bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Influence Of UGT1A3 Gene Polymorphism In Pediatric Epileptics on Valproate: A Protocol (Preprint)
Authors: Adiga Usha , Adiga Sachidanada , Banawalikar Nandit , Shenoy Vijaya
Published: June 2020

BACKGROUND

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) has often been performed during the pharmacological treatment of epilepsy, but the plasma levels of some AEDs do not correlate well with the doses and/or the therapeutic or toxic effects of the drugs.

OBJECTIVE

Objective of the study is to evaluate the pattern of polymorphism in UGT1A3 in pediatric epileptics on valproate. It also aims to find the association between gene polymorphism and plasma concentration of valproate, its clinical effectiveness and its adverse effect profile.

METHODS

One hundred children aged 2-18 years with a diagnosis of epilepsy and treated with sodium valproate mono therapy will be included in the study. Their demographic profile, type of seizure, dose and frequency of sodium valproate will be recorded. Five ml of venous blood will be collected after 30 days of starting the regimen,3ml EDTA blood will be utilized for genotyping by PCR-RFLP method and for platelet count, 2 ml plain blood will be used for estimating serum drug concentration by HPLC and for biochemical tests. The patient will be followed up quarterly or more frequently (as deemed by the clinician) for clinical evaluation.
Statistical analysis: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) analysis will be performed on UGT1A3 polymorphisms. ANOVA will be used to investigate the association between genotypes distribution and serum concentration of VPA. A p-value <0.05 was regarded as statistically significant.

RESULTS

The study is funded by Indian council of Medical research, sanction letter dated 19.08.2019 No.5/4-5/187/Neuro/2019-NCD-I. The university ethical approval was obtained, ref NU/CEC/2019/0223.A total of thirty samples are collected at the end of six months.PCR-RFLP and HPLC methods are standardized and results will be available on completion of the study.

CONCLUSIONS

Genetic polymorphisms of UGTs may influence VPA metabolism and hence the steady-state concentration of the drug in plasma may be altered. This may demand an increased or reduced dose of VPA in epileptics so as to maintain the therapeutic levels. The study may be useful in optimizing the anti-epileptic dosage.

CLINICALTRIAL

NOt applicable.
Seeing Double: Peace, Order, and Good Government, and the Impact of Federal Greenhouse Emissions Legislation on Provincial Jurisdiction
Authors: Leach Andrew , Adams Eric
Published: June 2020

Federal regulation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions presents a difficult challenge for Canadian constitutional law. The federal government’s legislation to implement a national minimum standard of GHG emissions pricing, the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (GGPPA), and the trio of reference cases launched by Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Alberta questioning its constitutional validity, have brought the law and politics of GHG emissions pricing to the forefront of Canadian federalism. In the two appellate court decisions delivered to date, the legislation has been sustained as a valid exercise of Parliament’s power to legislate for the Peace, Order, and Good Government (POGG) of Canada.  In each case, however, judges have expressed significant concern with respect to the impact of the legislation on provincial jurisdiction.

We draw on recent and historic jurisprudence to characterize conceptual errors that have bedevilled POGG, specifically in the tendency to overestimate its impact on provincial jurisdiction. We then examine the existing interpretive principles that limit POGG’s ability to upend the critical balance inherent in the division of powers. Finally, we discuss how a properly empowered, calibrated, and constrained POGG relates to the GGPPA. We argue that the reduction of national GHG emissions constitutes a valid federal subject under the national concern branch of POGG, and that the GGPPA is a valid exercise of federal jurisdiction. We see no reason under the double aspect doctrine and cooperative federalism why provinces would lose any existing provincial jurisdiction as a result of the implementation of the GGPPA. Rather, a restrained approach to paramountcy, and the mechanics of the GGPPA itself suggest that provincial and federal legislation will work concurrently on GHGs. That seems entirely appropriate given the nature of the climate change crisis before us. In the legislative challenge of our time, we believe Canada’s Constitution is up to the task.
The Toronto Municipal Election: Judicial Failure to Protect the Structure of the Canadian Constitution
Authors: Johnson* (Alyn) James
Published: June 2020

In Toronto (City) v Ontario (AG),1 a recent decision on the legality of legislative interference in the Toronto 2018 municipal election, the Ontario Court of Appeal makes an alarming attempt to rewrite the Canadian Constitution. The subject of this revision is the legitimate role of unwritten principles in constitutional interpretation. Robin Elliot maintains, in a leading scholarly treatment of the subject, that unwritten principles can inform constitutional interpretation in two main ways: first, they can provide an independent basis on which to overrule impugned legislation; second, they can assist in interpreting constitutional text.2 Elliot qualifies the former usage by limiting it to those principles that “can fairly be said to arise by necessary implication from provisions of the text of the Constitution … since they have the same legal status as the text.”3 The Court of Appeal, however, states that unwritten principles cannot be used as a stand-alone basis on which to overrule legislation.4

In this article, I draw on numerous Supreme Court of Canada decisions to argue that the Ontario Court of Appeal’s view of the Constitution is, with respect, fundamentally flawed. Unwritten principles inform the structure of a democratic constitution and thereby provide legislation with its claim to legitimacy. Legislation that violates foundational unwritten principles is, of necessity, subject to judicial challenge. I also argue that the Court of Appeal’s doctrinally unsustainable approach to unwritten principles led to a flawed ruling on the legality of Ontario’s interference in the 2018 Toronto election. In Reference re Senate Reform, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously states that “constitutional interpretation must be informed by the foundational principles of the Constitution.”5 The Court of Appeal failed to provide any detailed consideration of the democratic principle, and thereby failed to recognize the constitutional imperative that protects the integrity of the electoral process.

*PhD in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Queen’s University. Principal of Public Law Solutions, a research firm in Toronto.[1] 2019 ONCA 732 [Toronto v Ontario (CA 2019)].[2] “References, Structural Argumentation and the Organizing Principles of Canada’s Constitution” (2001) 80 Can Bar Rev 67 at 83-86, 141-42, and generally 86-98.[3] Ibid at 95. See also 83-84.0[4] Toronto v Ontario (CA 2019), supra note 1 at para 89.[5] 2014 SCC 32 at para 25 [Senate Reference].
Dialysis Regret
Authors: Saeed Fahad , Ladwig Susan A. , Epstein Ronald M. , Monk Rebeca D. , Duberstein Paul R.
Published: June 2020

Background and objectives

Although some patients regret the decision to start dialysis, modifiable factors associated with regret have rarely been studied. We aimed to identify factors associated with patients’ regret to initiate dialysis.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

A 41-item questionnaire was administered to adult patients receiving maintenance dialysis in seven dialysis units located in Cleveland, Ohio, and its suburbs. Of the 450 patients asked to participate in the study, 423 agreed and 397 provided data on decisional regret. We used multivariable logistic regression to identify predictors of regret, which was assessed using a single item, “Do you regret your decision to start dialysis?” We report adjusted odd ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for the following candidate predictors: knowledge of CKD, attitudes toward CKD treatment, and preference for end-of-life care.

Results

Eighty-two of 397 respondents (21%) reported decisional regret. There were no significant demographic correlates of regret. Regret was more common when patients reported choosing dialysis to please doctors or family members (OR, 2.34; 95% CI, 1.27 to 4.31; P<0.001). Patients who reported having a prognostic discussion about life expectancy with their doctors (OR, 0.42; 95% CI, 0.18 to 0.98; P=0.03) and those who had completed a living will (OR, 0.48; 95% CI, 0.25 to 0.95; P=0.03) were less likely to report regret with dialysis initiation.

Conclusions

Dialysis regret was common in this sample. Demographic factors (age, sex, marital status, race, or educational attainment) were not significantly associated with regret, but modifiable care processes were.

Podcast

This article contains a podcast at https://www.asn-online.org/media/podcast/CJASN/2020_06_09_CJN13781119.mp3
Types and outcomes of cytopenia in critically ill patients
Authors: Bagheri Zahra , Labbani-Motlagh Zohreh , Mirjalili Mahtabalsadat , Karimzadeh Iman , Khalili Hossein
Published: June 2020

Cytopenia is common complication in critically ill patients.
Aim:
Incidence and pattern of different types of cytopenia as well as its impact on mortality and length of stay in critically ill patients were evaluated.
Methods:
Critically ill patients with any kind of cytopenia for more than 2 days were evaluated.
Results:
Anemia was the most common type of cytopenia in the patients (99.14%), followed by lymphocytopenia (32.17%), thrombocytopenia (27.82%), and leukopenia (19.13%). Mortality rate was significantly higher in patients with anemia (p < 0.0001), thrombocytopenia (p < 0.0001), leukopenia (p < 0.0001), neutropenia (p = 0.004), lymphopenia (p = 0.002) and pancytopenia (p < 0.0001). Higher duration of anemia, lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia were associated with longer intensive care unit stay (p < 0.0001, p < 0.0001 and p < 0.001, respectively).
Conclusion:
Among all assessed variables, incidence of thrombocytopenia could independently predict the mortality.
Combative Transatlantic Literatures
Authors: Byer Tia
Published: June 2020

This paper discusses the combative literary and cultural relations between the Old World of Europe and the New World of the United States. In analysing the use of irony within nineteenth-century renditions of the travelogue genre, I trace the transatlantic struggle as originating from an American post-colonial inferiority complex. By examining Washington Irving’s 1820 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1860 text The Marble Faun, this paper will demonstrate the New World’s advent of creative autonomy and self-perceived artistic decolonisation of the European forbears’ traditions.  I argue that within these texts, the subversion of the travelogue form enacts defiance of hegemonic European cultural assertion, producing literature that asserts its own existence and reflects the infant nation’s political inception. This paper additionally interrogates and evaluates the literary epoch of the American Renaissance and its imagined status as being the beginnings of American artistry.
Highland Asia as a field of anthropological study
Authors: Wouters Jelle J P
Published: June 2020

Zomia, in the sense exulted by James C. Scott (2009) as an abode of purposeful political anarchy and anti-stateism, is not an emic conceptualization, not a particular place or an incantation of a collective identity referred to or professed by particular populations of humans. As a spatial and social reality, or as a word-concept, Zomia, then appears an exercise in scholarly magical realism (evidence is ‘thin’, ‘limited’, and ‘ambiguous’, as Victor Lieberman (2010: 339) puts it more discreetly). It is a form of geographical and historical imagination that nevertheless has begun to ‘escape’ the narrow corridors of the academy and into public discourse where it now lives a life of its own. It is an original imagination no doubt – an optic that stimulates fresh scholarship – but one simultaneously cannot escape that Zomia-disciples are letting their imagination run away with them.
Las universidades y el discurso ambientalista: las dos caras de la moneda
Authors: Restrepo Quintero Katherine , Cardona Hernández Juan D , Múnera Espinal Hernán D , Zapata Marín Cielo C
Published: June 2020

La preocupación constante de las universidades e instituciones de educación superior por afrontar los retos de lasnuevas formas de mercados y la cada vez más definida política en relación con la conservación del ambiente y el aprovechamiento de recursos, además de la búsqueda de mejorar las condiciones de vida y el desarrollo de estrategias desostenibilidad ambiental, exigen que la reflexión, evaluación y el análisis en torno a los procesos, técnicas e instrumentosde la gestión ambiental se constituyan en una fase crucial para el entendimiento de los discursos empresariales conrelación a la misma. En este sentido, se hizo relevante un análisis crítico e interdisciplinario de la manera cómo las universidades e instituciones de educación superior han estructurado sus discursos para sensibilizar a la comunidaduniversitaria a reducir el impacto negativo que generan al entorno; es así como el presente artículo, producto deinvestigación, indagó sobre los discursos ambientalistas usados desde lo administrativo, en la Universidad AutónomaLatinoamericana, la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia y la Corporación Universitaria Remington, todas ellas consede en la comuna 10 de la ciudad de Medellín. Se encontró que la legislación internacional y la nacional en relacióncon el ambiente, han guiado el actuar de las instituciones en la construcción de un pensamiento preocupado por elambiente.Palabras clave: ambiente, educación ambiental, gestión ambiental, pensamiento ambiental.
La restricción total o la cesión condicionada de los derechos de autor como manifestación de la Autonomía de la voluntad en las creaciones disponibles en la Internet
Authors: Puerta Uber
Published: June 2020

Este artículo surgió como un ejercicio académico para la asignatura de propiedad intelectual del programa de Derechode la Corporación Universitaria Remington, bajo parámetros de congruencia entre los límites de los derechos con lavoluntad personal del autor, en su primera parte se logra un acercamiento a otra posibilidad de garantizar los derechosde autor bajo la ideología de la autonomía personal en la propiedad privada, utilizando como camino discursivo elanálisis de un documental difundido virtualmente; en la segunda se realiza un estudio desde la penalización en unsistema procesal determinado que impone la restricción en las posibilidades de negociar los derechos relacionados conpropiedad intelectual; ambas etapas del ensayo motivan la reflexión sobre el alcance de la distinción de la creaciónintelectual como propiedad privada sin mayores restricciones que los que su autor le incorpora o como un derechoobjeto de límites legislativos.Palabras clave: autonomía de la voluntad, politica criminal, propiedad intelectual, sistema procesal.
La tributación en la cultura de los colombianos
Authors: Valero Linero Edgardo Daniel
Published: June 2020

Los colombianos en general no tenemos una adecuada educación y cultura en el campo de los tributos. Asumimos una actitud de desagrado y desconfianza cuando se crea o se incrementa un impuesto y cuando es pagado, no existe ninguna actitud esperanzadora debeneficio colectivo por parte de quienes lo pagan, incluso consideran, que al pagarlos no habrá retribuciones niinversión social de ningún tipo y estos dineros en granproporción serán malversados en beneficio de quienestienen su manejo, con la plena convicción que habráimpunidad.
Una experiencia de productores sobre retención de riqueza y su contribución para reducir el intermediarismo.
Authors: Rivas Infante Carlos A. , Garza Bueno Laura E. , Mejía Hernández Juana M. G.
Published: June 2020

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo identificar los factores incidentes para que los productores consiguieran retener y apropiarse de la riqueza, contribuyendo en reducir los márgenes de intermediación. En la investigación se utilizaron métodos etnográficos, entrevistando a 90 productores de los municipios de Azoyú, Marquelia y Juchitán del Estado de Guerrero, miembros de Productores Maiceros de la Costa Chica, S.P.R. de R.L. Se generaron 26 fichas etnográficas con los registros de información escrita, audible, entrevistas y cuestionarios, y se elaboró una matriz de observación etnográfica. Los resultados muestran que el intermediarismo y sus efectos negativos disminuyen cuando existe asociatividad profesional, que representó asociarse y contar con las competencias necesarias para intervenir adecuadamente en la comercialización y acopio con fines de retener y apropiarse de la riqueza. Las experiencias referidas muestran a un grupo de productores primarios que trascendieron hacia una organización empresarial con fines de comercialización. Se observó que en el proceso debe existir un manejo adecuado de los conflictos entre sus integrantes, adquirir competencias sobre mercados agrícolas, apoderarse de aspectos técnicos del proceso productivo y buscar eficiencia administrativa y financiera. Para que se presentaran resultados favorables existió acompañamiento, asistencia técnica y capacitación.
Women’s Political Participation in Jordan
Authors: Hawamdeh Mazen Hussien Faleh , Al-Qteishat Ahmad Saher Ahmad
Published: June 2020

Jordanian womens participation in public policy dates back to 1950s. However, political activism came to a halt in the period between 1956 and 1992. In 1992, the new Political Parties Law granted women the right to participate in political parties. Since then, women became an active member of political parties, but their participation remained largely symbolic and not influential. Women did not seek to join parties. As a result, women are still largely unrepresented in the state. In addition, and the number of women involved in these parties remains low. There are a number of challenges that prevent womens participation in political life in Jordan, such as social restrictions resulting from the traditional structure of Jordanian society. This article discusses the political participation of women in Jordan and addresses the most prominent challenges facing the political work of women in Jordan.
The reaction of the Chinese Government to Soviet Diplomatic Efforts to Resolve the Taiwan Question, 1949-1985
Authors: Belchenko Andrey S. , Novoselova Maya G.
Published: June 2020

The article studies Beijing's reaction to the activities of Soviet diplomacy related to the Taiwan issue. The authors examine the dynamics of Sino-Soviet interaction in 1949-1985 within the context of this geopolitical problem. The article is based on historical sources (including proclama tions and speeches of Chinese and Soviet representatives at official meetings and within the framework of the General Assembly, as well as diplomatic correspondence) and on the Russian and foreign historiography. The paper covers the period of cooperation between Beijing and Moscow (1950s) and the time of high tension in bilateral relations (1960-1985). The PRC government's harsh criticism of Soviet diplomacy, together with its rigid position with regard to the establishment of official relations between the Soviet Union and Taiwan, lead to the conclusion that Beijing could have been deliberately delaying the solution of the issue, using the Taiwan question in its political interests. The authors make suggestions concerning what could have influenced such a position of Beijing towards the Taiwan issue. The real aims of Beijing concerning Taiwan were different from those that Beijing officially proclaimed.
Kanukova Z.V. Traditsiya v Sovremennom Osetinskom Obshchestve [Tradition in Modern Ossetian Society]. Vladikavkaz: Ir, 2018. 135 p
Authors: Tuaeva Berta V.
Published: June 2020

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ANALYSIS OF SHARIA MARKETING CONSTRAINTS IN INDONESIA
Authors: Basrowi B. , Ronaldo Reza
Published: June 2020

The purpose of this study is to theoretically examine the various constraints of sharia marketing in Indonesia in the general sector, banking, and insurance. The method used is a descriptive method by studying literature and realistic phenomena that develop in Indonesia. Data analysis was performed using four stages of descriptive analysis. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the marketing constraints in Indonesia can be classified into two major typologies, namely the constraints of Muslim internal marketing itself (micro) and from the outside (macro). Constraints from within can be overcome by increasing the capacity of all Islamic resources owned. Meanwhile, external constraints are overcome by suggesting to the government, the Ministry of Finance, BI, and the FSA to always increase its support for the Islamic economy in the form of regulations and other support.==============================================================================================Analisis Hambatan Marketing Syariah di Indonesia. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji secara teoritis berbagai kendala pemasaran syariah di Indonesia di sektor umum, perbankan dan asuransi. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif dengan mempelajari literatur dan fenomena realistis yang berkembang di Indonesia. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan empat tahap analisis deskriptif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa kendala pemasaran di Indonesia dapat diklasifikasikan menjadi dua tipologi utama, yaitu kendala pemasaran internal Muslim itu sendiri (mikro) dan dari luar (makro). Kendala dari dalam dapat diatasi dengan meningkatkan kapasitas semua sumber daya Islam yang dimiliki. Sementara itu, kendala eksternal diatasi dengan menyarankan kepada pemerintah, Kementerian Keuangan, BI, dan FSA untuk selalu meningkatkan dukungannya bagi ekonomi Islam dalam bentuk regulasi dan dukungan lainnya.
Study On Nutrient Levels and Entomological Indicator of Biological Integrity In Fish Culture Ponds of Bhadra Reservoir Project, Karnataka, India
Authors: Dr.S.Thirumala  , B.Rajappa  , Dr.B.R.Kiran
Published: June 2020

The supplement levels and organic uprightness of five fish culture ponds were contemplated utilizing water insects and the water quality investigation of the fish ponds as markers from January to December 2011.A sum of 203 insects were recorded with 04 orders and 07 families. There was huge contrast in the plenitude of pond skaters, dragon/damsel fly and whirligig beetles for the five fish ponds (P=0.05). There was no critical distinction in the bounty of water insects and dytiscid beetle (P<0.05). The mean estimations of the physico-chemical parameters of the five fish ponds indicated no noteworthy degree of distinction. The least noteworthy distinction of the bounty of insects demonstrated that ponds 1, 2 and 3 were not favorable for the amphibian bugs inspected. Pond 5 indicated the pinnacle portrayal of all insects inspected. The Carl Pearson connection coefficient demonstrated a solid connection between the quantity of individual of dragon/damsel fly, dytiscid and whirligig beetles and the magnesium focus and Chemical Oxygen demand of the ponds. The pond skater and water bug were adversely associated with the nitrogen substance and temperature of the water bodies. In view of these discoveries the fish culture ponds were considered as decently contaminated biological systems whose contamination load came about predominantly from dumping of poultry/dairy animals’ compost excrement and fish food.
Influences of Dispositional affect, Organisational Commitment and Organisation Climate on OCB among Health Professionals
Authors: Hassan Mahfooz Rao  , Uzma Zaidi
Published: June 2020

In the rapidly changing world of health care, business, organisations  and industries focus on maximising the potential benefits of workforce, products and services. The purpose of the study is to explore the concept of organisational citizenship  behaviour and the factors that influence on OCB. Various studies found the connection  between OCB and effective  functioning  of  employees.  Many  factors  affect  personal  behaviour,  but  this  study  focuses  on  exploring  the relationship between affective disposition, organisation climate, organisational commitment and OCB among health professionals (N=400). This study also investigated the association of affective disposition, organisation climate, and organisational  commitment  as  a  predictor  of  organisational  citizenship  behaviour.  The  approach  of  this  study  was quantitative.  The  sample  of this study consist  of health professionals  (N=384),  having  an age range of 30-50  years.  A standardised questionnaire was used to measure dispositional affect, organisation climate, and organisational commitment and  OCB.  Participants  were  assured  of  confidentiality  and  instructed  to  choose  their  opinion  without  any  hesitation. Results revealed the predictive association of affective disposition, organisation climate, organisational commitment with OCB (F (3,396) = 249.195, p<.01).  In view  of our result, we prescribe  that it is vital to improving  the workplace  to empower specialists to advance their best and to decrease workplace disputes and crises. Employees who influence an organisation positively ought to be perceived and rewarded.
Analisis Penerapan Pemilihan Supplier Bahan Baku Plastik PP dan PE pada Perusahaan Percetakan
Authors: Alfa Bonitasari Nurul , Yuwono Muhammad Ary Budi , Fachreza Muhammad
Published: June 2020

Pada proses produksi, ketersediaan bahan baku, menjadi hal yang utama agar rantai proses produksi tetap terus berlangsung. Dalam melakukan penyediaan bahan baku, diperlukan proses pegadaan yang optimal. Proses pengadaan bahan baku dimulai dari proses pembelian, dimana jika bahan baku tersebut memerlukan adanya pembelian dengan pihak lain, maka proses pembelian menjadi salah satu rangkaian dari rantai pengadaan. Dalam melakukan proses pembelian, PT.Gramedia Printing, masih mengandalkan harga dalam proses penyeleksi calon pemasok yang akan memasok dari bahan baku yang akan dibeli. Maka dari itu, penelitian didasarkan bagaimana memilih calon pemasok dengan berbagai kriteria menggunakan metode Analytical Hierarchy Process yang berdasarkan pengambilan keputusan dari hirarki bertingkat.
Integrating an Urgent Care Clinic Into an Academic Family Medicine Practice
Authors: Barzin Amir , Seybold Olivia C. , Page Cristy
Published: June 2020

Background and Objectives: There has been a growth in the demand for convenient, walk-in access in health care across the United States, resulting in primary care practices seeing a shift in services to urgent care centers (UCCs). In order to incorporate the flexibility of a UCC and improve primary care access and preventive care for our regular patients, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Family Medicine Center (FMC) established a UCC within the practice. This report describes that process and the impact of the new UCC on our academic practice.
Methods: With the support of the UNC health care system, our primary objectives were to provide enhanced access for patients with acute problems, decrease emergency department (ED) utilization, and increase enrollment of new patients for ongoing primary care. As part of our intervention, we asked providers to respond to a series of questions at the end of each visit. These questions, along with data regarding number of visits and revenue, were tracked longitudinally.
Results: By the end of our first year, we were treating about 900 patients per month, of which approximately one-third would have otherwise visited the ED. We averaged 115 new patients establishing care per quarter. In addition to the success of this new service line, our primary practice maintained provider continuity and grew at a higher rate than prior to opening the UCC.
Conclusions: The opening of urgent care at the UNC FMC provided improved access for our patients, increased the number of patients empaneled in our primary care practice, and provided a new revenue stream.
Design of thermal power plant modernization and rehabilitation model for the new market demands and challenges
Authors: Bricl Martin , Avsec Jurij
Published: June 2020

The article presents the model for the rehabilitation of existing conventional thermal power plants in order to lower the consumption of fossil fuels. Instead of them, the model uses an alternative energy source ? Sun irradiation. The proposed rehabilitation model is theoretically calculated and designed. The model in the software environment MATLAB SIMULINK was developed, based on previous calculations and determined parameters. In this article, the combination of Clausius-Rankine process and solar central receiver system is presented. The model enables simultaneous calculations of exit model parameters for the complete model, based on predetermined entering parameters of the model.
Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal improvement of window frames
Authors: Gojak Milan , Kijanovic Aleksandar , Rudonja Nedzad , Todorovic Ruzica
Published: June 2020

This article presents experimental and numerical determinations of thermal transmittance performed on three different types of window frames (vinyl, aluminium, and wooden) within the same insulated glass unit. Good agreement between experimental and numerical results was attained. Using the numerical models, thermal improvement techniques of the frames and their influence on thermal transmittance of frames were studied. The first thermal improvement technique was using the insulation materials inserted inside large air cavities. By filling the cavity of vinyl frame with the polyurethane foam, thermal transmittance of vinyl frame was lowered by 10%. The second technique was based on repeating the procedure with materials installed inside frames with the materials that have lower thermal conductivity. This technique can be applied on thermal breaks and on steel profiles inside cavities. The result of this thermal improvement (attained by replacing thermal break material with material that has lower thermal conductivity) was certain reduction of the thermal transmittance of frames, by 9%. Using stainless steel instead of the oxidized steel was reduction of the thermal transmittance of vinyl frame by 3%. For the case of wooden frames the influence of shifting glazing unit deeper into profile upon the thermal transmittance of the frame was analyzed. Installing the glass unit by 5 mm deeper into the wooden frame reduced glass thermal transmittance by 5%.
Experimental and CFD analysis of MHD flow around smooth sphere and sphere with dimples in subcritical and critical regimes
Authors: Bogdanovic-Jovanovic Jasmina , Stamenkovic Zivojin
Published: June 2020

An overview of previous researches related to the problem of flow around a bluff-body, using experimental and numerical methods, is presented in the paper. Experimental investigation was performed by a laser doppler anemometer, measuring velocity components of the water flow around a smooth sphere, and a sphere with dimples in square channels. Measurement results in subcritical velocity flow field, velocity fluctuation components, lift, drag and pressure coefficients, and 2-D Reynolds stress at quasi-stationary flow are conducted using 1-D laser doppler anemometer probe. The obtained experimental results are compared with numerical simulations, which are performed using the ANSYS-CFX software. For the numerical simulations of quasi-steady-state flow, k-? turbulent model was used, while for numerical simulation of unsteady fluid-flow and for the comparison of results related to the eddy structures, vortex shedding and Reynolds stresses, detached eddy simulation were used. Since the obtained results of experimental and numerical investigation of flow around smooth sphere and sphere with dimples showed good agreement, the considered flow problem was expanded by introducing the influence of a transverse magnetic field with a slight modification of the electrical conductivity of the working fluid. The other physical properties of the fluid remained the same, which also corresponds to realistically possible physical conditions. Numerical simulations were performed for three different values of Hartmann number and very small values of Reynolds magnetic number (inductionless approximation). Comparisons and analyzes of the results were made for the cases containing a magnetic field and those with an absence of a magnetic field.
The Changing Landscape of Glycemic Targets: Focus on Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Authors: Kushner Pamela R. , Kruger Davida F.
Published: June 2020

Continuous
glucose monitoring (CGM) provides comprehensive assessment of daily glucose measurements
for patients with diabetes and can reveal high and low blood glucose values that
may occur even when a patient’s A1C is adequately controlled. Among the measures
captured by CGM, the percentage of time in the target glycemic range, or “time
in range,” (typically 70–180 mg/dL) has emerged as one of the strongest
indicators of good glycemic control. This review examines the shift to using
CGM to assess glycemic control and guide diabetes treatment decisions, with a
focus on time in range as the key metric of glycemic control.
Evaluation of Implementation Policy on Management of School Operational Fund (BOS) 2019 with Edward III Model
Authors: Rokhadiyati Ary
Published: June 2020

This study aims to evaluate the management of the School Operational Assistance (BOS) year 2019 at the Department of Education Culture Youth and Sport Semarang Regency. This is an evaluation research. Data were collected using documents study techniques, observation, and in-depth interviews. Data are validated by source and triangulation techniques. This study uses mixed method to get the whole pictures of the informant sources. What new about this research is that the data analysis technique uses the Edward III Model that looks at the factors of communication, resources, disposition and bureaucratic structure. The result of this study shows that implementation of School Operational Assistance (BOS) year 2019 is carried out in accordance with guidelines made by the government. The four aspects are all in very good categories. For communication aspect is in very good category because it gets 10 out of 12 points or 83 %. For Resources aspect is in very good category as well for its score is 16 out of 20 points or 80%. While for Disposition aspect is in very good category because it gets 17 out of 20 points or 85%. For the last aspect which is bureaucratic structure gets the highest points as it gets 8 out of 8 points or 100 %. Although the results are all very good, it still needs a little improvement on communication aspect especially on consistency factor since the guidelines has been revised for three times. Resources aspect on human resources quantity in BOS management team for there is only two persons managing 601 schools in Semarang Regency and also on disposition aspect because there is no incentive and award for the BOS management team. These results bring implication that the Department of Education in Semarang Regency can make improvement on the aspects which do not get maximal score and the for others Education Department in other Regencies or cities can learn from this research to manage BOS in better ways.
Investigating the L2 Writing Strategies Used by Skillful English Students
Authors: Arifin S.
Published: June 2020

Several studies have been conducted to investigate the writing strategies used by skilled and less-skilled English writers, particularly in the EFL context but only a few have attempted to observe the strategies employed by skillful/proficient English students, predominantly in the Indonesian context. Therefore, the interest of this research was to discover the types of writing strategies applied by three skillful English students while writing in English (L2) and evaluate their substantial effects. The participants were three graduate students majoring in English Education. Moreover, the data obtained from Think-Aloud Protocols, semi-structured interviews, and written drafts were analyzed and evaluated and the results showed the writing process of the students varied. On the whole, the disparities presented a more understanding of students' writing process. It was also discovered that the three students applied similar strategies but the major inconsistency was in the manner with each was implemented.
Stylistica of Maulid Simtud Durar's Repetition Created by Habib Ali Bin Muhammad Husein Al-Habsyi
Authors: Huda Nur , Sa'dudin Ihsan
Published: June 2020

This study aims to describe the repetition and its effects in "Maulid Simtud Durar" by Habib Ali bin Muhammad Husein Al-Habsyi. This research is a qualitative study using descriptive methods. Qualitative research is one of the research procedures that analyzes descriptive data in the form of observed speech or writing. Descriptive method is aimed at describing and analyzing data about repetition language style in the maulid simtud durar. Repetition is a form of repetition, both in terms of sounds, syllables, or sentence parts that are considered important to put pressure in accordance with the expected context. This research confirms the existence of rhetorical language in the form of repetition contained and scattered in the maulid simtud durar to convey meaning and abstract thought then conveyed concretely through reps to give greater influence and effect in the hearts and minds of readers. The results of this study found six types of repetition, each of which was Tikrar Lafdzi (epanalepsis), Tikrar Taukidi (Epizueksis), Tajanus Sawti (Asonance), Mawjah Basitah (Simploke), Jinas Tam (Paranomasia), and Jinas Ghairu Tam. This research explains the ability of repetitive language styles in the maulid simtud durar to describe abstract meaning and thought, especially the emphasis on magical things and something amazing, whic the meaning is transformed into a repetition, because something that is visible and concrete can strengthen meaning and can have an effect that bigger in heart and mind.
Impact of Social Media on English Language: A Review
Authors: Sharma Dr. Neha
Published: June 2020

Abstract

Language being a potent vehicle of transmitting cultural values, norms and beliefs remains a central factor in determining the status of any nation. India is a multilingual country which tends to encourage people to use English at national and international level. Basically English in India owes its presence to the British but its subsequent rise is not fully attributable to the British. It has now become the language of wider communication which is now spoken by large number of people all over the world. It is influenced by many factors such as class, society, developments in science and technology etc. However the major influence on English language is and has been the media
A Study on Speech Act of Apologies used by the Indian ESL Learners in Multicultural classes
Authors: Jamuna B.
Published: June 2020

Abstract
The present study investigated the notion of polite and impolite apologies used by the Indian ESL learners. The participants were taken from two different categories, i.e., 60 Professional Course Students of B.Tech first year and 60 Post-graduate Management Course students of MBA. The respondentswere asked to respond to a discourse completion task (DCT) realizingthe0speech act of apology and the utteranceswere analyzed. First theapology strategies/patterns were analyzed based on Blum-Kulka?s CCSARPProject (1984). These patterns were regrouped by three language experts in terms of politeness on a five-point rating scale such as: (1) very impolite (2) impolite (3) partially polite (4) polite and (5) very polite. Politeness scores were studied to find significant differences (if any) existed among different groups of respondents classified based on the social variables such as age, gender and region (based on their mother tongue).
Dignity Overpowers Conspiracy of Race Politics and Mercantilism in Thomas Southerne’s Oronooko
Authors: Obed Doku Dr. Samuel
Published: June 2020

John Dryden describes Thomas Southerne as “pure” in reference to the purity of his language, and Alexander Pope delineates Southerne in his “Epistle to Augustus” as an “elderly dramatist skilled in expressing ‘the passions’” and cites him along with Johnson, Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Wycherley, and Rowe as great English playwrights” (qtd. in Kaufman 10). However, not many critics are that generous to Southerne, the only playwright courageous enough to bring a black face on to the English theater in 1695, except Shakespeare who did it with Othello in 1603. The best position critics rank Southerne, author of ten plays, is as the sixth best playwright in English Restoration Theatre.  Probably, because of the parasite formula that was in vogue in the 17th century when Southerne wrote Oronooko and which he profoundly capitalized on to write his most famous play, he is not particularly regarded as one of the ingenious playwrights of his era. At best, many critics regard Southerne’s talent as falling short of the mercurial abilities of Dryden, Etheridge, Wycherley, Congreve, and Otway. Some critics, however, are of the view that although Southerne was not fashionably original, his creativity in his ability to refashion and reconfigure the original works he preyed on to make them refreshing and entertaining, should render him as one of the best during the apogee moments of the Restoration era. In this piece, I argue that the antimony of racial politics and the salience of mercantilism in Southerne’s Oronooko dignify women and minorities, even as it simultaneously agitated and mollified the nerves of dealers and supporters of the slave trade.
Ecofeminism: A de novo approach; Origin and development in Contemporary World
Authors: Sheoran Bharatender
Published: June 2020

There are innumerable methods for surveying the earth. In current social orders, it is essential to consider the routes in which we interface with nature as mechanical practices move us far from the earth and leads to loss of biodiversity. Contamination is on the ascent, and individuals everywhere throughout the world are enduring the results of tasks built for the sake of advancement. Ecofeminism offers a state of mind and sorting out ourselves by empowering interconnectedness with our surroundings and tending to the enslavement of females and underestimated people groups. As a consequence of this sort of speculation and arrangement, new human and natural associations can be made with a more extensive viewpoint, including less obvious social acknowledgments. Classifying females and enslaved people groups with nature takes into consideration the acknowledgment of social and ecological shameful acts from
Symbols, Symbolism and Significance in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi: Specific Content Knowledge for Teacher Development
Authors: Moodley Visvaganthie
Published: June 2020

Symbols and symbolisms across literary genres are powerful rhetoric devices used to enhance not only writers’ style, but to convey richness in meaning that transcends narrative descriptions. However, as its interpretations are context-bound, it causes anxieties for the under-proficient language teacher who, firstmost, requires deep specific content knowledge to drive instruction and enhance cognition amongst learners. Using qualitative descriptive case study, this paper aims to provide specific content knowledge by examining the literary use of symbols, symbolisms and significance in Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’, which has been prescribed as a set book for Grade 12 school-exiting learners in South Africa, for the year 2017 onwards. The paper will – by analysing arbitrary, cultural and personal symbolisms and significances, mostly through psychoanalytical lens – unravel covert meanings and messages in cultural, religious and environmental contexts whilst simultaneously showing how these are pivotal to understanding major themes in the novel.
Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age: A Gendered Re-Telling of Partition
Authors: Nikam Dr. Madhavi , Sadasivam Ms Jyothi
Published: June 2020

Literary representations of historical events have, in the past few years, witnessed a radically new orientation, particularly with the strengthening of the feminist perspective that sought to address a longstanding gap in history writing in India- the silencing of marginal voices including those of women, children and various minority communities of society. In short, the muffling of the human dimension of history. Tehmima Anam’s A Golden Age, published in 2007, and winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize in 2008, is in this context a rare achievement in that her fictional narrative is set against the backdrop of the war that culminated in the birth of Bangladesh as an independent nation but more significantly, it is told from a diasporic Bangladeshi woman’s perspective. By offering a personal and subjective perspective on history through a woman narrator, the author breaks free from the traditional narratives of history that centre around the political and communal aspects and extreme experiences and sensitizes the reader to alternative forms of viewing history as it intrudes into the private world of a woman.
Multicultural Representation in Margaret Laurence’s This Side Jordan
Authors: Nikam Dr. Sudhir , Bhimrao Mr. Kamble Rajiv
Published: June 2020

Margaret Laurence has respectfully been considered as one of the leading writers of twentieth century Canadian Literature. She has played a pivotal role in the process of presenting Canadian identity as Multicultural in literary and academic field. She has endeavored to portray the picture of cultural turmoil in Canada on the wake of colonization, post-colonization and modernization. Her African writing speaks of the imperial rule of European countries in Africa and its repercussions on the cultural development of colonizer and colonized people. Unlike other colonial writers, Margaret Laurence strongly asserts the changing scenario of age old cultural homogeneity. No nation will stand culturally homogenous but has to accept multiculturalism as the policy of nation.
Love, Betrayal and Violence: A Female Subjugation in Shakespeare’s Play Othello
Authors: SINGH Dr. ABHA
Published: June 2020

Women across historical, social and religious boundaries have been pitted against the asphyxiating patriarchal norms and rigid cultural constructs which bestow power, dominance and freedom on man, and push her into the margins of both, society and domestic space. The current paper attempts to explore the mechanics of domestic violence, and its treatment in William Shakespeare’s Othello. The aim is to ascertain how the playwright addresses the issue of crime against women within the familial and social world of his times. Based on the theme of power politics within domestic hierarchy, the play not only lays bare a grim picture of domestic abuse and violence against women in matrimony, but also offers an insight into the psyche of abusers. The dialectics of power struggle in the play written in the 16thcentury is a reflection of the playwright’s sensitivity towards the existential reality of women of his times and his negation of male hegemony and criminal violence in conjugal relations. . Vishal Bhardwaj adopted Othello to make the film Omkara in 2006. Bringing the 17th century Elizabethan society in the 21st century Indian setting, Bhardwaj deftly pointed out the present scenario. There are numerous cases of a father’s restriction on daughter’s freedom of choice, brother’s threat to the sister for not to disgrace their family apart from ‘honour killing’. This continues even in the household of her ‘soul mate’ for whom she dares to defy every challenge. The predicament of modern Desdemona’s in the hand of Othello bears the testimony of Shakespeare’s immortal creation and its never ending relevance. The universality of Shakespeare is still rejoiced due to his experiment on the core region of the human psyche which fails to alter even with high-tech service or ‘progressive’ education.