bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Thought and Being are the Same: Categorial Rendition of the Parmenidian Thesis
Authors: Egorychev Ilya
Published: November 2016

Classic understanding of logic as an instrument of cognition, which, in effect, pertain rather to human’s mind than to reality itself, gives rise to the fundamental mapping problem of reconciliation of this reality with any possible practices of its representations in thought. In other words, it is essentially not the same thing that can be thought and that can be. However, after unusual and highly abstract (essentially geometric) Grothendieck constructions gave rise to so called categorial analysis of logic, it became possible to show, that (up to categorial equivalence) Parmenides after all was right.
Philosophical and Linguistic Sources of Herbert L. A. Hart’s Theory of Law
Authors: Doliwa Katarzyna
Published: November 2016

The paper presents H. L. A. Hart as a leading exponent of the analytic orientation in legal philosophy. Hart showed that the principles and methods of analytic philosophy yield fruitful implications to law, where they may foster fresh ideas and innovative solutions. The text emphasizes the linguistic aspect of Hart’s works; his achievements in legal theory are discussed in the context of the principles of ordinary language philosophy.
Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire
Authors: Macfarlane Karen E.
Published: November 2016

It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation of texts (governmental, legal, educational, scientific, fictional) driven significantly by a desire for what Thomas Richards describes as “one great system of knowledge.” The project of assembling this system assumed that all of the “alien” knowledges that it drew upon could be easily assimilated into existing, “universal” (that is, European) epistemological categories. This belief in “one great system” assumed that knowledges from far-flung outposts of empire could, through careful categorization and control, be made to reinforce, rather than threaten, the authority of imperial epistemic rule. But this movement into “new” epistemic as well as physical spaces opened up the disruptive possibility for and encounter with Foucault’s “insurrection of subjugated knowledges.” In the Imperial Gothic stories discussed here, the space between “knowing all there is to know” and the inherent unknowability of the “Other” is played out through representations of failures of classification and anxieties about the limits of knowledge. These anxieties are articulated through what is arguably one of the most heavily regulated signifiers of scientific progress at the turn of the century: the body. In an age that was preoccupied with bodies as spectacles that signified everything from criminal behaviour, psychological disorder, moral standing and racial categorization, the mutable, unclassifiable body functions as a signifier that mediates between imperial fantasies of control and definition and fin-de-siècle anxieties of dissolution and degeneration. In Imperial Gothic fiction these fears appear as a series of complex explorations of the ways in which the gap between the known and the unknown can be charted on and through a monstrous body that moves outside of stable classification.
The Tell-Tale Hand: Gothic Narratives and the Brain
Authors: Forsyth Neil
Published: November 2016

The opening story in Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is called simply “Hands.” It is about a teacher’s remarkable hands that sometimes seem to move independently of his will. This essay explores some of the relevant contexts and potential links, beginning with other representations of teachers’ hands, such as Caravaggio’s St. Matthew and the Angel, early efforts to establish a sign-language for the deaf, and including the Montessori method of teaching children to read and write by tracing the shape of letters with their hands on rough emery paper. The essay then explores filmic hands that betray or work independently of conscious intentions, from Dr Strangelove, Mad Love, to The Beast With Five Fingers. Discussion of the medical literature about the “double” of our hands in the brain, including “phantom hands,” leads on to a series of images that register Rodin’s lifelong fascination with sculpting separate hands.
Nick Joaquin’s Cándido’s Apocalypse: Re-imagining the Gothic in a Postcolonial Philippines
Authors: Arong Marie Rose B.
Published: November 2016

Nick Joaquin, one of the Philippines’ pillars of literature in English, is regrettably known locally for his nostalgic take on the Hispanic aspect of Philippine culture. While Joaquin did spend a great deal of time creatively exploring the Philippines’ Hispanic past, he certainly did not do so simply because of nostalgia. As recent studies have shown, Joaquin’s classic techniques that often echo the Hispanic influence on Philippine culture may also be considered as a form of resistance against both the American neocolonial influence and the nativist brand of nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the emergence of Gothic criticism in postcolonial writing, Joaquin’s works have rarely received the attention they deserve in this critical area.

In this context, this paper explores the idea of the Gothic in Joaquin’s writing and how it relates to Joaquin being the “most original voice in postcolonial Philippine writing.” In 1972, the University of Queensland Press featured Joaquin’s works in its Asian and Pacific writing series. This “new” collection, Tropical Gothic (1972), contained his significant early works published in Prose and Poems (1952) plus his novellas. This collection’s title highlights a specific aspect of Joaquin’s writing, that of his propensity to use Gothic tropes such as the blending of the real and the fantastic, or the tragic and the comic, as shown in most of the stories in the collection. In particular, I examine how his novella (Cándido’s Apocalypse) interrogates the neurosis of the nation—a disconnection from the past and its repercussions on the present/future of the Philippines.
Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction
Authors: Armstrong John
Published: November 2016

In Alice Walker’s vignette “The Flowers,” a young black girl’s walk in the woods is interrupted when she treads “smack” into the skull of a lynched man. As her name predicates, Myop’s age and innocence obstruct her from seeing deeply into the full implications of the scene, while the more worldly reader is jarred and confronted with a whole history of racial violence and slavery. The skeleton, its teeth cracked and broken, is a temporal irruption, a Gothic “smack” that shatters the transience of the pastoral scene with the intrusion of a deeper past from which dead matter/material de-composes (disturbs, unsettles, undoes) the story’s present with the violent matter/issue of racism. Walker’s story is representative of an important trope in fiction, where the pastoral dead speak through the details of their remains, and the temporal fabric of text is disrupted by the very substance of death. Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, consistently signifying beyond their own inanimate silences, revealing suppressed and unpalatable themes of racial and sexual violence, child abuse and cannibalistic consumerism. Along with Walker’s story, this study considers these ideas through new readings of Stephen King’s novella The Body, Raymond Carver’s story “So Much Water So Close to Home,” and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. While these writers may form an unlikely grouping in terms of style, each uses pastoral remains as significant material, deploying the dead as Gothic entities that force the reader to confront America’s darkest social and historical matters.
Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
Authors: Stępień Justyna
Published: November 2016

The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses contemporary culture immersed in a “culture of death” that has produced a vast amount of cultural texts under the rubric of “Gothicism.” By considering Jean Baudrillard’s concept of transaesthetics and Judith Halberstam’s writings on contemporary monstrosity, the paper shows that a commodified Gothic mode has lost its older deconstructive functions that operated on the margins of the mainstream. Now entirely focused on the duplication of the same aesthetic codes and signs, Gothic productions conform to the rules of postindustrial culture, enriching entertainment imagery with the neutralized concept of “otherness.” Hence, the article engages primarily with Jarmusch’s indie aesthetics that goes beyond easily recognizable patterns and generic conventions and allows the director to emphasize that the arts are rejuvenating forces, the antidote to a commoditized environment. Then, the focus is on the construction of main characters—Adam and Eve, ageless vampires and spouses—who thanks to nostalgic theatricality and performance reconfigure the mainstream monstrosity. Ultimately, the article emphasizes that Jarmusch’s film, to a large extent, becomes a warning against the inevitable results of advanced capitalism practiced on a global scale.
Intertextual Illuminations: “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Malcolm Lowry’s “Through the Panama”
Authors: Filipczak Dorota
Published: November 2016

The article offers a reading of “Through the Panama” by Malcom Lowry in light of an intertext connected with Polish literature. Lowry mentions a short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Nobel prize winner for the whole of his literary output. What Lowry stresses in his intertextual allusion is the perilous illumination that the eponymous lighthouse keeper experiences. The article contends that the condition of the lighthouse keeper anticipates that of the Lowry protagonist who in “Through the Panama” fears death by his own book, or, to take Lowry’s other phrase, being “Joyced in his own petard.” Basing her analysis on Mieke Bal’s idea of a participatory exhibition where the viewer decides how to approach a video installation, and can do so by engaging with a single detail, Filipczak treats Lowry’s text as a multimodal work where such a detail may give rise to a reassessment of the reading experience. Since the allusion to the Polish text has only elicited fragmentary responses among the Lowry critics, Filipczak decides to fill in the gap by providing her interpretation of the lighthouse keeper’s perilous illumination mentioned by Lowry in the margins of his work, and by analyzing it in the context of major Romantic texts, notably the epic poem Master Thaddeus by Adam Mickiewicz whose words trigger the lighthouse keeper’s experience, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose text is quoted in the margins of “Through the Panama.” This choice allows to throw a different light on Lowry’s work which is also inhabited by echoes of futurist attitude to the machine and the Kafkaesque fear of being locked in one of the many locks of the canal “as if in experience.”
Reconfigurable SRTM System for Road Traffic in Kingdom of Bahrain
Authors: El-Medany Wael , Al-Omary Alauddin , Al-Hakim Riyadh , Homeed Taher
Published: November 2016

This paper presents reconfigurable hardware architecture for smart road traffic system based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The design can be reconfigured for different timing of the traffic signals according to the received and collected data read by the different sensors on the road; the design has been described using VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language). The SRTM (Smart Road Traffic Management) System has some more features that help passenger to avoid traffic jamming by sending the collected information through web/mobile applications to find the best road between the start and destination points, which will be displayed on Google maps, at the same time it will also shows the points of traffic jamming on Google maps. SRTM system can also manage emergency vehicles such as ambulance and fire fighter and also can send snapshots and video streaming for different roads and junctions to show the points of traffic jamming. The design has been simulated and tested using ModelSim PE student edition 10.4. Spartan 3 FPGA starter kit from Xilinx has been used for implementing and testing the design in a hardware level.
Transportation of Dangerous Goods in Green Transport Corridors - Conclusions from Baltic Sea Region
Authors: Schröder Meike , Prause Gunnar
Published: November 2016

The Green Corridor concept represents a cornerstone in the development and implementation of integrated and sustainable transport solutions based on trans-nationality, multi-modality and a high involvement of public and private stakeholders, including the political level. Despite the fact that the Green Transport Corridor (GTC) concept is founded on the three dimensions of sustainability with a strong emphasis on environmental aspects, the corridor hubs as well as the whole transport corridors have to find ways to handle and transport dangerous goods by keeping the high sustainability standards.

The paper addresses the research questions what kind of economical, ecological and social risks might occur in the context of handling and transportation of dangerous goods in a Green Transport Corridor in the Baltic Sea Region, what consequences they might have on the GTC design and how and with which measures they can be managed. Based on this analysis the development of a comprehensive risk management concept for the handling and transportation of dangerous goods in Green Transport Corridors in the Baltic Sea Region based on Schröder and Prause (2015) will be started. The concept will include practical implications and best practices.
The Model to Assess the Implementation of Technical Conditions Defined in Annex IV of Marpol Convention 73/78: The Case of the Baltic Sea Port of Klaipeda
Authors: Jarzemskis Andrius , Jarzemskiene Ilona
Published: November 2016

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission members seeking to implement MARPOL 73/78 Annex IV amendments which recognize the Baltic Sea as special are, in which discharge of uncommitted sewage from passenger ships is forbidden, must ensure that ports are equipped with adequate reception facilities. To ensure implementation of amendments of Annex IV in port of Klaipeda, the analysis framework model was defined by authors. The model evaluates the readiness of the port to changes brought by the amendments of MARPOL Annex IV. The scientific problem comes with perception of adequacy. Resolution MEPC.200(62) amending MARPOL 73/78 Annex IV states, that port reception facilities must be adequate to the needs of passenger ships using them without causing undue delay. Concept of adequacy is not defined, therefore other guidelines explaining adequacy were used: EU directive 2000/59/EC and IMO resolution MEPC.83(44) Guidelines for ensuring adequacy of port reception facilities. Based on these sources, criteria that must be met to ensure adequacy were identified and tested in article: 1) reception facilities meet needs of ships normally using them; 2) discharge of sewage does to cause undue delay; 3) reception facilities does not provide disincentive to use them; 4) facilities are accessible; 5) facilities contribute to the improvement of the marine environment.
„Diese musikalische Phrase ist für mich eine Gebärde. Sie schleicht sich in mein Leben ein.“
Authors: Eggers Katrin
Published: November 2016

Der Beitrag untersucht Wittgensteins Auffassung musikalischer Gesten anhand zweier von ihm prominent besprochenen Musikstellen bei Beethoven und Schubert, auf deren kompositorische Besonderheiten gemäss Wittgensteins Aussagen eingegangen wird. Es stellt sich dabei heraus, dass Wittgenstein an ihnen auf der einen Seite die Idee des „Fortsetzens“ mittels einer Geste als Verstehen durchdenkt, sowie auf der anderen Seite die besonderen kompositorischen Fakturen als gleichsam ideale Beispiele des Aspektwechsels und der Verkörperung von Gleichzeitigkeit verschiedener Bedeutungsebenen betrachtet.
Philosophical Studies on Wittgenstein in China
Authors: Yi Jiang , Xue-guang Zhang
Published: November 2016

It has been a century since Wittgenstein was introduced into China, and his philosophy has been in conflict with traditional Chinese philosophy and culture ever since. During this time, Wittgenstein’s philosophy has been the focus of considerable dialogue regarding Chinese and Western philosophies and has been responsible for introducing many new ideas into Chinese philosophy. There are three ways to study Wittgenstein’s philosophy in China: contextual reading, interpretation of thoughts and extended understanding. Chen Jiaying is one of the foremost scholars of the study of Wittgenstein in China. This scholar incorporates Wittgenstein’s methodology, especially in his later philosophy, to explain meanings of ordinary language. Wittgenstein’s philosophy introduces anti-essentialism into Chinese studies, a new way to interpret the philosophy of language, and his criticism of traditional Western philosophy. Taken together, these factors emphasise the significance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to philosophical research in China.
Ethnologische Betrachtungsweisen: Wittgenstein, Frazer, Sraffa
Authors: Brusotti Marco
Published: November 2016

The late Wittgenstein is reported as saying that he owes his ‘anthropological approach’ to Piero Sraffa. In February 1932, however, Wittgenstein reproaches the Italian economist with misunderstandings similar to those he had criticized in the work of the Scottish anthropologist James Frazer six months before. According to a well-known anecdote, a gesture of Sraffa’s had a momentous influence onWittgenstein’s philosophical development.The ‘grammar of gestures’ elaborated by him in the early 1930s is an attempt to answer questions such as those raised by his friend’s Neapolitan gesture. There is a substantial difference between what the late Wittgenstein calls his ‘ethnological way of looking’ and the stance he had adopted in his early criticism of Frazer’s Golden Bough in June/July 1931. In February 1932,Wittgenstein replied to Sraffa’s objections with arguments similar to those he had already raised against Frazer’s very different method. Sraffa pushed Wittgenstein to adopt natural history and to transform his philosophy into an empirical approach. However, in the early 1930s Wittgenstein refused to do either. In order to learn how to look at philosophical problems with an ‘anthropological’ eye from Sraffa, he will need to learn, against Sraffa, not to reduce philosophy to anthropology (natural history). Years later,Wittgenstein still insists on the contrast he had marked between himself and Sraffa: Using imaginary scenarios he intends to show how a superficial analogy can mislead us to mistaking institutions, having an entirelydifferent nature, for economic systems - resulting in them seeming ‘irrational’, ‘unlogical’.
Forecasting of Households Consumption Expenditure with Nonparametric Regression: The Case of Turkey
Authors: Aydin Noyan , Akmercan Taner
Published: November 2016

The relationship between household income and expenditure is important for understanding how the shape of the economic dynamics of the households. In this study, the relationship between household consumption expenditure and household disposable income were analyzed by Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing Regression which is a nonparametric method using R programming. This study aimed to determine relationship between variables directly, unlike making any assumptions are commonly used as in the conventional parametric regression. According to the findings, effect on expenditure with increasing of income and household size together increased rapidly at first, and then speed of increase decreased. This increase can be explained by having greater compulsory consumption expenditure relatively in small households. Besides, expenditure is relatively higher in middle and high income levels according to low income level. However, the change in expenditure is limited in middle and is the most limited in high income levels when household size changes.
Government Spending and Inclusive-Growth Relationship in Nigeria: An Empirical Investigation
Authors: Kolawole Bashir Olayinka
Published: November 2016

This study has investigated the relationship between government spending and inclusive growth in Nigeria over the period 1995 to 2014. Specifically, it examined how, and to what extent, government spending on education, government spending on health, economic freedom, public resource use, and real GDP growth rate have impacted on inclusive growth in the country. It used the Dickey-Fuller GLS unit root test to ascertain the order of integration of the series. Consequently, through the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bound testing technique, the study found that in the long-run government spending on health, economic freedom, public resource use and real GDP growth rate had significantly positive influence on inclusive growth. In the short-run, however, only real GDP impacted significantly on inclusive growth while other variables were not significant in causing inclusive growth. Thus, in conclusion, government spending in the form of redistributive spending on health propelled inclusive growth in Nigeria.
Resistance Training Improves Muscle Function and Cardiometabolic Risks But Not Quality of Life in Older People With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Hsieh Ping-Lun , Tseng Chin-Hsiao , Tseng Yufeng Jane , Yang Wei-Shiung
Published: November 2016

Background and Purpose:

In older people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), the effects of aging and T2DM may compromise the function of skeletal muscle, deteriorate metabolic status, and jeopardize physical performance, aerobic capacity, and quality of life (QoL). The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 12 weeks of resistance training (RT) on muscle function, physical performance, cardiometabolic risks, and QoL in older people with T2DM.

Methods:

This study was a randomized controlled trial that employed block randomization, assessor blinding, and the intention-to-treat principle. Thirty people 65 years or older with a diagnosis of T2DM were randomly assigned to either an exercise group or a control group and were further stratified by gender. The exercise group performed 8 RT exercises in 3 sets of 8 to 12 repetitions at 75% 1-repetition maximum (1-RM) 3 times per week for 12 weeks. The control group received usual care and maintained their daily activities and lifestyle. Muscle function (1-RM and muscle oxygenation responses), physical performance (5-repetition sit-to-stand test and Timed Up and Go test), cardiometabolic risks (aerobic capacity, blood pressure, body composition, glycemic control, lipids levels, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels), and QoL (Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life 19) were assessed at baseline (week 0) and after the 12-week interventions (week 12).

Results:

The 1-RM chest-press and leg-press strength and physical performance in 5-repetition sit-to-stand test were significantly improved in the exercise group compared with the controls after the interventions. The exercise group had significantly lower resting systolic blood pressure (by −12.1 mm Hg, P = 0.036) than did the controls after 12 weeks of RT, without any significant within-group change in either group after intervention. The waist circumference, fasting glucose levels, and peak diastolic blood pressure tended to favor RT over usual care after the interventions.

Conclusion:

Twelve weeks of RT increased the maximal strength in chest-press and leg-press tests, and improved 5-repetition sit-to-stand performance in older people with T2DM. Our study demonstrated that supervised, structured RT was able to promote muscle function and alleviate cardiometabolic risks in people with T2DM 65 years or older.
Validity and Reliability of a Portable Balance Tracking System, BTrackS, in Older Adults
Authors: Levy Susan S. , Thralls Katie J. , Kviatkovsky Shiloah A.
Published: November 2016

Background and Purpose:

Falls are the leading cause of disability, injury, hospital admission, and injury-related death among older adults. Balance limitations have consistently been identified as predictors of falls and increased fall risk. Field measures of balance are limited by issues of subjectivity, ceiling effects, and low sensitivity to change. The gold standard for measuring balance is the force plate; however, its field use is untenable due to high cost and lack of portability. Thus, a critical need is observed for valid objective field measures of balance to accurately assess balance and identify limitations over time. The purpose of this study was to examine the concurrent validity and 3-day test-retest reliability of Balance Tracking System (BTrackS) in community-dwelling older adults. Minimal detectable change values were also calculated to reflect changes in balance beyond measurement error.

Methods:

Postural sway data were collected from community-dwelling older adults (N = 49, mean [SD] age = 71.3 [7.3] years) with a force plate and BTrackS in multitrial eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC) static balance conditions. Force sensors transmitted BTrackS data via a USB to a computer running custom software. Three approaches to concurrent validity were taken including calculation of Pearson product moment correlation coefficients, repeated-measures ANOVAs, and Bland-Altman plots. Three-day test-retest reliability of BTrackS was examined in a second sample of 47 community-dwelling older adults (mean [SD] age = 75.8 [7.7] years) using intraclass correlation coefficients and MDC values at 95% CI (MDC95) were calculated.

Results:

BTrackS demonstrated good validity using Pearson product moment correlations (r > 0.90). Repeated-measures ANOVA and Bland-Altman plots indicated some BTrackS bias with center of pressure (COP) values higher than FP COP values in the EO (mean [SD] bias = 4.0 [6.8]) and EC (mean [SD] bias = 9.6 [12.3]) conditions. Test-retest reliability using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC2.1 was excellent (0.83) and calculated MDC95 for EO (9.6 cm) and EC (19.4 cm) and suggested that postural sway changes of these amounts are meaningful.

Discussion:

BTrackS showed some bias with values exceeding force plate values in both EO and EC conditions. Excellent test-retest reliability and resulting MDC95 values indicated that BTrackS has the potential to identify meaningful changes in balance that may warrant intervention.

Conclusion:

BTrackS is an objective measure of balance that can be used to monitor balance in community-dwelling older adults over time. It can reliably identify changes that may require further attention (eg, fall-prevention strategies, declines in physical function) and shows promise for assessing intervention efficacy in this growing segment of the population.
Effects of Pelvic and Core Strength Training on High School Cross-Country Race Times
Authors: Clark Anne W. , Goedeke Maggie K. , Cunningham Saengchoy R. , Rockwell Derek E. , Lehecka Bryan J. , Manske Robert C. , Smith Barbara S.
Published: November 2016

Clark, AW, Goedeke, MK, Cunningham, SR, Rockwell, DE, Lehecka, BJ, Manske, RC, and Smith, BS. Effects of pelvic and core strength training on high school cross-country race times. J Strength Cond Res 31(8): 2289–2295, 2017—There is only limited research examining the effect of pelvic and core strength training on running performance. Pelvic and core muscle fatigue is believed to contribute to excess motion along frontal and transverse planes which decreases efficiency in normal sagittal plane running motions. The purpose of this study was to determine whether adding a 6-week pelvic and core strengthening program resulted in decreased race times in high school cross-country runners. Thirty-five high school cross-country runners (14–19 years old) from 2 high schools were randomly assigned to a strengthening group (experimental) or a nonstrengthening group (control). All participants completed 4 standardized isometric strength tests for hip abductors, adductors, extensors, and core musculature in a test-retest design. The experimental group performed a 6-week pelvic and core strengthening program along with their normal training. Participants in the control group performed their normal training without additional pelvic and core strengthening. Baseline, 3-week, and 6-week race times were collected using a repeated measures design. No significant interaction between experimental and control groups regarding decreasing race times and increasing pelvic and core musculature strength occurred over the 6-week study period. Both groups increased strength and decreased overall race times. Clinically significant findings reveal a 6-week pelvic and core stability strengthening program 3 times a week in addition to coach led team training may help decrease race times.
Concurrent Training Promoted Sustained Anti-atherogenic Benefits in the Fasting Plasma Triacylglycerolemia of Postmenopausal Women at 1-Year Follow-up
Authors: Rossi Fabrício E. , Diniz Tiego A. , Fortaleza Ana C.S. , Neves Lucas M. , Picolo Malena R. , Monteiro Paula A. , Buonani Camila , Lira Fábio S. , Freitas Ismael F.
Published: November 2016

Rossi, FE, Diniz, TA, Fortaleza, ACS, Neves, LM, Picolo, MR, Monteiro, PA, Buonani, C, Lira, FS, and Freitas, IF Jr. Concurrent training promoted sustained anti-atherogenic benefits in the fasting plasma triacylglycerolemia of postmenopausal women at 1-year follow-up.J Strength Cond Res32(12): 3573–3582, 2018—The aim of this study was to compare the effects of aerobic and concurrent training (aerobic plus strength training) on the lipid profiles of normotriacylglycerolemic and hypertriacylglycerolemic postmenopausal women and to verify whether the benefits of aerobic and concurrent training were sustained after 1 year. Total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triacylglycerol (TAG), and glucose were assessed in 46 normotriacylglycerolemic (TAG < 150 mg·dl−1) postmenopausal women divided into 3 groups: aerobic training, concurrent training (CT), and a control group. For CT group, hypertriacylglycerolemic postmenopausal women were recruited (TAG ≥ 150 mg·dl−1,n= 14). Total daily caloric consumption and free-living physical activity were evaluated by dietary questionnaires and accelerometer, respectively, and fat mass by DXA. In 16 weeks, CT was effective in increasing HDL-c (normotriacylglycerolemic: pre = 57.1 ± 17.3 mg·dl−1× post = 64.3 ± 16.1 mg·dl−1p= 0.020 and hypertriacylglycerolemic: pre = 44.7 ± 9.6 mg·dl−1× post = 50.3 ± 15.3 mg·dl−1;p= 0.012) and reducing the atherogenic index in normotriacylglycerolemic (pre = 3.6 ± 0.9 mg·dl−1× post = 3.0 ± 0.6 mg·dl−1;p= 0.003) and hypertriacylglycerolemic (pre = 5.2 ± 1.1 mg·dl−1× post = 4.7 ± 1.2 mg·dl−1;p= 0.018) postmenopausal women. In addition, the effects were sustained at the 1-year follow-up only among the hypertriacylglycerolemic postmenopausal women. The anti-atherogenic status in normotriacylglycerolemic and hypertriacylglycerolemic postmenopausal women was changed by CT but without significant differences between groups. Furthermore, these benefits are sustained at the 1-year follow-up among the hypertriacylglycerolemic subjects.
Lysosomal dysfunction disrupts presynaptic maintenance and restoration of presynaptic function prevents neurodegeneration in lysosomal storage diseases
Authors: Sambri Irene , D'Alessio Rosa , Ezhova Yulia , Giuliano Teresa , Sorrentino Nicolina Cristina , Cacace Vincenzo , De Risi Maria , Cataldi Mauro , Annunziato Lucio , De Leonibus Elvira , Fraldi Alessandro
Published: November 2016

Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are inherited diseases characterized by lysosomal dysfunction and often showing a neurodegenerative course. There is no cure to treat the central nervous system in LSDs. Moreover, the mechanisms driving neuronal degeneration in these pathological conditions remain largely unknown. By studying mouse models of LSDs, we found that neurodegeneration develops progressively with profound alterations in presynaptic structure and function. In these models, impaired lysosomal activity causes massive perikaryal accumulation of insoluble α‐synuclein and increased proteasomal degradation of cysteine string protein α (CSPα). As a result, the availability of both α‐synuclein and CSPα at nerve terminals strongly decreases, thus inhibiting soluble NSF attachment receptor (SNARE) complex assembly and synaptic vesicle recycling. Aberrant presynaptic SNARE phenotype is recapitulated in mice with genetic ablation of one allele of both CSPα and α‐synuclein. The overexpression of CSPα in the brain of a mouse model of mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA, a severe form of LSD, efficiently re‐established SNARE complex assembly, thereby ameliorating presynaptic function, attenuating neurodegenerative signs, and prolonging survival. Our data show that neurodegenerative processes associated with lysosomal dysfunction may be presynaptically initiated by a concomitant reduction in α‐synuclein and CSPα levels at nerve terminals. They also demonstrate that neurodegeneration in LSDs can be slowed down by re‐establishing presynaptic functions, thus identifying synapse maintenance as a novel potentially druggable target for brain treatment in LSDs.
AUŠRININKO ANDRIAUS VIŠTELIO ARCHYVO LIKUČIAI
Authors: Petreikis Tomas
Published: November 2016

Straipsnyje analizuojami aušrininko Andriaus Vištelio (1837–1912) asmens archyvo likučiai, saugomi Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos instituto bibliotekos rankraštyne. Šie archyviniai dokumentai dėl skurdžių aušrininko biografistinių tyrimų nebuvo sulaukę deramo dėmesio. Išlikusi A. Vištelio archyvo dalis – 35 bylos – reikšminga analizuojant jo 1878–1889 m. laikotarpio kūrybinę ir visuomeninę veiklą bei įvertinant tokio pobūdžio archyvų formavimo praktiką. Iš aušrininko epistolinio palikimo išliko keletas laiškų „Auszros“ redaktoriams ir bičiuliams Mažojoje Lietuvoje. Vertingi kūrybinės veiklos rankraščiai: poezijos kūriniai, vertimai ir publicistika. Atlikus archyvinių dokumentų patikrą, vertimų ir originalių A. Vištelio darbų sąrašas reikšmingai prasiplėtė ir pasipildė. Atskleisti visiškai nežinoti aušrininko leksikografiniai darbai, genealoginiai ir istoriniai tyrinėjimai. Atsirado galimybė įvertinti A. Vištelio pastangas išsaugoti Mažosios Lietuvos raštijos veikėjų palikimą. Archyviniame palikime aptikta ir keletas nežinomų knygynų ir spaustuvių sąskaitų už lietuviškas knygas, leidžiančių papildyti aušrininko bibliotekos istoriją. Lietuvių tautinio atgimimo Mažojoje Lietuvoje istorijos analizės kontekste šie A. Vištelio asmens archyvui priklausę dokumentai gana reikšmingi – jie į lituanistinius tyrimus įneša naujų faktinių duomenų, brandina naujas tyrimo perspektyvas ir ženkliai pildo per mažai pažįstamą biografinį aušrininko portretą.
BIBLIOFILINIAI LEIDINIAI IR JŲ LEIDYBOS PATIRTYS LIETUVOJE
Authors: Braziūnienė Alma
Published: November 2016

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama bibliofilinio leidinio samprata, šių specifinių leidinių tipologija, jų radimasis ir raida užsienio šalyse ir Lietuvoje. Tiriami Lietuvoje veikiančių bibliofilų organizacijų pastaraisiais dešimtmečiais leisti numeruoti leidiniai bei pavieniai įvairių Lietuvos leidyklų leidiniai, galimi įvardyti kaip bibliofiliniai. Daroma išvada, kad tokie numeruoti leidiniai, be tam tikrų išimčių, bibliofilinio leidinio statuso neatitinka, todėl kalbėti apie šiandienos Lietuvoje susiformavusią bibliofiline kultūra grįstų bibliofilinių leidinių leidybos tradiciją negalime, nors sėkmingų pavienių pavyzdžių esama. Lietuvoje yra tarptautinį pripažinimą pelniusių knygos dailininkų, bet šiandienos leidėjai bibliofilinius leidinius leisti nei teoriškai, nei praktiškai nėra pasirengę. Lietuvos bibliofilų klubai daugiausia telkia knygų skaitytojus mėgėjus, o ne bibliofilus kolekcininkus, todėl daugiau yra pasyvūs idėjiniai bibliofilijos judėjimo rėmėjai, iš esmės nedarantys įtakos bibliofilinių leidinių radimuisi. Vis dėlto kai kurių Lietuvos kolekcininkų bibliofilų pradėta leidybinė savo kolekcijų viešinimo veikla rodo, kad galima sėkmingai jungti verslo, kolekcionavimo ir meno sklaidos tikslus. Tvirtindami, kad šiandienos bibliofilinė leidyba yra Lietuvos leidybos paraštėse, turime sutikti, kad tam tikrų viltingų ženklų vis dėlto esama.
DVIEJŲ IŠEIVIJOS LITUANISTŲ DIALOGAS
Authors: Petreikis Tomas
Published: November 2016

VACLOVO BIRŽIŠKOS IR PETRO JONIKO SUSIRAŠINĖJIMAS (1948–1955): ŠALTINIO PUBLIKACIJA. KLAIPĖDOS UNIVERSITETAS; PARENGĖ ROMA BONČKUTĖ. KLAIPĖDA: KLAIPĖDOS UNIVERSITETO LEIDYKLA, 2015. 343, [1] P., [2] FAKS. LAP. TIRAŽAS 200 EGZ. ISBN 978-9955-18-862-9.
SVARUS INDĖLIS Į SENOSIOS ŽYDŲ KNYGOS TYRIMUS
Authors: Lempertienė Lara
Published: November 2016

ЯКЕРСОН, С. М. ОЦАР СЕФАРАД – СЕФАРДСКАЯ СОКРОВИЩНИЦА: СЕФАРДСКАЯ КНИГА X–XV ВВ.: OТ РУКОПИСНОЙ К ПЕЧАТНОЙ ТРАДИЦИИ. С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГ: ФИЛОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ФАКУЛЬТЕТ САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА, 2015. 127 P., BIBLIOG RAFIJA, DALYKŲ RODYKLĖ, PRIEDAI. ISBN 978-5-8465-1461-4.ЯКЕРСОН, С. М. ОТ БУКВЫ К ЛИТЕРЕ: ОЧЕРКИ ПО ИСТОРИИ СРЕДНЕВЕКОВОЙ ЕВРЕЙСКОЙ КНИГИ. С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГ: САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ, ВОСТОЧНЫЙ ФАКУЛЬТЕТ; РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК, ИНСТИТУТ ВОСТОЧНЫХ РУКОПИСЕЙ, 2016. 291 P., BIBLIOGRAFIJA, DALYKŲ RODYKLĖ. ISBN 978-5-4380-0154-6.
RAŠYTOJŲ ASMENINIŲ BIBLIOTEKŲ KAUPIMAS, SAUGOJIMAS IR TYRIMAS
Authors: Prokopčik Marija
Published: November 2016

COLLECTING, CURATING AND RESEARCHING WRITER’S LIBRARIES: A HANDBOOK. EDITED BY RICHARD W. ORAM AND JOSEPH NICHOLSON. LANHAM: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 2014. 218 P. ISBN 978-1-4422-3497-0.
Association between blood pressure, body mass index, eating habits, and physical activity in adolescents
Authors: Benite-Ribeiro Sandra Aparecida , Da Silva Viviane Vilela , Lima Kamila Lauany Lucas , Dos Santos Julia Matzenbacher
Published: November 2016

Aims: This study sought to analyze blood pressure and its association with eating behavior, physical activity, and body mass index in high school students.Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed with high school students from midwestern Brazil. Blood pressure was measured according to the guidelines outlined by the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. Nutritional status was assessed in accordance with the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (Sistema de Vigilância Alimentar Nutricional, SISVAN), according to the standard reference of the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES II), and the level of physical activity was assessed by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form. The chi-square test and the Mann-Whitney U test were used for characterization of the population and comparisons between genders and normotensive and prehypertensive subjects. Bivariate and multivariate regression analyses were performed to verify the relationship between blood pressure, physical activity, and eating behavior. The significance level was set at p<0.05.Results: Prehypertension was detected in 26% of the students and overweight frequency was higher than the national average (38% for girls and 20% for boys). Concerning eating behavior, students’ nutritional habits were "very good" in 7%, "regular" in 68%, and "poor" in 24%. In bivariate analyses, systolic blood pressure and blood pressure percentile were positively associated with body mass index. In multivariate analyses, there were positive associations between eating behavior and body mass index with diastolic blood pressure: when body mass index was high and the eating behavior score was low (unhealthy eating habits), diastolic blood pressure was high. No relationship was observed between blood pressure and physical activity.Conclusions: The adolescents assessed in this study showed a high frequency of prehypertension. Body mass index was positively associated with high blood pressure, indicating that a high body mass index is a risk factor for the development of hypertension among adolescents. Therefore, early intervention to control body mass index may be a valuable strategy to prevent overweight, obesity, and hypertension.
A reforma agrária nos campos do sul de Portugal (1975): uma revolução na revolução
Authors: Varela Raquel , Piçarra Constantino
Published: November 2016

Realizado a 25 de abril de 1974, depressa o golpe de Estado que derruba a ditadura origina um processo revolucionário no âmbito do qual, no sul de Portugal, a agudização da luta por melhores salários, condições de trabalho e garantia de emprego, entre assalariados rurais, com especial realce para os temporários, e os empresários agrícolas, dá lugar a um poderoso movimento de ocupações de terras, fato que torna realidade a reforma agrária, cujo enquadramento legal só vem a surgir na vigência dos IV e V Governos Provisórios liderados por Vasco Gonçalves, tendo Fernando Oliveira Baptista na pasta da Agricultura. Neste processo de ocupações de terras, que se desenrola ao longo do ano de 1975, definem-se três fases, as quais se caracterizam em articulação com o andamento da situação política do país e, por conseguinte, com a política agrária do Estado ao longo deste período. Utilizamos uma ampla gama de fontes, algumas inéditas como a documentção dos partidos políticos, as fontes dos sindicatos e comissões de trabalhadores, as disposições legais referentes ao processo e o arquivo de imagem da televisão pública RTP. Destacamos neste artigo duas conclusões principais a partir da investigação que levamos a cabo: 1) a reforma agrária é um processo que se inicia por ocupações espontâneas de terras e os partidos políticos irão responder a este processo tentando dirigi-lo; 2) a reforma agrária é determinada por um modelo assente em unidades coletivas de produção e na maximização do emprego.
“Um país sem imagem é um país sem memória…” – Entrevista com Licinio Azevedo
Authors: Pereira Ana Cristina , Cabecinhas Rosa
Published: November 2016

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Historiografia sobre mutualismo (1875-1914) em Portugal e no Brasil
Authors: De Jesus Ronaldo Pereira
Published: November 2016

Análise da produção historiográfica acerca do fenômeno associativo mutualista em perspectiva comparada no Brasil e em Portugal, tendo em vista o fenômeno associativo em geral e o mutualismo em particular, observado como objeto de investigação histórica ao longo do século XX e como uma das principais expressões da cultura associativa dos trabalhadores urbanos no período entre 1875 e 1914.
Diferentes faces da direita portuguesa no Estado Novo salazarista
Authors: Araújo Maria Paula Nascimento
Published: November 2016

Resenha de:PINTO, António Costa. Os Camisas-Azuis: Rolão Preto e o Fascismo em Portugal. Porto. Alegre; Recife: EdiPUCRS; EDUPE, 2016.PINTO, António Costa. Os Camisas Azuis e Salazar: Rolão Preto e o Fascismo em Portugal. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2015.
Quatro décadas de independência: da cartilha ideológica às contingências políticas e sociais nos PALOP
Authors: Nascimento Augusto , Bittencourt Marcelo
Published: November 2016

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Microlepidoptera caught in traps baited with lures containing pear ester and acetic acid in Hungary
Authors: Jósvai J. K. , Koczor S. , Szabóky Cs. , Ladányi M. , Tóth M.
Published: November 2016

The present research was undertaken to screen for field activity of ethyl-(E,Z)-2,4-decadienoate (pear ester, PE), acetic acid (AA) and the blend of this two components (PEAA) at locations, where high diversity of microlepidopteran species was presumed. By tendency of relative catches, microlepidopterans captured could be divided into two groups: in the first group the PEAA blend resulted in higher catches than single components (Hedya nubiferana, Ypsolopha scabrella and Notocelia trimaculana), while in the second group (Archips rosana, A. xylosteana, Ptycholoma lecheana and Tortrix viridana) only the presence of AA was responsible for attractivity.

In all species, both male and female specimens were caught. This result indicates a potential way to optimise female-targeted lures based on PEAA or AA for all these microlepidopterans that are all recorded as pests. On the other hand, the capture of the above moths in the traps raises the need for some taxonomic knowledge in evaluating captures in PEAA-baited traps currently use in agricultural practice for codling moth monitoring.
Snout beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) of East Azerbaijan, Iran
Authors: Rahati R. , Nozari J. , Khaghaninia S.
Published: November 2016

A study on the fauna of snout beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) of East Azerbaijan Province (Northwest Iran) was conducted in 2014 to 2016. A total of 19 species, belonging to 4 subfamilies (Baridinae, Entiminae, Lixinae, and Molytinae) and 18 genera were collected and identified.
A faunistic survey on the hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Golestan, Mazandaran and Semnan Provinces, Iran
Authors: Samin N. , Ghahari H. , Bennewicz J.
Published: November 2016

In this paper the fauna of these beneficial insects is studied in some regions of three provinces Golestan, Mazandaran and Semnan (northern Iran). In total 43 species from 23 genera and 2 subfamilies Milesiinae and Syrphinae were collected and identified.
Investigation on parasitoids of bark beetles with new host record (Taphrorychus lenkoranus Reitter, 1913 (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)) from Northern forests of Iran
Authors: Amini S. , Nozari J. , Rahati R. , Etemad V.
Published: November 2016

The present study was carried out to identify parasitoids of bark beetles in the forests of northern Iran, from 2013–2015 (May–August). Four hymenopterans species belonging to 3 families (Eulophidae, Pteromalidae and Braconidae) were identified as Ecphylus silesiacus (Ratzeburg, 1848), Cheiropachus quadrum (Fabricius, 1787), Rhaphitelus maculatus Walker, 1834 and Entedon ergias (Ratzeburg, 1844). Among the identified bark beetles species, T. lenkoranus Reitter, 1913 was recorded as a new host of E. silesiacus for the first time in the world.
An improved female-targeted semiochemical lure for the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis Hbn.
Authors: Tóth M. , Szarukán I. , Nagy A. , Ábri T. , Katona V. , Kőrösi Sz. , Nagy T. , Szarvas Á. , Koczor S.
Published: November 2016

The addition of synthetic 4-methoxy-2-phenethyl alcohol to the known attractant phenylacetaldehyde synergized attraction of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis, the blend invariably catching 3 to 5 times more than phenylacetaldehyde on its own. Highest catches were recorded by the 1:1 blend. Both females and males were attracted, supposedly in the natural sex ratio of the local population. This improved bisex O. nubilalis attractant could be more efficient and more suitable for detection and monitoring purposes than previously know lures, making possible to draw more reliable plant protection decisions.
Middle English V2: Compatible with a North Germanic source?
Authors: Emonds Joseph
Published: November 2016

The new hypothesis that Middle English descends syntactically from Norse has been strongly contested by several specialists in ME syntax. One counterargument contends that ME Verb-Second patterns with Old English in sharing Verb-Third with OE but not Norse. The present paper argues that a Mainland Scandinavian adverb så ‘so’, which appears after scene-setting adverbials (mostly PPs), is in SPEC(IP) and there blocks the common and expected UG order “PP — [IP subject — finite verb — …]” found in ME. When early Anglicized Norse lost this use of the så adverbial, the UG order resurfaced in ME; this was not because of direct descent from OE.