bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Big Five model of personality in Bangladesh: Examining the Ten-Item Personality Inventory
Authors: Islam Nurul
Published: July 2019

Researchers, over the world, often create very brief measures of Big Five personality dimensions, so that they can assess people?s personality in a reasonably short period of time. The most prominent and well-established measure among all brief personality measures is the ?Ten Item Personality Inventory? (TIPI). The present study aimed to translate, adapt, and validate the TIPI for use in the Bangladeshi culture. After completing the standardized translation procedure, the Bangla version of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI?B) was examined in a study including 662 Bangladeshi adults. Though an exploratory factor analysis with one half of the sample (n = 330) had explained 77.53% of the total variance, it did not show the scale?s five dimensions as independent with two items for each. Acceptable goodness of fit indices (?2/df = 3.177, GFI =.960, CFI = .935, TLI = .937, SRMR = .061, and RMSEA = .76) were found for the scale through a confirmatory factor analysis performed on the second half of the sample (n = 332). Acceptable internal consistencies, significant test-retest reliabilities, and convergent and discriminant validities were established in the scale through different statistical analyses. Thus, the TIPI?B with its five dimensions can be used as a valid and reliable measure to assess the personality of Bangladeshi people.
Career Adaptability in Serbia: Examining the CAAS model
Authors: Mirkovic Biljana , Suvajdzic Katarina , Dostanic Jelena
Published: July 2019

This study examined the psychometric properties of a Serbian translation of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS ? Serbian Form). Two different studies involving Serbian employed adults were conducted. In the first study (n = 374), the results of confirmatory factor analyses supported the four-factor structure of the scale and it is shown that the overall CAAS score and sub-dimension scores were highly reliable. The second study (n = 270) demonstrated the external validity of the instrument. Correlations with narcissism, career satisfaction, supervisory support, perceived social support, and burnout were consistent with the theoretical expectations and results of previous studies, suggesting good external validity of the instrument. The configural, metric, scalar, and residual measurement invariance of the CAAS ? Serbian Form among two samples were established. It was concluded that the CAAS ? Serbian Form has adequate psychometric properties, and hence could be considered as a reliable and valid instrument for measuring career adaptability of employed adults.
The Effect of Voluntary Clawback Adoptions on Corporate Tax Policy
Authors: Kubick Thomas R. , Omer Thomas C. , Wiebe Zac
Published: July 2019

Companies are adopting executive compensation recoupment (“clawback”) policies to discourage aggressive financial reporting choices. Recent research suggests clawback policies encourage other means of meeting earnings expectations. We suggest that reducing income tax expense is a means of meeting earnings expectations. We find that effective tax rates are lower after clawback adoption due to increased investments in tax planning. We identify three tax planning activities that clawback companies invest in to lower effective tax rates: purchases of auditor-provided tax services, increased connections to other low-tax companies, and use of tax havens. We provide evidence that effective tax rate decreases do not result from use of opportunistic income tax accruals, and that decreases are stronger among companies that adopt robust clawback policies. Additional tests indicate lower tax outcome volatility and longer, more readable tax footnotes following clawback adoption. Our results suggest a positive spillover effect of clawback adoption on corporate tax policy.
Случай применения комплексного способа лечения декубитальной язвы у пациента в хроническом критическом состоянии
Authors: Яковлева А. В. , Яковлев А. А. , Петрова М. В. , Крылов К. Ю.
Published: July 2019

У 76,72% пациентов, поступивших в реанимационные отделения Федерального научно-клинического центра реаниматологии и реабилитологии (ФНКЦ РР) в хроническом критическом состоянии (ХКС), обусловленном различными поражениями головного мозга, были диагностированы декубитальные язвы (ДЯ), или пролежни, 3-й и/или 4-й стадии. Из них 33,41% пациентов было необходимо плановое прохождение этапа инвазивной реабилитации (нейрохирургическое вмешательство), противопоказанием к которому служило наличие ДЯ. В работе описано применение комплексного способа лечения ДЯ крестца 4-й стадии у пациента в ХКС, которому требовалось выполнение вентрикуло-перитонеального шунтирования. Описаны противопоказания к исключительно хирургическому способу закрытия ДЯ и результаты быстрого и успешного заживления ДЯ крестца 4-й стадии путем использования комплексного способа лечения.
Определение эмоционального состояния свёрточной нейронной сетью по данным электроэнцефалографии
Authors: Савинов В. Б. , Ботман С. А. , Сапунов В. В. , Петров В. А. , Самусев И. Г. , Шушарина Н. Н.
Published: July 2019

Существующие методы определения эмоционального состояния, основанные на регистрации тональности голоса и мимики, не обладают достаточной точностью и специфичностью. Эти показатели можно повысить с помощью анализа биосигналов, которые не проходят через сознательные фильтры, для чего необходимо создание эффективного алгоритма определения эмоционального состояния на основании анализа электрофизиологических сигналов. Целью работы было провести бинарную классификацию валентности эмоционального состояния по данным электроэнцефалографии с использованием сверточной нейронной сети и сравнить эффективность ее работы с эффективностью метода случайного леса. В качестве подопытного был выбран здоровый 30-летний мужчина. В течение 10 сессий по 2 ч каждая с подопытного производили запись электроэнцефалограммы во время просмотра им специально сформированного набора видеофильмов. Полученный сигнал фильтровали, сегментировали и использовали для обучения классификаторов. При использовании сети удалось достичь значения F1-меры, равного 87%, что превышает показатель, полученный при использовании метода случайного леса с входными данными в виде вектора признаков (67%). Достигнутые результаты свидетельствуют о высокой перспективности применения нейронных сетей сверточного типа в общем, и предложенной архитектуры, в частности, для решения задач по распознаванию эмоционального состояния по данным электрофизиологических сигналов. Дальнейшие работы по развитию подхода могут быть направлены на оптимизацию архитектуры сети для расширения числа идентифицируемых классов, а также повышения обобщающей способности сети при работе с большим количеством испытуемых.
Thermal and Exergy Efficiency Analysis of a Solar-driven Closed Brayton Power Plant with Helium and s-CO2 as Working Fluids
Authors: C. Arnaiz del Pozo  , S. Sanchez-Orgaz  , J. Rodríguez Martín  , A. Jiménez Álvaro  , I. López Paniagua  , C. González Fernández  , R. Nieto Carlier
Published: July 2019

Solar  Thermal  Energy  power  plants  operating with traditional steam Rankine cycles have a low thermal and  exergy  efficiency.  An  attractive  pathway  to  increase the  competitiveness  of  this  technology  is  to  investigate Closed Brayton cycles working with different fluids with desirable  properties  that  show  potential  for  improving their efficiency  In  this  work  a  solar  driven  regenerative  Brayton  cycle  is studied  employing  two  different  working  fluids:  Helium and    supercritical    CO2.    The    cycle    efficiencies    are determined  for  different  turbine  inlet  temperatures  and for  the  optimal  compressor  pressure  ratios.  Additionally, an  exergy  analysis  breakdown  of  the  different  plant components is shown  for each case,  while the  solar field sizes  and  working  fluid  flows  are  calculated  for  a  fixed gas turbine output.
Effectiveness of Chilled ceiling assisted by intermittent personalized ventilation for active contaminants’ confinement and energy savings
Authors: D. Al Assaad  , K. Ghali  , N. Ghaddar
Published: July 2019

The integration of intermittent personalized ventilation in office spaces equipped with chilled ceiling has been proven to enhance comfort and provide satisfactory indoor air quality. However, in the case where the occupant using the personalized ventilator is infected, the turbulence of the intermittent personalized ventilation jet could enhance contaminant spread and compromise the indoor air quality in the space. In this work, an office space equipped with a chilled ceiling and intermittent personalized ventilation was modelled using a validated CFD model. The intermittent jet was supplied towards an infected occupant. The frequency and average flow rate that could minimize particle spread in the space were investigated. It was found that the intermittent personalized ventilator should be operated at a frequency of 0.3 Hz and an average flow rate of 3.5 L/s. These conditions confined the particles to their source of generation while still providing comfort for the infected occupant.
PHOTOESSAY: Gangsters in Paradise: The Deportees of Tonga
Authors: Henry Todd M.
Published: July 2019

This photoessay is based around photographs taken during the making of the documentary Gangsters in Paradise: The Deportees of Tonga. As a documentary photographer with a tendency to focus on social issues and subcultures, the author was interested in documenting the lives of deportees in Tonga. Through the film, he hoped to highlight the various complexities of identity, belonging and adaptation in relation to the deportee community of Tonga.  More importantly, he wanted to start a conversation in Tonga itself regarding how this growing community can be better supported and understood by the wider Tongan public.
Mapping the communicative ecology of Latin American migrant women in New Zealand
Authors: Nunes Hoffman Luciana , Papoutsaki Evangelia
Published: July 2019

This article is based on a study that focused on the narratives of Latin American migrant women (LAMW) in New Zealand and the role formal and informal communication networks play in their migration experiences. These networks were both online and offline and supported by the ethnic media. Informed by a feminist theoretical framework, this qualitative investigation employed the oral history and communicative ecology approaches. This study demonstrated the existing complexity and interrelationship between the communication networks, the feminisation of migration and migrant women’s empowerment.
REVIEW: How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace
Authors: Robie David
Published: July 2019

Soldiers Without Guns: An untold story of unsung Kiwi heroes, documentary, 92min. Director Will Watson. Narrated by Lucy Lawless.WHILE a gripping film about the apocalyptic Bougainville war, or more accurately the peace that ended the decade-long conflict, opened in cinemas across New Zealand in April 2019, an island roadshow was taking place back in the Pacific. Initiated by the United Nations, the roadshow—featuring Bougainville President Father John Momis, many of his cabinet members and UN Resident Coordinator Gianluca Rampolla—was designed to help prepare Bougainvillean voters to decide on their future. This future is due to be put to the test in a referendum on October 17 in the crucial political outcome of an extraordinary peace process that began in chilly mid-winter talks at Burnham Military Camp near Christchurch in July 1997.
EDITORIAL: Terrorism and democracy
Authors: Robie David
Published: July 2019

THIS edition of Pacific Journalism Review is a special issue on several fronts in our 25th year. First, it is a double issue—the first in our history. Second, it began production as an ‘unthemed’ issue, partly to catch up with a backlog of accepted peer-reviewed papers that had missed recent themed editions. However, the tragic mosque massacre in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in March, and recent ballot box expressions over political futures and independence meant a group of papers emerged with a ‘terrorism dilemmas and democracy’ theme. New Zealand will be learning to live with its ‘loss of innocence’, as Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock describes it, for the months ahead after the shock of a gunman launching his obscene act of livestreamed terrorism with a bloody assault on two mosques in Christchurch during Friday prayers on 15 March 2019 designed to go viral on global social media. Fifty people were killed that day, with another dying from his wounds several weeks later, unleashing an extraordinary and emotional wave of #TheyAreUs solidarity across the country.
The Characteristics of Social and Psychological Adaptation of Convicts
Authors:   North Ossetian State Pedagogical Institute, Arzamieva Khedi Umarovna , Vereshchagina Marina Vladimirovna ,   North Ossetian State Pedagogical Institute
Published: July 2019

The authors conduct the research on the social and psychological adaptation of prisoners. There is a progressive trend in the development of the educational system of penitentiary institutions, which implies that psychologists support convicts while they serve the sentence. At the same time, the social and psychological adaptation of prisoners is regarded as the basis for the prevention of recidivism as well as further resocialization of convicted persons and their reintegration into society. The study identifies the characteristics of adapted and maladjusted prisoners. About a third of the sample of maladjusted convicts are dissatisfied not only with communication, interaction, and collaboration but also with their personal qualities. The authors provide a comparative analysis of the indicators of social and psychological adaptation among three age groups of convicts (up to 25 years, 26-40 years, and over 40 years) as well as prisoners with different levels of education. The study shows that age and level of education are the factors in the social and psychological adaptation of prisoners.
From Paternalism to Consumerism: a Paradigm Shift in Doctor-Patient Relationship
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Lyadova Anna Vasilyevna , Lyadova Maria Vasilyevna ,   Russian National Research Medical University
Published: July 2019

The concept of personalized medicine is a current trend in the development of Russian health care. The new approach includes personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory elements. Despite the significance of the scientific component, the doctor-patient relationship becomes important for the effective functioning of personalized medicine as a priority model of modern health care. The paper analyzes the researchers’ approaches to studying the subject matter. The authors note that the doctor-patient system has undergone a transformation due to a change in social reality guided by information technology rather than in the fundamentals of medical practice. Along with the advantages of paternalism as the basis of interaction between doctor and patient, it is obvious to adopt a new consumerist model. This trend is ambivalent. On the one hand, personal responsibility for one’s health can grow. On the other hand, consumerism in medicine increases its commercialization. The authors conclude that the future of personalized medicine lies in both more opportunities for modern medical knowledge and the development of people’s personal responsibility for their health.
Public Confidence in the Armed Forces (International Sociological Studies)
Authors:   Military University under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Baranovsky Maksim Vitalyevich
Published: July 2019

This paper summarizes the sociological studies of public confidence in the armed forces in Western Europe and North America that are conducted to examine the attitude of the population towards social institutions. It focuses on institutions providing sociological support to the armed forces’ activities and reveals the promising areas of research of international military sociologists. The analysis of the results of sociological surveys conducted by Gallup, Edelman, Pew Research Center shows that the army clearly ranks first in the trust ratings of social and state institutions both in Western Europe and the United States. At the same time, there is a trend leading to a contradiction in the structure of confidence – among the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. The people of North America and Western Europe support the armed forces and military personnel, but they have a negative attitude towards military campaigns in which these armed forces are compelled to participate. Failure to understand the specific nature of the army’s activities and its insulation results in a civil-military gap. The analysis of scientific publications and research reveals the significance of the political context of trust when assessing the level of civil-military relations. The party affiliation of American respondents is a fundamental determinant of their trust/distrust in the armed forces. The climate of trust within a military organization as well as the confidence of military personnel in the social institution of military service is a significant indicator of public confidence in the armed forces.
The Assessment of Staff Loyalty as an Element of Work Motivation
Authors:   Saratov State University, Lamikhov Yury Borisovich
Published: July 2019

The study discusses the development of staff motivation through the assessment of employee loyalty to a company. Having analyzed sociological survey results, Russian and international scientific literature, the author reveals that loyalty is a characteristic of the staff associated with the commitment to a company, approval of staff goals, means and ways of their achievement, open labor motives. This characteristic serves as the basis of high work motivation, a key area of development and stability of the modern company. The author examines factors that can ensure staff loyalty to the company. The sociological survey of employees in Saratov industrial companies has been conducted with the help of employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS). It is a widely used method in Russian and international HR practices to assess employee loyalty as an element of work motivation.
Qualidade de frutos de híbridos de melancia com sementes
Authors: De Oliveira, Milena Maria Tomaz  , Alves Ricardo Elesbão , Leirson Rodrigues da Silva  , Fernando Antonio Souza de Aragão
Published: July 2019

O presente trabalho objetivou avaliar a qualidade pós-colheita de dois híbridos de melancia com sementes cultivadas sob manejo convencional. As características de qualidade analisadas foram: massa fresca; diâmetro longitudinal e transversal; índice de formato do fruto (IF: DL/DT); espessura da casca; firmeza da polpa; sólidos solúveis; acidez titulável; pH; SS/AT; açúcares solúveis totais e redutores; pectina solúvel; vitamina C; carotenoides totais; licopeno; flavonoides; antocianinas e polifenóis extraíveis totais. O ensaio em condições laboratoriais foi estabelecido em delineamento inteiramente casualizado (DIC). Os resultados foram submetidos à análise de variância (ANOVA).  Os híbridos apresentaram massa fresca, DL/DT, cor, sólidos solúveis, acidez titulável e SS/AT satisfatórios para comercialização; com destaque para o híbrido ‘Boston’ que apresentou maior teor de sólidos solúveis (9.90 °Brix), açúcares solúveis totais (6.66 %) e SS/AT (86.24). Para compostos bioativos, o híbrido ‘Boston’ apresentou valores médios superiores para carotenoides totais (2.03 mg 100g-1) e flavonoides amarelos (3.21 mg 100g-1), entretanto, o híbrido ‘Quetzali’ obteve destaque para os polifenóis extraíveis totais (194.36 mg 100g-1), podendo, desta forma, ser usados na promoção da saúde humana. Embora os híbridos avaliados tenham se mostrado qualitativamente favoráveis ao consumo, tenham se mostrado qualitativamente favoráveis ao consumo, os resultados aqui encontrados indicam estreitamento da base genética, o que torna necessário a avaliação de outros híbridos
Avaliação de caprinos nas Repúblicas de Cabo Verde e Brasil a partir de índices zoométricos
Authors: Pires Luanna Chácara , Medeiros Machado Théa Mírian , Souza Carneiro Paulo Luiz Souza Carneiro , Ferreira da Fonseca Jeferson , De Deus Fonseca João
Published: July 2019

Objetivou-se avaliar os índices zoométricos de populações caprinas brasileiras e cabo-verdianas e verificar sua aptidão zootécnica para produção de carne, leite ou mista. Foram amostradas 1.064 cabras adultas das populações: Alpina, Boer, Anglo-Nubiana, Mambrina, Azul, Gurguéia, Sem Raça Definida do Piauí (SRD-PI), Nambi, Marota, Repartida e as populações cabo-verdianas de cinco ilhas (Fogo, São Nicolau, Santiago, São Vicente e Santo Antão). Avaliaram-se altura da cernelha, altura das patas, altura de garupa, comprimento corporal e perímetro torácico. A partir destas medidas foram calculados cinco índices zoométricos baseados na combinação das variáveis anteriores. Estes índices foram submetidos às análises estatísticas descritivas, análise de variância e teste de Scott-Knott (P<0,05). Verificou-se que as populações com maior aptidão para corte foram SRD-PI e Nambi. As populações Anglo-Nubiana, Gurguéia, Marota e Fogo apresentaram aptidão intermediária. A aptidão leiteira foi verificada para as populações de São Nicolau, Santiago, São Vicente, Azul, Santo Antão, Mambrina e Repartida. Os índices zoométricos são úteis para separar as populações de acordo com suas aptidões.
San Antonio de Areco: urbanismo y arquitectura colonial. Argentina
Authors: Torres López Matilde
Published: July 2019

El presente artículo nos introduce en sus primeras páginas en la colonización de Argentina. De los preparativos de la expedición de Juan de Garay desde Asunción, capital de Paraguay en 1580, para la creación de la nueva ciudad de Nuestra Señora del Buen Aire, siendo esta la segunda y definitiva fundación.Las fundaciones de estos nuevos núcleos poblacionales necesitaban de una serie de normas y legislaciones que se debían aplicar en todo territorio conquistado: legislación política, religiosa, social y en particular la urbanística. Aplicando la normativa a la fundación de los pueblos, en este caso a San Antonio de Areco, en el ejido, campaña bonaerense.
Los mataderos en la ciudad de Málaga. Proyectos y construcciones
Authors: Lozano Morales María del Carmen
Published: July 2019

El presente trabajo se ocupa del análisis y evolución de los edificios dedicados a mataderos en la ciudad de Málaga, así como el estudio de dos proyectos que no se llevaron a cabo. La exposición de los diferentes testimonios arquitectónicos relacionados con esta actividad se verifica a través de un recorrido cronológico desde los tiempos de la Reconquista hasta el momento de privatización del sacrificio y comercio de las carnes.
Iconografía femenina y publicidad de perfumes
Authors: García Bandera Noelia
Published: July 2019

El siguiente artículo se basa en un estudio iconográfico y simbólico que analizará la imagen que representa la mujer en el mundo de los perfumes. Dicha iconografía es muy diversa gracias a la riqueza de imágenes con las que contamos desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días. Los años noventa es la década escogida para comprobar qué tipos de roles vive la figura femenina en estas campañas publicitarias tan presentes en nuestras vidas.
Actualización de la estética del cartel en un nuevo género: el cartel de los festivales de cine
Authors: Torres Aguilar Francisca
Published: July 2019

En este momento se vive una de las mejores etapas para el Séptimo Arte, tanto en el ámbito mundial como nacional. Nunca había sido tan lucrativo el arte fílmico. Por esta causa, todo aquello relacionado con el espectáculo del cine se ve involucrado en una transformación fruto del ánimo de cambio. Una de las manifestaciones que más ha podido salir beneficiada es el cartel, y en concreto, el cartel de los numerosos festivales de cine que proliferan por toda la geografía española.
Fausto+Edipo, investigador privado (y su doble). El Corazón del Ángel (Angel Heart), de Alan Parker (1987)
Authors: García Gómez Francisco
Published: July 2019

En este artículo hacemos un estudio de El corazón del ángel, una película especialmente interesante por un argumento en el que se combinan los ancestrales mitos de Fausto, Edipo y el doble, y por un desarrollo que pasa de los convencionalismos del género policíaco a esquemas más propios del cine de terror.
Antoni Tàpies: breve recorrido a través de su obra
Authors: Soriano Sánchez Manuela
Published: July 2019

Tàpies adapta una tendencia internacional a una situación nacional. La obra de Tàpies cuenta como una de las más importantes de nuestra época. Ha profundizado en los mensajes de la materia, en el misterio de los signos, en las huellas y las heridas del tiempo. Antoni Tàpies acaba de cumplir 75 años, pero continúa pensando que tiene que acabar de perfeccionarse. He aquí un recorrido breve por la evolución de su obra.
Fernández Vega, Pedro Ángel: La casa romana
Authors: Corrales Aguilar Pilar
Published: July 2019

Este libro es el resultado de la Tesis Doctoral del autor que bajo el nombre La casa urbana romana según la literatura altoimperial: de las fuentes clásicas al tratamiento historiográfico estuvo dirigida por el Dr. José Manuel Iglesias Gil de la Universidad de Cantabria.
AA. VV.: Glorias efímeras. Las exequias florentinas por Felipe lI y Margarita de Austria
Authors: Robles Robles Antonia Amor
Published: July 2019

El catálogo de la exposición realizada en conmemoración de los centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V celebrada en Valladolid (27 octubre de 1999/9 enero de 2000), es una muestra evidente de las relaciones que han existido a lo largo de los siglos entre la corona Española e Italia.
Santos Arrebola, María Soledad: La proyección de un ministro ilustrado en Málaga: José de Gálvez
Authors: Palomo Díaz Francisco José
Published: July 2019

Aunque con fecha de 1999, ha sido en 2000 cuando el libro que recensionamos salió a la luz y fue presentado en Málaga. En su día fue la tesis doctoral de la autora, que dirigió la prologuista citada, y que mereció del tribunal que la juzgó en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad malagueña la máxima calificación. Luego de las oportunas correcciones, se publica el cuerpo principal de la misma.
VV. AA.: Impresos poblanos de la Muy Ilustre Biblioteca Palafoxiana. Catálogo comentado (1645-1823)
Authors: González Acosta Alejandro
Published: July 2019

En 1829, un exaltado joven cubano de paso por Puebla, daba la alborozada "Noticia importante a los literatos nacionales y extranjeros» en El Sol (A. 1, 2a.ép., N° 173, 13 de agosto) de una Colección copiosísima de manuscritos que vio en la rica Biblioteca fundada por el obispo Juan de Palafox y Mendoza...
A quest for unification with the divine: Crashaw’s Teresa Poems “A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa” and “The Flaming Heart”
Authors: Baysal Kübra
Published: July 2019

As a metaphysical poet, Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) is recognized for his stylistic experimentation and deep religious faith. In the course of his short life, he became a fellow at Cambridge, was later introduced to Queen Henrietta Marie, Charles I’s wife, in France after his exile during the Interregnum, converted to Catholicism from Anglicanism and was highly influenced by Baroque poetry and the martyrdom of St. Teresa of Avila in his style and themes. He is a poet with a “most holy, humble and genuine soul” and in the last six years of his life, which coincided with a period of great crisis in both personal and professional spheres, he worked intensively on the religious phase of his literary career (Shepherd 1914, p. 1). He reflected his devotion to St. Teresa and to God in his religious poems. Within this context, this study analyses Crashaw’s two Teresian poems, “A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa” and “The Flaming Heart” featuring the themes of the quest for divine love and unification with the divine along with Crashaw’s divergence from other metaphysical poets, his affection for the European style(s), and his religious views concerning both his country and other countries in Europe.
Literary space in Ismail Kadare’s novel The Palace of Dreams (A semiotic approach)
Authors: Brahaj Manjola
Published: July 2019

This research study focuses on a social semiotic approach to Ismail Kadare’s novel The Palace of Dreams. The novel was chosen for study and analysis because it is considered to be one of the Kadare’s most important works. The Palace of Dreams reflects many aspects of Albanian society including governmental abuse of power during the period of the communist regime. The analysis of literary space in this novel focuses on locating the literary discourse in the text and the spaces of the text that produce discourse with their shape, presence and extension. The purpose of this research study is to see how and in what way meaning is conveyed through spaces, and also how and in what shape it serves the comprehensive ideas of the novel. Our purpose is not only to highlight the values of this novel, but rather enable to understand the great importance that space plays in people’s work environments and in their private lives (the characters), and how crucial the space is for their lives and destinies.
The concept of happiness in Night Zoo
Authors: Gergelyová Viktória
Published: July 2019

This paper deals with a psychoanalytic interpretation of the titular story. It is part of the first volume in the Hungarian anthology series entitled Night Zoo – An Anthology of Women’s Sexuality (‘Éjszakai Állatkert – Antológia a női szexualitásról’). The analysis focuses on the story Night Zoo (‘Éjszakai Állatkert’) written by Zsófia Bán according to Freud’s personality theory. The theory regards our psyche as divided into three parts. The id is the instinctual part of our mind that represents our sexual and hidden desires, the superego contains the moral conscience and the norms, and the ego mediates between the wishes of the id and the rules of the superego. The chosen short story seems to revolve around unfulfilled love between two people. But after critical reading, it is obvious that this is not a love story of two people, but the relationship lies between the narrator and her unfulfilled desires. There is an immense conflict between instincts and social expectations. The narrator’s id has a desire; she just wants to be happy and have harmony in her life. But the superego does not allow her to fulfill the desire. The ego is therefore instrumental in deciding what the correct decision is.
Protective role of quercetinum in mercury exposure cardiotoxity
Authors: Kaminsky Rostyslav F.
Published: July 2019

The article describes the remediation of myocardium structure characteristics provided by Quercetinum under the influence of 0.01 LD50 mercury chloride (II) in rats at chronic exposure. Ultrastructural and metabolic reorganization of myocardium tissue was studied by electron microscopic and histochemical techniques. Quercetinum reduces energy imbalance in the myocardium, shows membrane-stabilizing activity, and promotes stabilization and normalization of the function of membranes by direct biochemical interaction of the membrane organelles of the body’s cells.
Innovator’s Dilemma: Review of the Main Responses to Disruptive Innovation
Authors: Benazzouz Nizar M.
Published: July 2019

Objective: This paper aims to summarize and discuss key findings in the literature around the main responses used by incumbents in order to anticipate or counter-attack disruptive up-starters and hence to partially or totally tackle the innovator’s dilemma.

Methodology: The research method is based on critical and comparative literature review. Hence, by narrowing down the scope of studies papers using a multi-stage selection process, this paper discusses other scholars’ research and findings on the topic of disruption innovation and the directions well-established firms choose to avoid being disrupted.

Findings: This paper enumerated some main strategies invoked in a finely selected literature advised for incumbents wiling to escape disruptive threats. It suggests that these strategies share a common exploitation/exploration basis but are implemented in distinct ways and have different impacts across the organization. It also discovered many missing parts in the literature that stand for interesting research opportunities.

Value added: This literature review contributes to the current body of knowledge by providing an overview of the main incumbents’ responses to disruptive threats. It also identifies some current gaps in research and provides recommendations on how to close them.

Recommendations: This paper builds on hitherto literature in order to present state-of-the art approaches to disrupt or resist disruption. It categorizes these responses into internal and external, and proactive vs. reactive. While these strategies are studied in different contexts and are labeled distinctly, this study proposes a common frame displaying a similar underlying purpose to all of them. It also provides some updated research avenues for scholars to inspect.
Creating talent pools through coopetition: a case study on vocational training programs in Romania
Authors: Foerster-Pastor Foerster-Metz Ulrike Stefanie , Golowko Nina , Hell Christian Richard , Marquardt Katrin
Published: July 2019

The Romanian economy has prospered in the last years, and as a result, economic players claim today the scarcity of skilled workforce in the country. Many reasons have been mentioned for this: a dysfunctional labour market, saturated economic regions, demographic decline, migration, not adequately skilled workers. Therefore, it is crucial activating participation at an early stage to grow future skilled workforce as insufficiency of skilled human resources can limit economic growth. Talent management and talent pool growth have been concentrated on star talent acquisition and the development of new in -house talent processes. Rather slow has been the advance in generating new talent pools from an inter-firm cooperative approach. This work will make an initial approach to close this gap in research by studying the creation of talent pools through coopetition in the private sector as mean to an end to growing workforce supply. The concept is studied based on a case study that focuses on two private Vocational Education Training programs of two industries in Romania namely retail and manufacturing. The study shows that new talent pools can be grown through a coopetitive environment given harsh environments and limited resource capabilities of the firms.
Game theory in designing mHealth apps for monitoring hypertension
Authors: Clim Antonio , Zota Răzvan Daniel
Published: July 2019

The Game Theory model provides revolutionary grounds for tackling problems in an optimal manner by considering various constraints and conditions. This research paper proposes a novel idea of monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of hypertension using game theory model using systematic review methodology. The theoretical framework for designing software called Hypertension Management System (HMS) is proposed using underlying principles of game theory by considering patients and doctors as players. The system is installed in the smartphones of players and its functioning follows the hierarchy of Big Data mining and extraction. The theoretical framework of HMS starts from data sensing through physical sensors, proceeds along layers for data processing and reduction, and finally arrives at the decision-making step to assist doctors in the treatment of disease. This novel system will reduce the mortality due to chronic diseases like hypertension by enabling game patients and doctors to deal with its symptoms in a timely manner according to feedback from previous data.
Key anxiety factors for buying an electric vehicle
Authors: Tanţău Adrian , Gavrilescu Ileana
Published: July 2019

The purchase of an electric vehicle has become a widely debated topic by the economic community in recent years. However, few personal automobile users, who purchased new cars, have chosen a fully electric vehicle. The novelty of this research came from the assumption that there is a lack of knowledge in this field and fuelled by contradicting information. Potential electric vehicle buyers have developed a real psychosis on the subject, the most consistent motives being among others the charge anxiety. Many researchers consider that the worries of the vehicle users are exaggerated and are not based on reality. Better documentation of the subject would reduce these fears and would increase the process of electrical vehicles absorption. The main objective of this article is to analyse the main anxiety factors by buying an electric vehicle and to reduce the related anxiety. For this purpose, the authors have performed an econometric analysis based on a questionnaire distributed online and face to face in Romania.
Decreased plasma epidermal growth factor (EGF) levels in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Authors: Soemarwoto Retno AS , Jamsari  , Yanwirasti  , Putra Andika Chandra , Mustofa Syazili
Published: July 2019

Background

Chronic mucus hypersecretion is a common feature in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is associated with epidermal growth factor (EGF) activity. Aberrant EGF and its receptor signalling can cause airway hyperproliferation, increase in mucous cell differentiation and mucus hyperproduction. Furthermore, it can also promote subepithelial fibrosis and excessive collagen deposition in COPD. The objective of this research was to investigate the plasma levels of EGF in smokers with COPD in comparison with clinically healthy smokers. In addition, the relationship between the plasma levels of EGF and clinical features was investigated.

Methods

A cross-sectional study included 82 clinically stable male patients with mild-to-very severe COPD (mean age: 64.5±8.6 years), and the control group consisted of 86 healthy male smokers (mean age: 61.6±9.5 years). To define COPD, we performed spirometry and classified COPD using Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) classification. We analyzed the levels of EGF by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in plasma.

Results

The mean serum levels of EGF were significantly lower in smokers with COPD than those in controls (69.30 and 83.82 pg/mL, respectively, p = 0.046). The plasma levels of EGF were significantly different (p = 0.004) between mild COPD and moderate-to-very severe COPD. There were no significant differences between the levels of EGF in plasma of spontaneous sputum producers (COPD patients) vs. nonsputum producers (p = 0.101) and between nonexacerbated COPD and exacerbated COPD patients(p = 0.138).

Conclusions

There is a significant difference in the plasma levels of EGF in male smokers with COPD as compared with male healthy smokers. Our findings suggest that the plasma levels of EGF may contribute to the pathogenesis of COPD.
Pneumococcal pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease: immunopathogenesis and diagnosis
Authors: Amanda Gina , Sutoyo Dianiati Kusumo , Burhan Erlina
Published: July 2019

Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). It has many virulence factors, the most important being a polysaccharide capsule (Cps). There are 97 different serotypes of pneumococcal based on Cps which include both colonization and invasive serotypes. Pneumococcal pneumonia may exist as a result of either aspiration of bacteria in the nasopharynx or inhalation of droplet nuclei which contains bacteria until they reach the lower respiratory tract. This condition will activate both innate and adaptive immune system. The diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia is established in a patient who has the signs and symptoms of pneumonia, accompanied by the detection of S. pneumoniae in microbiology examination. Pneumococcus may also penetrate into a normally sterile site such as bloodstream, meninges, and pleural cavity, and infection of pneumococcus in those sites are defined as an invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). High bacterial load, dysfunction of the immune system, and co-colonization of another microorganism may also lead to IPD.
Analyses of Monthly Discharges in Slovakia Using Hydrological Exploratory Methods and Statistical Methods
Authors: Ďurigová Mária , Ballová Dominika , Hlavčová Kamila
Published: July 2019

Detailed analyses of hydrological data are necessary in order to examine changes in their character. This article focuses on an analysis of the average monthly discharges of 14 stage-discharge gauging stations in Slovakia. The measured period is from 1931 to 2016. The approaches used are hydrological exploration methods, which were created by hydrologists to describe the behaviour of hydrological time series. The methods are used to identify a change-point through an analysis of any residuals, Pettitt´s test, and an analysis of the relationship between the mean annual discharge deviations from the long-term annual discharge and the deviations of the average monthly discharge from the long-term average monthly discharge. A considerable number of change-points were identified in the 1970s and 1980s. The results of the analyses show changes in the hydrological regimes, but to confirm the accuracy of the outcomes, it is also necessary to examine other hydrological and meteorological elements such as, e.g., precipitation and the air temperature.
Railways as a Key Part of Integrated Transport Systems
Authors: Vojtek Martin , Kendra Martin , Široký Jaromír
Published: July 2019

Integrated passenger transport system consists of many factors with various impacts on the entire system quality. In passenger transport, there are mostly individual passengers therefore it is difficult to determine all transport requirements. In the passenger transport system, there are several modes of transport, but passengers mostly use road and rail transport. Passenger transport system is influenced by many qualitative factors with various impacts. The paper is focused on analysis of the role of railways in integrated passenger transport systems. The analysis is from passenger point of view because the key element in railway passenger transport is the passenger (customer), who requires the transport from one place to another. A basic precondition for accomplishing the main requirement (transport), is making the complete offer which provides not only transport, but also other complementary services. There are several types of passenger trains, which jointly create a part of integrated transport system. Quality of this transport system depends on train route topology, timetable of trains, number and location of all stations and stops. Primary function of the transport system is providing transport for passengers on regional, national-interregional and international level; therefore, the analysis involves these levels.
MINERAL FERTLIZER AS AN ALTERNATIVE FERTILIZER IN INCREASING RICE YIELD IN TABANAN REGENCY
Authors: Lanya Indayati , Subadiyasa N. Netera
Published: July 2019

Production can be increased through improved harvest index genetic engineering, and the availability of nutrients in the soil. Ciherang rice production tests conducted over two years by toposekuen in Tabanan. First in five Subak, (Jangga, Bulung Daya, Andal Dewa, Lanyah1, and Perean) with 10 fertilizer treatments. The second year, five fertilization treatments in the two Subak (Petung dan Babahan). The study was conducted in randomized complete block design with three replications. Parameters observed included vegetative and generative growth, and yield of paddy field farming. Duncan`s test, with a confidence level of 5% using the Costat program, and input output fertilization. Fertilization is very significant effect on rice production. The first year results, the highest rice production (9.33 tons ha-1) was achieved in a combination of fertilizer treatment (organic + NPK + mineral), can increase production 43.98%. The second year of the highest rice production (11.878 tons ha-1) were achieved on the fertilization of NPM (100 kg urea + 100 kg Phonska ha-1) + organic fertilizer (2.5 tons ha-1) + mineral fertilizer (2.5 tons ha-1), production increased 50.4%. Organic fertilization received the lowest rice production (5,420 to 8,940 tons ha-1), and the highest percentage of empty grain (9.29%). Mineral fertilizers can reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and high-dose organic fertilizers. The increase in yield of paddy field farming compared to control for the treatment of organic fertilizer (Rp 1.011 million ha-1), NP (Rp 6.416 million ha-1), NPK (Rp7.636 million ha-1), and NPM (Rp12.576 million ha -1).
EVALUATION OF LAND SUITABILITY FOR INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY IN DEGRADED UNDA WATERSHED, DISTRICT OF KARANGASEM, BALI
Authors: Trigunasih Ni Made , Merit I Nyoman , Wiyanti Wiyanti , Narka I Wayan , Dibia I Nyoman
Published: July 2019

Evaluation of land suitability to increase the productivity of degraded lands in the Unda watershed aims: providing a database of land suitability for land use planning in support of sustainable agricultural development, providing spatial information, and recommendations in accordance with the land use plan of inhibiting factors that exist. Identification of characteristic land quality evaluation survey carried out by the method of land with exploration area of research followed by soil sampling at some sample of land units. Land suitability classification using the criteria of the Technical Guidelines for Evaluation of Land For Agricultural Commodities of Soil Research Institute (2003) is by matching between the haracteristics of the land with the requirements of growing plants was evaluated. Types of agricultural crops that are evaluated include plantation crops and food crops hotikultura fruits. Suitability actual land (land suitability based on survey data) are mostly classified as unsuitable (N), and marginally suitable (S3). Qualities/characteristics as the land that is the main limiting factor, among others: quality of land erosion, slope, water availability, temperature, rooting media (soil texture and coarse material). Sustainable land use planning can be recommended with agroforestry, accompanied by vegetative conservation measures because it is cheaper and easier to be carried out by farmers. Recommended cultivation effort is a combination of timber plants with horticultural crops of fruits with the provisions of at least 40% must be enclosed timber. Plant timber that can be developed between the other plants that are not too heavy canopy.