bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Blood serum atherogenicity in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Authors: Shagayeva M. M. , Slavina L. S. , Sobenin I. A. , Orekhov A. N.
Published: October 2019

Blood serum atherogenicity was studied in children suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus, as was the relationship between the serum atherogenicity and a number of clinical biochemical parameters. Of the 34 serum samples from children with diabetes 16 did not influence the intracellular cholesterol levels, the rest 18 were found atherogenic, that is, they increased the total cholesterol levels in the cells by 50-70%. Blood serum atherogenicity in all the examinees and in groups A and В separately was. unrelated to the patients age, insulin dose, fructosamine levels, or the disease standing. A positive correlation was detected between the patients ages and the insulin dose.
Differentiated approach to the treatment of autoimmune ophthalmopathy
Authors: Mazurov V. I. , Svyatova L. Ye. , Danilichev V. F. , Cheremisin V. M. , Gurevich K. Ya. , Paskhina M. N. , Mikhaltsov A. N.
Published: October 2019

The results of comprehensive examinations and therapy of 67 patients with autoimmune ophthalmopathy are presented. In 80 % of the patients the disease coursed along with thyrotoxicosis, in 10 % thyroid function was reduced because of autoimmune thyroiditis, and in the rest autoimmune ophthalmopathy was an individual entity. A staged therapeutic complex for the treatment of this condition is suggested, aimed at correction of thyroid function (stage 1), followed by pathogenetic therapy including antiinflammatory measures, glucocorticoids and nonsteroid antiinflammatory drugs to arrest aseptic inflammation in the orbit, and immunosuppressive therapy to correct the immunity shifts. After clinical and immunologic remission was achieved, courses of maintenance therapy (nonsteroid antiinflammatory drugs) were carried out for 3-5 months monitored by blood analyses and ophthalmologic examinations, immunity status tests, CT clinical data. Choice of the treatment strategy was governed by the morphologic variant of ophthalmopathy, immunologic activity of the process, disease severity and pattern. Such an approach helped achieve positive results and clinico-immunologic remission, as well as timely prevent the progress of the disease.
Potentialities of T-activin in the treatment of children with diabetes mellitus
Authors: Turkina T. I. , Marchenko L. F. , Doroshenko Ye. O. , Martynova M. I. , Arion V. Ya. , Golovidova Ye. A.
Published: October 2019

The effects of T-activin added to basic therapy of children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) on the blood serum lipid and phospholipid metabolism were studied in 30 patients aged 6 to 14 with the newly detected condition. Diabetes symptoms manifested 1 week to 3 months before the beginning of insulin therapy. The mean daily insulin dose in the decompensation phase was 0.82 U/kg b. w. The patients were divided into 2 groups: group 1 children were administered basic therapy (diet + insulin), vitamin В15, aevitum, lipamide, cholenzyme. Group 2 patients in addition to basic therapy were subcutaneously injected T-activin in a dose of 1.75 to 2 mg/kg b. w. once a day at 18 oclock for 5 days. Lipid metabolism was studied by thin-layer chromatography. A combination of basic therapy with T-activin had a more favorable impact on the time course of cholesterolemia than a combination of basic therapy with lipotropic agents. Evidently, T-activin added to insulin therapy exerts hypocholesterolemic effects. Tactivin therapy brought about the normalization of the lipid and phospholipid spectrum of lymphocyte membranes and enriched them with nonesterified fatty acids, the source of synthesis of such bioactive substances as leukotrienes and prostaglandins. After therapy the dose of exogenous insulin was reliably reduced in both groups, this reduction being more expressed in group 2 (with T-activin) than in group 1. We believe that T-activin is conducive to better functioning of the insulin receptor of lymphocytes and consider prescription of T-activin to children with IDDM pathogenetically justified.
Structure of causes of death caused by diabetes mellitus in the Archangelsk region
Authors: Zykova Т. А. , Zykova S. N. , Svistunov D. N. , Yushmanova Ye. F. , Zaroslikava L. A.
Published: October 2019

The direct causes of death of diabetics in the Archangelsk district in comparison with that in Russia are analyzed. Death certificates of 1991 to 1992 in the town of Archangelsk and statistical reports for the Archangelsk district are reviewed. Mortality caused by diabetes mellitus increased by 1.7 times over the period analyzed, this being paralleled by an increase of the total mortality. The peak of deaths caused by diabetes mellitus is observed in subjects aged 65 and older both in the urban and rural population of the Archangelsk district.
Contribution of parotitis virus to the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
Authors: Severina T. I. , Kolpakova V. Ye. , Venediktova N. Ya. , Ilyasova O. N. , Akhmedyanova L. G. , Balabolkin M. I.
Published: October 2019

Viral infection is one of the factors provoking the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Epidemic parotitis more frequently than other infections is connected with IDDM manifestations, but the results of examinations of convalescents after epidemic parotitis and of patients with newly diagnosed IDDM are contradictory. Parotitis viruses are believed to injure pancreatic p-cells and trigger on the autoimmune process in carriers of certain antigens. In none of the 200 cases of IDDM manifestation a relationship with epidemic parotitis was established and none of the 268 convalescents after epidemic parotitis developed IDDM. Screening for antibodies to epidemic parotitis virus carried out in 61 patients with newly detected IDDM revealed low antibody titers in the majority (83.3 %); HLA-B8 antigen was detected in 23 % of these examinees. In the group of subjects with persistent high antibody titers and their diagnostic increment or reduction HLA-BS antigen was found in only 12.5 %. These results do not permit a conclusion on the relationship between IDDM manifestation and parotitis infection.
Hyperprolactinemia and hypothyroidism (Van Wyk-Ross-Hennes syndrome)
Authors: Oleinik V. A. , Epstein E. V. , Savran E. V.
Published: October 2019

In recent years, the attention of researchers of various specialties is increasingly attracted by diseases and syndromes associated with impaired secretion of prolactin (PRL). The isolation of PRL as an independent hormone from the human pituitary gland occurred relatively recently - in 1970. This event in subsequent years significantly changed the idea of ​​the regulation of reproductive function and the origin of infertility in women and men. It turned out that excessive secretion of PRL, which previously had a modest role as a lactation regulator in the postpartum period, is responsible for more than 25% of cases of menstrual irregularities, hypogonadism, and infertility. The accumulated clinical and experimental data showed that an impared secretion of PRL and the symptoms associated with this pathology occurs both in the primary lesion of prolactin-secreting structures, and in various other endocrine and non-endocrine diseases, as well as when taking some pharmacological drugs. These data formed the basis of the modern concept of primary hyperprolactinemia as an independent nosological unit and its secondary forms observed in other diseases. One of these diseases is primary hypothyroidism (PG). For the first time, the relationship of lactorrhea and hypothyroidism was noted by W. Jackson, who described the case of the development of persistent lactorrhea in a patient after thyroidectomy. He also suggested that thyroidectomy stimulates the secretion of lactotrophic hormone. The combination of PG with lactorrhea-amenorrhea is known in the literature as Van Wyk-Ross-Hennes syndrome. The isolation of this clinical variant was based on the general idea of ​​the relationship between hyperprolactinemia induced by PG and sexual disorders dominating this syndrome.
Peripheral circulation regulation in patients with the hypothalamic syndrome neuroendocrine metabolic form
Authors: Slavnoe N. V. , Markov V. V. , Kovpan N. A. , Rudichenko V. M. , Terekhova G. N.
Published: October 2019

Peripheral circulation and regulating hormonal (renin- angiotensin-aldosterone system) and electrolytic (plasma sodium and potassium) factors were studied in 102 patients with the hypothalamic syndrome neuroendocrine metabolic form administered pathogenetic therapy with antiserotonin and dopaminergic drugs as well as routine therapy. Blood plasma sodium vasopressin and aldosterone levels were found increased, arterial vessel reactivity in the forearm reduced, and venous circulation disordered in these patients. Routine therapy failed to normalize electrolytes and hormonal parameters and was conducive to a still more marked reduction of arterial vessel reactivity. Peritol therapy resulted in a reduction of vasopressin concentration and normalization of blood plasma sodium and aldosterone, as well as in improvement of the myogenic mechanisms of vascular tone regulation and normalization of venous circulation parameters. A course of parlodel therapy lead to normalization of blood plasma levels of vasopressin, aldosterone, and sodium but no changes in the regional vessels were observed.
Drug correction of hypotonic gallbladder dyskinesia in patients with diabetes mellitus
Authors: Geller L. I. , Rybalka E. D. , Gryaznova M. V.
Published: October 2019

A decrease in contractile activity of the gallbladder is characteristic of many cases of diabetes mellitus [3]. Hypotonic dyskinesia of the gallbladder negatively affects digestion processes, and also favors the development or aggravation of liver disorders [4, 6, 9]. This necessitates the search for therapies for gallbladder hypotension in diabetes mellitus. In connection with the wide clinical use in case of hypomotor disorders of the upper digestive tract of various genesis (including diabetic) metoclopramide (cerucal, raglan), we considered it appropriate to analyze its effect on the contractile activity of the gallbladder in patients with diabetes mellitus. In addition, we investigated their effect on the motility of the gallbladder of sorbitol as a stimulator of cholecystokinin incretion, the main physiological regulator of contractile function of the gallbladder
Социальное конструирование в цифровой медиасреде. По материалам секции на IХ Грушинской социологической конференции
Authors: Ермолаева Ольга Яковлевна
Published: October 2019

В статье представлен обзор выступлений на секции «Социальное конструирование в цифровой медиасреде», состоявшейся в рамках тематического блока «Исследования и социальная инженерия в эпоху цифровизации» IX Грушинской конференции «Социальная инженерия: как социология меняет мир». Данная секция была посвящена осмыслению цифровых конструктов, которые создаются в новых медиа. Представленные доклады содержат результаты практических исследований, касающихся разных аспектов социального конструирования.
The Ninus Romance: New Textual and Contextual Studies
Authors: López Martínez María Paz
Published: October 2019

A new scenario is proposed regarding the origin of the Ninus: the text may have been written in Parthia halfway through the 1st century BC. This article offers a proposal for the plot of the first part of this work, and speculation on whether the motifs of the Ninus have left their mark on Persian literature. The existence of another Greek lost novel, where the main character would be Semiramis, is suggested.
PQtutor, a quasi-intelligent tutoring system for quantitative problems in General Chemistry
Authors: Theis Karsten W.
Published: October 2019

The best tutors give a student the appropriate amount of guidance necessary for learning while helping the student stay confident, motivated and focused. So-called intelligent tutoring systems, trying to replicate the discipline-specific and the psychological dimensions of expert human tutoring, require enormous investments and are not accessible to the larger student population. PQtutor (physical quantities tutor) is a free online tutor designed to help students work out homework problems closely related to worked examples. The software is an extension of a free online calculator for science learners and uses problems from an open (free) textbook, making PQtutor accessible in terms of both technology and cost. PQtutor works by comparing student input to a model answer in order to generate prompts for finding a path to the solution and for correcting mistakes. The feedback is in the form of questions from a virtual study group suggesting problem-solving moves such as accessing relevant content knowledge, reviewing worked examples, or reflection on what their answer means. In cases where these moves have been exhausted but the problem remains unsolved, the tutoring system suggests seeking intelligent human help.
Quality assessment of Locata positioning system
Authors: Grgac Igor , Paar Rinaldo
Published: October 2019

GNSS has limitations or cannot be applied in specific environments with poor geometry like city streets, tunnels, bridges, quarries, mines, ports or in indoor environment in general. In 2003 Locata Corporation from Australia began with the development of a new, completely independent technology called Locata, which was designed to overcome the limitations of GNSS. Within the project “Wearable Outdoor Augmented Reality System for the Enrichment of Touristic Content” Locata system was implemented for the first time in the Republic of Croatia. The quality of the established LocataNet network and the quality of the Locata positioning are presented in this paper as the basis for future research of possibilities to use Locata in displacement measurement. Achieved positioning precision is in a range of few mm in the horizontal direction and up to a couple of cm in the vertical direction. Although high level of precision is achieved, the accuracy, i. e. the errors of positioning solutions are up to several cm. Among other things, the research presented in this paper is focused on the reasons for achieved lower accuracy that probably have their roots in the instability of the LocataLite transmitting antennas in the established LocataNet. They namely affect the estimated float ambiguities of carrier phase measurements. Potential of relative positioning is another topic of this research, because it could allow the fixing of ambiguities to integer values and result in increase of accuracy and precision of positioning.
Application of GNSS derived precipitable water vapour prediction in West Africa
Authors: Acheampong A. , Obeng K.
Published: October 2019

Atmospheric water vapour, a major component in weather systems serves as the main source for precipitation, provides latent heat which helps maintain the earth’s energy balance and a major parameter in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. An observational technique based on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has made it possible to easily retrieve Precipitable Water (PW) at station’s antenna position with very high spatial and temporal variabilities. GNSS techniques are superior to ground-based and balloons sensors in terms of accuracy, ease of use, wider coverage and easier assimilation into NWP models. This study sought to use prediction models using daily observational data from Four (4) International GNSS Service stations in West Africa. The best prediction model can be used in cases of station outages and to predict PW over data poor regions using computed Zenith Tropospheric Delays (ZTD). gLAB software was used to process the stations’ data in Precise Point Positioning mode and PW were retrieved using station’s temperature and pressure values. Computed PW were compared against Total Column Water Vapour from ERA-Interim Reanalysis data in 2016. Correlation coefficient (R2) values ranging from 0.947 — 0.995 were obtained for the four stations. With computed PW’s, three regression models were tested to find the best-fit with PW as the dependent variable and ZTD being the independent variable. The quadratic model gave the highest R2 and lowest RMSE values as against the linear and exponential models. Time series forecasts models such as moving average, autoregressive, exponential smoothing and autoregressive integrated moving average were also employed. The forecasts results were compared against ZTD with autoregressive model reporting the highest R2 and lowest RMSE amongst the forecast models developed.
“Chariots” in contact: on the value of the signs *91, *92 and *94 of Hieroglyphic Luwian
Authors: Giusfredi Federico
Published: October 2019

In this paper, I will re-examine the evidence for the interpretation of a complex compound logogram of the Hieroglyphic Luwian syllabary, PES(2). SCALA.ROTAE. I will also offer an improved interpretation of the text of the Korkun stela. Finally, I will tentatively suggest that the specific meaning of the compound logogram PES(2).SCALA may depend on the contact with the semiotic inventory of the cuneiform writing system.
Two proposed corrections to the recent corpus of Aegean scripts: SY Hf 01 and PK Zb 25
Authors: Hopkins Darren
Published: October 2019

This article concerns two Aegean inscriptions published within the last few decades, one in Cretan Hieroglyphic (SY Hf 01) and one in Linear A (PK Zb 25), both of which in their respective publications posed problematic interpretations for the editors of these texts.
Zum Agora-Pfeiler in Xanthos VI: das Westgedicht auf Cheriga und Muni (TL 44d)
Authors: Schürr Diether
Published: October 2019

Der poetische Text auf der Westseite des Agorapfeilers in Xanthos wird nach eingehender Überprüfung neu ediert, ein Vokabular erstellt und die poetische Gestalt mit Abteilung der Strophen und versuchsweiser Abteilung der Verse und Halbverse rekonstruiert. Dieser Text unterscheidet sich deutlich von dem poetischen Text auf der Nordseite unten: Es handelt sich offenbar um zwei verschiedene Gedichte, die allerdings beide von dem Dynasten Cheriga handeln. Er kommt hier aber nicht mehr im Nominativ vor, und an seine Stelle tritt in Strophe IX und XI eine Frau namens Muni, vermutlich seine Witwe. Der Text ist in Blöcke von je vier Strophen gegliedert, wie nur hier vorkommende Schlüsselwörter zeigen, die in der jeweils letzten Strophe vorkommen. Von ihnen gehören mara- und das Antonym mrssχa- zu mere/i- ‚Gebot, Gesetz‘. Die letzte Strophe fehlt, weil der Text aus Platzmangel mitten in Strophe XXIII abbricht. Das Hauptthema dürfte die Legitimierung der Regentschaft der Muni sein, wobei aber auch ein Mordfall eine Rolle zu spielen scheint. Der im Nordgedicht prominente Gott Natri = Apollon kommt hier nicht mehr vor, und neben den aus dem Nordgedicht ubernommenen Wettergott Trqqiz von Tuli treten hier ab Strophe XVI die Nymphen von Phellos wie im Piχre-Poem von Antiphellos. In Zusammenhang mit ihnen scheint sich mit Qñtili in Strophe XIX auch der Dichter zu nennen. Die Zugehörigkeit zum Perserreich wird nirgendwo deutlich, und neben traditionellen Formeln mit luwischen Parallelen wird auch griechischer Einfluß sichtbar, wenn auch nur in Namen (Herakles, Xanthos und Phellos).
The Lydian word for ‘prosecutor’
Authors: Sasseville David
Published: October 2019

The present paper offers a contextual analysis of the Lydian title šiwraλm(i)- of unclear semantics and compares it with the Greek title προήγορος ‘advocate, prosecutor’ found in a Greek inscription from Ephesus. Both titles have in common that they refer to officials related to the cult of Artemis in Ephesus and Sardis. The comparative analysis yields new information on the cult of the goddess and contributes to our understanding of the Lydian lexicon.
Conquering the Box Office: Factors Influencing Success of International Movies in Russia
Authors: Gaenssle Sophia , Budzinski Oliver , Astakhova Daria
Published: October 2019

This paper empirically examines factors influencing box office success of international movies in Russia between 2012 and 2016. It adds to existing research on national movie markets, by highlighting the relevance of differences in culture, institutions, language, and consumption habits for movie success. Three groups of success factors are distinguished: distribution related (e.g. budget, franchise), brand and star effects (e.g. top actors or directors), and evaluation sources (e.g. critics and audience rating). We add novel region-specific variables like seasonality, time span between the world and local release, attendance of international stars at Russian movie premieres, and title adaptation to Russian culture. The results indicate that budget, franchise, employment of popular actors and directors, electronic word of mouth and audience ratings exert a significantly positive influence on Russian box office success. However, we find significantly negative effects for international critics and, interestingly, the adaption of movie titles. The main contributions of our study are (i) success factors vary between countries with different cultures, (ii) region-specific factors matter, and consequently (iii) results from one market (e.g. the US) cannot easily be generalised.
Those Crazy Fangirls on the Internet: Activism of Care, Disability and Fan Fiction
Authors: Barnes Leetal Dean
Published: October 2019

This article explores Activism of Care, a form of activism offering strategies, implementation of skills and accessibility different from those offered by traditional activism. Activism of Care suggests that activist strategies are not universal, but instead should be tailored for specific communities’ structures, skills and intersectional positionings. This paper focuses on the implementation of Activism of Care by and for neurodivergent participants in fan fiction communities on Tumblr. It demonstrates ways Activism of Care is implemented to promote destigmatization of mental illnesses, and to celebrate participants with depression, anxiety or PTSD. This article describes how Activism of Care implements elements of Care Ethics in fan fiction communities to promote social change. Emotional, literary and social structures of these communities are used to promote the rights, well-being and pleasure of neurodivergent participants. Finally, this paper provides characteristics by which to recognize or create this type of activism, alongside or as an alternative for traditional activism.
From Slash Fan Fiction to Crip Fan Fiction: What Role Does Disability Have in Fandom?
Authors: Newman-Stille Derek
Published: October 2019

Slash fiction is perceived by scholars like Henry Jenkins as capable of presenting a counterhegemonic message that critically questions and disrupts power structures in the production of fiction. Slash fiction presents a critical queering of characters, disrupting the heterocentrism of canonical fiction. Slash fiction is a creation of fan fiction where canonically heterosexual couples are paired with one another in love relationships, allowing for an imagined queer potential. 

Even though slash, with its queering of relationships would seem to be a doorway into empowerment for disability fiction - replacing one oppressed identity (queer) for another (disability), many of the conventions of slash, mixed with the overwhelming social power of stereotypes around disability serve to further replicate patterns of oppression upon disabled characters. One of the conventions of slash fiction is the need to make canonically straight male characters more vulnerable, more willing to explore their vulnerability in relationships. This vulnerability allows for male protagonists to disrupt the rigid boundaries of patriarchal, heterosexist constructions of masculinity by making the characters more open to vulnerabilities, which tend to be constructed as threats to the construction of patriarchal masculinity. Because of disability’s cultural association with vulnerability in the cultural imagination, disablement is often utilized by slash fiction authors as a means of achieving vulnerability of the characters in a slash fiction relationship. These relationships are often referred to as “Hurt/Comfort” or “H/C” and often depend on the assumption that disablement represents a weakening of the disabled character, problematically representing disability as weakness. 

Through an examination of the association between slash and disability on the popular fan fiction site Archive of Our Own, this paper illustrates that although slash fiction has the potential to represent a liberatory counterhegemonic text, it fails to do so where disability is concerned and relies on tropes and assumptions about disability in order to ‘queer’ hegemonic texts.
APRESENTAÇÃO
Authors: Desaulniers Julieta Beatriz Ramos
Published: October 2019

O presente número da VERITAS reúne a maioria das palestras proferidas por professores e pesquisadores da PUCRS e de outras universidades, junto aos Cursos de Extensão que foram realizados em 1994 e 1995, na PUCRS.*Um autor, uma abordagem: Pierre Bourdieu. (13/04 a 01/06/94)*Um autor, uma abordagem: Jürgen Habermas. (05/06 a 09/06/95)* Tempo: uma categoria, várias abordagens. (25/04 a 28/04/95)Tais cursos foram organizados com o intuito de aprofundar alguns dos pressupostos epistemológicos que embasam as investigações que venho desenvolvendo, juntamente com uma equipe, as quais se articulam à sublinha de pesquisa "formação, trabalho, instituição". Nessa perspectiva, o foco de interesse desses eventos centra-se no referencial teórico-metodológico de autores - Pierre Bourdieu e Jürgen Habermas - e na categoria de análise de caráter universal - o tempo – enquanto fundamentos indispensáveis ao ato de pesquisar. Essa publicação é mérito, em primeiro lugar, do diretor dessa revista que em vários momentos instigou-me a encontrar os meios para realizar esse empreendimento. Em segundo lugar, dos palestrantes que aceitaram produzir um texto sobre o assunto que haviam abordado há alguns meses atrás. Também, é mérito das pessoas que manifestaram interesse em obter o texto das palestras que integraram esses eventos, o que assegurou o ânimo para se concretizar esse trabalho. E, obviamente, é mérito da equipe de bolsistas* que atua junto aos subprojetos que estão em andamento. Por isso, aproveito a oportunidade para expressar a todos os meus sinceros agradecimentos.
HABERMAS E A COMUNICAÇÃO IDEALIZADA
Authors: Milman Luis
Published: October 2019

A Teoria da Ação Comunicativa resulta de uma investigação acerca dos fundamentos da racionalidade prática, desenvolvida por Habermas nos últimos 30 anos. Neste artigo, serão analisados os aspectos básicos desta teoria, com ênfase nos pontos que a referenciam como modelo explanatório das nossas práticas comunicativas. Pretendo discutir prioritariamente a tese segundo a qual nossas condutas linguísticas são conduzidas por compromissos pragmático-universais. A aceitação desta tese depende da possibilidade de explicitação dos compromissos determinantes das ações comunicativas válidas. Com base neste exame, vou propor a discussão de alguns pontos que me parecem mais frágeis na teoria de Habermas. Finalmente, pretendo contrastar este programa de reconstrução racional da comunicação com modelos teóricos pragmáticos não alinhados a priori com premissas racionalistas. Concluirei, a partir daí, que o argumento central de Habermas se fragiliza quando aplicado ás condições multilaterais e difusas nas quais os usos da linguagem efetivamente ocorrem.
A PERSPECTIVA HABERMASIANA NA INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA: a racionalidade comunicativa na educação
Authors: Prestes Nadja Hermann
Published: October 2019

A formulação habermasiana de racionalidade aponta a possibilidade de renovação da base justificadora da educação, pela emergência do universal na comunicação entre as diferentes experiências dos atores, nutridas pelas particularidades do mundo vivido. Isso permite à educação orientar-se por uma racionalidade que assegure a pluralidade e as diferenças, bem como formar a identidade de sujeitos racionais capazes de assumir compromissos éticos.
APRESENTAÇÃO
Authors: Boni Luís A. De
Published: October 2019

Corno vem acontecendo há tempo, todos os anos Veritas reserva um número para ternas de Filosofia Medieval. Os textos apresentados, por vezes, seguem urna temática específica; por vezes, têm a uni-los, acima de tudo e quase tão somente, o período histórico de que procedem. É o caso do presente volume, intitulado, por isso mesmo, de Miscellanea Mediaevalia. Os contatos que os pesquisadores brasileiros da área mantêm com estudiosos de outros países mostram-se frutíferos e permitem que artigos das mais diversas proveniências acabem por enriquecer cada número - o atual não faz exceção: além de trabalhos elaborados por colegas brasileiros, há outros, vindos da Argentina, da Venezuela, da Itália e da Alemanha. Esta abertura para o mundo, que caracterizou desde os primórdios as atividades da Comissão de Filosofia Medieval, possibilita não só o alto nível das publicações sobre a temática, mas também a atualização de conhecimentos em urna área cujo dinamismo da atividade acadêmica muito se acelerou nas últimas décadas. Visando a suprimir urna necessidade, os três últimos textos publicados são traduções de clássicos medievais. Com isto, os especialistas da área estamos sendo fiéis àqueles a quem estudamos. Eles também, outrora, ao constatarem que quase ninguém mais dominava a língua grega, dera-se ao ingente trabalho de traduzir para o latim o legado da antiguidade helênica. Hoje em dia, são sempre em menor número os que leem latim, mesmo em países como a Itália e a Alemanha. Ora, é impossível urna maior aproximação a um autor, se não se lhe conhece a obra. Por isso, o esforço de tradução faz-se perceber em todos os centros de estudos medievais. Com o intuito de favorecer o contato com os clássicos, traduções passam a fazer parte do volume de Filosofia Medieval desta revista. Por medida de economia, o texto não é apresentado bilíngue. Ficam aqui agradecimentos a duas pessoas: Ao Prof. Dr. Reinholdo Aloysio Ulmann, pela disponibilidade de lançar-se ao anônimo trabalho de traduzir os abstracts - ele que, prosseguindo em suas pesquisas sobre o pensamento clássico, faz-se presente com o primeiro artigo deste volume. Ao Irmão Nilo Berto, editor de Veritas: o principal responsável pelo fato de a revista, há 41 anos, manter a periodicidade trimestral.
SEVERINO BOECIO [Ser y conocer - antología de textos]
Authors: Tursi Antonio Domingo
Published: October 2019

Comentario a la Isagogé de Porfirio1

[Texto de Porfirio]

 

 [82a] "Ahora bien, respecto de los géneros y las especies si es que subsisten o si están colocados solo en pensamientos desnudos, o si, en tanto subsistentes, son corpóreos o incorpóreos, y si están separados de las cosas sensibles o colocados em las cosas sensibles, sobre [82b] estas posiciones, empero, rehusaré hablar. Pues una empresa de este tipo es profundísima y exige de un examen más amplio."
Transformations and Perspectives of the Living Conditions of Czech and Slovak Seniors with an Emphasis on Single-Person Households
Authors: Hazuchová Naďa , Stávková Jana , Nagyová L'udmila , Poláková Zuzana , Vávrová Soňa
Published: October 2019

The paper looks at the life situation of Czech and Slovak seniors between 2005 and 2016. The aim is to analyze data from the national standardized surveys (EU-SILC) and, based on the analyzed data, describe living conditions (an objectively measured standard of living and poverty rate) and subjective life satisfaction with an emphasis on seniors living in single-person households. The results show a large increase in the number of single-person households. The analysis of Czech households' income situation showed that the per-member monthly income for the whole population was similar to the average per-member income in households of seniors, while the group of the elderly living in single-person households appeared to be the most vulnerable one in terms of income. The differences between the seniors' incomes and expenditures indicated that about 40% of this data segment's members lived near the poverty line, while the most endangered segment members were seniors from single-person households.
Klastering Dokumen dengan Menambahkan Metadata Menggunakan Algoritma COATES
Authors: Nurandini Indri , Huda Arief Fatchul
Published: October 2019

Text mining adalah proses ekstraksi pola berupa informasi dan pengetahuan yang berguna dari sejumlah besar sumber data tak terstruktur. Salah satu perkembangan text mining adalah ruang lingkup perbaikan dari pemanfaatan sebuah “side information”  yang digunakan untuk membantu proses klastering yang lebih efisien.  “side information”  yang dimiliki data dapat membantu proses text mining jika “side information”  tersebut bersifat informatif. Di dalam “side information” , metadata merupakan bagian dari “side information”  yang dimiliki oleh data. Oleh karena itu, algoritma klastering partisi klasik dan model probabilistik dalam text mining telah dikembangkan untuk memproses data bersama “side information”  dengan menggunakan algoritma Content and Auxiliary attribute Based Text Clustering  (COATES). Adapun proses klastering ini menggunakan inisialisasi klaster dengan algoritma k-means berdasarkan perhitungan jarak euclidean distance.
Spektrum Signless-Laplace dan Spektrum Detour Graf Konjugasi dari Grup Dihedral
Authors: Abdussakir Abdussakir , Khasanah Rhoul
Published: October 2019

Misalkan G graf berhingga yang tidak memuat loop dan sisi rangkap. Matriks keterhubungan titik A(G) dari graf G adalah matriks dengan entri aij = 1 jika vi terhubung langsung dengan vj dan aij = 0 untuk lainnya. Matriks derajat D(G) dari graf G adalah matriks diagonal dengan entri dii merupakan derajat titik vi di G.  Matriks signless-Laplace dari graf G adalah L+(G) = D(G) + A(G). Matriks detour DD(G) dari graf G adalah matriks dengan entri ddij merupakan panjang lintasan terpanjang dari vi ke vj. Spektrum dari suatu matriks merupakan matriks yang memuat nilai eigen pada baris pertama dan multiplisitas masing-masing nilai eigen pada baris kedua. Spektrum yang diperoleh dari matriks L+(G) disebut spektrum signless-Laplace sedangkan spektrum yang diperoleh dari matriks DD(G) disebut spektrum detour. Penelitian ini menyajikan rumus untuk menghitung spektrum signless-Laplace graf konjugasi dari grup dihedral D2n untuk n ganjil (n ³ 5) dan spektrum detour graf konjugasi dari grup dihedral D2n untuk  ganjil (n ³ 3) dan  genap (n ³ 6).
Estimasi Parameter Distribusi Campuran BiWeibull
Authors: Awalluddin Asep Solih
Published: October 2019

Salah satu pendekatan distribusi yang banyak digunakan dalam analsis data statistik adalah Distribusi Weibull. Pendekatan distribusi Weibull tunggal untuk populasi yang didalamnya terdapat beberapa sub populasi kurang baik digunakan, karena adanya perbedaan karakteristik data antar sub populasi tersebut, sehingga memungkinkan memiliki parameter yang berbeda. Distribusi campuran (mixture distribution) diharapkan dapat mencadi solusi pendekatan bentuk distribusi dengan kondisi data berasal dari beberapa sub populasi. Sebagai contoh distribusi usia atau masa pengobatan (sampai mati) pasien kanker atau Aids, dengan sub populasi adalah ras atau kelompok usia. Tulisan ini membahas distribusi campuran Weibull, khususnya model distribusi campuran biWeibull yang akan digunakan dalam studi kasus data yang terdiri dari dua sub populasi. Metode estimasi parameter model yang digunakan Tahapan estimasi parameter model diuraikan dalam tulisan ini. Di lapangan, masalah yang timbul selanjutnya adalah bagaimana menaksir ketiga parameter model tersebut jika data ada di tangan. Dalam tulisan ini algoritma yang digunakan untuk menaksir parameter di atas adalah algoritma EM (Expectation Maximization). Studi kasus sebagai penerapan algoritma dilakukan untuk kasus pendekatan distribusi campuran biWeibull.
Pengembangan Model Matematika Dinamika Perokok Di Kota Bogor
Authors: Rohaeti Embay , Andriyati Ani
Published: October 2019

Masih tingginya kasus perokok di Kota Bogor menjadi alasan bagi masyarakat, praktisi kesehatan, pemerintah untuk mengambil langkah dan kebijakan yang tepat dalam mencegah meluasnya perokok di Kota Bogor. Sebagai salah satu bidang ilmu, matematika turut memberikan peranan penting dalam mencegah meluasnya perokok yaitu melalui model matematika terkait peningkatan jumlah perokok. Pada model matematika dinamika perokok, individu dalam populasi (N) dibagi ke dalam empat kelompok yaitu kelompok perokok potensial (P), kelompok perokok kadang-kadang (L), kelompok perokok berat (S), dan kelompok mantan perokok (Q). Model matematika dinamika perokok dikembangkan dengan melibatkan faktor efikasi diri untuk berhenti merokok, sehingga model matematika yang terbentuk tersebut diharapkan dapat lebih mendekati keadaan nyata dinamika perokok di Kota Bogor, langkah selanjutnya model matematika tersebut dianalisis secara analitik dan numerik. Berdasarkan hasil yang diperoleh bahwa pada kondisi bebas perokok, jumlah perokok kadang-kadang akan mendekati nol pada 16 tahun yang akan datang dan pada kondisi marak perokok, jumlah perokok berat terus meningkat dari tahun ke tahun. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa setelah adanya faktor efikasi diri  untuk berhenti merokok jumlah perokok di Kota Bogor mengalami penurunan tetapi tidak akan mencapai nol.
Analisis Model Metapopulasi Pada Transmisi Virus Hepatitis A (Studi Kasus di Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah dan Jawa Timur)
Authors: Lazwardi Riad Taufik , Zulkarnaen Diny , Sukaesih Esih
Published: October 2019

Indonesia merupakan negara endemik hepatitis peringkat ketiga sedunia. Hepatitis merupakan penyakit menular yang disebabkan oleh virus. Penyakit hepatitis terbagi menjadi beberapa tipe, salah satunya virus hepatitis A (HAV). Model matematika yang memodelkan penyebaran penyakit ini adalah model yang dibuat oleh Marco Ajelli. Marco Ajelli membuat model metapopulasi pada transmisi virus hepatitis A (HAV) yang diterapkan di negara Italia. Hasil yang diperoleh adalah vaksinasi yang dilakukan di salah satu negara bagian (Puglia) dapat mengurangi secara signifikan jumlah penderita di negara tersebut secara keseluruhan. Skripsi ini mengajukan sebuah model yang dapat diterapkan di Indonesia khususnya di Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah dan Jawa Timur. Simulasi dilakukan  untuk mengetahui pengaruh program vaksinasi yang dilakukan pada satu wilayah terhadap wilayah yang lain dan mengetahui wilayah yang paling optimal untuk diberikan program vaksinasi secara massal jika program vaksinasi massal hanya dapat dilakukan pada satu wilayah saja. Oleh karena itu, faktor mobilitas spatial merupakan faktor yang sangat diperhatikan. Dari hasil simulasi yang dilakukan di daerah Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah dan Jawa Timur diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa program vaksinasi yang dilakukan di Jawa Timur, akan secara optimal mengurangi jumlah penderita hepatitis A di Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah dan Jawa Timur.
Editorial- Os tumores odontogênicos ocorrem mesmo na clínica odontológica?
Authors: Nunes Nancy Alfieri
Published: October 2019

Acerca dos ameloblastomas
Ameloblastoma Unicístico de grande extensão em criança: um relato de caso
Authors: Nascimento Ana Caroline Costa , Uchôa Caio Pimenteira , Peixoto Tony Santos , Gonçalves Ingrid Morgana Feminino , Nonaka Cassiano Francisco Weege , Alves Pollianna Muniz
Published: October 2019

Introdução: O ameloblastoma, neoplasia benigna derivada do epitélio odontogênico, é um tumor localmente invasivo e agressivo. Representa 11% de todos os tumores odontogênicos e, especificamente, 1% de todos os tumores odontogênicos epiteliais.Objetivo: Descrever um caso clínico de ameloblastoma unicístico (AU) de grande extensão, com 7 anos de acompanhamento.Relato do caso: Paciente do sexo feminino, de 13 anos de idade, foi referenciada à clínica de estomatologia exibindo uma lesão extensa em região de mandíbula direita. Radiograficamente, observou-se área radiolúcida bem delimitada que se estendia da região de corpo mandibular até o processo condilar, ocasionando expansão da cortical óssea, reabsorção radicular e deslocamento dos dentes 47 e 48. Posteriormente a biópsia incisional, o diagnóstico histopatológico foi de AU. Foi realizada descompressão e, 7 meses depois, a enucleação cirúrgica foi feita com a exodontia dos dentes 47 e 48.  Após 7 anos de acompanhamento, não foi observado nenhum sinal clínico de recorrência.Conclusão: A técnica de descompressão cirúrgica seguida da enucleação da lesão para tratamento de AU proporciona menor morbidade ao paciente e maior potencial de neoformação óssea.
Discovering Students’ Personalised Uses of a Paediatrics Acute Care E-book – a Qualitative study
Authors: Price Toby , Cartledge Peter Thomas
Published: October 2019

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Background: Medical educators are increasingly developing and recommending e-books to supplement students' learning. Despite this, there is a gap in the literature surrounding E-book developers' understanding of how students can personalize an e-book for multiple different purposes. This qualitative research project aimed to explore students' experiences of using a pediatric acute care E-book (pRRAPID) within a spiral, multi-method teaching package. The researchers aimed to get an insight into the ways that learners used E-books outside of the classroom. Methods: Three focus groups were conducted with 12 fourth-year medical students who had completed a pediatric acute care course. Students were invited to discuss their use of the E-book during the course. Thematic analysis was conducted on the transcripts to identify codes in the data; these were grouped to determine the overarching themes. Results: Students outlined five different ways that they personalized the use of the E-book. Three of these were related to uses of the E-book within the context of the pediatric acute care course; students using the E-book to prepare for a formal teaching session ("Flipped classroom"),students using the E-book as a workbook (going from start to end) and students using the E-book to prepare for an exam. The other two themes related to the use of the E-book outside of the acute care course; students using the E-book as a resource "on the go" and students using the E-book within clinical practice. Conclusions This qualitative study outlines how an educational resource can be utilized in numerous different ways in order to satisfy the needs of the student. Focus-group participants outlined how important it was to engage with the students, as the primary stakeholder, when developing an E-book.
Book review
Authors: Harrison Tom
Published: October 2019

Lea's Chemistry of Cement and Concrete
New method for assessing lateral distribution of energy gradient in curved channels
Authors: Tian Haoyong , Yu Minghui , Hu Chengwei , Huang Yuyun
Published: October 2019

The energy gradient is a fundamental physical quantity of flow motion. To date, many studies have concentrated on uniform flow or fully developed curved flow, with the energy gradient approximated as the bed slope. This paper presents a new method to assess the lateral distribution of the apparent energy gradient in curved channels when curved flow is not fully developed. A dimensionless apparent energy gradient (K) is presented. An expression for K is explicitly formulated based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations and the lateral distribution of K is derived from measured velocity data. The method was applied in a 120° curved flume with asymmetric trapezoidal cross-sections. The results showed a bilinear distribution of K; that is, K remained nearly constant in the central region of the channel while, in the inner bank region, K increased linearly as the inner bank was approached. These results were derived for specific cases for curved channels with a side-slope, but the method for deriving K can be applied to other cases, thus providing a new way to study energy loss in curved channels to contribute to river management, such as estimation of discharge capacity and navigation improvement.
A Numerical Investigation of the Influence of Semi-Rigid Composite Connections on the Seismic Behavior of a Building with Steel Concentrically Braced Frames
Authors: YÖNEV Ömer , YELGİN Ahmet Necati
Published: October 2019

Semi-rigid composite connections are connections which have a certain rotational stiffness and bending strength by means of the slab and its reinforcement. The use of these connections can lead to economic and structurally efficient solutions such as selecting smaller beam sections, reducing deflection and vibration problems. Additionally, they are permitted to use as a secondary lateral resisting system in regions of high seismicity. Therefore, in this study, two investigations were made in terms of seismic behavior evaluation: the influence of semi-rigid composite beam-column connections on interior frames and the influence of shear tab connections. Firstly, a 6-story building with steel special concentrically braced frames is designed according to current seismic design codes. Secondly, 3 models are created using the designed building. In Model 1, all beam-column shear tab connections are assumed as pinned connections. Model 2 and Model 1 are identical except that In Model 2, shear tab connections used in Model 1 are not assumed as pinned connections and their actual behavior is determined and included to the model. In Model 3, all beam-column connections on the interior frames are designed as semi-rigid composite connections. The interior frame sections are reselected and the exterior beam-column connections except for the ones on the braced bays are assumed the same as in Model 2. Lastly, nonlinear static analysis (pushover) is carried out and some comparisons are made with respect to the following aspects: lateral displacement and story drifts under same lateral force and lateral force under the same lateral displacement. As a result, Model 1 and Model 2 showed similar behavior due to the shear tab connections acting almost as pinned while Model 3 showed that using semi-rigid composite connections can increase the base shear capacity by %48 and decrease peak displacements and story drifts by %65.
Estudio de la aptitud física relacionada a la salud y composición corporal en escolares del nivel primario y secundario del colegio experimental de aplicación – une 2009
Authors: Salinas Saulo
Published: October 2019

Los objetivos centrales de este estudio son: (1) Identificar y describir los niveles de aptitud física relacionada a la salud, (2) Identificar y describir las características de la composición corporal en los escolares de ambos sexos y (3) Determinar las dife- rencias de la aptitud física asociada a la salud y la composición corporal en función de la edad, sexo y turno de estudio. El diseño del estudio fue descriptivo compara- tivo. Se estudió a 1173 escolares (569 F- 604 M) de los niveles: primaria y secun- daria comprendidos entre los 6 y los 16 años de edad del Colegio Experimental de Aplicación, UNEChosica, Perú. Para evaluar la Aptitud Física Relacionada a la Salud fue escogida la batería de test FITNESSGRAM, cuyos resultados son interpretados en términos criteriales y está constituida por cuatro pruebas: Curlp up, Push up, Trunk Lift y Carrera de la Milla. En la Composición Corporal fueron determinados a través del Índice de Masa Corporal y la adiposidad subcutánea fue establecida a partir de la suma de los tres pliegues cutáneos del tríceps, subescapular y panto- rrilla. La masa grasa, masa magra y porcentaje de grasa fueron evaluados tomando como referencia las ecuaciones de Slaughter (1988).
El matrimonio, ¿todavía importa?: una evaluación de la convivencia a la luz de la biblia
Authors: Richard M. Davidson  , Joel Iparraguirre
Published: October 2019

Desde la perspectiva cristiana, el matrimonio “es una institución divina de primordial importancia que, de acuerdo con la Escritura, fue dada por Dios mismo”. Es, además, un “compromiso [mutuo] de exclusividad y de permanencia”. Sin embargo, en muchas sociedades el matrimonio es considerado como una opción, dando cabida a la convivencia como una alternativa razonable. El presente ensayo no se enfoca en la investigación científica en sí, al contrario, evalúa la práctica de la convivencia y sus efectos a la luz de las Escrituras