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Performance, emission and combustion characteristics of a direct injection diesel engine using blends of punnai oil biodiesel and diesel as fuel
Authors: Chidambaranathan Bibin , Seenikannan P. , Devan P.K.
Published: September 2018

Fast-growing demand for automobile vehicles and depletion of fossil fuel forced the researchers to think for alternative fuel which can replace the diesel fuel. From this perspective, Punnai oil which is non-edible in nature is chosen as a feedstock for producing methyl ester. Punnai oil can be converted into biodiesel/methyl ester by transesterification process. From gas chromatography analysis it is found that biodiesel of Punnai oil contains linoleic, oleic and palmitic fatty acids. Presence of these fatty acids and in the Punnai oil biodiesel will enhance the combustion characteristics. To ascertain the suitability of Punnai oil biodiesel as a fuel for direct injection Diesel engine, the experimental work was carried out using a constant speed, four-stroke single-cylinder Diesel engine. Experimental results show that there is a decrease in brake thermal efficiency and an increase in NOx and CO2 emissions with increased concentration of biodiesel in the blend. Smoke, CO, and HC emissions were reduced significantly. At rated power, brake thermal efficiencies of diesel, B20, B40, B60, and B80 are 29.2%, 28.6%, 28.1%, 27.5%, and 27%, respectively, and NOx emissions are in the order of 1516 ppm, 1547 ppm, 1553 ppm, 1567 ppm, and 1631 ppm. Smoke emission for diesel fuel was 50% whereas for B20, B40, B60, and B80, smoke emissions were 48%, 45%, 44%, and 43%. The same trend was observed for hydrocarbon emissions. Combustion characteristics of B20 blend closely follow the trend of diesel fuel. The maximum cylinder pressure of diesel and B20 are 68.3 bar and 67 bar, respectively, and maxi-mum heat release rate of diesel and B20 are 56 kJ/m3 oCA and 54 kJ/m3 oCA, respectively.
Investigation of cottonseed oil biodiesel with ethanol as an additive on fuel properties, engine performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a diesel engine
Authors: Madiwale Shrikant , Alagu Karthikeyan , Bhojwani Virendra
Published: September 2018

In last few years in automobile sector there is a emerging need of an alternative fuel because of depletion of the stock of fossil fuels in all over the world. Bio-diesel in this regard contested a strong alternative to the conventional fuels. Bio-diesel contains 9-10% higher oxygen and higher cetane number which allows its good combustion in the combustion chambers of the engine. But poor hot flow and cold flow properties of biodiesel restricts their applications in the field of automotives. So the blends of biodiesel in percentage with diesel and ethanol as an properties enhancer additives are used in the biodiesel/diesel blend. Reduced viscosity, higher calorific value, improved flash and fire point and enhanced cold flow properties of the blends with ethanol as an additive, enhanced the combustion and reduced harmful emissions from the engine. Experimental work presented in this paper is by considering cottonseed biodiesel as raw feedstock blended with diesel and 5% ethanol. Properties were investigated experimentally as per IS 1448 standards. Trials were conducted on the single cylinder diesel. Results show that there are significant improvements in the properties of the blend, performance, combustion and reduced harmful emission from the engine. Experimental investigation reported that ethanol as an additives in the blends of cotton-seed biodiesel with diesel reduces kinematic viscosity by 7%, cold flow properties by 9% to 10% . But on the other hand but density of the blend is increased by 3% and higher heating value is decreased by 9%.
Boiling heat transfer modelling: A review and future prospectus
Authors: Ilic Milica , Petrovic Milan , Stevanovic Vladimir
Published: September 2018

This paper reviews the current status of boiling heat transfer modelling, discusses the need for its improvement due to unresolved intriguing experimental findings and emergence of novel technical applications and outlines the directions for an advanced modelling approach. The state-of-the-art of computational boiling heat transfer studies is given for: macro-scale boiling models applied in two-fluid liquid-vapour interpenetrating media approach, micro-, meso-scale boiling computations by interface capturing methods, and nano-scale boiling simulations by molecular dynamics tools. Advantages, limitations and shortcomings of each approach, which originate from its grounding formulations, are discussed and illustrated on results obtained by the boiling model developed in our research group. Based on these issues, we stress the importance of adaptation of a multi-scale approach for development of an advanced boiling predictive methodology. A general road-map is outlined for achieving this challenging goal, which should include: improvement of existing methods for computation of boiling on different scales and development of conceptually new algorithms for linking of individual scale methods. As dramatically different time steps of integration for different boiling scales hinder the application of full multi-scale methodology on boiling problems of practical significance, we emphasise the importance of development of another algorithm for the determination of sub-domains within a macro-scale boiling region, which are relevant for conductance of small-scale simulations.
NEUROBLASTOMA IN ADULT: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
Authors: Skorniakova E. A. , Zaslavskii L. G. , Neofidov N. A. , Vorobev S. L. , Gotovchikov A. A. , Rodionova O. V. , Kovelenov A. G. , Zaslavskaia O. L.
Published: September 2018

Neuroblastoma is a malignant tumor derived from the neuroblasts of the sympathetic nervous system, which develop in any region of the nervous system. Usually, neuroblastoma is detected in children aged 1–2 years. About 90% of cases are diagnosed before the age of 5 years. The incidence of adult neuroblastoma is only 0.3 cases per million people per year. The clinical course and biological activity of adult neuroblastoma is different than children neuroblastoma. Early diagnosis of this disease in adults is necessary for timely start of treatment and increasing life expectancy. In this clinical observation, we present a detailed description of the course of this rare disease in the 34-year-old male and literature review on adult neuroblastoma.
ALGORITHM OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SUPPORT OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA
Authors: Khianikiainen I. V. , Mikhailov V. A.
Published: September 2018

Introduction. Nowadays, it is important to study the mechanisms of psychological adaptation in patients with early stage of chronic cerebral ischemia (ES CCI) from the standpoint of biopsychosocial approach.

The objective of the study was to develop the algorithm for identifying psychosocial characteristics of patients with ES CCI and providing them with psychotherapeutic care. Material and methods. 280 patients with ES CCI developed against a background of arterial hypertension and/or cerebral atherosclerosis (middle age 53.9±8.1 years (from 30 to 72 years) gender index 1:1) were selected for the study. The control group included healthy individuals comparable to those in the main group according to gender and age characteristics (n=32, middle age 52.4±6.5 years (31–65 years), gender index 1:1, p>0.05 ). The panel of psychological methods was used to identify the individual psychological and socio-environmental factors in patients with ES CCI.

Results and conclusions. A three-stage algorithm of psychological and psychotherapeutic support of patients with early stage of chronic cerebral ischemia (ES CCI) was developed and tested by the multidisciplinary team of specialists. At the stage of opportunistic screening, the neurologist used express methods for diagnosing cognitive (Mini-test of mental state), emotional (Hospital scale of anxiety and depression), vegetative disorders (the Wayne test) among the studied persons. At the stage of selective screening, the medical psychologist performed systemic psychodiagnostics of the ES CCI. At the stage of treatment, a correction was made: psychovegetative disorders by progressive muscular relaxation; anxiety-depressive manifestations – cognitive re-attribution according to A. Beck; obsessive-phobic disorders – direct motivated suggestion in reality with elements of clarification and persuasion. The indicators of the effectiveness of psychological and psychotherapeutic correction in patients with ES CCI were: positive dynamics of the Scale of quality of life SF-36 and regression of integrative indicators of the Scale of psychopathological manifestations of SCL-90-R – «Index of overall severity of symptoms» and «Total number of affirmative answers». Thus, the algorithm described above is suitable for use in practical healthcare for optimizing individual therapeutic strategies.
TECHNOLOGY OF COMPUTER STABILOGRAPHY WITH BIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK IN REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH LUMBAR-SACRAL HERNIAS
Authors: Andreev V. V. , Sychev A. I. , Barantsevich E. R. , Lalaian T. V.
Published: September 2018

This paper presents the experience of practical use of the technology of computer stabilography with biological feedback in rehabilitation of patients suffering from lumbar-sacral dorsopathies and diagnosed large lumbar hernias. The data of high diagnostic and rehabilitation effectiveness of stabilometry systems was obtained during the 14-days observation period of 16 patients with clinical manifestations of L5-S1 radiculopathy and dorsalgia. The method was used in assessment of neurology deficit and secondary myotonic disturbances. The decrease of intensity of pain and recovery of axial balance and coordination were achieved. As a statistically significant improvement of the equilibrium, the Romberg’s coefficient was decreased from 670 to 295% (p<0.05) during the drug therapy and 10 trainings on stabiloplatform. The achieved data show the improvement of segmental motor and sensory functions, decrease of disturbances in statics and dynamics of vertebral column in patients with radicular syndrome and large hernias after the rehabilitation course with the application of the technology of computer stabilometry.
Looking at the Master Narrative: A Possible Interpretation Strategy
Authors: Bralović Miloš
Published: September 2018

While re-thinking (or, from the perspective of our time, looking at) Modernism, and the concept of modernity, one must have in mind all the contradictions implied by the term. To paraphrase Susan Stanford Friedman, Modernism is (or was) both the culture of rebellion and ‘high’, elitist culture, both negation of tradition and a so-called master narrative. Modernism means different things to different people, but the problem is that, as Stanford Friedman points out, its definitions are not just different, but stand as opposites. Bearing that in mind, the main point of this paper is to try to define/explain/understand what the mentioned master narrative (in the Modernist practices of fine arts) is and how it was created. Is our re-thinking, or looking from a temporal distance, just a mere observation, or, is it inevitable to notice all the different narratives connected to different practices similarily to Jacques Derrida’s différence? In other words, were there that many narratives, would there even be a master one?   Article received: March 24, 2018; Article accepted: April 10, 2018; Published online: September 15, 2018; Scholarly analysis or debate How to cite this article: Bralović, Miloš. "Looking at the Master Narrative: A Possible Interpretation Strategy." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 16 (2018): 1−10. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i16.249
From the Archives of the Transition: The Collages of Josip Vaništa 1990–2000
Authors: Ćuković Petar
Published: September 2018

Following the analysis of the 20th century, carried out by Alain Badiou in his book The Century, the text begins with the quotation of Osip Mandelstam's poem The Age, in which the new century is seen in organic metaphors such as the “beast”, whose “spine” has already “broken” while emerging, thus foreboding  that already in 1923, when the poem was written, the century of hope, the Soviet Century in its very nature, carried the seed of its own destruction. Consequently, the breakdown of this “century” in the field of so-called transitional social processes in all post-Communist societies is seen as a tragic, cruel privatization, a wild initial accumulation/pillage of capital in a new historical context, with new protagonists, and a new soulless morality.For the most part, this text deals with analysis of the collages of Croatian neo-avantgarde artist Josip Vaništa, created during the period of transition and war in Croatia and the former Yugoslavia from 1990 to 2000. With minimal artist intervention, by simple collage and cutting of titles, short texts and photographs from the quondam press, Vaništa draws attention to the tragedy and absurdity of transitional social space. Article received: March 31, 2018; Article accepted: April 10, 2018; Published online: September 15, 2018; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Ćuković, Petar. "From the Archives of the Transition: The Collages of Josip Vaništa 1990–2000." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 16 (2018): 29−41. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i16.252
Re-Thinking Architectural Modernism in Contemporary Art: Jasmina Cibic, Dušica Dražić and Katarina Burin
Authors: Jankov Sonja
Published: September 2018

This paper analyses how three contemporary female artists approach Modernist architecture and its ideological context. Jasmina Cibic in her contemporary interdisciplinary installations addresses politization of architecture – both at the time it was conceptualised and now, when it is related to past political regimes. For Cibic, architectural objects are signifiers of larger narratives. This is how she approaches Slovenian trade fair that was supposed to be realised in 1941, but has never been, numerous renovations of the former summer residency of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, lack of documentation on the Pavilion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the 1929 World Expo and the Palace of Yugoslav Federal Executive Council. In the case of Dušica Dražić, the paper focuses on her work New City, a large maquette of a non-existing city that contains buildings chosen from projects that were actually built but eventually destroyed. Katarina Burin fabricates sketches, documentary materials, architectural scale models, technical drawings and furnishings which are aesthetically, technically and theoretically bounded to the architectural design of the 1950s, in order to create Gesamtkunstwerk which criticizes the absence of women from architectural history of the time.
 
Article received: March 24, 2018; Article accepted: April 10, 2018; Published online: September 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short Communications
How to cite this article: Jankov, Sonja. "Re-Thinking Architectural Modernism in Contemporary Art: Jasmina Cibic, Dušica Dražić and Katarina Burin." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 16 (2018): 85−98. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i16.256
Contemporary Art and Politics in Exhibitions by Halil Altindere and Ei Arakawa
Authors: Riboškić Jovanović Marija
Published: September 2018

The issue of contemporary art in the last three decades and the possibility of developing, acting, replicating, experimenting, storing and reactivating art through new technologies has encouraged theoreticians to re-evaluate the capabilities and capacities of the art itself. I think that only art today analyses how our reality is constructed through media channels. For the analysis, I will use the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2016 “The Present in Drag”. Today we are living in a world of image implosion. Since the world is rapidly changing with techno-images and virtual space, today art generally has not to explain anything, but it can, with the help of projects and concepts, create its own world and form our presence in it. Nowadays, subjectivity has become a technical construction, and the current myth of the possibility of creating live images through technical reproduction in combination with new media has become both a theoretical and practical possibility. With this work and with several examples from contemporary art I will show that artists who deal with current political problems present the situation better than mainstream global news carriers.
 
Article received: March 24, 2018; Article accepted: April 10, 2018; Published online: September 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short Communications
How to cite this article: Riboškić Jovanović, Marija. "Contemporary Art and Politics in Exhibitions by Halil Altindere and Ei Arakawa." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 16 (2018): 113−122. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i16.258
New Communication Forms and Political Framing: Twitter in Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign
Authors: Vlatković Sandra
Published: September 2018

Technological development has made it possible for the modern individual to understand the world around them using a computer and screen as their fundamental means of accessing information. With analysis of certain features of modern communication and new media, and of communication forms determined by new ‘agents’ such as the Internet, the mobile phone, social media – and most of all Twitter – it can be concluded that new media channels are no longer merely an asset, but also a place of social interaction. The ways in which social media are used influence the creation of an altered image of the world around us. The custom-made environment of information which reaches the user serves to diminish the chances for a more comprehensive perception. The era of Donald Trump is a striking example of the use of new media, primarily Twitter, as a powerful means of reaching a significant number of future voters. The way in which information is framed on Twitter is rooted in the theoretical basics of framing, and as such has played a significant role in establishing Trump’s political superiority.
 
Article received: March 25, 2018; Article accepted: April 10, 2018; Published online: September 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short Communications
How to cite this article: Vlatković, Sandra. "New Communication Forms and Political Framing: Twitter in Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign." AM Journal of Art And Media Studies 16 (2018): 123−134. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i16.259
O DIREITO AO ENVELHECIMENTO NO SÉCULO XXI: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE A POSSIBILIDADE DE ADOÇÃO DE UMA CONVENÇÃO INTERNACIONAL DE PROTEÇÃO AOS DIREITOS DOS IDOSOS.
Authors: Lemos Junior Eloy Pereira , Lelis Henrique Rodrigues
Published: September 2018

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar as questões atinentes à implantação de uma convenção internacional de proteção aos direitos dos idosos. Usando o método dedutivo, partindo do estudo doutrinário e análise dos argumentos usados em sua defesa, busca-se compreender como uma convenção específica pode contribuir para a efetivação dos direitos humanos dos idosos.
Evaluating Argumentative English Writings in the Light of Grice's "Cooperative Principles"
Authors: Tang Yi
Published: September 2018

Argumentative English writing is an important touchstone of Chinese advanced English learners' English competence. Herbert Paul Grice's "cooperative principles" (including maxims of quantity, quality, relation and manner), as "lubricant" of human communication, would help build up harmonious and friendly atmosphere for the communication between the Chinese writers and their target readers, thereby providing them, as well as their instructors, with feasible evaluative criteria for judging the effectiveness of their argumentative English writing.
Study of the texture and deformation mechanisms of MA2-1pch magnesium alloy upon rotary swaging
Authors: Serebryany V. N. , Malyshev I. A. , Caikler D. N. , Martynenko N. S. , Morozov M. M. , Dobatkin S. V.
Published: September 2018

The use of quantitative X-ray texture analysis (QXRTA) (construction of the orientation distribution function (ODF) proceeding from the measurement of direct pole figures) and simulation of the texture formation in the framework of thermoactivation model (TA) are considered to study the features of texture formation in MA2-1pch magnesium alloy subjected to rotary swaging (RS) at 400 – 350°C. A diffuse texture consisting of basic and inclined to the pressing direction basic poles is formed in the alloy when temperature decreases and the total true deformations increase up to ε = 2.77. Model textures match experimental textures rather well when RS is provided by the action of basic ({0001} á1120), prismatic ({1010} á1120ñ) slip and twinning by the systems {1012} á1011ñ, {1011} á1012ñ, {1121} á1126ñ. Mathematical modeling of the textures also shows that the activity of the twinning systems under consideration increases in the sequence {1012} á1011ñ, {1011} á1012ñ, {1121} á1126ñ as the total deformations grow and RS temperature decreases. Those results are consistent with the previously obtained microstructural data. However, the differences in the orientation factors calculated for the initial state of the alloy and state after RS indicated to the activation of the basal slip and twinning systems under consideration, as well as to the difficulty of prismatic sliding. The obtained data are also consistent with the results of mathematical modeling of textures. At a temperature of 350°C at a total true deformation of 2.77 the basic deformation mechanisms (the basic slip and twinning by the systems {1012} á1011ñ, {1011} á1012ñ, {1121} á1126ñ) which ensure texture changes upon RS stimulate an enhance in the mechanical properties of magnesium alloy MA2-1pch bars.
A mathematical model of transition of the material from elastic to elasto-plastic state
Authors: Markochev V. M.
Published: September 2018

The goal of this study is to develop a mathematical model of the transition of the structural material from elastic state to elastoplastic state upon tension. The model is based on a modified three-parameter transition operator from one mathematical function to another. A procedure of the mathematical approximation of the transition and corresponding algorithm, which provides a generalized canonical description of the transition, regardless of the form of the functions that characterize the system behavior before and after the transition are presented. The technique is used to describe the transition of two structural materials from the elastic to elastoplastic state upon tension of the samples. Initial sections of the tension diagram are described using three empirical parameters. The role of each of them — maximum permissible relative deformation, transition rate and asymmetry of the transition — are determined. Statistical interpretation of the elastoplastic transition is developed and substantiated. Mathematical expressions for the integral probability function and probability density functions that provide numerical statistical estimation of the degree of change in the state of the structural elements of the material during loading are derived. Analytical description of the initial part of the tension diagram of the material can be used to rearrange the diagrams when modeling deformation processes in conditions of reversible elastoplastic loading.
RusAccreditation and International Recognition of the National Accreditation System
Authors: Burlak A. A.
Published: September 2018

The activities of the Federal Accreditation Service including cooperation with international accreditation institutions, i.e., International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) and the Asia-Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) are reviewed. Issues regarding implementation of the system of good laboratory practice in the context of cooperation between Russia, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Slovak National Accreditation Service are considered. Information about mutual recognition agreements and bilateral arrangements of the Federal Service for Accreditation and national accreditation bodies of the foreign countries are discussed along with the results of the activities of RusAccreditation during the 1st quarter of 2018 and goals for the near future.
POSTGRADUATE EXTENT OF THE EDUCATION MODULE «HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY AND EXPERT SUPPORT: UKRAINE’S MOVEMENT TOWARD THE EUROPEAN UNION»
Authors: Tryhub Ilona ,   Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
Published: September 2018

In the article the modern tendencies of scientific researches for competition of PhD scientific degree and problem questions of preparation of young scientists in Ukraine have been considered. It has been proved that the revision of the quality of PhD candidates training will promote the formation of post-graduate students as scientists and scientific and teaching employees. The methodical aspects of attracting postgraduate students to the educational module of the Erasmus + Jean Monet program «Higher Education Quality and Expert Support: Ukraine’s movement towards the European Union» have been highlighted.
TO THE PROBLEM OF IMPROVING THE ACCREDITATION SYSTEM FOR THE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Authors: Serduk Tatiana ,   Melitopol College of Industry and Economics
Published: September 2018

The article presents an analysis of the compliance of the state approach to the accreditation of the specialty, the direction and the higher educational institution to the real situation in Ukrainian education. It is noted that the implementation of accreditation in the national system of education is characterized by a controlling and punitive approach and is a manifestation of a formalized system of educational management in general. Comparison of accreditation approaches in world practice is analysed and the need to reform the national system for determining the quality of work of higher educational institutions is emphasized. Attention is drawn to the ambiguity of using the category «knowledge quality» to determine the quality of higher education, rather than the wider content of the category «learning outcomes». These requirements do not take into account the level of preparation of entrants, the status of higher educational establishments, the level of competition among entrants to a higher educational establishment, the personal educational progress of students, they are characterized by a non-differentiated approach, create conditions for corruption phenomena in the system of education. Based on the statistical data on the results of the external independent evaluation tasks, a lower level of knowledge of graduates of secondary schools to state requirements has been demonstrated to the level of students’ knowledge quality. The implementation of integrated professional-oriented tasks by graduate students as an indicator of their learning outcomes during the accreditation process is proposed.
SYSTEM APPROACH TO FORMATION OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL COMPETENCE OF SOCIAL WORKERS
Authors: Lisovets Оleg ,   National Pedagogical Dragomanov University
Published: September 2018

In article conceptual basics of application of system approach to process of formation of social and legal competence of future social workers in the conditions of university education are covered. Concepts «system» and «system approach» in the context of training of students for professional activity in the sphere of social work and, in particular, acquisition of social and legal competence by them as complex and personal education are analyzed. Feature of system approach consists that it opens integrity of system; allows to define the mechanisms providing integrity of system; promotes identification of communications between components and their coherences. Definition and the analysis of conceptual bases of system approach allow to develop qualitative model of system of formation of social and legal competence. In article relevance and need of system consideration of this process through the analysis of the main contradictions is proved. The structure of system of formation of social and legal competence by means of allocation of its components (target, substantial, procedural, object – subject, the social environment) and definitions of their communications is shown. It is indicated the need of system consideration of separate social and legal competences, and the accounting of integrative nature of their formation. Importance of inclusion of students in the professional directed activity providing transfer of the acquired social and legal competences in the practical plane is noted. The specified conceptual provisions of use of system approach make a scientific-theoretical basis for creation of pedagogical system of formation of social and legal competence of future social workers in the conditions of university education.
INSTRUMENTAL AND ACTIVITY-BASED COMPONENT OF THE SOCIAL REFLEXION OF A FUTURE TEACHER
Authors: Opalyuk Tetyana ,   Kamyanets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University
Published: September 2018

The article deals with problems related to the study of the peculiarities of the instrumental and activitybased component of the functional structure of the social reflection of a future teacher. It describes the priority of the application of forms, methods, technologies of interactive learning activities of students, and systems of subject-subjective relationships in their context. It emphasizes the criteria for selection of educational tasks for the development of social reflection of future teachers, peculiarities of algorithms of the implementation of these tasks within the framework of a particular training course. This work indicates the need to develop methodological complexes in educational disciplines that have the potential for development of social reflection, to ensure their orientation towards self-education of the student, and the self-development of socio-reflective competence, as a result. Conceptually and technologically, the methodological complex must let a student work independently following the priorities of professional development within its bounds. This includes the method of goalsetting, recommendations for working out the theoretical block on a specific problem, strategy, tactics of independent work. The methodological complex should also include algorithms of the organization of educational actions, criteria and methods of choice of forms, methods, types of training and technologies of the organization of educational activity. Besides, it should cover both methods of diagnosis of the effectiveness of the formation of social reflection, as well as methods of the efficacy of technology of training organization, aimed at achieving the goals set.
A Parametric Study on the Flexural Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Near Surface Mounted FRP Bars
Authors: Panahi Minu , Izadinia Mohsen
Published: September 2018

FRP rods as lightweight materials with extraordinary properties of high strength to weight ratio, corrosion resistance, potentially high overall durability, tailor ability and high specific attributes are one of the most favorable materials to strengthen existing reinforced structures. The present study aimed to identify the behavior of reinforced concrete flexural beams strengthened with fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) rods through near surface mounted method (NSM). The results of the current study were based on nonlinear finite element software ABAQUS which can accurately simulate the experimental investigations on flexural behavior of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with NSM FRP rods. Validation of the proposed model was confirmed first by making a comparison with the experimental study presented in the literature. A parametric analysis was conducted on validated specimens to investigate the effect of FRP rod diameters, rod arrangements, FRP materials, as well as rods groove intervals on flexural behavior of strengthened reinforced beams. The numerical results of mid-span bending moment deflection, ultimate bending moment, failure deflection and ductility index were reported. For the sake of simplicity to be used by engineers, the results of the current study were drawn in the form of design charts and tables.
Simulating Brain Tumour Mass-Effect
Authors: Abler Daniel , Büchler Philippe , Rockne Russell
Published: September 2018

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most frequent malignant brain tumour in adults. Its growth is characterized by infiltration of surrounding healthy tissue, and the formation of a necrotic core. GBM presents with varying degree of mass-effect which results in healthy-tissue deformation, midline shift or herniation. Biomechanical forces, such as those resulting from displacive tumour growth, shape the tumour environment, contribute to tumour progression and may affect treatment response and outcome.

To investigate the role of tumour mass-effect for tumour evolution, we have previously developed a mechanically-coupled reaction-diffusion model that captures three dominant aspects of macroscopic GBM growth: (a) tumour cell proliferation, (b) the diffuse invasion of the growing tumour into surrounding healthy tissue, and (c) the resulting mass effect.

Here we present an implementation of this model in FENICS and first steps towards an image-based optimization approach, based on dolphin-adjoint, to estimate patient-specific parameters from clinical magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI).
A formação policial militar sob a ótica da comunidade acadêmica brasileira
Authors: Souza André Alves
Published: September 2018

Este estudo objetivou demonstrar a perspectiva da comunidade acadêmica brasileira acerca da formação policial militar e da capacitação deste profissional em responder ás demandas atinentes a segurança e ordem pública. Para tanto, fez-se a revisão bibliográfica na literatura nacional e internacional sobre o trabalho policial militar e sua interação com a sociedade. Identificou-se as produções científicas produzidas neste campo do saber por meio da metodologia de pesquisa bibliográfica nos bancos de dados do IBICT e SciELO. Em seguida, utilizou-se a técnica de análise documental e quantitativa do conteúdo encontrado, para identificar as peculiaridades e a complexidade que a sociedade exige deste perfil profissiográfico. Examinou-se os objetivos e as conclusões das pesquisas nacionais que versavam sobre a formação policial militar no Brasil, utilizando como referência os paradigmas propostos pela SENASP. Comparou-se os parâmetros e instrumentos previstos para a formação dos oficiais da polícia militar do Estado de Goiás com os resultados alcançados nos trabalhos propostos pela comunidade acadêmica brasileira. Em suma, inferiu-se que somente 11 (onze) estados brasileiros concentram os 28 (vinte e oito) trabalhos acadêmicos publicados. Verificou-se das produções científicas analisadas, 64,29% concluíram que o ensino policial militar possui alguma deficiência ou não atende as demandas sociais e apenas 35,71% obtiveram resultado positivo acerca dos temas pesquisados. Constatou-se ainda que não obstante a proporção reduzida de carga horária destinada ao desenvolvimento de competências, apontados pela comunidade acadêmica como deficientes, as produções científicas do Estado de Goiás indicaram desenvolvimento satisfatório nos processos de formação do oficial de polícia militar. Segundo Pereira (2013), o referido paradoxo justificou-se pelo longo processo de adaptação e reformulação da matriz curricular do CFO/PMGO.
Diversity and the Performance of Selected Financial Institutions of Asia
Authors: Fatima Shafaque , Sharif Saqib
Published: September 2018

Linking with the business case for diversity, this study examines whether the top management team (TMT) and the board of directors (BODs) diversity has a positive impact on financial institution (FI) performance in select countries of Asia least researched domain. We use data from 119 financial institutions across Asia for the year 2015, initially 1,447 institutions; however, incomplete data was excluded from final analysis. We use three proxies for diversity, that is, nationality diversity, gender diversity, and age diversity of TMT and BODs. To investigate the impact of TMT and BODs diversity, cross-sectional ordinary least-squares estimation is applied, using Return on Average Assets (ROAA%) as a measure of performance.  We find that nationality diversity and age diversity is positively and significantly related to FIs performance. Our evidence indicates that executives and board members with diverse exposure and younger age improve FIs profitability. However, there is no significant relationship between gender and FIs performance.
Does Poverty Reduction Cause Economic Development
Authors: Ijaz Mariam
Published: September 2018

Extreme poverty is a threat faced by billions of people making economic development as a chief goal for most of the countries all over the world. Having a deep understanding of the whole gamut of poverty, this study attempts to empirically investigate that whether a causal link exists between poverty reduction and economic development or not? And if it exists, then what is the direction of that causal link. The Panel data cover 26 developing countries, on the basis of the availability of data, for the years from 1994 to 2015. Through Co-integration to Pairwise Granger Causality Test & Granger Causality based on VEC Model, this study analyses the causality between poverty reduction and economic development. This study, apart from poverty reduction, also incorporates some other independent variables affecting economic development. The trickle-up theory, adopted in this study, explains the channels through which poverty reduction could cause economic development. The main conclusion drawn from the empirical results is that a causal link running from poverty reduction to economic development exists. This implies that poverty reduction causes economic development.
Some current topics in condensed matter physics 2016
Authors: Gaggero-Sager L. M.
Published: September 2018

The 2016 issue of Some Current Topics in Condensed Matter Physics is the fourth in the collection. It contains the extended versions of some of the works presented in the IX Workshop on Condensed Matter and Molecular Physics (January 2016) as oral contributions. In this occasion the reader may find chapters dealing with the matrix Sturm- Liouville problem, the features of quantum transport of holes in layered semiconductor systems, the electron transmission in self-similar graphene heterostructures, the time variation of entropy in anomalous diffusion problems, and the treatment of cognitive declination in humans via the catastrophe theory and the methods of Condensed Matter Physics.
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Authors: Verhagen Arianne , Bouter Lex , Wiegman Nander , de Vet Henrica CW , Ioannidis john , Croft Peter
Published: September 2018

Background. To describe and compare love-related mortality in German and Italian operas of the 19th century, as operas are perfectly suited as a setting to study the relationship between love and premature death.Method. This is a historic cohort study of named characters in the 19th century operas by Italian and German composers included in a modern reference work. Follow-up lasted from the start of the opera until the final curtain. We calculated overall and cause-specific (e.g. love, violence) mortality, and proportional mortality ratios.Results: Among 76 eligible operas (23 German and 53 Italian) with 614 named characters, we recorded 118 deaths. The risk of dying young in opera is substantial, accounting for 94 of the 118 deaths. Violence was the main direct cause of death (62.7%) and love the main indirect cause (39.8%). The risk of dying of love was almost twice as high in Italian operas compared to German ones (46.8% versus 26.8%). Women experienced an almost double risk of dying of love compared to men (54.8% versus 31.6%).Discussion: This is the first empirical study on the contribution of passionate love to premature mortality. Its novelty lies in the use of opera as a source of epidemiological data. Our findings support the hypothesis that Italians are more passionate than Germans, resulting in proportionately more young people dying because of love in Italian operas. These findings provide further evidence for a link between emotion and mortality.
The effects of awareness of the perturbation during motor adaptation on hand localization
Authors: Modchalingam Shanaathanan , Vachon Chad , 't Hart Bernard Marius , Henriques Denise
Published: September 2018

Awareness of task demands is often used during rehabilitation and sports training by providing instructions which appears to accelerate learning and improve performance through explicit motor learning. However, the effects of awareness of perturbations on the changes in estimates of hand position resulting from motor learning are not well understood. In this study, people adapted their reaches to a visuomotor rotation while either receiving instructions on the nature of the perturbation, experiencing a large rotation, or both to generate awareness of the perturbation and increase the contribution of explicit learning. We found that instructions and/or larger rotations allowed people to activate or deactivate part of the learned strategy at will and elicited explicit changes in open-loop reaches, while a small rotation without instructions did not. However, these differences in awareness, and even manipulations of awareness and perturbation size, did not appear to affect learning-induced changes in hand-localization estimates. This was true when estimates of the adapted hand location reflected changes in proprioception, produced when the hand was displaced by a robot, and also when hand location estimates were based on efferent-based predictions of self-generated hand movements. In other words, visuomotor adaptation led to significant shifts in predicted and perceived hand location that were not modulated by either instruction or perturbation size. Our results indicate that not all outcomes of motor learning benefit from an explicit awareness of the task. Particularly, proprioceptive recalibration and the updating of predicted sensory consequences appear to be largely implicit. (data: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/MX5U2, preprint: DOI[url])
Rewarding Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study in Payment-by-Results
Authors: Sedlmayr Richard
Published: September 2018

Payment-by-Results (PbR) involves funders’ commitments to make future grant payments as a function of yet-unachieved results. Though the justification may go beyond the desire to overcome incentive problems (such as moral hazard or adverse selection), it is desirable for payments to be closely tied to impacts – “as if” to incentivize implementers to perform in the interests of program beneficiaries. We describe a so-called impact bond transaction in the poverty alleviation space that commits payments in direct proportion to the economic value created in beneficiary households. Even so, incentive-compatibility is not easily achieved in practice: when funders insure themselves against extreme outcomes, and when working capital providers absorb performance risk, they alter the shape of the reward function. The greater the error associated with impact measurement, the more incentives can be affected.
The Differential Effects of Economic Conditions and Racial Attitudes in the Election of Donald Trump
Authors: Green Jon , McElwee Sean
Published: September 2018

Debates over the extent to which racial attitudes and economic distress explain voting behavior in the 2016 election have tended to be limited in scope, focusing on the extent to which each factor explains white voters’ two-party vote choice. This limited scope obscures important ways in which these factors could have been related to voting behavior among other racial sub-groups of the electorate, as well as participation in the two-party contest in the first place. Using the vote-validated 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, merged with economic data at the ZIP code and county levels, we find that racial attitudes strongly explain two-party vote choice among white voters – in line with a growing body of literature. However, we also find that local economic distress was strongly associated with non-voting among people of color, complicating direct comparisons between racial and economic explanations of the 2016 election and cautioning against generalizations regarding causal emphasis.
A study to assess the critical result reporting at B &C Medical College and teaching hospital
Authors: Sharma Sujan , Koirala Barsha , Keyal Niraj
Published: September 2018

Background: The critical value can occur while performing panels of tests at laboratory by different chemistry or blood analysers with varieties of principles. The main objective of the study was to study the process of critical result reporting and to know the way of communication and documentation done for critical value in the laboratory, ICUs and the wards.Materials and Methods: This study was prospective and non-experimental was conducted at B&C Medical College and Teaching Hospital from 14.04.2018 to 14.05.2018. Total 60 critical values samples were included. The data was collected by means of observing the critical values of inpatient and the process of reporting from the laboratory to the respective wards and ICUs.Results: Out of 60 samples included in our study, there was 100% communication to concerned treating units. For the confirmation of critical value repeat test was done in 68% of cases. In 75% of cases clinicians did follow up. Recording of a critical report in lab was done in 96% of cases and almost all of the critical values 98% were immediately reported to the respective wards by technical staffs. There was no communication in 1.6% of cases to treating units by technical staff. Majority 78% of critical values were communicated by respective wards and ICUs nurses to concerned doctors.Conclusion: Critical value can occur while performing panels of tests at laboratory and reporting such values to treating clinicians or respective wards or ICUs could help heath care providers for effective treatment of the patients and their adequate care.
Miscarriage and Anti TPO antibodies
Authors: Pradhan Santosh , Gautam Keyoor
Published: September 2018

Autoimmune thyroid disorders are common in women of reproductive age. Anti-TPO antibody and thyroglobulin antibody are frequently found to be associated. Anti-TPO antibodies are responsible for the activation of complement and are thought to be significantly involved in thyroid dysfunction. In early pregnancy women with anti TPO antibodies are prone to develop subclinical or overt hypothyroidism leading to adverse obstetric and fetal outcomes. An association between the risk of a miscarriage and anti TPO antibodies has also been reported even in absence of overt thyroid dysfunction. However, screening for these antibodies and Levothyroxin supplement in anti TPO antibodies -positive euthyroid pregnant women has not been established yet.
Angiomyolipoma; a rare entity in the left adrenal gland
Authors: Bastakoti Shankar , Thakur Binay , Devkota Mukti , Paudel Amrita
Published: September 2018

Adrenal angiomyolipoma is a rare benign entity and only to sixteen cases have been reported in English literature till date. Other site of occurrence is liver, spleen, lungs, bone and ovary. We report a female aged 54 years, who presented with left flank pain, on CT scan showed left adrenal mass. Patient underwent laparoscopic adrenalectomy and final histopathological examination revealed angiomyolipoma of   left adrenal gland.