bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Potential drug-drug interactions in acute ischemic stroke patients at the Neurological Intensive Care Unit
Authors: Aleksic Dejan Z. , Jankovic Slobodan M. , Mlosavljevic Milos N. , Toncev Gordana L. , Miletic Drakulic Svetlana D. , Stefanovic Srdjan M.
Published: November 2019

Background

Clinically relevant potential drug-drug interactions are considered preventable adverse drug reactions.

Objective

The aim of this study was to ascertain the frequency of potential drug-drug interactions in acute ischemic stroke patients and to explore factors associated with occurrence of potentially contraindicated drug-drug interactions.

Methods

This observational retrospective cohort and nested case-control study was carried out among patients treated for acute ischemic stroke at the Neurological Intensive Care Unit in the Clinical Centre Kragujevac, Serbia. The potentially drug-drug interactions for each day of hospitalization were identifi ed using Micromedex® soft ware. Based on the existence or absence of potentially contraindicated drug-drug interactions, the participants were divided into a group of cases (n=111) and the control group (n=444).

Results

A total of 696 patients were analysed. All patients had a minimum of one potential drug-drug interaction during hospitalization. The most common drugs involved in potential drug-drug interactions were aspirin (8.02%), diclofenac (7.49%) and warfarin (7.14%). The number of medications prescribed for simultaneous use during hospitalisation and the use of antipsychotics in therapy signifi cantly increased the likelihood of potentially contraindicated drug-drug interactions aft er adjustment by means of logistic regression for 1.2 and 3 times, respectively.

Conclusions

This study suggests that patients with acute ischemic stroke are frequently exposed to potential drug-drug interactions. It is essential to identify potentially drug-drug interactions in these patients as early as possible in order to prevent adverse drug reactions and ensure safe recovery. Besides, full attention should be paid when adding each new medication in therapy, particularly when a neurologist decides to prescribe antipsychotics, such as risperidone.
Renal artery embolization before radical nephrectomy for complex renal tumour: which are the true advantages?
Authors: Cochetti Giovanni , Zingaro Michele Del , Boni Andrea , Allegritti Massimiliano , Vermandois Jacopo Adolfo Rossi de , Paladini Alessio , Egidi Maria Giulia , Poli Giulia , Ursi Pietro , Cirocchi Roberto , Mearini Ettore
Published: November 2019

Introduction

Renal artery embolization is performed before radical nephrectomy (RN) for renal mass in order to induce preoperative infarction and to facilitate surgical intervention through decrease of intraoperative bleeding. Moreover, in metastatic renal cancer it seems to stimulate tumour-specific antibodies, even if no established benefits in clinical response or survival have been reported. The role of preoperative renal artery embolization (PRAE) in management of renal masses has been often debated and its real benefits are still unclear. Nevertheless, in huge and complex renal masses, which are often characterized by a high and anarchic blood supply and rapid local invasion, radical nephrectomy can be challenging even for skilled surgeons. The aim of this prospective randomized study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of PRAE in complex masses by comparing perioperative outcomes of RN with and without PRAE.

Materials and methods

From December 2015 to May 2018 we enrolled prospectively 64 patients who underwent RN for localized (T2a-b) or locally advanced (T3 and T4) or advanced (N+, M+) renal cancers. Patients were divided in two groups. The first group included 30 patients who underwent PRAE; in the second group we enrolled 34 patients who did not undergo RN without PRAE. Perioperative outcomes in terms of operative time, blood loss, transfusion rate and length of hospitalization were evaluated. Statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism 6.0 software.

Results

Median blood loss was 250 ml (50-500) and 400 ml (50-1000) in the first and second group, respectively, with a statistically significant difference (p=0.0066). Median surgical time was 200 min (90-390) and 240 min (130-390) in PRAE and No-PRAE group (p=0.06), respectively. No major complications occurred after embolization. Overall complication rate in Group 1 and 2 was 46.7% (14/30) and 50% (17/34), respectively (p=0.34). No major complications occurred in both groups. The mean follow up was 21,5 months.

Conclusions

Our results prove PRAE to be a safe procedure with low complications rate. To our experience, PRAE seems to be a useful tool in surgical management of a large mass and advanced disease.
Heat transfer from convecting-radiating fin through optimized Chebyshev polynomials with interior point algorithm
Authors: Shivanian Elyas , Keshtkar Mahdi , Navidi Hamidreza
Published: November 2019

In this paper, the problem of determining heat transfer from convecting-radiating fin of triangular and concave parabolic shapes is investigated.We consider one-dimensional, steady conduction in the fin and neglect radiative exchange between adjacent fins and between the fin and its primary surface. A novel intelligent computational approach is developed for searching the solution. In order to achieve this aim, the governing equation is transformed into an equivalent problem whose boundary conditions are such that they are convenient to apply reformed version of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. These Chebyshev polynomials based functions construct approximate series solution with unknown weights. The mathematical formulation of optimization problem consists of an unsupervised error which is minimized by tuning weights via interior point method. The trial approximate solution is validated by imposing tolerance constrained into optimization problem. Additionally, heat transfer rate and the fin efficiency are reported.
(Des)afiliación y (des)alineamiento: procedimientos interaccionales para la construcción de voz
Authors: Bonnin Juan Eduardo
Published: November 2019

Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos. Desde el punto de vista conceptual, nos proponemos contribuir al conocimiento del concepto de voz y su construcción conversacional a partir de la (des)afiliación y el (des)alineamiento en el proceso de validación o rechazo de la voz de los participantes. Desde el punto de vista práctico, esperamos contribuir al desarrollo de los métodos de la investigación participativa, entendidos en ciencias sociales como una metodología de investigación y aprendizaje colectivo, a partir del análisis crítico de un caso.

Para ello, adoptamos sobre el análisis de la interacción verbal un punto de vista discursivo que nos permite definir el concepto de voz como un conjunto de regularidades semióticas que indexicalizan una trayectoria biográfica a través de los discursos sociales que la componen. De este modo, la voz individual es producto de la trayectoria social -y discursiva- del hablante, la cual, al recibir validación o rechazo de los demás participantes, se pone a prueba en cada interacción. En ese sentido, proponemos que la (des)afiliación y el (des)alineamiento conversacionales permiten validar o rechazar las dimensiones de voz propuestas por el hablante.

Exploraremos esta hipótesis en un corpus de reuniones de un proyecto de investigación participativa desarrollado en Buenos Aires, Argentina, con la participación de investigadoras e investigadores académicos y dirigentes sindicales, deteniéndonos especialmente en el caso de una de las participantes, que abandonó el proyecto al poco tiempo de comenzar.
Proper names and case markers in Sinyar (Chad/Sudan)
Authors: Boyeldieu Pascal
Published: November 2019

Sinyar, an alleged Central Sudanic language of Western Darfur, is characterized by two distinct and complementary case marker (sub)systems, the distribution of which provides a morphosyntactic justification of the distinction between common nouns and proper names. The paper considers the two case marking types as well as the semantic content of the category of names. It further presents and tries to explain the behavior of several nouns that may also be marked as names. It finally reviews two types of units that show formal affinities with the marking of names, namely absolute locative nouns on one side, and demonstratives and personal pronouns on the other side.
The classification of names
Authors: Handschuh Corinna
Published: November 2019

Personal names can be specified as male or female in almost all languages of the world. Languages differ, however, whether the sex of the referent is lexical knowledge or overtly coded in the form of the name. Symmetrical systems – with overt marking on both male and female names – can be distinguished from asymmetrical ones, of which one subtype, overt coding of female names, is by far the most frequent. In addition, the morpho-syntactic system of encoding the sex of the referent can be either limited to personal names or use morphological material also employed on other types of nominals. This paper investigates the morpho-syntactic means used for the classification of personal names in the languages of the world as well as the integration of personal names into classificatory systems used for common nouns, namely gender and classifiers.
Hattorsi? Neuter and feminine gender assignment in reference to female persons in Luxembourgish
Authors: Martin Sara
Published: November 2019

In Luxembourgish, feminine as well as neuter gender can be assigned to female persons. Here, female first names are morphologically treated as neuter and therefore trigger neuter gender on their targets (e.g. definite article, personal pronoun). Last names referring to women, however, are feminine and take feminine targets respectively. While the use of neuter and feminine in prototypical and invariable reference contexts are well-known, morphological conflicts often arise regarding more complex name types (e.g. female first name + last name) leading to different degrees of variation between both genders. Building especially upon previous findings by Döhmer (2016), the present contribution offers a first extensive empirical analysis on the use of neuter and feminine personal pronouns considering different female referents as well as familiarity, the referent’s and the speaker’s, as decisive (socio-pragmatical) factors for gender assignment. The results are based on elicited data retrieved from an online survey and audio recordings collected by means of the Luxembourgish language appSchnëssenand allow a quantification of the phenomenon going beyond previous contributions and descriptions in reference grammars. The apparent-time analysis, carried out in order to identify potential tendencies in language change, suggests a preference for neuter pronominalization for younger speakers of Luxembourgish in variable reference contexts.
Proper name-marking vialiaisonin French
Authors: Pomino Natascha , Stark Elisabeth
Published: November 2019

Theliaisonconsonant [z] in French noun phrases has traditionally been assumed to function as a plural marker. The realization of “plural [z]” in N(oun)-A(djective)-combinations is becoming, however, very rare in naturalistic data – except for contexts which allow a proper-name reading. On the one hand, one might think that we are dealing with a recent phenomenon, the beginning of a potential linguistic change in French in the sense ofexaptation, reuse of former morphophonological material such as plural markers to signal proper-namehood in the sense of ‘frozen morphology’. If this turns out correct, we expect the productivity of the new synchronic function to increase: New NA-combinations which function as proper names should be realized systematically withliaison, and proper name-marking vialiaisonshould also become possible with otherliaisonconsonants. On the other hand, we may be dealing with a (completed) diachronic process, in that only those NA-combinations which allowedliaisonat the relevant point in time may have aliaisonconsonant in their univerbalized form. That is, new NA-combinations, even though they are used as proper names, do not display aliaisonconsonant, becauseliaisonis no longer possible. The purpose of this paper was to investigate, based on empirical studies, whetherliaisonproductively marks NA-combinations which function as proper names and distinguishes them from NA-combinations that count as common nouns, or whether we are dealing with a completed diachronic process. In view of the poor productivity observed, we argue that we are dealing with cases of univerbation.
How do novels hang together? Characterization as registerial meta-stability
Authors: Li Fang , Kellogg David
Published: November 2019

How does a novel like Middlemarch cohere, since it is made up of at least two very different kinds of text, narrative on the one hand and dialogue on the other? In this paper, we look to two authorities: to literature, where authors seem to agree that it is consistency in voice that holds both narrators and characters together, and to linguistics, where a computerized corpus allows us to measure variation between and within characters. Where previous researchers found unsystematic variations, we find meta-stability: characters remain true to themselves only through variation. The way in which Dorothea addresses her future husband differs from the way she addresses her little sister in Chapter Five of Middlemarch but this is in turn a special case of differences between the way in which Dorothea addresses men and the way in which she addresses women. Such a difference serves to symbolically articulate a key theme of Eliot’s novel – the middle ground that every woman must occupy in the march from the world of our forefathers through that of our husbands to that of our children.
A Reference Model for Evolving Digital Twins and Its Application to Cases in the Manufacturing Floor
Authors: Ahuett-Garza Horacio , Urbina Coronado Pedro Daniel
Published: November 2019

Cyberphysical systems (CPSs) represent the major contribution of Industry 4.0 to modern manufacturing systems. Once implemented, CPS will increase the efficiency of operations, improve product quality, reduce waste, and optimize the use of resources and assets. A critical element for the realization of CPSs is the Digital Twin (DT), a concept that bridges the gap between the physical and digital realms. Although significant strides have been made to establish the nature of DT, there is still a need for comprehensive reference models and test cases that can help guide the design and deployment of DT. This work presents a reference model for the development of DT. The model considers factors such as stage in the life cycle of a product, the purpose of the digital representation, and the use of the information that the digital representation provides. Cases are presented and analyzed in terms of the proposed model.
Computational Mechanisms for Perceptual Stability using Disparity and Motion Parallax
Authors: Layton Oliver W. , Fajen Brett R.
Published: November 2019

Walking and other forms of self-motion create global motion patterns across our eyes. With the resulting stream of visual signals, how do we perceive ourselves as moving through a stable world? Although the neural mechanisms are largely unknown, human studies (Warren and Rushton, 2009) provide strong evidence that the visual system is capable of parsing the global motion into two components: one due to self-motion and the other due to independently moving objects. In the present study, we use computational modeling to investigate potential neural mechanisms for stabilizing visual perception during self-motion that build on neurophysiology of the middle temporal (MT) and medial superior temporal (MST) areas. One such mechanism leverages direction, speed, and disparity tuning of cells in dorsal MST (MSTd) to estimate the combined motion parallax and disparity signals attributed to the observer's self-motion. Feedback from the most active MSTd cell subpopulations suppresses motion signals in MT that locally match the preference of the MSTd cell in both parallax and disparity. This mechanism combined with local surround inhibition in MT allows the model to estimate self-motion while maintaining a sparse motion representation that is compatible with perceptual stability. A key consequence is that after signals compatible with the observer's self-motion are suppressed, the direction of independently moving objects is represented in a world-relative rather than observer-relative reference frame. Our analysis explicates how temporal dynamics and joint motion parallax-disparity tuning resolve the world-relative motion of moving objects and establish perceptual stability. Together, these mechanisms capture findings on the perception of object motion during self-motion.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTThe image integrated by our eyes as we move through our environment undergoes constant flux as trees, buildings, and other surroundings stream by us. If our view can change so radically from one moment to the next, how do we perceive a stable world? Although progress has been made in understanding how this works, little is known about the underlying brain mechanisms. We propose a computational solution whereby multiple brain areas communicate to suppress the motion attributed to our movement relative to the stationary world, which is often responsible for a large proportion of the flux across the visual field. We simulated the proposed neural mechanisms and tested model estimates using data from human perceptual studies.
Exposing Pathological Sensory Predictions in Tinnitus Using Auditory Intensity Deviant Evoked Responses
Authors: Sedley William , Alter Kai , Gander Phillip E. , Berger Joel , Griffiths Timothy D.
Published: November 2019

We tested the popular, unproven theory that tinnitus is caused by resetting of auditory predictions toward a persistent low-intensity sound. Electroencephalographic mismatch negativity responses, which quantify the violation of sensory predictions, to unattended tinnitus-like sounds were greater in response to upward than downward intensity deviants in 26 unselected chronic tinnitus subjects with normal to severely impaired hearing, and in 15 acute tinnitus subjects, but not in 26 hearing and age-matched controls (p< 0.001, receiver operator characteristic, area under the curve, 0.77), or in 20 healthy and hearing-impaired controls presented with simulated tinnitus. The findings support a prediction resetting model of tinnitus generation, and may form the basis of a convenient tinnitus biomarker, which we name Intensity Mismatch Asymmetry, which is usable across species, is quick and tolerable, and requires no training.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTIn current models, perception is based around the generation of internal predictions of the environment, which are tested and updated using evidence from the senses. Here, we test the theory that auditory phantom perception (tinnitus) occurs when a default auditory prediction is formed to explain spontaneous activity in the subcortical pathway, rather than ignoring it as noise. We find that chronic tinnitus patients show an abnormal pattern of evoked responses to unexpectedly loud and quiet sounds that both supports this hypothesis and provides fairly accurate classification of tinnitus status at the individual subject level. This approach to objectively demonstrating the predictions underlying pathological perceptual states may also have a much wider utility, for instance, in chronic pain.
El imperialismo y el culturalismo se complementan mutuamente
Authors: AMIN Samir
Published: November 2019

El capitalismo siempre está preparado para premiar a aquellos académicos y publicistas que aporten explicaciones plausibles y exculpatorias para sus crisis, fallos y crímenes. Frecuentemente, las explicaciones más efectivas son aquellas que se aprovechan de los prejuicios y supersticiones previas al desarrollo de la ciencia (o “premodernas”), pero que se presentan como modernas y científicas. Las alternativas preferidas al materialismo histórico han sido las teorías sobre la evolución histórica del mundo producido por el desarrollo de “civilizaciones” o “culturas”, cerradas y separadas las unas de las otras. Estas “civilizaciones” y “culturas” no se explican por la historia, sino que explican la historia. Una de las versiones actuales de estas teorías es la del publicista (y Profesor de Harvard) Samuel Huntington, justificando los crímenes del imperialismo como producto de la “incompatibilidad” cultural. Esta es simplemente la “versión más autorizada” de un ruido que actualmente puede escucharse en todos ritmos, melodías y disonancias, a menudo con sus orígenes en una ligeramente disfrazada pseudociencia racial. Otras versiones, suavizadas e incompletas, se presentan a veces como “políticas identitarias” o “comunitarismo”. El periódico egipcio Al Ahram ha preguntado a nuestro buen amigo y colaborador frecuente Samir Amin para darnos su opinión sobre la teoría del “choque de civilizaciones” de Huntington. Su demostración de por qué el culturalismo y el imperialismo se fortalecen mutuamente, y cómo las víctimas pueden ser llevadas a aceptar la “diferencia” en lugar de igualdad y liberación, es hoy de utilidad potencial en cualquier lugar del mundo.
The Representation of the Arab Spring in the U.S. Media
Authors: RGUIG Sara
Published: November 2019

The present study examines the representation of the Arab Spring in the American imprint media. The study analyzes principally from a critical discourse analysis approach how journalists employ discursive strategies and linguistic devices which may serve their own ideology and agenda in their news coverage of the Arab Spring. The analysis of newspapers suggests that the media’s representation of Arabs and Muslims is saturated with discourses related to the ideology of Orientalism. In fact, a number of Orientalist themes appear in the majority of texts. The preliminary and common themes found in the coverage of the Arab Spring are that of violence in the Arab world (negative other – representation), Islamophobia (Islam as a threat), and Western superiority in comparison with Arabs (positive selfrepresentation). The results show that the American media coverage of the Arab Spring was biased and unjust. Besides, there is a reinforcement of the stereotypes by which the Orient is viewed.
Planejamento e trabalho das Equipes gestoras de Educação Infantil
Authors: Reis Marcela Lemos Leal , Côco Valdete
Published: November 2019

O artigo tematiza o planejamento com base em dados de pesquisa referentes à configuração do trabalho das equipes gestoras de Educação Infantil nas Secretarias Municipais de Educação. Ancorada em referenciais teóricometodológicos bakhtinianos, a pesquisa, de abordagem qualitativa e caráter exploratório, desenvolveu procedimento de aplicação de questionário às integrantes das equipes gestoras de Educação Infantil, sustentado em uma etapa inicial de observação. A análise dos dados indica que o planejamento educacional se articula diretamente ao trabalho das equipes, associado ao desenvolvimento da primeira etapa da Educação Básica.
Experiência e formação docente nas pesquisas em ensino de Ciências e Biologia no Brasil
Authors: Da Palma-Santos Magno Clery , Maknamara Marlécio
Published: November 2019

A experiência conecta-se à formação docente por meio de diferentes maneiras e sentidos. O objetivo do artigo foi apresentar um cenário das pesquisas que envolvem a experiência na formação docente nos anais da ANPED e do ENEBIO, entre o período de 2010 a 2015. Através de pesquisa bibliográfica, com análise inspirada na Análise de Conteúdo, foi levantado um total de 323 trabalhos nos quais havia a palavra “experiência”. Restando 45 textos selecionados de acordo com o foco do estudo, a experiência neles figura ora como âncora à escolha ou continuidade na profissão docente, ora como aquilo que atinge o sujeito, que o marca, o transforma. Conclui-se que a experiência surge na formação de professores como sinônimo de diferentes termos, circunstanciando uma situação, o tempo de serviço ou uma atividade de experimentação, servindo, também, para auxiliar na tomada de decisões ou algo basilar, intrínseco e marcante ao sujeito que pode levá-lo a transformações.
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Australia
Authors: Openshaw Kathleen
Published: November 2019

The Brazilian megachurch, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), has a global network of branches. Its Australian headquarters is a dynamic spiritual space where ideas, people, material culture and spirits are exchanged from across the globe. This article follows the journey of a single vial of oil to illustrate the global flows that take place through the UCKG Australia. With each stop the vial accrues spiritual capital before its final destination. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, I argue that the UCKG’s global networks allow congregants access to, and enables them to pass on, spiritual capital thus providing personal agency to overcome life difficulties via supernatural means. Through this vial’s journey, I will show how global religious practices are locally lived and highlight the local spiritual significance of globally mobile religious material culture.
Church-related Welfare Agencies in Australia
Authors: Hynd Douglas
Published: November 2019

The shift by government to contracting of social welfare and human services in Australia in the 1990s raised questions about the possible impacts of not-for-profit agencies becoming financially dependent on government. It was suggested that this move would result in institutional secularisation evidenced in detachment by church-related agencies from their founding bodies and distinctive accounts of mission. This article reports on research that maps the extent of financial dependence of church-related welfare agencies on government and the degree of their (dis)connection to the churches and the Christian tradition after nearly two decades of contracting. The evidence suggests that there is not a necessary and automatic connection between high financial dependence on government and secularisation of church-related agencies. Denominational governance, agency size, along with choices by agency leadership appear to buffer to varying degrees these impacts of contracting.
Murray A. Rae, Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place. and Thomas Coomans, Life inside the Cloister: Understanding Monastic Architecture: Tradition, Reformation, Adaptive Reuse.
Authors: Scott Jamie S.
Published: November 2019

Murray A. Rae, Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2017, pp. xi + 288, illustrations, maps. ISBN: 978-1-48130-763-5 (hbk), $49.95.

 

Thomas Coomans, Life inside the Cloister: Understanding Monastic Architecture: Tradition, Reformation, Adaptive Reuse. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018, pp. 176, illustrations. ISBN: 978-9-46270-143-4 (pbk), €45.00.
Proposal of the Law and Justice (PiS – Polish abbrev.) to Amend the Act about the Direct Choice of a Voit, Mayor and President of the City. Opinions about Possible Effects and Consequences
Authors:   Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland), Marszałek–Kawa Joanna
Published: November 2019

In democratic legal systems there is a wide variety of instruments which profoundly affect the composition of future parliaments. They can cause significant changes in final results of both the parliamentary and municipal election. Due to them political parties can improve their position in emerging legislatures (gmina councils, poviat councils or sejmiks of the voivodeship), or even, I mean smaller formations in the first place, can guarantee any representatives in the chamber (council, sejmik). Politicians make use of these instruments most frequently in the face of the oncoming election. These mechanisms allow, on the grounds of binding law, to cause a result much worse than expected for the opposition or formations competing for power. In countries with deeply rooted democracy, it is most often a good political habit that makes any changes in the Electoral law take place long from the election. In our political reality, however, it is a rule that the election campaign is accompanied by auctions on legal grounds. Namely, changes in the borders of election districts take place, vote calculation methods are modernised so that they would be naturally beneficial for those who carry out such normative transformations.
The Evolution of the Approach of the State Authorities to Minorities and Ethnic Groups in the Third Republic of Poland (outline of issues)
Authors:   University of Wrocław (Poland), Waszkiewicz Ewa
Published: November 2019

The new borders and new ideology imposed on Poland in the aftermath of World War II significantly affected the ethnic structure of the state and the approach of its communist authorities towards minority groups. The pre-war Poland was a multi-national state where Poles represented about 69.2% of the population, the remaining 30.8% were the members of minorities – with the biggest communities of Ukrainians, Belarusians, Germans and Jews. According to the first, official, post-war census – the minority groups represented after 1945 already only 2% of the citizens of new Poland.
The Question of Kosovo Independence in Polish Political Debate
Authors:   University of Szczecin (Poland), Podgórzańska Renata
Published: November 2019

The proclamation of independence of Kosovo, although expected, had a destabilizing impact on the international situation. International community had various opinions on the decision of Kosovo authorities. Numerous conditions in "uenced the positions of individual countries. Countries acknowledging independence of Kosovo, that is some EU countries and the United States, recognized the proclamation of independence of Kosovo as a final stage of the Yugoslavia’s break-up with the basis for peaceful cooperation on the Balkans. Whereas, countries opposing the secession of Kosovo found it against the international law. They perceived this act as an example of western countries’ dominance and feared that it would form a dangerous precedent threatening international stability and security.
Cohabitation: the Parliamentary Aspect of the French Semi–Presidential System
Authors:   University of Wrocław (Poland), Madej Małgorzata
Published: November 2019

The political system of the French Fifth Republic is referred to as “semi-presidentialism”. This is is to indicate its mixed nature – of a system presidential and parliamentary at a time. The Constitution grants broad prerogatives – and assigns serious tasks to both the head of state – le Président de la République – and the chief of government – le Premier ministre. When the prime minister represented the pro-presidential political camp, the head of state gained very serious in! uence on governing the state and political strategy (first, when the French political scene was dominated by the right – 1958–1981; then by the le – 1981–1986 and 1988–1993; and finally by the right again 1995–1997 and since 2002). As early as during Charles de Gaulle presidency (1958–1969) the idea called domaine reservée came into existence. According to this political concept, the widelyinterpreted external policies – including foreign affairs and defence were recognised as presidential prerogatives, regardless the of literal construction of legal provisions. Relations within the executive changed radically with the end of political unity. During the so-called cohabitation French political practices were different and they ultimately led to an amendment of the Constitution.
Book review: Jan Zielonka, “Europe as an Empire. Fresh Glance at the European Union”, The Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw 2007, pp. 268
Authors:   ISP PAN (Poland), M. Fiszer Józef
Published: November 2019

Seemingly the European Union topic, globalisation and new international order issues have received enough attention, with scores of books published on the subject, innumerable conferences and seminars held, both in Poland as well as in countries all over the world, Western Europe in particular. Despite all that, many questions bothering academics and politicians remained unanswered, not to mention ordinary people in EU member states and countries aspiring to the Union membership. Still no one knows in what direction the changes should proceed, in relation to the European Union as well as the rest of the world, commonly referred to as globalisation or economic globalisation processes. We still do not know the future shape of Europe or the world. It is unknown to us what the new international order will look like, what main centres of power will develop, responsible for worldwide harmony, security, and peace. For that very reason the European Union idea, globalisation and integration processes have as many supporters as adversaries. What’s more, those who until recently were the enthusiasts of globalisation, are saying today, like the Noble laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, that the way “in which globalisation is conducted, (…) should be thoroughly well-thought-out again”. At the same time we observe the renaissance of all kind of nationalisms and attempts to glorify the concept of an ethnic state, as a counterweight to commonwealth and above-national structures. It appears that the ideas that once united Europe, peace and prosperity, are not sufficient today.
Book review: “Human Rights Under Domestic Law”, Agnieszka Florczak and Bartosz Bolechow (eds.), Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2006, pp. 157
Authors: Jasińska Agnieszka
Published: November 2019

The work entitled “Human Rights Under Domestic Law”, edited by Agnieszka Florczak and Bartosz Bolechow is a joint publication devoted to broadly understood regulations regarding protection of freedom and human rights.The publication is a collection of six articles covering issues in the area of protection of freedom and human rights under domestic law in selected post-communist countries and in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The book is addressed to students of law, political science, administration and sociology, as well as journalists, officials and all those who want to broaden their knowledge in the field of protection of human rights and freedoms.
Book review: Przemysław Grudziński, “Intelligent State: Poland in Search of an International Role”, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2008, pp. 180
Authors:   University of Wrocław (Poland), Tyszkiewicz Jakub
Published: November 2019

The new book by an experienced historian and a diplomat Przemysław Grudzinski, who in this moment is the vice minister of Polish Foreign Affairs, is an interesting effort to answer the key question - what foreign policy is needed by Poles at the beginning of 21th century. The book can be divided into three main parts. First, the author, based on a theory of international relations and history, and his own diplomatic and scholarly experience, tries to find a solution for the Polish foreign policy. Secondly, the theoretical foundation shows the place of Poland in history and an international system since modern era until today. Thirdly, such an approach allows him to consider what kind of policy is needed for Warsaw today.
A Fenomenologia Existencial: um método de análise desde a existência nua e crua
Authors: Gasparoni Caroline Lisian , Pielke Luciane Rocha Ferreira , Passos Luiz Augusto
Published: November 2019

Este ensaio trata da Fenomenologia enquanto abordagem metodológica que articula o engajamento entre existência e prática pesquisante. A discussão nasce do diálogo entre duas experiências: uma Dissertação de Mestrado e uma Tese de Doutorado em Educação. A Fenomenologia em Merleau-Ponty enquanto método de análise exige uma constante postura hermenêutica, respeitando os três momentos para constituição do método: o da constatação, o da análise e interpretação e o das proposições. Com Rezende (1990), Giovedi (2006), Passos (2010), Di Clemente (2011) e Simone de Beauvoir (1970) trazemos uma visão da Fenomenologia Existencial. O enfoque (des)colonial se dá a partir de Grasfoguel (2011) e Fanon (1968). Consideramos que a dimensão dialógica e dialética existencial merleaupontyana se radicaliza nas (inter)relações que estabelece, na percepção da realidade polissêmica que assume: sem receitas, sem sínteses; com a intencionalidade encarnada nas totalidades; uma epistemologia das possibilidades.
Sosyolojik Bir Kategori Olarak Heterodoks İktisat
Authors: BİLİR Hüsnü
Published: November 2019

Günümüzde heterodoks iktisat terimi Veblen, Marx,
Robinson, Sraffa –hatta kimi zaman Keynes ve Hayek- gibi düşünürleri ve
post-Keynesyen iktisat, Marksist iktisat, Sraffacı (neo-Ricardocu) iktisat,
yapısalcı iktisat, kurumcu iktisat, sosyal iktisat ve evrimci iktisat gibi
düşünce okullarını ifade etmek üzere kullanılmaktadır. Bu denli farklı düşünür
veya düşünce okulunun bir arada sınıflandırmasının sebebi ise, belli müşterek
kavram ve fikirlere sahip olduklarının ya da iktisat disiplininin ortodoksisine
veya anaakımına karşı çıktıklarının kabul edilmesidir. Heterodoksiyi bu şekilde
belli kavram ve fikirler üzerinden veya ortodoksinin veya anaakımın
reddedilmesi üzerinden ele alan bu tanımlar heterodoksinin yalnızca entelektüel
veçhesine vurgu yapmakta ve iktisat disiplininin değişen yapısını
yansıtmamaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı ise, heterodoks iktisadın saygınlık ve
nüfuz ekseninde ele alınması gereken sosyolojik bir kategori olduğunu
vurgulamak ve sözü edilen düşünür ya da düşünce okullarının neden heterodoks
olarak nitelendirildiklerini tespit etmektir.
İşgücüne Katılım Kararı: Nitel Bağımlı Değişkenli Panel Veri Modelleri
Authors: GÜNEŞ Canan
Published: November 2019

İşgücüne
katılım, ekonomik faaliyetlerin arttırılıp büyüme ve kalkınmanın sağlanması
açısından önem taşımaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı, çalışma çağında olan bireylerin
işgücüne katılım kararları üzerinde sosyo-ekonomik ve demografik etmenler ile
2008 finans krizinin yarattığı etkileri nitel bağımlı değişkenli panel veri
modelleriyle incelemektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda çalışmada, 2008 krizini
kapsayan, 2007-2010 Gelir ve Yaşam Koşulları Araştırması Panel Veri Seti
kullanılmaktadır. Türkiye'de kadınların işgücüne katılımının düşük olması
nedeniyle kadın ve erkekler için ayrı modeller tahmin edilmekte ve karşılaştırma
yapılabilmesi sağlanmaktadır. Elde edilen bulgulara göre, kriz döneminde hem
kadın hem de erkeklerde işgücüne katılma olasılığı artmaktadır. İşgücüne katılımdaki
artış, kadınlarda işsizliğin erkeklerde ise hem istihdam hem de işsizliğin
artması ile ortaya çıkmaktadır. Üniversite mezunu olmak, kadınların işgücüne
katılımlarında ve istihdamda olmalarında önemli bir belirleyicidir. Evlilik ve
hanede küçük çocuk olması kadınların işgücüne katılım olasılığını azaltırken,
erkeklerinkini arttırmaktadır.
Özel Sermayeli Bankaların Kurumsal Sürdürülebilirlik Performanslarının Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Çok Kriterli Bir Yaklaşım: Entropi-ARAS Bütünleşik Modeli
Authors: ECER Fatih
Published: November 2019

Çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye'deki özel sermayeli
bankaların kurumsal sürdürülebilirlik performanslarını analiz etmektir. Bu
amaçla Entropi-ARAS bütünleşik modeli önerilmiştir. Önerilen modelinin
etkinliğini kontrol etmek için ayrıca duyarlılık analizi yapılmıştır.
Çalışmanın bulgularına göre özel sermayeli bankaların sürdürülebilirlik performanslarının
belirlenmesinde en önemli boyut sosyal boyuttur. Kurumsal sürdürülebilirlik
bakımından yüksek performans hedefine ulaşmak isteyen bankalar, öncelikle personel
devir hızını düşürmeli, ardından doğrudan sera gazı tüketimini
azaltmalıdırlar. Çalışma ayrıca, önerilen modelin bankaların kurumsal
sürdürülebilirlik performanslarının belirlenmesinde yararlanılabilecek
kullanışlı ve güçlü bir karar aracı olduğu ortaya koymuştur.
Türkiye’de Cepten Yapılan Sağlık Harcamalarının Belirleyicileri: Koşulsuz Kantil Regresyon
Authors: İPEK Egemen
Published: November 2019

Cepten yapılan sağlık harcamaları bireylerin sağlık mal ve hizmetlerine
yaptığı doğrudan ve dolaylı ödemeleri kapsamaktadır. Bu çalışmada sağlık
harcamalarının finansmanında en önemli kaynaklardan biri olan cepten yapılan
sağlık harcamalarının belirleyicileri 2003-2015 Hanehalkı Bütçe Anketi
verileriyle Firpo vd. (2009) tarafından önerilen Koşulsuz Kantil Regresyon
yöntemi kullanılarak araştırılmıştır. Bu yöntem, koşullu kantil regresyon
yöntemlerine nazaran birçok durumda; genelleştirilebilir, politik ve genel
toplum açısından yorumlanabilir sonuçlar üretmeye olanak sağlamaktadır Çalışmadan
elde edilen en önemli sonuç koşullu kantil regresyon yönteminin, koşulsuz kantil,
en küçük kareler regresyon yöntemlerine nazaran cepten yapılan sağlık
harcamaları gibi sağa çarpık dağılımlı gözlemler üzerinden yapılacak
analizlerde daha tutarlı sonuçlar verdiğidir.
Mobil Teknolojinin Perakendecilik Üzerindeki Etkileri
Authors: Gülşen İzzet , Özdemir Şuayıp
Published: November 2019

Bu çalışmanın amacı,
perakendeciliği etkileyen önemli faktörleri analiz ederek perakendeciliğin
geleceği ile ilgili öngörülerde bulunmaktır. Tek başına mobil teknolojinin
perakendecilikteki değişimi açıklamakta yetersiz kalacağı düşüncesiyle,
teknolojiyle bağlantılı olarak tüketiciler,  organizasyon, rekabet, lojistik ve
pazarlama iletişimindeki değişim üzerinde durulmuştur. Elbette çalışmada
ağırlıklı olarak mobil teknolojinin etkileri ele alınmıştır. Mobil teknolojinin
doğrudan ya da dolaylı olarak perakendeciliği nasıl etkilediği, buna bağlı
olarak perakendecilerde nasıl bir yapısal dönüşüme neden olduğu konusu,
literatüre dayalı olarak ve sektördeki gelişmelere bağlı olarak örnek olaylar
üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. Mobil teknolojinin, müşteri ile iletişim biçimi ve
içeriğini, perakendeciliğin organizasyonunu, sektörde yaşanacak rekabetin
yönünü etkilediği tespit edilmiştir. Tüm bu alanlardaki değişimin bütün olarak
ele alındığında perakendecilik için önemli sayılabilecek değişikliklerin
işaretleri olabileceği öngörülmüştür.
q-Faktör Modelinin Borsa İstanbul’da Geçerliliğinin Test Edilmesi
Authors: ÖZKAN Nesrin
Published: November 2019

Varlık
fiyatlama modelleri, finans literatüründe yıllardır ilgi çeken bir konu
olmuştur. Son dönemde, Hou, Xue ve Zhang (2015) tarafından “q-faktör model” olarak
adlandırılan yeni bir varlık fiyatlama modeli geliştirilmiştir. Modelde risksiz
faiz oranını aşan getiri, piyasa betası, firma büyüklüğü, yatırım ve karlılık faktörleri
ile açıklanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada q-faktör modelinin geçerliliği zaman serisi
regresyon yöntemi kullanılarak Borsa İstanbul’da test edilmiştir. GRS-F testi
sonuçlarına göre, q-faktör modelinin Borsa İstanbul’da geçerli olduğu bulunmuştur.
Elde edilen bulgular, dört faktörün tümünün Temmuz 2009 ile Haziran 2016
döneminde Borsa İstanbul’da fiyatlandığını ve q-faktör modelinin beklenen hisse
senedi getirilerini tahminlemede kullanılabileceğini göstermiştir.
Mediating Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Relationship between Innovation and Firm Value
Authors: URAL Tülin , KAKİLLİ ACARAVCI Songül , OYPAN Oğuz , KARAÖMER Yunus
Published: November 2019

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming increasingly an integral part of business practice. This study aims to explain the relationship between CSR practices and firm value by adding two key variables: invest in innovation and invest in marketing. The sample of empirical study consists of manufacture firms registered in Borsa Istanbul/Turkey. Research findings indicated that the CSR practices influence directly and positively to firm value. Higher marketing expenditures leads to less firm profitability and no impact on firm value. Investing in R&D impacts positively to CSR practices and profitability. CSR plays a mediating role between R&D intensity and firm value relationship. There isn’t significant mediating effect of marketing intensity between CSR and firm value.
Uluslararası Düzensiz Göç ve Çalışma Hayatı: Şanlıurfa İlindeki Suriyeli Göçmenlerin Durumu
Authors: AĞLARGÖZ Ozan , YARDIMCI Şehmus
Published: November 2019

Bu
çalışmanın amacı 2011 yılında Suriye'de yaşanan iç savaş nedeniyle ortaya çıkan
düzensiz uluslararası göçün çalışma hayatı bağlamında durumunu betimlemektir.
Çalışma, Suriye kaynaklı göçten en çok etkilenen ve Suriyeli göçmenlerin en
yoğun olarak yaşadığı illerden birisi olan Şanlıurfa ilinde
gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma, yöntem olarak durum çalışması şeklinde
tasarlanmıştır. Veri elde etme tekniği olarak yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşme
kullanılmıştır. Veriler, betimsel analiz yoluyla analiz edilerek yorumlanmıştır.
Çalışma sonucunda Suriyeli göçmen çalışanların; iş bulma ve çalışma yeri
seçiminde, işletmelerinin kuruluş yeri seçiminde ve göç edilecek yer seçiminde,
akrabalık bağları ile Suriyelilerin yoğun olarak yaşadıkları yerlerin
belirleyici olduğu görülmüştür. Ayrıca göçmenlerin çalışma koşulları, istihdam
edilme sebepleri ve çalışma hayatında yaşadıkları sorunlar ortaya konmuştur.
Thermistor Temperature Measurement Network with a Small Number of Wires
Authors: Shaydurov Vladimir V. , Korneeva Anna A.
Published: November 2019

The article proposes a new measuring circuit for temperature control at multiple points of the product using a sequence of thermistors and diodes with three connecting wires and two voltage sources. A mathematical model and a computational algorithm for calculating the resistance of thermistors are presented which consist in the formation and sequential solution of systems of linear algebraic equations for different ratios of voltages of two power sources. A model problem and the results of a computational experiment are considered
Impedance Spectroscopy (BeO+TiO2)-Ceramics with Additive of TiO2 Nanoparticles
Authors: Lepeshev Anatoliy A. , Pavlov Alexandr V. , Drokin Nikolai A.
Published: November 2019

The present study is aimed at obtaining electrically conductive two-component ceramics based on BeO with the addition of micro and nanocrystalline TiO2 powder. The ceramics of the composition (BeO+TiO2) is used in radio-electronic equipment as effective absorbers of microwave radiation and in other areas of modern electronics. The nature of the appearance of electrical conductivity and absorption of the microwave field in (BeO+TiO2) ceramics has not been completely established. The impedance spectroscopy method for the first time investigated the electrical and dielectric characteristics of this ceramics in the frequency range from 100 Hz to 100 MHz, depending on the presence of micro and nano-sized TiO2 phases in the composition of the BeO ceramics. It was established that the static resistance of ceramics with the addition of titanium oxide nanopowder is significantly reduced compared with the resistance of the original ceramics with TiO2 micropowder. It is shown that the real and imaginary components of the dielectric constant of the studied ceramics increase to abnormally large values when the frequency of the effective electric field decreases, and in the high frequency range f ≥ 108 Hz, the process of dielectric relaxation begins, leading to an increase in the dielectric loss tangent. The dielectric characteristics of these ceramic samples under conditions of blocking through conduction are determined
Evolution of Phase Composition of Composite Materials at Contact of Titanium-Aluminium Obtained by Welding Explosion
Authors: Zakharova Yelena V. , Alekseeva Ksenya V. , Zhmak Yelena G.
Published: November 2019

In this work, welding explosion of multiple sample with its further annealing to 300 degrees is used as the method of receiving layered materials. Using this technology allows heating in the air; herewith possibility of oxygen penetration into internal material layers is eliminated. Using this technology allows heating in the air. Furthermore, pressures developed in the process of welding exposure ensure quality contact between the surfaces of plates [1]