bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Talking ’bout my generation: generational differences in the attitudes of volunteers at the 2012 Olympic Games
Authors: Nichols Geoffrey , Ralston Rita
Published: June 2016

This article assesses whether the values underpinning the motivations of older and younger people to volunteer are different. It does this through in-depth interviews with 38 volunteers at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Analysis using the framework of the psychological contract and narrative biographies distinguished between value-led and market-led motives. An initial coding of the interviews showed that older volunteers were more likely to express altruistic values while younger volunteers’ motivations were related to improving their employability. However, this age dichotomy became less distinct as qualitative analysis demonstrated how the older volunteers were also motivated by self-interest in certain ways. In particular, a motivation to express a self-identity as a ‘volunteer’ led them to continue volunteering despite other rewards not being present. The analysis illustrates the interplay of values, circumstances and experience in influencing motivations to volunteer, and thus the difficulty in making generalisations about differences in values between generations.
Coping with hard times: the role that support networks play for lone mother families in times of economic crisis and government austerity
Authors: Canton James
Published: June 2016

This article describes how lone mother families use their personal relationships to adapt to changing conditions in the wider society and economy. During the period 2007–15, the UK experienced insecurity in the labour market, a rising cost of living, radical welfare reforms and a diminished standard of living for many. Hard times such as these put the spotlight on questions related to how vulnerable groups such as lone mothers experience, cope with, and adapt to socioeconomic crises. This article addresses such questions by drawing on qualitative evidence collected through in-depth interviews with 30 lone mothers. The article documents the experiences of these lone-mother families living through economic recession and austerity. The evidence suggests that whether or not a given lone mother is able to cope with and adapt to hard times is linked to her capacity to create, sustain and mobilise a social support network.
Organisational professionalism and moral courage: contradictory concepts in social work?
Authors: Fenton Jane
Published: June 2016

This article considers findings from a larger study that explored value tensions and ethical stress experienced by criminal justice social workers across Scotland. The qualitative data from that study are revisited and comments are analysed in terms of themes indicative of ‘organisational professionalism’, such as reliance on agency procedures, the importance of the role of managers and the redundancy of a working theoretical and ethical knowledge base. Findings suggest that ‘organisational professionalism’ is insidiously becoming the social work professional practice framework. Dangers of adherence to such a framework are suggested, especially in terms of the difficulty that it might cause for social workers to demonstrate ‘moral courage’ in the face of the shift to neoliberal frames of reference and ubiquitous managerialism.
Sleeping with a philosopher? Emmanuel Levinas and ‘critical social work’
Authors: Garrett Paul Michael
Published: June 2016

It has been categorically asserted that Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy, dwelling on accepting responsibility for the ‘Other’, can be used to bolster the theorisation of ‘critical social work’. Furthermore, a number of social work academics maintain that his complex contributions create a new framework for working across ‘differences’. In contrast, this article will challenge these assertions, shedding light on an array of deeply problematic aspects of Levinas’s philosophy and politics. These have so far been omitted in the way he has been presented to a social work readership. Particular attention will be paid to Levinas’s self-proclaimed Euro-centrism and racist condescension toward those beyond Europe. The discussion will then turn to explore his ethnic nationalism which functions to conceptually misrecognise, disrespect and discursively delete Palestinians.
More than unfinished business: Transgenerational trauma and Indigenous storytelling in Tina Makereti’s Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings
Authors: Moura-Koçoğlu Michaela
Published: June 2016

This article sets out to examine the ways in which Indigenous trauma texts employ storytelling as discursive practice and convention to narrate the complex forces of collective and transgenerational traumata. This will be established through an analysis of Tina Makereti’s debut novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (2014). Examining trauma narratives within the limited analytic framework of traditional trauma theory remains unsatisfactory with regard to Indigenous texts that deal with the multiple-layered forms of collective and transgenerational trauma. Thus, while informed by literary trauma theory as well as postcolonial studies, my theoretical approach is first and foremost based on Indigenous theories and knowledges, which are crucial to better comprehend the representation and articulation of trauma in Indigenous narratives. Focus will be on examining the Indigenous tradition of storytelling as a narrative mode and convention for Indigenous trauma fiction.

Irene Visser persuasively argues that ‘[t]he nuanced exploration and conceptualization of the function of indigenous belief systems in the engagement with trauma would constitute a further necessary development in the project of achieving a fully decolonized trauma theory’ (Visser 2015: 263). By engaging with Indigenous epistemologies with regard to storytelling in the analysis of Indigenous trauma narratives, this article aims to contribute to the discussion.
Who are the biggest cannibals?: Colonial literary reckonings with the dark European Other in the Pacific region
Authors: Ackland Michael
Published: June 2016

In the late nineteenth century European powers jockeyed for global prestige and lucrative colonies. Long-unclaimed tracts of Africa become imperial dependencies, Asian empires ceded ever more privileges and ports to foreigners who clamoured for free trade and special legal status, and German rule spread as far as the antipodes. But while the Kaiser harangued listeners about the threat posed by the ‘gelbe Gefahr’ (yellow peril), colonists in the far Pacific soon came to see the Germans themselves, and a motley cast of would-be European exploiters, as a far greater and more immediate danger to white settler dreams. Testimony to concerns raised by the European Other exists in the pages of neglected colonial newspapers, as well as in popular contemporary tales, like those published by the Sydney Bulletin. Two of these, ‘Castro’s Last Sacrament’ and ‘Dr Ludwig Schwalbe, South Sea Savant’, are the focus of this study and they afford, in miniature, veritable voyages to a heart of darkness on the colonists’ doorstep, and one decidedly generated by fertile European imaginations. A century before Edward Said, Albert Dorrington reveals through the antics of Castro and his peers the local operation of Orientalism, and the ways it masks and camouflages a peculiarly European heritage of imperial carnage and unbridled vengefulness. In the figure of Schwalbe, author Louis Becke provides a complementary dissection of the ‘white man’s burden’ and the much-vaunted trappings of scientific knowledge. The allegedly philanthropic white man is shown to be deeply self-interested and insatiable. He not only abets the horrors he claims to abhor, but he arguably surpasses them. Together these tales afford a damning revelation of unpalatable European motives as well as a bleak vision of humankind, irrespective of race or clime, as scarcely removed from a cannibalistic, and thoroughly barbaric state.
Poppea in space: The influence of theatre architecture on recent productions of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea
Authors: Camp Gregory
Published: June 2016

The architecture of opera houses and the disposition of their internal space plays an important role in audience response, a role hitherto neglected in opera studies in favour of abstracted sonic aspects. This article is an examination of the spaces in which three very different professional European productions of Claudio Monteverdi’s 1643 opera L’incoronazione di Poppea took place, seen within a few months of each other in 2010: Pier Luigi Pizzi’s production at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Robert Carsen’s at Glyndebourne; and Dietrich Hilsdorf’s at the Cologne Opera. I first explore the relation of the audience to the stage due to the presence or absence of a proscenium arch. Both Glyndebourne and Madrid’s Teatro Real are proscenium theatres, though the Madrid production attempted to erase the proscenium through the layout of the stage and the orchestra. The Cologne production was held not in a purpose-built theatre but in the central hall of a former corporate headquarters, a proscenium-less space with the audience seated on two sides of a traverse stage. These layouts had different effects on the performances and on the audience’s response to them, affording different opportunities to their directors and different processes of audience engagement. I then compare the present-day audience’s spatial experience of this opera with the way its seventeenth-century audiences may have experienced it, arguing that the changes in theatre architecture over the centuries have a significant (and overlooked) impact on our results in creating historically informed operatic performances. This examination of the affordances offered by space open up the genre of opera to a wider potential range of musicological and sociological research.
Cathedral without a city: Using sound to create imagined spaces in Kurt Fitzpatrick’s Cathedral City
Authors: Cousins Rick
Published: June 2016

A one-person show which tours the fringe festival circuit presents a special set of challenges for delineating and concretizing the places described in its narrative. The dimensions, layout and other characteristics of the spaces where such a show is performed can vary markedly. As is common practice with one-person fringe shows, Kurt Fitzpatrick’s Cathedral City has only one visible staging element – a chair borrowed at the performance site. However, Cathedral City’s action often travels to places which are too numinous to be brought to life through onstage dialogue and gestures alone. Not only that, but these places straddle the border between real life and fiction, where the orderly logic of the waking world intermingles with the chaotic sensory mosaic of dreams. In place of scenic design, sound was used to conjure up the ever-changing worlds of Cathedral City. The show’s sound designer describes the ways that he employed soundscapes, music, and individual sonic effects to give the audience as clear an idea as possible of where Kurt’s stream of consciousness had taken them to, while still keeping them guessing about where it would take them next.
Identificação do risco lombar no trabalho de empacotamento manual de sacas de arroz
Authors: Chechetto Silvana Trombim , Madeira Kristian , Longen Willians Cassiano
Published: June 2016

Os Distúrbios Osteomusculares da coluna lombar atingem níveis elevados na população em geral. A dor lombar é uma das mais importantes causas de incapacidade, diminuindo a qualidade de vida de muitas pessoas. O Método NIOSH foi desenvolvido com o intuito de determinar a carga máxima a ser manipulada numa atividade de trabalho, sendo criada uma equação que inclui fatores como: a manipulação assimétrica de cargas, a duração da tarefa, a frequência dos levantamentos e a qualidade da pega. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar o risco musculoesquelético para a coluna lombar nas atividades laborativas do setor de empacotamento da indústria de beneficiamento de arroz. Envolve uma pesquisa transversal, censitária e descritiva, com 9 funcionários da empresa que desenvolvem atividade manual de carregamento de fardos de sacas de arroz, sendo aplicada a equação NIOSH e o Questionário de Roland Morris individualmente. Com os valores registrados chegou-se aos resultados de Limite de Peso (LP) de 1,305 Kg, ou seja, para a configuração atualmente experimentada no setor o peso deveria ser significativamente menor do que os atuais 30 Kg, em mais de 20 vezes. O limite de peso recomendado encontrado aponta como principal necessidade a melhoria da condição ergonômica desta atividade de trabalho.
Avaliação da interação entre sujeitos em diferentes faixas etárias e manual de instruções de aparelhos celulares
Authors: Silva Vania Eugênia , Bifano Amelia Carla Sobrinho , Oliveira Luciana Aparecida , Roberto Lígia Cristina Oliveira , Ferreira Eloíse Garcia
Published: June 2016

Os manuais de instruções necessitam conter informações que protejam as empresas de usos “imprevistos” e de riscos de acidentes e, ao mesmo tempo, fornecer informações que contemplem as necessidades dos usuários e de contextos de utilização, garantindo o uso seguro e eficiente do produto. Este estudo avaliou a interação entre sujeitos pertencentes a diferentes faixas etárias e o manual de instruções de aparelhos celulares. O trabalho foi executado pelo método desenvolvido pela equipe do Laboratório Interfaces para “Avaliação da usabilidade das interfaces em produtos eletroeletrônicos”, composto por duas etapas: Avaliação heurística e Teste de precisão das ações. Foram avaliados manuais de instruções de sete marcas de aparelhos. Para a avaliação do produto, a amostra foi constituída por seis indivíduos, três do sexo masculino e três do sexo feminino, nas seguintes faixas etárias: menos de 25 anos, entre 25 e 50 anos e acima de 50 anos. A falta de informações e incapacidade das figuras foram as causas dos sujeitos não conseguirem entender ou para o alto nível de compreensão errada de certos procedimentos operacionais. Muitos dos termos técnicos eram desconhecidos para os indivíduos, o que causaram problemas para distinguir características indicadas no procedimento, evitando que o usuário explorasse as várias opções que o produto oferecia. As informações, às vezes, apresentada como imprecisa se caracterizava como incompreensíveis, ou difíceis de entender. Um Manual de Instruções deve conter informações suficientes para que o usuário possa utilizar o produto com eficiência e segurança.
Logística reversa e identificação de produtos: revisão teórica para indústria eletroeletrônica
Authors: De Oliveira Uanderson Rebula , Silva Marins Fernando Augusto , Júnior Jorge Muniz
Published: June 2016

A venda de produtos eletroeletrônicos cresce em função das inovações tecnológicas e da rapidez com que eles se tornam obsoletos, refletindo no aumento de um resíduo descartado denominado Resíduos de Equipamentos Eletroeletrônicos (REEE) ou Lixo Eletrônico. Oriundo do descarte de eletroeletrônicos, tais como desktops, notebooks, impressoras e celulares, o REEE é um problema relevante, pois contém substâncias danosas ao meio ambiente e à saúde humana. Dessa forma, torna-se necessário uma disposição final adequada. Com a criação da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos (PNRS) no Brasil, os fabricantes, importadores, distribuidores e comerciantes de produtos eletroeletrônicos devem estruturar e implementar sistemas de Logística Reversa (LR) mediante retorno dos produtos após o uso pelo consumidor. Apesar de muitas empresas do setor de eletroeletrônicos se preocuparem com a LR de seus produtos, a revisão da literatura indica poucos resultados, evidenciando carência de trabalhos sobre o tema. O artigo analisa o panorama da LR e sua inter-relação com o lixo eletrônico e a tecnologia de identificação de produtos, com propósito de contribuir com a prática da PNRS. Para tanto, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática da literatura envolvendo a Logística Reversa, o Lixo Eletrônico e as Tecnologias de Identificação de Produtos. Por meio de um estudo de caso, Projeto SmartWaste da Hewlett-Packard (HP), pode-se inferir que o Código de Barras e a Identificação por Rádio Frequência (RFID) são tecnologias úteis e viáveis nas práticas de LR para o lixo eletrônico.
Serious Leisure Inventory and Measurement: Validity and reliability analysis
Ciddi Boş Zaman Envanteri ve Ölçümü: Geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması
Authors: Akgül Beyza Merve , Özdemir Ali Selman , Erturan Öğüt Esin Esra , Karaküçük Suat
Published: June 2016

The aim of this research was to adapt the scale “Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure” developed by Gould et al. (2008) and perform its validity and reliability analyses. The research was carried out on 3 different study groups consisting a total of 474 students from various faculties of Gazi University, Turkey during the fall term of 2015-2016. Throughout the adaptation process, primarily the linguistic equivalence of the scale was investigated, and when it was seen that the scale was linguistically equivalent, the validity and reliability analyses were performed. The construct validity of the adapted scale was analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis, and it was seen that the scale was consistent with the original. As a result of reliability analysis, internal consistency coefficient of the scale was found as .97, and test-retest reliability coefficient as .93. As a result of item analysis, it was determined that the corrected item-total correlation of the sub-dimensions ranged from .42 to .73. These results show that the scale is valid and reliable to measure forms of Serious Leisure. ÖzetBu araştırmanın amacı, Gould ve diğerleri (2008) tarafından geliştirilen Ciddi Boş Zaman Envanteri ve Ölçümü’nü (Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure / SLIM) Türkçeye uyarlamak ve ölçeğin geçerlik ve güvenirlik analizlerini gerçekleştirmektir. Araştırma 2015-2016 öğretim yılı güz döneminde Gazi Üniversitesi’nin çeşitli bölümlerinde öğrenim gören ve toplam 474 öğrenciden oluşan 3 ayrı çalışma grubu üzerinde yürütülmüştür.  Uyarlama sürecinde öncelikle CBZEÖ’nün dil eşdeğerliği incelenmiş, dil eşdeğerliğine sahip olduğu görüldükten sonra geçerlilik ve güvenilirlik analizleri yapılmıştır. Yapılan doğrulayıcı faktör analizi ile uyarlanan ölçeğin yapı geçerliği incelenmiş ve orijinal formla uyumlu olduğu görülmüştür. Güvenirlik analizi sonucunda, ölçeğin iç tutarlılık katsayısı .97 ve test-tekrar güvenirlik katsayısı .93 olarak hesaplanmıştır. Madde analizi sonucunda, alt ölçeklerin düzeltilmiş madde toplam korelasyonlarının. 42 ile .73 arasında değiştiği belirlenmiştir. Bu sonuçlar ölçeğin, Ciddi Boş Zaman perspektifinin ölçülmesinde geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçme aracı olduğunu göstermektedir
“C’est la vie, c’est la narration”: The Reader in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Textermination and David Lodge’s Small World
Authors: Selejan Corina
Published: June 2016

This article considers two metafictional academic novels from the reader’s point of view. It argues that this critical vantage point is suggested (if not imposed) by the fictional texts themselves. The theoretical texts informing this reading pertain either to reader response or to theories of metafiction, in an attempt to uncover conceptual commonalities between the two. Apart from a thematic focus on academic conferences as pilgrimages and the advocacy of reading as an ethically valuable activity, the two novels also share a propensity for intertextuality, a blurring of the boundaries between fictional and critical discourse, as well as a questioning of the borderline between fiction and reality. The reading of fiction is paralleled to the reading of (one’s own) life and self-reflexivity emerges as crucial to both types of literacy.
Amniotic Fluid Cells Proliferation in Normal and Down Syndrome Subjects
Authors: Honcea Adina , Iulian R. , Pavel Anca Gabriela , Ion Ileana , Sima Livia Elena
Published: June 2016

Down Syndrome/Trisomy 21 is the most common chromosomal anomaly, and it represents the most common congenital cause of infants’ intellectual disability. Subjects with this syndrome are affected by degenerative processes caused by accelerated aging or unknown ethyologies. In recent years, accumulating evidence revealed increased potential of amniotic fluid-derived stem cells to be used in regenerative therapy. Our aim was to assess differences in immunophenotype, cell morphology and proliferation of amniotic fluid cells from normal and Down Syndrome pregnancies using a quantitative cytometry approach. Results revealed the emergence of a population of small sized cells in Down Syndrome derived amniotic fluid cells that are readily visible upon microscopic inspection. Hence, the fluorescence–based quantitative image cytometry determinations showed a tendency of decrease in both cell and nuclei size in trisomy, with no significant modification in nuclei circularity, as measured following actin cytoskeleton and nuclei labeling. The propensity of Ki67 positive cells was found to be increased in Down Syndrome derived cells (48.92%) as compared to normal specimens (28.68%). However, cells in S and G2/M cell cycle phases decreased from 32.91% to 4.49% in diseased cells. Further studies are devoted to understanding the molecular basis of the observed differences in the proliferation ability of Down Syndrome amniotic cells, in order to evaluate the potential therapeutic effect of amniotic fluid stem cells for tissue regeneration in subjects with trisomy and to find correlations between amniotic cells phenotype and patient prognosis.
Acute myocardial infarction with multiple mechanical complications
Authors: Nedelcu Cristina , Ulmeanu Victoria , Tuta Liliana , Gheorghita Raluca , Ilie Mihaela , Muflic L. , Nitu Olesea , Scrinic Olesea , Dan Cristina
Published: June 2016

The rupture of the inter-ventricular septum is a rare, but extremely severe mechanical complication of the acute myocardial infarction, which in most cases of no immediate surgery is fatal (30 days death rate – 80%). The incidence of the septum ventricular defect post-acute myocardial infarction was 1-3% in the period before crash injury therapy, dropping to 0.2% after introducing the thrombolytic treatment.

The acute mitral failure and the septum ventricular defect are two mechanical complications of the acute myocardial infarction associated with high death rate, regardless of the progress made in medical and surgery therapeutic approach.

This paper highlights the peculiarities of a clinical case like the acute myocardial infarction as the first manifestation of heart disease in a patient with no history of cardiovascular disease but with risk factors (obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension), the ECG evident changes in the anterior territory and more discrete in the inferior territory, which established the initial diagnosis to be myocardial infarction and the presence of two mechanical threatening complications: ventricular septal flaw and acute mitral failure through posterior papillary muscle incomplete rupture.
Evolutive particularities in Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis associated with Spinal Stenosis – case report
Authors: Lupu Andreea , Albina Sandica , Balta Ramona , Lupsa Alina , Iliescu Madalina
Published: June 2016

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis is a non-inflammatory disease, that affects mostly males and the principal manifestations are calcification and ossification of spinal ligaments, calcification of the tendons and ligaments in the vertebral body insertion. Clinical manifestations of the disease are mainly in the thoracic spine, but it may involve also the cervical and the lumbar spine. Extraspinal involvements are frequently present at patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. Spinal stenosis is associated with this disease.

The present case is of a 56 years old man, initially diagnosed with Ankyloses spondylitis, who was under a treatment with Sulfasalazin for approximately 7 years, afterwards the diagnosis was infirmed and he was diagnosed with “Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis”.

The patient has multiple extra spinal manifestations of the disease (shoulders, elbows, hips, knees), cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis with clinical manifestations and imagistic confirmation, and also treated in neurosurgical service for several times, for the lumbar spine pathology. Particularities of this case are related with the delay of a correct diagnosis which means that the anterior treatments, both medical and surgical are under the questions.
Renal comorbidity in psoriatic arthritis patients
Authors: Pana Camelia , Hanzu-Pazara Loredana , Duşa Daniela , Tudorache Monica , Fasie D. , Suta Maria , Tuta Liliana-Ana
Published: June 2016

Introduction. Psoriatic arthritis (PA) is a multi-system inflammatory disorder that involves both musculoskeletal structures (joints, enthesis, tendons) and the skin and nails (psoriasis). Clinical manifestations can be varied from clinically asymptomatic disease to arthritis mutilans and invalidating forms.

Purpose. Identification of renal disease in patients with psoriatic arthritis depending on the degree of activity and severity of skin and joint disease.

Material and Methods. We conducted a retrospective study of 89 patients diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in the Rheumatology Department of Clinical Emergency Hospital “Sf. Andrei” in Constanta. We collected demographic and behavioural data (age, sex, ethnicity, smoking), clinical and biological elements of joint and skin disease activity (number of painful and swollen joints, joint pain score - VAS, PASI score, ESR, CRP) and evaluation of renal function (serum creatinine, serum uric acid, urinalysis examination for proteinuria and hematuria). Chronic kidney disease was staged by calculating the value of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) with CKD-EPI 2009 equation.

Results. 49 patients have full screening of renal function, especially in disease onset or in case of therapy switch. Proteinuria was found in a significant percentage of patients (32.65%), vary widely between 10-500 mg/dL. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was commonly found in our patients (42.85%), mostly in women (66.6%). Most cases of CKD were in stage 2 (12.4%). We observed a significant correlation between age and levels of serum creatinine (p = 0.041), caucasians developing more frequently CKD (p <0.0001). The presence of skin psoriasis did not interfere with renal function decline in PA patients, but its severity, measured with PASI score, was correlated with cronic kidney failure stages (p = 0.05) and proteinuria (p = 0.044). The severity of joint pain (TJC, VAS) is directly related to kidney disease (p <0.0001, respectively p = 0.05). The majority of patients with extensive joint erosions also had renal impairment (p = NS) and it can be seen a direct correlation between erosive joint disease and serum creatinine (p = 0.029).

Conclusions: Both the severity of psoriasis and articular disease may be involved in worsening of renal function, probably due to the chronic systemic inflammation and to an aggressive therapy imposed by the disease evolution.
Renal disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with biological therapy
Authors: Hanzu-Pazara Loredana , Muflic L. , Dusa Daniela , Pana Camelia , Tudorache Monica , Suta Maria , Tuta Liliana
Published: June 2016

The use of biological therapies may have positive impact on chronic renal disease associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

The study evaluates retrospectively renal function in 57 patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with different types of biological therapy, comparative with 62 RA patients treated conservatively with DMARDs.

Patients treated with biological therapies presented a lower mean value for serum creatinine measured both at baseline and after 6 months of treatment, statistically significant compared with the subgroup treated with DMARDs (0.69 ± 0.17 mg/dL vs. 1.18 ± 1.01 mg/dL, p = 0.003). Results for estimated filtration rate were significantly increased in biologically treated cohort (100.36 ± 16.76 mL/min/1.73 m2 vs. 63.49 ± 21.60 mL/min/1.73 m2, p < 0.00001). Rituximab presented a better estimated filtration rate compared with other biological tharapies (eGFR 97.037 mL/min/1.73 m2 vs. 90.933 mL/min/1.73 m2).

The positive effect of potent biological anti-inflammatory therapies sustains the need of further exploring the risk of reduced kidney function in immune-mediated diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis.
Nursing’s approach and rehabilitation in a severe case of miliary tuberculosis complicated with stroke.
Authors: Dantes Elena , Hancu Anca , Iliescu Madalina , Balasa Ionela , Busuioc Alina , Cambrea Claudia , Fildan Ariadna Petronela
Published: June 2016

Background: Miliary tuberculosis is a haematogenuous dissemination of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) witch involves especially lungs, central nervous system and lymph node. It is a very severe disease with an increased risk of respiratory failure, extensive neurologic sequelas and high mortality. A rapid diagnosis and specific treatment is tremendous important for outcome. Association of strokeis common in tuberculous meningitis (MTB) and could delay the diagnosis and worse the prognosis.

Case presentation: We present a case of 24 years old male, who present asthenia and 20 kilo weight lossduring the last 2 years before admission in hospital. He came in hospital, directly in Intensive CareUnit (ICU) for left hemiplegia followed within hours of fever, repeated focal seizures and coma, reaching a Glasgow score of 6 about 48 hours after admission. Patient requiredorotracheal intubation. The Chest radiograph reveal micro-nodular opacities compatible with miliary TB and the cerebrospinal fluid (CFS) examination led to suspicion of TB meningitis. The Tb etiology was bacteriologically confirmed in sputum and cerebrospinal fluid. After 24 hors, theCT and angio-MRI detected the ischemic lesion in the middle cerebral arterial territory. The injectable antituberculous treatment with 4 drugs was immediately initiated. Parenteral cortichosteroids, anticoagulant, symptomatictreatments were associated. The patient received a very complex and prolonged nursing intervention followed by neurologic and pulmonary rehabilitation in ICU and in the Pneumophtisiology Department. The rehabilitation team identifies the all subjective and objective demands and plan the nursing process of care. When patient gains consciousness the neurologic and pulmonary rehabilitation were started. The evolution was slow, but favorable, after 6 moths of treatment the impairment of left hand movement being the only remaining sign of the past disease.

Conclusions: Collaboration medical team consisting of a neurologist, pulmonologist, infection disease specialist and physiotherapist increased the success rate, diminish the sequelas and improve the quality of life of the patient.
A Review of the Characteristics of Modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Authors: Hristov Georgi Valentinov , Zahariev Plamen Zlatkov , Beloev Ivan Hristov
Published: June 2016

The main aim of this article is to present the modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the possibilities for real-time remote monitoring of flight parameters and payload data. In the introduction section of the paper we briefly present the characteristics of the UAVs and which are their major application areas. Later, the main parameters and the various data types for remote control and monitoring of the unmanned aerial vehicles are presented and discussed. The paper continues with the methods and the technologies for transmission of these parameters and then presents a general hardware model for data transmission and a software model of a communication system suitable for UAVs.
Influence of Bellows Setting on Its Spring Rate and on Temperature Adjustment of Electromechanical Thermostats
Authors: Haas Peter , Kadnár Milan , Tóth František , Rusnák Juraj , Nógli Dušan
Published: June 2016

The precision and stability of adjusted temperatures are critical requirements for electromechanical thermostats. The key element in meeting the requirement is a thermostat bellows. It is a convertor of pressure into force that actuates the mechanical system of the thermostat. Convolutions enabling the axial movement of the bellows cause that the bellows is partly behaving as a spring. Therefore, the bellows has its own spring rate. The setting of the bellows spring rate influences the critical parameters of the thermostat. The aim of the article is to find the difference between the setting done by bellows producer and setting done by thermostat producer and its influence on the thermostat adjustment.
Using 3 × 3 Matrix to Evaluate the Manufacturing Technology in Food Company
Authors: Ingaldi Manuela , Kotus Martin , Škůrková Katarína Lestyánszka
Published: June 2016

In order to produce goods of sufficient quality finding buyers in the market, a company must have an adequate knowledge of their production technology. Technologies and finished products at the same time will affect the position of the company in the market and hence its existence in this market. Therefore, it is so important for every company to determine the appropriate technological strategy. The 3 × 3 matrix is a very useful tool to do so. This matrix shows the relation between technological possibilities of the company and its position in the market. However, that requires changing the scale used in the matrix. In practice, this means that both those that have a positive impact on the company and those that have a negative impact on it can be included in the factors. The research was conducted in a food industry company. It turned out that the research company was located in field of the matrix marked as ‚Improve marketing’. It means that the company should put more emphasis on improving the factors related to its position in the market.
Icings and their role as an important element of the cryosphere in High Arctic glacier forefields
Authors: Sobota Ireneusz
Published: June 2016

This study investigates icings and their role as an important element of the glacier forefields observed in the Kaffiøyra region in Svalbard. The emergence or disappearance of icings is one of the effects of changes observed in the area of a glacier and its catchment in the High Arctic. Icings were observed both in summer and spring in 1996–2015. The main objective was focused on the location and surface changes of the icings, as this is important for their responses to changes which occur across the cryosphere. In the forefields of most glaciers in the Kaffiøyra region, a generally declining trend is observed in the size of icing fields, with only occasional periods in which it increased. During the last five years, they have not been so large as they were in the preceding years. The degradation of High Arctic icings mainly occurs in summer, generally as a result of surface and mechanical ablation. The reach of icings is rather variable and their surface and thickness tend to change year by year, depending on hydrological conditions in the glacier’s system. Regardless of the causes of icings’ formation, their size, range and reach are related to the intensity of melting during a given season, which is conditioned by the weather, and especially by the winter outflow from a glacier.
Vulgatfassung?
Authors: Müller Jan-Dirk
Published: June 2016

New editions of the so-called contaminated manuscripts of the ›Nibelungenlied‹ demand new considerations about the transmission of the text. The article tries to prove that some usual assumptions about the different versions of the epic have to be revised and that new models of the filiation of manuscripts are necessary.
CDH1 (E-cadherin) expression independently affects clinical outcome in acute myeloid leukemia with normal cytogenetics
Authors: Zhang Ting-juan , Zhou Jing-dong , Ma Ji-chun , Deng Zhao-qun , Qian Zhen , Yao Dong-ming , Yang Jing , Li Xi-xi , Lin Jiang , Qian Jun
Published: June 2016

Background:

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical process which involves in tumor metastasis. As an important EMT marker gene, CDH1 (E-cadherin) expression and its clinical implication in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remain largely elusive.

Methods:

Real-time quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) was carried out to examine CDH1 transcript level in 123 de novo AML patients and 34 controls.

Results:

Compared with controls, CDH1 was significantly downregulated in AML (p<0.001). The median level of CDH1 expression divided total AML patients into CDH1 low-expressed (CDH1
1ow) and CDH1 high-expressed (CDH1
high) groups. There were no significant differences between the two groups in age, peripheral blood cell counts, complete remission (CR) rate, and the distribution of FAB/WHO subtypes as well as karyotypes/karyotypic classifications (p>0.05). However, CDH1
1ow group tended to have a higher bone marrow (BM) blasts (p=0.093). The spearman correlation analysis further illustrated a trend towards a negative correlation between CDH1 expression level and BM blasts (r=–0.214, p=0.052). CDH1
low group had a tendency towards a lower frequency of N/K-RAS mutations (p=0.094). Furthermore, CDH1
low patients had markedly shorter overall survival (OS) time in cytogenetic normal AML (CN-AML) (p=0.019). Both univariate and multivariate analyses confirmed the prognostic value of CDH1 expression in CN-AML patients (p=0.027 and 0.033, respectively).

Conclusions:

CDH1 downregulation acted as an independent prognostic biomarker in CN-AML patients.
Decompositions of the higher order polars of plane branches
Authors: García Barroso Evelia R. , Gwoździewicz Janusz
Published: June 2016

In [1] Casas-Alvero found decompositions of higher order polars of an irreducible plane complex analytic curve generalizing the results of Merle.
We improve his result obtaining a finer decomposition where we find out a kind of branches that we call threshold semi-roots. The existence of threshold semi-roots is a new phenomenon observed for the higher order polars. The topological type and the number of these branches is determined by the topological type of the original curve.
Empirical methods of reducing the observations in geodetic networks
Authors: Kadaj Roman
Published: June 2016

The paper presents empirical methodology of reducing various kinds of observations in geodetic network. A special case of reducing the observation concerns cartographic mapping. For numerical illustration and comparison of methods an application of the conformal Gauss-Krüger mapping was used. Empirical methods are an alternative to the classic differential and multi-stages methods. Numerical benefits concern in particular very long geodesics, created for example by GNSS vectors. In conventional methods the numerical errors of reduction values are significantly dependent on the length of the geodesic. The proposed empirical methods do not have this unfavorable characteristics. Reduction value is determined as a difference (or especially scaled difference) of the corresponding measures of geometric elements (distances, angles), wherein these measures are approximated independently in two spaces based on the known and corresponding approximate coordinates of the network points. Since in the iterative process of the network adjustment, coordinates of the points are systematically improved, approximated reductions also converge to certain optimal values.
On the use of IT investment assessment methods in the area of spatial data infrastructure
Authors: Zwirowicz-Rutkowska Agnieszka
Published: June 2016

One of the important issues concerning development of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) is the carrying out of economic and financial analysis. It is essential to determine expenses and also assess effects resulting from the development and use of infrastructures. Costs and benefits assessment could be associated with assessment of the infrastructure effectiveness and efficiency as well as the infrastructure value, understood as the infrastructure impact on economic aspects of an organisational performance, both of an organisation which realises an SDI project and all users of the infrastructure. The aim of this paper is an overview of various assessment methods of investment as well as an analysis of different types of costs and benefits used for information technology (IT) projects. Based on the literature, the analysis of the examples of the use of these methods in the area of spatial data infrastructures is also presented. Furthermore, the issues of SDI projects and investments are outlined. The results of the analysis indicate usefulness of the financial methods from different fields of management in the area of SDI building, development and use. The author proposes, in addition to the financial methods, the adaptation of the various techniques used for IT investments and their development, taking into consideration the SDI specificity for the purpose of assessment of different types of costs and benefits and integration of financial aspects with non-financial ones. Among the challenges are identification and quantification of costs and benefits, as well as establishing measures which would fit the characteristics of the SDI project and artefacts resulting from the project realisation. Moreover, aspects of subjectivity and variability in time should be taken into account as the consequences of definite goals and policies as well as business context of organisation undertaking the project or using its artefacts and also investors.
Analysis of surveying and legal problems in granting right-of-way and expropriation for the purpose of locating technical infrastructure
Authors: Trembecka Anna
Published: June 2016

A condition which determines the location of technical infrastructure is an entrepreneur holding the right to use the property for construction purposes. Currently, there are parallel separate legal forms allowing the use of a real property for the purpose of locating transmission lines, i.e. transmission easement (right-of-way) established under the civil law and expropriation by limiting the rights to a property under the administrative law.

The aim of the study is to compare these forms conferring the right to use real properties and to analyze the related surveying and legal problems occurring in practice. The research thesis of the article is ascertainment that the current legal provisions for establishing legal titles to a property in order to locate transmission lines need to be amended.

The conducted study regarded legal conditions, extent of expropriation and granting right-of-way in the city of Krakow, as well as the problems associated with the ambiguous wording of the legal regulations. Part of the research was devoted to the form of rights to land in order to carry out similar projects in some European countries (France, Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden). The justification for the analysis of these issues is dictated by the scale of practical use of the aforementioned forms of rights to land in order to locate technical infrastructure. Over the period of 2011-2014, 651 agreements were concluded on granting transmission right-of-way for 967 cadastral parcels owned by the city of Krakow, and 105 expropriation decisions were issued, limiting the use of real properties in Krakow.
The increase of English-German hybrid compounds
Authors: Gnatchuk Hanna
Published: June 2016

The present article deals with the study of the dynamics (development) of English-German hybrid compounds in the Carinthian newspaper
On Consensus Strings in Text Analysis
Authors: Zörnig Peter , Altmann Gabriel
Published: June 2016

The present paper is a pilot study introducing a concept of computational biology – the closest string problem (CSP) – into linguistics. In quantitative studies, texts can be represented as sequences, and for any given set of sequences one can solve a CSP. The solution is called a consensus string (CS), which is a sequence that is „as close as possible to all the given strings“. In this article we solve some CSP’s resulting from the study of a Hungarian poem and illustrate possible interpretations.
„ich schreib das mal hier rein ähm“Modality-taking – Schreibhinweise in professionellen mündlichen Interaktionssituationen
Authors: Ullrich Anna Valentine , Jakobs Eva-Maria , Eraßme Denise
Published: June 2016

Der Beitrag fokussiert Formen von Modalitätsinterdependenzen (MID) in professionellen Kontexten. MID sind dabei definiert als Zusammenspiel komplexer Ausdrucksressourcen wie z. B. Sprechen, Schreiben und Visualisieren. Bisher fehlen Ansätze, Methoden und Tools für die systematische Beschreibung und Analyse der Formen und Funktionen von MID. Die vorliegende Untersuchung setzt an dieser Stelle an. Sie gliedert sich ein in Forschungen zur Multimodalität von Kommunikation. Ziel ist es, ein Modell für die Beschreibung und Analyse von MID vorzustellen. Ein Aspekt wird hier herausgegriffen und fallbeispielbezogen diskutiert: das
Importance of Results Obtained from Geotechnical Monitoring for Evaluation of Reinforced Soil Structure – Case Study
Authors: Drusa M. , Vlcek J.
Published: June 2016

In the case of realized geotechnical monitoring (GTM) of reinforced retaining wall in difficult geological conditions is demonstrated the important role at realisation of transport infrastructures, which are often realized in insufficient quality due to inappropriate geotechnical parameters from survey works or not fitted well design of structure at certain conditions. This can result in large deformations of structure, or losing stability or structure life-time is very limited and remediation work is complicated and expensive. There was built on the modernized railway line Bratislava – Trenčín, closed to Zlatovce, overpass and connected road embankments on the route of first class I/61. Structure was designed as a bridge over the railway track before the northern portal of the railway tunnel Turecký vrch was open. A part of the embankment and overpass was a retaining wall reinforced by geosynthetics. The results of the geotechnical monitoring of this wall were afterwards simulated using finite element method (FEM) and results of this comparison are the scope of this article.
A phonetic inquiry into Dagbani vowel neutralisations
Authors: Hudu Fusheini
Published: June 2016

Previous researchers differ on what the feature specifications of Dagbani vowels are, what the vowel inventory is, which vowels are contrastive and how phonological processes affect the surface realisation of Dagbani vowels. This study provides experimental results on Dagbani vowel features from acoustic and perceptual psycholinguistic inquiries with the goal of better defining the vowel features and inventory. Basic formant frequencies of the vowels in different phonological contexts support the view that (1) vowels of all height specifications (including /a/) have [ATR] variants; (2) /i/ and /ɨ/ neutralise in harmonic contexts; and (3) mid vowels surface as low in non-final positions. Results of a perceptual psycholinguistic investigation of the neutralisation between mid and low vowels also show that in certain contexts, speakers are unable to perceive any distinction between different words with these vowels. The paper discusses the implications of these results on the Dagbani vowel inventory, evaluating the merits of different possible approaches in the process.
Word tone and tonal overwriting in Kabiye nouns
Authors: Roberts David
Published: June 2016

This paper presents a re-analysis of the tone of Kabiye nouns. It focuses on two tonal phenomena that have apparently not been reported elsewhere in Gur languages: root melodies associating to whole words and tonal overwriting. All singular suffixes are analyzed as being underlyingly toneless and receiving their surface tone by means of the root melody associating to the entire word, as though blind to the morpheme boundary. Association of tones to trimoraic words is dealt with by positing that the OCP is inactive. The non-singular (plural, collective and liquid) suffixes – with one exception – are underlyingly HL. The analysis of these forms distinguishes between non-overwriting suffixes, in which the word level tone is merely the sum of its parts, and overwriting suffixes, in which the tone of the suffix overwrites the final tone(s) of the root melody.