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Isaiah Berlinas, Michelis Foucault ir neoliberalios laisvės politika
Authors: Driver Tom
Published: October 2017

Starting with a historical inquiry into the notion of freedom as a political concept, in this article I argue that neoliberal freedom has attempted to satisfy demands associated with two quite distinct forms of freedom, representing a new understanding of the concept. Drawing on Isaiah Berlin’s lecture on the two conceptions of liberty – positive freedom to and negative freedom from – I consider their apparent heterogeneity, stemming from alternate relations towards individuals, and forming the basis of opposing political systems. Against this opposition, the neoliberal notion of freedom, as developed in the early works of liberal economists and their vision of a social market economy, is marked by a synthesis of politics and the economy, one that enables social regulation in conformity with market demands. Reflecting Foucault’s argument that power operates through both productive and repressive practices, neoliberal freedom poses a new understanding of subjectivity, where individuals become ‘entrepreneurs of the self’. By connecting personal freedom to rational action in the competitive marketplace, neoliberal culture can claim to grant both negative freedoms from the state and enabling freedoms to be a rational subject. With brief reference to contemporary political events, I point out some of the problems and implications of this form of freedom.
Dorovė ir humanizmo baigtis: subjektas ir socialumas Habermaso ir Luhmanno teorijose
Authors: Backhouse-Barber Joseph
Published: October 2017

This article is concerned with contemporary theories of epistemological uncertainty and their ramifications for our moral lives, and more specifically with how this uncertainty undermines the possibilities for conceiving of, and finding assurance in, humanistic morality. First, the uncertainties brought into knowledge by poststructuralism and Luhmann’s theory of observation are examined, particularly as they relate to the issue of reconciling the double moment of morality as an at once subjective and social phenomena. Next, Habermas’s important and influential work in this area is taken as exemplifying the limits of humanistic morality; it is argued that despite his interest and importance, Habermas’s work cannot support the weight of its own moral orientation, and that this is a direct consequence of the humanist structure of his thought, which cannot be reconciled with the paradoxical nature of the relationship between the subject and the social. Finally, some possibilities for maintaining humanism’s moral orientations through uncertainty are offered, primarily through the preservation of paradox, the acceptance of partiality, and the acknowledgement of the definitively incomplete nature of moral experience.
Carcinogenicity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes: challenging issue on hazard assessment
Authors: Fukushima Shoji , Kasai Tatsuya , Umeda Yumi , Ohnishi Makoto , Sasaki Toshiaki , Matsumoto Michiharu
Published: October 2017

Objectives

This report reviews the carcinogenicity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes(MWCNTs) in experimental animals, concentrating on MWNT-7, a straight fibrous MWCNT.

Methods

MWCNTs were administered to mice and rats by intraperitoneal injection, intrascrotal injection, subcutaneous injection, intratracheal instillation and inhalation.

Results

Intraperitoneal injection of MWNT-7 induced peritoneal mesothelioma in mice and rats. Intrascrotal injection induced peritoneal mesothelioma in rats. Intratracheal instillation of MWCNT-N (another straight fibrous MWCNT) induced both lung carcinoma and pleural mesothelioma in rats. In the whole body inhalation studies, in mice MWNT-7 promoted methylcholanthrene-initiated lung carcinogenesis. In rats, inhalation of MWNT-7 induced lung carcinoma and lung burdens of MWNT-7 increased with increasing concentration of airborne MWNT-7 and increasing duration of exposure.

Conclusions

Straight, fibrous MWCNTs exerted carcinogenicity in experimental animals. Phagocytosis of MWCNT fibers by macrophages was very likely to be a principle factor in MWCNT lung carcinogenesis. Using no-observed-adverse-effect level-based approach, we calculated that the occupational exposure limit (OEL) of MWNT-7 for cancer protection is 0.15 μg/m3 for a human worker. Further studies on the effects of the shape and size of MWCNT fibers and mode of action on the carcinogenicity are required.
Predictors of excessive use of social media and excessive online gaming in Czech teenagers
Authors: Spilková Jana , Chomynová Pavla , Csémy Ladislav
Published: October 2017

Background and aims

Young people’s involvement in online gaming and the use of social media are increasing rapidly, resulting in a high number of excessive Internet users in recent years. The objective of this paper is to analyze the situation of excessive Internet use among adolescents in the Czech Republic and to reveal determinants of excessive use of social media and excessive online gaming.

Methods

Data from secondary school students (N = 4,887) were collected within the 2015 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. Logistic regression models were constructed to describe the individual and familial discriminative factors and the impact of the health risk behavior of (a) excessive users of social media and (b) excessive players of online games.

Results

The models confirmed important gender-specific distinctions – while girls are more prone to online communication and social media use, online gaming is far more prevalent among boys. The analysis did not indicate an influence of family composition on both the excessive use of social media and on excessive online gaming, and only marginal effects for the type of school attended. We found a connection between the excessive use of social media and binge drinking and an inverse relation between excessive online gaming and daily smoking.

Discussion and conclusion

The non-existence of significant associations between family environment and excessive Internet use confirmed the general, widespread of this phenomenon across the social and economic strata of the teenage population, indicating a need for further studies on the topic.
Graphics and Global Dissent: Marjane Satrapi'sPersepolis, Persian Miniatures, and the Multifaceted Power of Comic Protest
Authors: Ostby Marie
Published: October 2017

Marjane Satrapi'sPersepolishas been embraced by critics and popular audiences alike as an accessible intercultural memoir-in-comics that challenges predominant Western stereotypes about Iran through the universality of its first-person narrator. But the text's global legibility goes beyond the familiarity of Satrapi's graphic avatar. In examining the surprising factors on which the text's globalism depends, I look closely at one ofPersepolis's diverse inter-texts—the Persian miniature painting—and situate Satrapi in both Parisianbandes dessinéesand Iranian diasporic artistic contexts to argue that the work's concurrent production of local, national, and global scales is inseparable from its connection to several genres and across several media, engaging its readers through multiple modes of perception.Persepolisdraws on a global history of graphics as dissent by challenging preconceived notions about comics as a mass culture form, memoirs as limited confessionals, and Iranian women as silenced victims of an oppressive fundamentalist state. The global accessibility of this graphic novel exists not despite but because of porous categories of genre and culture, which are at once integral to its narrative structure and secondary to the aesthetic of protest that it ultimately embraces.
Mid-Range Reading: Not a Manifesto
Authors: Booth Alison
Published: October 2017

To judge by debates over distant reading, literary scholars might have something in common with the unadaptable tutor in george Eliot'sThe Mill on the Floss, the Rev. Mr. Stelling, who applies the same educational method to any boy in his charge: he sees Tom Tulliver's mind as a field to be plowed with the classics, not as a stomach that can't digest them. But if we look more closely at the range of projects in literary studies, from digital humanities to the new formalist poetics, we find few hidebound Stellings. Applying one's favorite method to all sizes and shapes of data is an obvious genre of error, and scholars and critics of all sorts studiously avoid it. In a maxim now popular among practitioners of digital humanities, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The humorous warning not to become enamored of shiny tools and ply them regardless of object (a schoolboy, all schoolboys) can come from people who useMALLET(MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit) or other software to produce statistical analyses of words or of white spaces in nineteenth-century newspapers. As researchers who are primed to question the prescriptive bias of ourdoxa, our samples, our models, and our tools, we nevertheless have incentives to overstate the predictable errors of competing approaches.
Why Distant Reading Isn't
Authors: Drucker Johanna
Published: October 2017

Language is easy to capture, but hard to read.

—John Cayley, “Terms of Reference and Vectoralist Transgressions,”

Amodern 2: Network Archaeology

If Reading were used exclusively to designate human engagement with symbolic codes, then it would be relatively easy to dismiss distant reading as an oxymoron—unless it were referring to mystical scrying from dizzying heights or deciphering printed matter from across a room. Debates about what constitutes human reading are as varied as the many hermeneutic traditions and pedagogical or cognitive approaches on which they draw (Bruns). But reading has been used to describe many mechanical processes and sorting techniques. Punch-card rods, slotted light triggers, Jacquard looms, and many other devices were reading encoded information long before the standard MARC (machine-readable cataloguing) records became ubiquitous in library systems in the 1970s. Outmoded mechanical reading devices have a seductive, steampunk fascination. Many mimicked human actions and behaviors. In addition, these older technologies were embedded in human social systems and exchanges whose processes the machines' operators could partly read. The machines' actions were encoded and decoded by individuals' cognitive intelligence even if the machines functioned automatically.
Franco Moretti: A Response
Authors: Moretti Franco
Published: October 2017

First of all, thanks to wai chee dimock, the editor of PMLA, and to all contributors for having put this feature together. Devoting time and energy to someone else's work is a very generous thing to do, and I'm grateful to all of you for your attention. Really.

Since Dimock made clear from the start that the discussion would be “on Distant Reading the book,” I will not address Johanna Drucker's and Catherine Nicholson's essays, which, though very interesting, concern methodological and historical issues rather than the book itself. Otherwise, my reply will proceed as follows: a prologue on my relationship to distance; some retrospective thoughts on Distant Reading; a few responses on “facts,” interpretations, “reading,” and “readers”; some reflections on modeling; and a conclusion on what Lisa Marie Rhody calls the “dehumanizing” nature of “scientific discourse.”
Patient-Reported Symptom Control of Diarrhea and Flushing in Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors Treated with Lanreotide Depot/Autogel: Results from a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind and 32-Week Open-Label Study
Authors: Fisher George A. , Wolin Edward M. , Liyanage Nilani , Pitman Lowenthal Susan , Mirakhur Beloo , Pommier Rodney F. , Shaheen Montaser , Vinik Aaron ,   on behalf of the ELECT Study Group
Published: October 2017

Background

In the double-blind (DB) ELECT study, lanreotide depot/autogel significantly reduced versus placebo the need for short-acting octreotide for symptomatic carcinoid syndrome (CS) control in neuroendocrine tumor (NET) patients. Here we present patient-reported symptom data during DB and initial open-label (IOL) treatment.

Materials and Methods

Adults with NETs and CS history, with/without prior somatostatin analog use, were randomized to 16 weeks’ DB lanreotide 120 mg subcutaneous or placebo every 4 weeks, followed by 32 weeks’ IOL lanreotide. Patients recorded diarrhea and/or flushing frequency and severity daily by Interactive Voice (Web) Response System for 1 month prior to randomization and throughout the study.

Results

Of 115 patients randomized (n = 59 lanreotide, n = 56 placebo), 56 lanreotide and 45 placebo patients enrolled in the IOL phase. During DB treatment, least square (LS) mean percentages of days with moderate/severe diarrhea and/or flushing were significantly lower for lanreotide (23.4%) versus placebo (35.8%; LS mean difference [95% confidence interval]: −12.4 [−20.73 to −4.07]; p = .004). For DB lanreotide patients, average daily composite (frequency × severity) diarrhea scores improved significantly between DB and IOL treatment (mean difference: −0.71 [−1.20 to −0.22]; p = .005), and remained stable for diarrhea and/or flushing. For DB placebo patients, composite scores for diarrhea, flushing, and diarrhea and/or flushing improved significantly between DB and IOL treatment (mean differences: −1.07 [−1.65 to −0.49]; −1.06 [−1.93 to −0.19]; and −2.13 [−3.35 to −0.91]; all p ≤ .018).

Conclusion

Improved diarrhea and flushing control in CS patients during 16-week lanreotide treatment was sustained during maintenance of lanreotide treatment for the 32-week IOL phase (48 weeks total).

Implications for Practice

This study prospectively collected daily patient-reported data on diarrhea and flushing from the ELECT trial to evaluate the direct impact of lanreotide depot on patients’ relief of carcinoid syndrome symptoms. Treatment with lanreotide depot was associated with significant reductions in the percentages of days patients reported symptoms of diarrhea and flushing, as well as reductions in the frequency and severity of daily symptoms compared with placebo during 16 weeks of double-blind treatment. These improvements were sustained for 32 additional weeks of open-label lanreotide treatment (i.e., through week 48 of treatment), resulting in clinically meaningful, long-term symptom reduction.
Briefing: Structuring private sector participation in the Dammam, Saudi Arabia, public transport project
Authors: den Hartog Nils , van Dijk Patrick , Aguib Ayman
Published: October 2017

The Dammam metropolitan area is the largest conurbation in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its population exceeds 4 million, and this is expected to increase significantly between now and 2030. Private cars and taxis are the main modes of transport. This leads to congestion, and the costs and pollution resulting from this congestion make it necessary to develop more sustainable transport solutions. In 2014, the Ministry of Transport carried out a feasibility study for a new integrated public transport system. The collapse of the oil price in 2014 prompted decision makers to rethink the procurement plan for the project. Prince Muhammad bin Salman urged his government to adopt public–private partnerships (PPPs). The decision to start a PPP should be a strategic one, depending on the goals that the government wishes to achieve. The project poses some specific challenges. Public transport is virtually non-existent in Saudi Arabia, resulting in uncertainty in ridership predictions. Allocation of the risk of ridership revenues is one of the distinctive attributes in the procurement options for transportation projects. A PPP is considered a promising option for implementation of the project in Dammam. Strategic goals will have to be set before structuring the PPP.
A patient with severe idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension: Is there a way out?
Authors: Tsareva N A , Avdeev S N , Neklyudova G V
Published: October 2017

The paper considers a clinical example of current therapy for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension in a female patient with its clinical deterioration. It shows the tactics of switching from one drug (bosentan) to others (macitentan) within in the same pathogenetic therapy group (endothelin receptor antagonists). The latest pulmonary hypertension classification (Nice, 2013) is presented. The current strategies of pathogenetic therapy for pulmonary hypertension are discussed.
Endothelial immune activation and functional state in patients with hypertensive disease
Authors: Ashcheulova T V , Kovalyova O N , Gerasimchuk N N
Published: October 2017

Aim. To investigate the nitric oxide (NO) system, the activity of endothelial NO synthase (e-NOS) and inducible NO synthase (i-NOS) in relation to the levels of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF- α) and its soluble receptor type I (sTNFRI) depending on the grade of hypertensive disease (HD). Subjects and methods. A total of 317 patients, including 284 patients aged 30 to 65 years (mean age 54.7±0.58 years) with Grades 1—3 HD who had not previously received regular antihypertensive therapy and 33 apparently healthy individuals, were examined at Kharkov City Clinical Hospital Eleven. Immune activation was judged by the serum levels of the proinflammatory cytokine TNF-α in all the examinees and y those of sTNFRI, which were measured by enzyme immunoassay. To study the endothelial functional state, the level of stable end metabolites of nitric oxide, that of S-nitrosothiol and the activity of NO synthases were biochemically determined in 100 patients from this group. A control group consisted of 16 apparently healthy individuals. Results. There were increases in the circulating levels of proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, sTNFRI), the content of S-nitrosothiol and the activity of i-NOS. At the same time, there were decreases in the activity of e-NOS and the level of end nitric oxide metabolites, such as nitrites and nitrates. Conclusion. In patients with HD, the end metabolites of nitric oxide decrease, which indirectly shows a reduction in its vasoactive part, and the stable NO metabolite S-nitrosothiol increases. This is associated with enhanced NO oxidation under conditions of oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction. The higher amount of S-nitrosothiol in the examinees may be associated with increased i-NOS. The immunoinflammatory activation mediated by the proinflammatory cytokines, particularly by the enhanced activity of TNF-α and sTNFRI, has been proven to play a role.
Factors for the development of persistent postoperative cognitive dysfunction in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery under extracorporeal circulation
Authors: Trubnikova O A , Tarasova I V , Maleva O V , Kagan E S , Barbarash O L , Barbarash L S
Published: October 2017

Aim. To analyze the factors contributing to the increased risk of persistent postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) under extracorporeal circulation (EC). Subjects and methods. 257 male patients aged 45 to 69 years with coronary heart disease (CHD) undergoing elective CABS under EC were examined. In addition to conventional clinical examination, all the patients underwent neuropsychological testing 3—5 days before, 7—14 days and 1 year after CABS. Persistent POCD was diagnosed if there was a 20% decline in cognitive domains at 1-year postoperatively versus preoperatively in 20% of the tests of an entire neuropsychological battery. Binary logistic regression analysis was applied to identify the factors supposedly increasing the risk of persistent POCD. Results. It was found that high baseline cognitive status, early POCD after CABG under EC, low adherence to the prescribed treatment regimen, as well as progressive carotid artery (CA) stenosis could predict with a high (85%) probability that persistent POCD might develop at 1 year after surgery. Conclusion. The findings are suggestive of the multifactorial origin of persistent POCD, a significant role in the development of which is played by not only the preoperative cognitive status, but also by postoperative factors, such as the degree of adherence to the prescribed treatment regimen, early POCD, and progressive CA stenosis.
Comparative analysis of mortality from acute forms of ischemic heart disease during a 15-year period in the Russian Federation and the United States and the factors influencing its formation
Authors: Boytsov S A , Samorodskaya I V , Nikulina N N , Yakushin S S , Andreev E M , Zaratyants O V , Barbarash O L
Published: October 2017

Aim. To comparatively analyze the registered mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) as a whole, as well as myocardial infarction (MI) and other acute forms of CHD during a 15-year period in the Russian Federation (RF, 2000—2014) and the United States of America (USA, 1999-2013). Materials and methods. Primary data were obtained from the database of the RF State Statistics Service, the World Health Organization Mortality Database, Human Mortality Database, then converted into standardized mortality rates and are presented in three age groups (30+, 30-49, and 50+ years old) in men and women separately. Results. The analysis revealed a substantial excess of the registered mortality rates from CHD in the RF versus in the USA, as well as a lower incidence of MI and a higher incidence of other acute CHD forms registered as the cause of death. It also showed considerable differences in the structure of registered types of MI as the cause of mortality. Conclusion. The differences found in the mortality rates from CHD, MI, and other acute forms of CHD in the RF and the USA can be explained by objective (the higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, the higher and earlier incidence of CHD in the RF, as well as differences in the organization of medical care and, as a result, actually higher mortality rates from CHD in Russia) and subjective (differences in approaches to statistically developing a population-based mortality rate, as well as defects in filling out the medical documents and coding the causes of death) factors.
Functional calibration for trunk, lower- and upper-limb fixed inertial sensors v1
Authors: Fasel Benedikt , Spörri Jörg , Kröll Josef , Aminian Kamiar
Published: October 2017

Calibration procedure for functionally aligning inertial sensors fixed to the shanks, thighs, trunk (e.g. sacrum, sternum), head, arms, and forearms / wrists. The movements were originally designed for analyzing skiing movements where the person is wearing ski boots. However, the same protocol can be applyied also barefoot or with regular shoes. Please refer to the protocol's guidelines for more information how to obtain a sample data set and the matlab code needed to process the functional calibration.
Read Recruitment Using Bowtie2 v1
Authors: E Thornton Jr James
Published: October 2017

This protocol details how to perform read recruitement to the contigs generated from the previous protocol using Bowtie2.
SCHEME OF SYSTEMIC POLITICO-GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
Authors: Koroma N.
Published: October 2017

In the second half of the twentieth century, the new generation of political geographers significantly expanded the field of scientific research in studies of the political sphere changing the discourse of political geography. One of the major territorial systems is the territorial and political system (TPS) – the object of political geography, as the direction of human geography. The territorial and political system – is the result of functioning in a particular territory objectively linked elements of political activity. The appearance in the political geography term of “the territorial and political system” has expanded the field of political and geographical researches and gave the opportunity to study the problems territorial-political organization at different hierarchical levels of the world system. The purpose of this work is to formulate the basic research approaches for investigation the territorial and political systems (TPS) on different levels to develop schemes of their politico-geographical analysis. The research solves a series of new tasks that have a theoretical and methodological importance: interpretation the system of concepts forms the modern field of politico-geographical research TPS on different hierarchical levels and helps to build the scheme of systemic politico-geographical analysis. Practical implementation of the scheme systemic politico-geographical analysis will allow to fully studying problems of territorial and political organization of society, to carry out highly specialized research of individual elements of TPS or to analyze the territory in terms of a key (main) issue. Substantiated key positions for building the scheme of systemic politico-geographical analysis have to take into account modern challenges in society. Methodology. Using the methods of system analysis and synthesis, inductive-deductive proof, abstraction and logical constructs provide the systemic research. It was analyzed a great massive of scientific and journalistic materials on the politico-geographical and geopolitical studies.
Evaluation of the motor function of patients with renal failure undergoing hemodialysis: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Souza Felipe Heylan Nogueira de , Pessoa Raynara Maritsa Cavalcante , Filho Edson Meneses da Silva , Cezarino Leandro Gonçalves , Chagas Nadla di Karlla , Pereira Rodrigues Ramos , Ferreira Pamela de Sousa , Cacho Ênio Walker Azevedo
Published: October 2017

Introduction: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is becoming a public health problem, due its chronic, progressive and irreversible kidney function. Objective: To evaluate the motor function of patients with CKD undergoing hemodialysis (HD) treatment. Method: a cross‑sectional study carried out at João XXIII hospital in the city of Campina Grande-Brazil, from August to September 2016. Inclusion criteria were: subjects aged between 20 and 60 years old of both gender and who were undergoing HD treatment for more than 1 year. Those who presented cognitive and visual impairment, amputees, history of stroke or traumatic brain injury and underwent surgical procedure in the 6 months prior to the approach were excluded. Motor function assessment was performed by Motor Function Measurement Scale, which is divided into three dimensions: Dimension 1 (D1): standing position and transfers; Dimension 2 (D2): axial and proximal motor function; Dimension 3 (D3): distal motor function. To evaluate the muscular strength was used the Oxford scale and for the range of motion a goniometer was used. Results: The sample consisted of 20 patients. The correlation between D1 and D2 showed a significant positive association. Significant positive correlation was also observed on the strength of the lower limbs and D1 for all muscle evaluated. On the other hand, the strength of the upper limbs, relative to D2 and D3 showed a moderate positive correlation only between the flexors of the right shoulder and D2. Right elbow flexion was the only variable that presented a negative and moderate correlation with hemodialysis time. Conclusion: The strength and range of motion of the sample were lower than expected for people without pathology, in addition the evaluation methods present in this study were not sensitive to detect any dysfunction.
Scientific background of telemedicine-based approaches for medical care organization in urology
Authors: Apolihin Oleg I , Shadjorkin Igor A , Perhov Vladimir I , Sabgajda Tamara P , Leonov Sergej A
Published: October 2017

The paper includes organizational issues of telemedicine usage in field of urology. Negative outcomes of an urological care had been described and classified. Proposed complex telemedicine system allows to decrease influence of a set of negative factors linked with bad outcomes in urology. (For citation: Apolihin OI, Shadjorkin IA, Perhov VI, et al. Scientific background of telemedicine-based approaches for medical care organization in urology. Urologicheskie vedomosti. 2017;7(3):14-21. doi: 10.17816/uroved7314-21).
Urodynamic condition of lower urinary tract in patients with a benign prostatic hyperplasia who use dutasteride
Authors: Iziev Murat M , Al-Shukri Adel S , Tkachuk Vladimir N
Published: October 2017

The aim of this research was to study the urodynamic condition of the lower urinary tract in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia during their use of dutasteride and at a remote time after its completion. The condition of urodynamic of the lower urinary tract was studied in 311 patients. The duration of dutasteride use ranged from 6 to 48 months. The obtained data made it possible to conclude that in the treatment of patients with benign prostatic hypertension with dutasteride it is advisable to prescribe this drug continuously for at least 48 months. (For citation: Iziev MM, Al-Shukri AS, Tkachuk VN. Urodynamic condition of lower urinary tract in patients with a benign prostatic hyperplasia who use dutasteride. Urologicheskie vedomosti. 2017;7(3):28-33. doi: 10.17816/uroved7328-33).
Peyroni’s disease which imitated the large stone of urethra
Authors: Kazarov Rafajel L , Korol Evgeny I , Merkulov Dmitry V , Vasil’ev Andrey V , Al-Shukri Adel S
Published: October 2017

A clinical observation of Peyronie’s disease in patient, who had large fibrous plaque in a cavernous body, which imitated the stone of urethra. Clarification of the diagnosis was possible only after performing multi-slice computer tomography. (For citation: Kazarov RL, Korol’ EI, Merkulov DV, et al. Peyroni’s disease which imitated the large stone of urethra. Urologicheskie vedomosti. 2017;7(3):49-51. doi: 10.17816/uroved7349-51).
Diagnosis and theraphy of urinary infections. What should always remember (clinical lecture). Part 1
Authors: Borisov Vladimir V
Published: October 2017

The clinical lecture is devoted to the systematization of the knowledge of a wide range of physicians and urologists about the importance of the problem of uncomplicated urinary tract infections, their prevalence in our country and the world, the causes and frequency of occurrence in children and adults, diagnostic features based on clinical manifestations of the disease, laboratory data taking into account the formation of biofilms, the presence of sexually transmitted diseases. A special place is given to the problem of recurrences of cystitis due to the anatomical features of the female urethra, the need and the possibilities for their correction. An important place in the lecture is devoted to the role of general practitioners, district therapists, nephrologists, urologists, gynecologists in outpatient examination and treatment of these patients. (For citation: Borisov VV. Diagnosis and theraphy of urinary infections. What should always remember (clinical lecture). Part 1. Urologicheskie vedomosti. 2017;7(3):52-59. doi: 10.17816/uroved7352-59).
Estilo de vida de estudiantes universitarios de enfermería de Santa Marta, Colombia
Authors: Canova-Barrios Carlos
Published: October 2017

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue describir los comportamientos asociados a los estilos de vida de estudiantes de enfermería (Santa Marta, Colombia) a partir de las dimensiones: Familia y amigos, Asociatividad y actividad física, Nutrición, Tabaco, Alcohol y otras drogas, Sueño y estrés, Trabajo y tipo de personalidad, Introspección, Control de la salud y conducta sexual, y Otras conductas.
Participaron 199 universitarios (de los cuales 81,4 % eran mujeres) estudiantes de la carrera de Enfermería de una institución de educación superior de la ciudad de Santa Marta, de entre 16 y 33 años, con edad promedio de 21,6 años (DE = 3,35 años). Estas personas diligenciaron el cuestionario Fantastic de Wilson y Ciliska en su versión en español. Los resultados obtenidos muestran un predominio de prácticas saludables en la mayoría de las dimensiones, con excepción de Asociatividad y actividad física, Nutrición, Sueño y estrés, y Control de salud y conducta sexual. La dimensión mejor evaluada fue la concerniente al consumo de Tabaco, y la de menor puntaje, Asociatividad y actividad física. El sexo femenino presentó mejores puntuaciones en la mayoría de las dimensiones, salvo en Asociatividad y actividad física, en la cual el sexo masculino tuvo mayor puntaje. El estilo de vida en general se caracteriza como Bueno (Buen trabajo, en el camino correcto) con un puntaje de 93 (DE = 10).
Farmacoterapéutica de la anticoagulación. Revisión de la literatura
Authors: Posada-López Andrés Felipe , García C., Julio César , Pacheco P. Tatiana , Arias V. Sara
Published: October 2017

La terapia anticoagulante tiene múltiples indicaciones en diversos contextos; va más allá de la prevención de la formación de trombos o su propagación y tiene como objetivo final mejorar la calidad de vida de los pacientes. En efecto, la anticoagulación se hace relevante en diversas situaciones clínicas que abarcan desde enfermedades crónicas hasta patologías quirúrgicas y situaciones especiales (obesidad, enfermedad renal crónica, trauma, cáncer) para evitar desenlaces adversos, tales como el tromboembolismo venoso, los estados hipercoagulables, el síndrome coronario agudo, la fibrilación y el aleteo (flutter) auricular, entre otros. En este sentido, la comprensión adecuada y la formulación de dosis óptimas de anticoagulantes recobran especial importancia. El objetivo de este trabajo fue revisar la evidencia proveniente de estudios clínicos sobre el papel de los principales anticoagulantes orales y parenterales en el contexto de los pacientes con indicación de anticoagulación por antecedentes patológicos, quirúrgicos y en situaciones especiales como las mencionadas. Existen diversos conceptos y recomendaciones sobre la profilaxis y el tratamiento anticoagulante en indicaciones habituales; sin embargo, se debe establecer un consenso de anticoagulación en situaciones especiales que se presentan en la práctica clínica diaria.

 
Ocorrência fúngica em goiaba ‘paluma’ submetida a impacto e transportada em dois tipos de embalagens
Authors: Freire Maciel Dos Santos , Cerzar Márcia Aparecida , Araújo Railene Hérica Carlos Rocha , Souza Francisco De Assis de , Lima Tiago Augusto Cardoso de
Published: October 2017

No Nordeste, é comum a utilização de embalagens inadequadas para transporte de frutos,acarretando injúrias que servem como porta de entrada de patógenos. Objetivou-se avaliar a incidência de podridão, severidade e ocorrência fúngica em goiaba ‘Paluma’ transportada em dois tipos de embalagens. Frutos foram colhidos na Fazenda Mocó, Aparecida, Paraíba, no estádio de maturação “de vez”, e submetidos aos tratamentos por impacto através de queda à altura de 85cm sob piso industrial, caracterizando os tratamentos: T1, frutos submetidos a impacto, embalagem em caixa plástica de polietileno; T2, frutos submetidos a impacto, embalagem em caixa de papelão; T3, frutos sem impacto, embalagem em caixa plástica de polietileno; T4, frutos sem impacto, embalagem em caixa de papelão; T5, testemunha, frutos sem injúria mecânica. As amostras foram transportados por 45 km, até o Laboratório de Fitopatologia da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campus Pombal. Os resultados de severidade mostraram que o tratamento T1 difere significativamente dos demais. Os tratamentos T1 e T2 apresentaram maior incidência de frutos com podridões. A maior ocorrência de fungos foi verificada nos tratamentos com caixa plástica, mostrando que este tipo de embalagem favorece a incidência fúngica.

Fungal occurrence in  guava 'paluma' submitted to impact and transported in two types of packaging

Abstract: In the Northeast it is common the use of inadequate packaging for fruit transportation, causing injuries that serve as pathogen gateway. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of rot, fungal severity and occurrence in guava 'Paluma' transported in two types of packaging. Fruits were collected at farm Mocó, Aparecida – PB during maturation "of time," and subjected to treatment by impact through the fall height of 85 cm under industrial floor, featuring treatments: T1, fruits subjected to impact, packaging in plastic polyethylene box; T2, fruits subjected to impact, packing in cardboard box; T3, fruit without impact, packaging in plastic polyethylene box; T4, fruit without impact, packing in cardboard box; T5, witness, fruit without mechanical injury. These were carried by 45 km, to the Phytopathology Laboratory of CCTA. The results show that the severity of the treatment T1 differs significantly from the others. The T1 and T2 had a higher incidence of decayed fruits.
GESTÃO POR COMPETÊNCIAS EM UMA MULTINACIONAL DO SETOR METALÚRGICO
Authors: Ceribeli Harrison Bachion , Guilarducci Camila Alves
Published: October 2017

Partindo da falta de consolidação teórica do tema gestão por competências, definiu-se como objetivo para esta pesquisa descrever o modelo de gestão baseada em competências implantado em uma organização de grande porte e analisar as práticas adotadas. Como método de pesquisa, utilizou-se o estudo de caso, sendo o objeto investigado uma organização multinacional que atua no setor de metalurgia. Como resultado da pesquisa, foi possível mapear ações e práticas que podem ser implantadas para operacionalizar o modelo de gestão de pessoas por competências, que podem servir como diretrizes para outras organizações que desejam estruturar ou aprimorar este modelo gerencial. Desta forma, contribui-se para a consolidação teórica do tema e, ao mesmo tempo, para sua disseminação no meio empresarial.
A CULTURA ORGANIZACIONAL PREDOMINANTE EM UMA ORGANIZAÇÃO PÚBLICA DO SISTEMA JUDICIÁRIO EM PALMAS - TO
Authors: Corrêa Menezes Elisabeth Aparecida , D'Ambros Jorge , Teixeira Barbosa Laurie , Marrelli Matos Mauricio Nathanni
Published: October 2017

O presente artigo tem por objetivo identificar a cultura organizacional predominante em uma organização pública do sistema judiciário em Palmas-TO. A cultura organizacional é um elemento chave na compreensão das ações humanas, pois constitui um padrão de modos de perceber, sentir, pensar e agir de um determinado grupo em uma organização. Assim, mais do que um conjunto de artefatos, regras e hábitos, a cultura organizacional representa a construção de significados partilhados por um conjunto de pessoas pertencentes a um mesmo grupo. Para efetivação deste estudo, foi realizada uma pesquisa de natureza descritiva, quantitativa, e a seleção da amostra do tipo Não-Probabilístico por Acessibilidade ou Conveniência. A pesquisa foi conduzida por 47 servidores que responderam ao questionário chamado na literatura por Modelo de Valores Competitivos. Os resultados apontaram para a predominância da cultura hierárquica na situação atual da organização.
AS VARIÁVEIS NECESSIDADE E OPORTUNIDADE E SUAS INFLUÊNCIAS NA ABERTURA DE MICRO E PEQUENAS EMPRESAS: UM ESTUDO DE CAMPO NO CENTRO COMERCIAL DE MACAPÁ-AP
Authors: Assunção Aléxia Galvão , Queiroz Filipe dos Anjos , Costa Robson Antônio Tavares
Published: October 2017

Muitos estudos têm apontado que o empreendedorismo é fundamental para o desenvolvimento da economia. Mesmo antes de ser definido o que é empreender, determinadas praticas já eram determinantes para a sobrevivência humana. O artigo busca através de um estudo quantitativo e qualitativo em micro e pequenas empresas do centro comercial do Município de Macapá-AP, analisar a influência das variáveis necessidade e oportunidade para o surgimento de novos empreendimentos. Os resultados sugerem que esses dois fatores são importantes para o surgimento de novos empreendimentos, mas, a necessidade se mostrou consideravelmente mais decisiva frente a outros fatores para o ingresso de indivíduos no comércio da referida região.
Características de publicações nacionais sobre Síndrome de Burnout
Authors: Corrêa Jonathan Saidelles , Lopes Luis Felipe Dias , Ávila Lucas Veiga , Albanio Lúcia dos Santos , Almeida Damiana Machado de
Published: October 2017

A exaustão física e psicológica aliada ao estresse permanente no trabalho tende a conduzir ao desenvolvimento de doenças laborais, como a Síndrome de Burnout. Neste contexto estão inseridas principalmente aquelas profissões que presumem cuidados com pessoas, como enfermeiros, policiais, agentes penitenciários e docentes. Desse modo, o objetivo deste artigo é demonstrar o panorama das publicações sobre Burnout no contexto nacional na última década (2007-2016). Para isso, foram evidenciadas as principais características relacionadas ao tema, no que tange: área temática; distribuição de publicações por ano; autores; e fontes. O método utilizado foi a bibliometria, com característica descritiva e abordagem quantitativa, utilizando como fonte de dados a Base SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online. Analisou-se um total de 169 publicações, constatando-se que: a área de conhecimento de maior impacto foi a Enfermagem; o ano que mais ocorreu publicações foi o de 2014; o autor com maior número de registros foi Telma Ramos Trigo; a fonte mais relevante foi a Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem. Os resultados desta pesquisa possibilitam contribuir com o cenário acadêmico e empresarial, tendo em vista que auxiliam pesquisadores e gestores a compreendam o comportamento do tema no cenário nacional.
Interrelationships and consequential effects among technological innovation, service consistency, customer satisfaction and loyalty in banking
Authors: Obeng Asare Yaw , Peter Mkhize L
Published: October 2017

The key to long-term success in banking is consistent improvement and delivering of quality product and or value-added service that conform to the expectations of customers. IT-innovative products/services and processes (technological innovation) facilitate these key elements of customer satisfaction and critical factors for retaining valued customers. The objective of this paper is to explore the effects of technological innovation on service consistency and the consequential effects on customer satisfaction and loyalty covering seven universal banks in Ghana. The results of the empirically tested model reveal new/improved product/process functionalities, service consistency and innovative product/process satisfaction contribute significantly to customer loyalty (p < 0.001). Service consistency has a marginal higher impact (β = .373) on customer loyalty than the others. Product/process quality contributes significantly (with β ranging from .345 to .742 and p < 0.001) to each of the above three antecedents than all other items.
CULTURAL APPROACHES IN CYBERPORN CRIME PREVENTION
Authors: Angkupi Prima
Published: October 2017

Limitations of law in cyberporn law enforcement demands the need for non-penal approach as pre-ventive effort to eliminate causes of Cyberporn crimes. This approach includes crime prevention which aims to prevent a crime from being recurred. This approach can be implemented through situ-ational control by active involvement of cultural roles in community. However, it cannot be separat-ed from observing human life variations including childhood, youth, family, school, gender, peer group which play significant role during productive period. Those variations cane be taken as a theo-retical base for cyberporn crime prevention.Keywords: pornography, internet, crime prevention
Evaluation of the First Cycle of Steam Stimulation in North Kuwait Heavy Oil Thermal Pilots
Authors: Al-Ali Yacob , Wang Guojuan , Al-Mula Yousef , Hussein Mahmoud , Choudhary Pradeep , Ahmed Fatma
Published: October 2017

There are two ongoing steamflood pilots with inverted five-spot, 5-acre and 10-acre spacing patterns in North Kuwait heavy oil field. KOC determined that performing two or three Cycle Steam Stimulation (CSS) cycles followed by steamflood is required to achieve the production target from a multi-layer reservoir with two vertically separated heavy oil zones.

A previous reservoir simulation study identified two possible completion strategies. One completion strategy for simultaneous steaming in the 5-acre spacing pattern and the other completion strategy for steaming one zone at a time in the 10-acre well spacing pattern.

In this paper, we discuss for the two pilots, operational and monitoring challenges and the substantial difference in the performance after first CSS cycle for the two well completion strategies.

The Steamflood pilots are currently at the pre-flood stage and the first cycle of the Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) has been finalized. A comprehensive reservoir and well surveillance program is being conducted to monitor and gather data necessary to better understand the reservoir and well performance in the pilots.

One of the goals of the pilots is to use the acquired reservoir understanding to determine a completion strategy for commercial development of the field from two options identified in the reservoir simulation study. This paper presents insights on the difference in the performance with the two well completion strategies.

The first CSS cycle in the wells with 10-acre spacing and the completion strategy for steaming one zone at a time demonstrated relatively better performance compared to the wells in the 5-acre pilot with a completion strategy for simultaneous steaming where more challenges were observed.

The reservoir properties and field surveillance data were used to explain this performance difference for the two well completion strategies after first cycle of CSS.

The recommendations and conclusions in this paper are based on actual field data in a multi-layered heavy oil reservoir after the first CSS cycle. Future papers will present the results after further CSS cycles and steam flooding.
Well and Inflow Performance Relationship for Heavy Oil Reservoir under Heating Treatment
Authors: Hakiki F. , Aditya A. , Ulitha D. T. , Shidqi M. , Adi W. S. , Wibowo K. H. , Barus M.
Published: October 2017

Well and Inflow Performance Relationship, termed TPR and IPR, respectively have been the unfailing methods to predict well performance. It is further to determine the schemes on optimising production. The main intention of the study is to explore TPR and IPR under heating treatment for heavy oil well. Klamono is a mature field which mostly has depleted wells, it produces heavy oil within 18.5 °API (>0.95 g/cc oil density), and therefore, artificial lifting method is necessary. Sucker Road Pump (SRP) and Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) are the most deployed artificial lifting method in this reservoir. To boost the heavy oil production, the application of Electric Downhole Heater (EDH) in Well KLO-X1 is being studied. Whole Klamono's production is more than 100,000 blpd within 97-99% water cut. By installing EDH, oil viscosity is decreased hence oil mobility ratio will play a role to decrease water cut. EDH is installed together with the tubing joint to simplify its application in the wellbore. The study shows that EDH application can elevate fluid (mixed oil and brine) temperature. Oil viscosity confirms a reduction from 68 to 46 cP. The gross well production is up to 12.2 bopd due optimising its outflow performance and reducing 97.5 to 96.9% water cut. The field data gives an incremental of 4.9 bopd. The computational results only show an attainment of net oil production up to 8.3 bopd (2 bopd incremental). The EDH works to lessen both density and viscosity as we hypothesised for the mechanism of thermally induced oil production improvement. The evaluation study on its economics aspect exhibits good result that is 1.4 USD/bbl additional profit margin according to field data despite the challenging annual rig rent cost. Following the field data, the expected net income through analytical model revealed that this project is financially promising.