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (Araneae: Mimetidae) from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of China
Authors: Gan Jiahui , Mi Xiaoqi , Irfan Muhammad , Peng Xianjin , Ran Siyu , Zhan Ying
Published: May 2019

Three new species of the genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 are described and named as M. bucerus sp. nov. (♂), M. lingbaoshanensis sp. nov. (♂♀) and M. yinae sp. nov. (♂♀). Detailed morphological descriptions, photos of the body and copulatory organs, line drawings of copulatory organs, as well as the distribution maps are provided.
Área verde na escola: uma exploração na cidade de Imperatriz
Authors: Pereira Santos Gledson Weslley
Published: May 2019

O exigente desafio da preservação e sustentabilidade socioambiental faz da escola uma instituição importante nesse processo. Um dos fatores que retrata esse processo são as áreas verdes dos prédios escolares. Assim objetivou-se caracterizar e analisar essas áreas em escolas públicas do município de Imperatriz considerando as propostas do “Marco Zero da Escola”. O desenho metodológico é de uma pesquisa observacional que nos permitiu observar: o número de alunos e professor por sala; as áreas totais, áreas construídas e áreas verde ou livre; a caracterização da área verde; e conforto térmico. Observamos que o espaço identificado pela pesquisa reflete a diminuição de ações educativas para o meio ambiente nas escolas. Assim consideramos pertinente a discussão sobre ser a ciência da natureza representada com um componente curricular obrigatório, em caráter provisório, para uma avaliação, e depois discutir uma proposta que se alinhe a nossas necessidades e cultura.
El smartphone desde la perspectiva docente: ¿una herramienta de tutorización o un catalizador de ciberacoso?
Authors: Tabuenca Bernardo , Sánchez-Peña Juan José , Cuetos-Revuelta María José
Published: May 2019

La era de los teléfonos móviles inteligentes cumple una década de madurez y las instituciones educativas parecen no asimilar los cambios que impone la sociedad digital. La necesidad de articular métodos de tutorización con ayuda de tecnología popular no es nueva, sino que es un agregado a barreras precedentes con tecnologías como Internet o las redes sociales. En este contexto, el ciberacoso representa una de las principales razones del desajuste con el cual profesores y dirigentes lidian para armonizar el uso de dispositivos móviles en los centros educativos. Este artículo explora desde los ojos de 135 profesores (M=32) qué uso se hace del móvil con fines educativos, su predisposición a utilizar móviles propios y redes sociales como herramienta de tutorización, qué peligros y ventajas se identifican de su uso, qué regulación existe actualmente en los centros educativos, y qué edad consideran apropiada para entregar un móvil con Internet a un niño/adolescente. Los resultados de este trabajo dan evidencia de los riesgos de la precocidad en el uso de dispositivos móviles, y se sugieren claves para facilitar la tutorización con ayuda de dispositivos móviles. Este trabajo ofrece una base de conocimiento relevante a futuras iniciativas de establecer usos apropiados del móvil desde la perspectiva docente en España.
Enseñanza artística mediante TIC en la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
Authors: Álvarez-Rodriguez María Dolores , Bellido-Márquez María del Carmen , Atencia-Barrero Pedro
Published: May 2019

En el ámbito de la enseñanza se pueden emplear una gran cantidad de recursos educativos digitales en línea, que favorecen la innovación en la Educación Artística y el aprendizaje en la Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar algunos recursos digitales seleccionados que pueden ser empleados en la Educación artística con cierta garantía de calidad y ofrecer la valoración de los mismos, según criterios de calidad recomendados y la opinión de sus usuarios. La metodología utilizada ha consistido en una parte teórica, que ha permitido contrastar la información disponible sobre este tema y ha servido para seleccionar dichas herramientas (Artecompo, Artnatomya, Sumo Paint y Picassohead) y otra práctica y cuantitativa en la que se han analizado los recursos digitales seleccionados, según criterios de calidad recomendados y mediante encuestas realizadas por 90 estudiantes andaluces de la asignatura Educación Plástica, Visual y Audiovisual de la E.S.O [1], quienes han definido sus parámetros más positivos y negativos, además de valorar sus aspectos técnicos, funcionales docentes y estéticos, determinándose una mayor calidad en las aplicaciones Artnatomya y Artecompo, frente a Picassohead y Sumo Paint.

In the field of education, a large number of digital online educational resources can be used, which favor innovation in Art Education and learning in Compulsory Secondary Education. The objective of this research is to analyze some selected digital resources that can be used in artistic education with certain quality assurance and offer the assessment of them, according to recommended quality criteria and the opinion of its users. The methodology used has consisted in a theoretical part, which has allowed to contrast the available information on this subject and has served to select such tools (Artecompo, Artnatomya, Sumo Paint and Picassohead) and another practical and quantitative in which the resources have been analyzed selected digital, according to recommended quality criteria and through surveys conducted by 90 Andalusian students of the subject Plastic, Visual and Audiovisual Education of the ESO [1], who have defined their most positive and negative parameters, in addition to assessing their technical, functional aspects teachers and aestheticians, determining a higher quality in Artnatomya and Artecompo applications, compared to Picassohead and Sumo Paint.
No Apocalypse, not now
Authors: Derrida Jacques
Published: May 2019

(Fuld fart frem - syv missiler, syv missiver)
Sandhederne, filosofien og sofismen
Authors: Hyldgaard Kirsten
Published: May 2019

Alain Badiou er træt af al snakken om, at filosofien ikke længere er mulig, at filo­sofiens projekt enten er overtaget af noget andet, eller at filosofien altid er noget andet end det, den giver sig ud for at være.
"Querelle d'école sur l'enseignement de la philosophie?"
Authors: Nordenbo Sven Erik
Published: May 2019

- i anledning af Arno Victor Nielsen og Peter Kemp:"Hvad blev det?"
De interllektuelle og populismen
Authors: Østergaard Uffe
Published: May 2019

- Christopher Lasch om fremskridtet og dets kritikere
Voltaire og Den filosofiske Ordbog
Authors: Frandsen Finn
Published: May 2019

Voltaire som emblem og vulgarisator
En historie, der er forblevet stum
Authors: Foucault Michel
Published: May 2019

Omend Ernest Cassirers bog Die Philosophie der Aufklarung er mere end 30 år gammel, tilhører den stadig vores samtid.
Til minde om Ernst Cassirer
Authors: Blumenberg Hans
Published: May 2019

Ved modtagelsen af Heidelberg Universitets Kuno-Fischer-pris i 1974
Et par efterord til Slagmark og for en sikkerheds skyld
Authors: Juhl Carsten
Published: May 2019

"Ach, Louise, lass das ist ein z u weites Feld", si­ger Theodor Fontanes faderskikkelse for n'te og sidste gang efter Effi Briests død og moderens (Louises) forsøg på at tænke, hvad der gik galt.
Den essentielle ensomhed
Authors: Blanchot Maurice
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Jacob Lund Pedersen
Moralske principper og social forandring
Authors: Skinner Quentin
Published: May 2019

Oversat fra engelsk af Hans Henrik Hjerritslev
Skoteinos eller hvordan der bør læses
Authors: Adorno Th. W.
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Morten Riis og Tore Eriksen
Deleuzes spinozisme og begrebet om "immanensplanet"
Authors: Zourabichvili Francois
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Mogens Lærke
Politisk og etisk frihed eller Spinozas frihedsdialektik
Authors: Walther Manfred
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Tore Eriksen og Mogens Lærke
Brev til Schmitt
Authors: Benjamin Walter
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Mikkel Thorup
Skribenten og hans sprog
Authors: Sartre Jean-Paul
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Sune Liisberg
En MacGuffin
Authors: Blumenberg Hans
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Rikke Louise Peters
Dannelsens antropologiske og semantiske struktur
Authors: Koselleck Reinhart
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Rikke Louise Peters
Åndens pyramider - om den begrebshistoriske bevægelses hastige fremkomst, dens usynlige dimensioner og pludselige aftagen
Authors: Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Frank Beck Lassen
Efter 'historiens afslutning'
Authors: Fukuyama Francis
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Mikkel Thorup
Filosofiens hisotiografi - Fire genrer
Authors: Rorty Richard
Published: May 2019

Oversat af Casper Andersen
Videnssamfundet og dets fordringer - nogle essayistiske kommentarer
Authors: Wackerhausen Steen
Published: May 2019

Videnssamfundet og dets fordringer

- nogle essayistiske kommentarer
Finis Europae? - Oswald Spengler og kulturkrisen efter Første Verdenskrig
Authors: Peters Rikke Louise
Published: May 2019

Finis Europae?

- Oswald Spengler og kulturkrisen efter Første Verdenskrig
Bag facaden – Darwinindustrien i 2009
Authors: Kjærgaard Peter C.
Published: May 2019

Bag facaden

– Darwinindustrien i 2009
Politiske protester, sociale bevægelser og demokrati i Danmark
Authors: Mikkelsen Flemming
Published: May 2019

Based on a dataset of more than 5,000 contentious collective actions from 1700-2000, this paper examines the relation between popular protest and democratization of the Danish political system. The first wave of protests began in the 1830s and culminated in 1848 with the fall of absolutism and the transition to constitutional monarchy. The next protest wave from 1885 to 1887 arose from the so-called ‘constitutional struggle’ and mobilized hundreds of thousands of ordinary Danes, and contributed to the parliamentarization and nationalization of the political system. The third wave unfolded around the end of World War II, while the hitherto last wave of popular struggle erupted in 1968 with the youth rebellion. The analysis show that ‘democracy’ was the central issue of contention in all four of these protest waves, and support the main thesis that periods of intense interaction between popular protest and the state have had a decisive formative influence on the genesis and further development of Danish democracy.
Occupy Wall Street:
Authors: Risager Bjarke Skærlund
Published: May 2019

This article traces the various forms and roles of intellectuals and intellectualism in the Occupy Wall Street protest camp in Zuccotti Park in New York in 2011 while simultaneously serving as an introduction to the movement. It shows how the movement was formed by a range of intellectual ideas, both in terms of the political questions it posed and the tactics it employed. It also shows how Occupy affected the intellectual and political climate insofar as it became a phenomenon that everyone with an interest in public debate (and space!) had to take a stand on. The article argues that Occupy, with its experiment in alternative social and democratic structures, was an exercise in a form of organic and collective intelligence that attempted to guide American society in a more democratic and equal direction. By way of conclusion, the article discusses the aftermath of the protest camp and the effects of the movement.
Den psykoanalytiske teknik
Authors: Freud Sigmund
Published: May 2019

Drømmen er altså en psykose (l), med alle en sådans meningsløsheder, vrangbilleder, sansebedrag.