bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The moderating role of organizational culture on the effect of organizational justice on organizational citizenship behavior
Authors: Mardiyanti Ira , Suharnomo Suharnomo
Published: November 2018

The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of distributive justice and procedural justice on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) with organizational culture as a moderating variable. The data in this study were collected from questionnaires distributed to 94 permanent employees of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) Tbk. Regional Division IV. Hypotheses testing shows that distributive and procedural justice positively affects OCB. Organizational culture is also found to be the moderator on the effect of procedural justice on OCB. However, our prediction that organizational culture could be the moderator on the effect of distributive justice on OCB is not supported. Further results and discussion are explained.
Periphyton Response Analysis to the Pollution in Seagrass Ecosystem Panjang Island, Banten
Authors: Sugianti Yayuk , Muntalif Barti Setiani , Sudjono Priana
Published: November 2018

Increases in coastal pollutants, largely due to human activity on land, have an impact on seagrass ecosystems. The high sedimentation in the waters causes an increase in the concentration of sludge, organic matter, nutrients, and turbidity which reduce the depth that can be reached by sunlight. The condition affects seagrass ecosystems adversely. Changes in water condition can be illustrated by the presence of water organisms. One dominant organism in seagrass ecosystems is periphyton. The existence of periphyton in the waters is determined by physical and chemical conditions of the waters because it has specific limit of tolerance, which causes different community structure. To analyze periphyton response to the changes of environmental quality in seagrass ecosystems, Shannon Winner diversity and Saprobic Indices were measured at Panjang Island, Banten. The results of water quality assessment indicates the status of aquatic seagrass of the island considered as polluted to heavy polluted. It is observed from some physico-chemical parameters that exceeded the standard quality for the life of seagrass ecosystems and marine life. Based on the classification and saprobic coefficient using periphyton biological parameters, the condition of seagrass land ecosystem in the island is classified into β Mesosaprobic to β/α Mesosaprobic phase, which indicates light to medium pollution with pollutants including organic and inorganic materials. Several types of dominant periphyton were discovered during the observations, including Meridion sp, Navicula sp, Nitzschia sp and Synedra sp. This periphyton species belong to Bacillariophyceae class (Family Chrysophyta) that is commonly used to assess the condition of eutrophication and organic pollution on waters.
Yoruba Handwritten Character Recognition using Freeman Chain Code and K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier
Authors: Ajao Jumoke Falilat , Olawuyi David Olufemi , Odejobi Odetunji Ode
Published: November 2018

This work presents a recognition system for Offline Yoruba characters recognition using Freeman chain code and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN). Most of the Latin word recognition and character recognition have used k-nearest neighbor classifier and other classification algorithms. Research tends to explore the same recognition capability on Yoruba characters recognition. Data were collected from adult indigenous writers and the scanned images were subjected to some level of preprocessing to enhance the quality of the digitized images. Freeman chain code was used to extract the features of THE digitized images and KNN was used to classify the characters based on feature space. The performance of the KNN was compared with other classification algorithms that used Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Bayes classifier for recognition of Yoruba characters. It was observed that the recognition accuracy of the KNN classification algorithm and the Freeman chain code is 87.7%, which outperformed other classifiers used on Yoruba characters.
Performance Comparison of Data Mining Classification Algorithms for Early Warning System of Students Graduation Timeliness
Authors: Fadli Ari , Zulfa Mulki Indana , Ramadhani Yogi
Published: November 2018

Observation of growing academic data can be carried using data mining methods, for example, to obtain knowledge related to the determinants of timeliness of students graduation. This study conducted a performance comparison of the classification algorithms using decision tree (DT), support vector machine (SVM), and artificial neural network (ANN). This study used students academic data from Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman in the 2014/2015 odd semester until the 2017/2018 odd semester and the attributes that conform to the academic regulations. The analytical method used is CRISP-DM. The results showed that SVM provided the best performance in an accuracy of 90.55% and AUC of 0.959, compared to other algorithms. A Model with SVM algorithm can be implemented in an early warning system for timeliness of student graduation.
Context matters: Professionalization of campaign posters from Adenauer to Merkel
Authors: Venema Niklas , Steffan Dennis
Published: November 2018

This study examines the professionalization of political communication by focusing on changes to campaign posters for Bundestag elections over the course of five eras of German post-war history. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of both visual and textual elements of campaign posters (N = 1,857) in the period from 1949 to 2017 with regard to personalization, de-ideologization, and negative campaigning. The study revealed differences related to the five eras. Following the early conservative governments (1949–1969), high levels of personalization and ideologization first became defining features of election campaigns during the social-liberal era (1969–1982). After the Kohl era (1982–1998), these trends have occurred again since the Schröder era (1998–2005) and have been reinforced in the Merkel era (2005–2017). Furthermore, we found neither a clear upward nor a downward trend for negative campaigning. Overall, our study demonstrated that political parties adapt their communication strategies to the context of the respective election.
Stoichiometry of equations through the Inverse de Donder relation
Authors: Mousavi Aliyar
Published: November 2018

The stoichiometry of equations was revisited in light of the Law of Conservation of Matter at an atomic, elemental level. For a balanced chemical equation following the simplest general model aA → bB, the fact that

a
b

=

n
A

n
B

${a \over b} = {{{n_A}} \over {{n_B}}}$

, where nA
is the number of moles of A consumed and nB
is the number of moles of B produced in the reaction during the experiment, was used to address the de Donder relation, introduced by Theophile de Donder (1873–1957). While crediting the Belgian scientist for pointing out that “the reaction-ratio method” may be utilized for stoichiometry, the inverse de Donder relation was applied to problems in reaction stoichiometry. Several examples were used to show that the latter relation can be used to form proportions in order to rapidly solve such stoichiometry problems and to do so with fundamental chemical understanding. Educators in general chemistry were encouraged to teach the discussed method in their courses.
The cinematic mode in fiction
Authors: Bellardi Marco
Published: November 2018

This article focuses on the imitation of film form in cinematic novels and short stories on the level of narrative discourse and introduces the concept of ‘para-cinematic narrator’. The author compares the temporality expressed by verbal tenses in literature and the temporality expressed through film semiosis. The connection between film and literary fiction is explored in terms of foreground and background narrative style. It is argued that the articulation of narrative foreground and background – i. e. the “narrative relief” (Weinrich 1971) – in film form tends to favour the foreground style, and that such narrative relief is ‘flattened’ due to the “monstrative” quality (Gaudreault 2009) of the medium. This flattening is remediated in strongly cinematised fiction and conveyed through the use of verbal tenses. The imitation of montage and specific cinematic techniques is conceived, consequently, as a separate feature that can integrate into this remediated, para-cinematic temporality. Finally, the author recalls the concept of “mode” in genre theory (Fowler 2002), which describes a “distillation” of traits from one genre to another. With the category of cinematic mode the remediation of basic traits from film to literary fiction can be framed in terms of genre-related discourses.
A communication model for non-fiction interactive digital narratives: A study of cultural heritage websites
Authors: Basaraba Nicole
Published: November 2018

Interactive digital narrative (IDN) is an umbrella term used to encompass the various formats of digital narrative such as hypertext fiction, transmedia stories, and video games. The study of IDNs transverses the disciplines of narratology, game studies, and media studies. The main question this article addresses is how does the digital medium affect narrative in cultural heritage websites? This question is examined by proposing a new communication model that considers the role of digital media — the Creator-ProduserTransaction Model — and adapting existing “tools” of narrative analysis into a “narratological toolkit” for the study of non-fiction IDNs. The transaction between creators andprodusersand how an IDN narratological toolkit can be applied are exemplified through the analysis of three cultural heritage websites:Open Monuments (“Otwarte Zabytki”),Belgian Refugees of 1914–1919, andStorymap.
Brion Gysin, cut-ups, and contemporary painting: Narrating experience
Authors: Baryshnikova Daria
Published: November 2018

In the early 1960 s Brion Gysin, while experimenting in various genres and media, “re-invented” the cut-up technique that first had appeared in the 1910-1920s in Dadaists art practices. The accidental selection of texts’ or visuals’ fragments and the randomness in their combination in cut-ups were aimed to represent multiple experiences occupying the human mind. Methodologically I draw upon “natural” narratology developed by Monika Fludernik, who redefines narrativity in terms of experientiality. Correspondingly, cut-up technique can be regarded as a means of representing human perception and other mental processes (unobservable directly), especially by mapping the simultaneity of external observations and internal reflections that exist in constant relationships between minds and their environments. The paper brings into correlation the enactivist idea of cognition without content, elaborated by Daniel D. Hutto and Eric Myin, with the idea that cut-up narratives in a sense also have no content. As there are no consistent and coherent story in cut-ups, there could be difficult for the reader to produce a clear mental representation of what is happening in the text. My paper proposes a new reading of texts that initially seem to be uncommunicative.
Notes for an econarratological theory of character
Authors: Caracciolo Marco
Published: November 2018

Scientists and scholars in multiple fields have been discussing the current geological epoch under the heading of the “Anthropocene” – an era marked by the planetary impact of human activities (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000). The epistemological shift brought about by this notion exposes the latent anthropocentrism of narrative practices, raising a challenge taken up by narrative theorists such as Erin James (2015) and Alexa Weik von Mossner (2017) in the context of an “econarratology.” In this article, I examine the prime suspect for anthropocentrism in narrative – namely, the notion of character as intrinsically human-like. My point of departure is A. J. Greimas’s (1976) actantial model of narrative, which I revisit and revise in light of work in the field of ecolinguistics (Goatly 1996). I thus explore five strategies through which narrative may integrate nonhuman characters that challenge both anthropocentrism and the subject-object binary that anthropocentrism entails. I exemplify these strategies by discussing contemporary novels that deal with the Anthropocenic entanglement of humanity and the nonhuman world.
Game-construction students experiences of educational games - gaming outcomes and learning outcomes
Authors: Mozelius Peter
Published: November 2018

Game-based learning has been a rapidly expanding field in the 21th century, with research reports praising the motivational effects and learning outcomes of games. At the same time there have been doubts on the learning outcomes of even the most seriously designed learning games. The generation that today enrols for university programmes is in general a gaming generation, and game construction students are often so called hard core gamers. What are the game construction students’ experiences of educational games, and what are their perceived learning outcomes?

This study is based on student essays on gaming habits and game-based learning outcomes, written by students taking a course on game-based learning. Essays from four course batches have been thematically analysed to answer the two research questions. Findings show that students have a rich experience of various kinds of games, but that they do not make any clear distinction between games developed for educational purposes, and other games. Students also perceive that there are cognitive, behavioural as well as affective learning outcomes from both standard entertainment games, and more serious learning games.
Sustainability of U-CALL
Authors: Veselá Katerina Gajdáčová
Published: November 2018

This paper shows that the flexibility of time as a potential of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) proves the sustainability of its latest stage – Ubiquitous CALL. Firstly, the ideas of the Third Millennium Pedagogy are combined with the ethical and philosophical principles of sustainable education. One of the descriptors of the sustainable education – its durability is then compared with the principle of time flexibility in e-learning. On this theoretical base, the ideas of Ubiquitous Learning in general and Ubiquitous CALL (U-CALL) in particular are developed. Two comparable cases of the research aimed at the time flexibility of e-learning in foreign language education are described. The former one was conducted in 2016, the later in 2008. Similar results in time flexibility prove that e-learning in language education can be omnipresent, fulfilling the demands on Ubiquitous CALL. The durability of time flexibility proven by the real-life examples indicates the sustainability of U-CALL.
Gamification in LMS Courses
Authors: Klubal Libor , Kostolányová Kateřina , Gybas Vojtěch
Published: November 2018

This paper attempts to respond to the use of the elements of gamification in education. With the help of research papers, we have chosen three different systems in which the elements of gamification are included and we have focused on their use in education.
Time-domain dynamics of reverse saturable absorbers with application to plasmon-enhanced optical limiters
Authors: Azzam Shaimaa I. , Kildishev Alexander V.
Published: November 2018

An advanced full-wave time-domain numerical model for reverse saturable absorption (RSA) is presented and verified. Rate equations describing atomic relaxations and excitation dynamics are coupled to the Maxwell equations by using a Lorentzian oscillator, which models the kinetics-dependent light–matter interactions. The presented novel technique provides a versatile multiphysics framework for designing complex structures and integrating diverse material models that were not previously possible. The multiphysics framework allows capturing the behavior of the RSA materials embedded in artificial photonic nanostructures that cannot be analyzed with established techniques such as the Beer–Lambert law. To showcase the importance of the full-wave RSA analysis coupled to carrier kinetics, we analyze two plasmon-enhanced optical limiters: a metal grating and a Fabry–Perot cavity-like structure where we decrease the unenhanced limiter threshold by a factor of 3 and 13, respectively. This is a promising approach for developing RSA devices operating at reduced illumination levels and thereby significantly expanding their area of applicability to areas such as protective eyewear and automatically dimmed windows. By exploring the dynamic behavior of a given RSA system, this framework will provide critical insights into the design of transformative photonic devices and their complementary optical characterization, and serve as an invaluable utility for guiding the development of synthetic absorbing materials. We believe that our multiphysics models are crucial enabling tools that lay a necessary foundation for the numerical machinery required for the realization and optimization of optical limiting and all-optical switching systems.
Organoselenium and organotellurium compounds containing chalcogen-oxygen bonds in organic synthesis or related processes
Authors: Pop Alexandra , Silvestru Cristian , Silvestru Anca
Published: November 2018

This chapter emphasizes aspects related to the role of organochalcogen (Se, Te) compounds with single E‒O and/or double E=O (E=Se, Te) bonds in organic synthesis, as reagents, intermediates, or catalysts, and it gives a larger extent mainly to data reported in the field during the last ten years. For each of these two heavier chalcogens the material is structured according to the oxidation state of the chalcogen and, for the same oxidation state, in sections dedicated to a particular type of compounds. Functionalization or cyclization reactions in which the organochalcogen compounds take part as nucleophiles, electrophiles or radicals, employed in various synthetic transformations, are discussed and, where available, the mechanistic aspects are outlined. New chiral species and new strategies were developed during last years in order to increase the yield, the reaction rate and the stereoselectivity in specific organic transformations, i.e. addition, oxidation, elimination, cyclization or rearrangement reactions. A notably attention was devoted to easily accessible and environmental friendly catalysts, re-usable and “green” solvents, as well as waste-free procedures.
Novel radiochromic porphyrin-based film dosimeters for γ ray dosimetry: investigation on metal and ligand effects
Authors: Noorin Eftekhar Sadat , Feizi Shahzad , Dehaghi Shahram Moradi
Published: November 2018

As the utilizing of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins in high dose dosimetry becomes more prevalent, research on structural effects of these molecules on dosimetric characteristics and physicochemical properties of their film dosimeters becomes more and more essential. The present study emphasizes dosimetry (measuring radiolytic bleaching of two novel film dosimeters with spectrophotometric methods against 60Co γ-rays exposure in dose range of 0–100 kGy) and evaluating substituent effects on the radiation response of the film dosimeters (role of organic groups and changing the metal core of porphyrins). With casting of solutions of polycarbonate (PC) containing 0.5 wt.% 5,10,15,20-Tetrakis(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl) porphyrin (TTMPP) and 5,10,15,20-Tetraphenyl-21H,23H-porphine manganese (III) chloride (Mn-TPP), two novel radiochromic films with the thickness of 20 μm were fabricated. The presence of porphyrin fragments has been observed in the UV–Vis spectra after γ radiation. Due to the changes of the metal core and substituents of the dye ring, meaningful shifts of maximum absorbance of Soret bands of porphyrins and different radiation response of film-dosimeters were observed. The results were compared with the other polycarbonate/porphyrin film dosimeters. The results indicate that the radiation-induced decoloration of PC/Porphyrin films can be reliably tuned and used in high dose dosimetry.
Investigating ‘care leaver’ identity: A narrative analysis of personal experience stories
Authors: Evans Craig
Published: November 2018

People who spent time in public care as children are often represented as ‘care leavers’. This paper investigates how ‘care leaver’ is discursively constructed as a group identity, by analyzing 18 written personal experience stories from several charity websites by people identified or who self-identify as care leavers. Several approaches to narrative analysis are used: a clause-level analysis based on Labovʼs code scheme; the identification of turning points; an analysis of ‘identity work’; and an analysis of subject positions relative to ‘master narratives’. The findings from each of the methods are then combined to reveal how intertextual, narrative-structural, and contextual factors combine to constitute a common care leaver discourse. This forms the basis for a characterization of ‘care leaver’ group identity as ‘survivors of the system’. The findings also reveal how ‘care leaver’ as type, including stereotype, influences how identity is constructed in the personal experience narratives.
The Typological Framework of Myths as a Tool for Studying Political Thought
Authors: Rak Joanna
Published: November 2018

The article proposes a typological framework of myths which applies to empirical research on political thought. The framework introduces three typologies of myths distinguished by a subject criterion. Their subjects are things, people, and animals. Each typology consists of the dyads of antinomic ideal types located on continua by the extent of the valuation of the myth’s subject. The tool will help researchers identify the processes for understanding the revaluation and devaluation of the myth’s subject over time. Furthermore, it enables researchers to determine the extents of the diversification of mythical political thought as well as to distinguish between myths in their morphology. This research tool applies to empirical research because it encompasses the objectively identifiable and verifiable theoretical models consisting of the essential features of myths.
Linguística e história: elementos para uma epistemologia e metodologia compartilhadas
Authors: Argolo Wagner
Published: November 2018

Neste artigo, temos como objetivo desenvolver parte do que Mattos e Silva (1988) denominou Linguística histórica lato sensu, através da sistematização da "zona intermediária" entre a ciência linguística e a ciência histórica – no que se refere ao estudo da face externa de uma língua. Para tanto, expomos aspectos da epistemologia e metodologia de ambas as ciências, com vistas a demonstrar, em seguida, como atuam em conjunto, citando exemplos de trabalhos em que tal compartilhamento já é feito de maneira intuitiva, e enquadrando-os nas vertentes que denominamos história social-linguística – neste caso, coincidindo com a denominação já utilizada pela referida autora (2004) – e história cultural-linguística. Por fim, além de dar uma amostra do compartilhamento metodológico que já é feito há décadas em trabalhos de linguistas-historiadores, procuramos sugerir algumas inovações neste compartilhamento, e.g. a utilização da prosopografia – método típico da ciência histórica –, no intuito de possibilitar uma produtividade ainda maior em trabalhos que ocupam esta zona intermediária entre ciências.
Agresijos demaskavimas Oskaro Koršunovo ir Larso von Triero kūryboje
Authors: Zaksaitė Salomėja
Published: November 2018

[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba]Straipsnyje svarstoma, kaip tam tikri primesti vaidmenys engia žmogų, ir kartu aiškinamasi, kaip sąmoningai pa(si)rinkti vaidmenys padeda suvokti savo prigimtį ir tampa „tikresni“ už tikrovę. Tekstą sudaro trys dalys. Pirmojoje pristatoma dramaturginė teorija, socialiniai, psichologiniai bei meniniai eksperimentai, atskleidžiantys žmonių įsijautimą į socialinius vaidmenis ir jų diktuojamus elgesio scenarijus. Antroje dalyje aptariama režisieriaus Oskaro Koršunovo pastatytų spektaklių trilogija Hamletas, Dugne ir Žuvėdra, o trečioje – Larso von Triero sukurtų filmų trilogija Antikristas, Melancholija ir Nimfomanė. Šias trilogijas sieja bendros dichotomijos: tiesa prieš melą; individuali atsakomybė prieš kolektyvinį prisitaikėliškumą; laisvė prieš priespaudą; gyvybė prieš mirtį; atvirumas prieš apsimestinumą; tikrovė prieš fikciją; gili vaidyba prieš paviršutinišką teatrališkumą. Analizuojami meno kūriniai kartu su psichosocialiniais eksperimentais atskleidžia, kad realistiškas vaidinimas (eksperimentavimas) gali padėti surinkti tokių sukrečiančių, žmogaus prigimtį „apnuoginančių“ duomenų, kuriuos išgauti be vaidybos priemonių būtų labai sunku.
Te visad dega šviesos: Lietuvos energetinio saugumo problemos sociologijos šviesoje
Authors: Norkus Zenonas
Published: November 2018

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Diagnosis of Attenuated Mucopolysaccharidosis VI: Clinical, Biochemical, and Genetic Pitfalls
Authors: Pinto e Vairo Filippo , Conboy Erin , de Souza Carolina Fischinger Moura , Jones Amie , Barnett Sarah S. , Klee Eric W. , Lanpher Brendan C.
Published: November 2018

Mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (MPS VI) is a clinically heterogeneous lysosomal disease, which can be divided into 2 main categories on the basis of age of onset and severity of symptoms. The diagnosis of the attenuated form is often delayed given subtle facial features rather than the typical coarse facial features of the classic form. Here, we discuss the difficulties in establishing the diagnosis of MPS VI on the basis of the report of 4 individuals. The most common signs and symptoms in our series were bone abnormalities and hip pain as initial manifestations and cardiac changes detected after follow-up studies. On the basis of our cohort and others worldwide, awareness of attenuated forms of MPS VI should be increased particularly among general practitioners, pediatricians, rheumatologists, orthopedists, ophthalmologists, and cardiologists. Moreover, these health care providers should be aware of the technical aspects involved in the molecular and biochemical diagnosis process so that they are aware how diagnostic errors may occur.
Concomitant Medications and Risk of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Authors: Sánchez-Barroso Lara , Apellaniz-Ruiz Maria , Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez Gerardo , Santos María , Roldán-Romero Juan M. , Curras Maria , Remacha Laura , Calsina Bruna , Calvo Isabel , Sereno María , Merino María , García-Donas Jesús , Castelo Beatriz , Guerra Eva , Letón Rocio , Montero-Conde Cristina , Cascón Alberto , Inglada-Pérez Lucía , Robledo Mercedes , Rodríguez-Antona Cristina
Published: November 2018

Background

Peripheral neuropathy is the dose-limiting toxicity of many oncology drugs, including paclitaxel. There is large interindividual variability in the neuropathy, and several risk factors have been proposed; however, many have not been replicated. Here we present a comprehensive study aimed at identifying treatment and physiopathology-related paclitaxel-induced neuropathy risk factors in a large cohort of well-characterized patients.

Patients and Methods

Analyses included 503 patients with breast or ovarian cancer who received paclitaxel treatment. Paclitaxel dose modifications caused by the neuropathy were extracted from medical records and patients self-reported neuropathy symptoms were collected. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to identify concomitant medications and comorbidities associated with paclitaxel-induced neuropathy.

Results

Older patients had higher neuropathy: for each increase of 1 year of age, the risk of dose modifications and grade 3 neuropathy increased 4% and 5%, respectively. Cardiovascular drugs increased the risk of paclitaxel dose reductions (odds ratio [OR], 2.51; p = .006), with a stronger association for beta-adrenergic antagonists. The total number of concomitant medications also showed an association with dose modifications (OR, 1.25; p = .012 for each concomitant drug increase). A dose modification predictive model that included the new identified factors gave an area under the curve of 0.74 (p = 1.07 × 10−10). Preexisting nerve compression syndromes seemed to increase neuropathy risk.

Conclusion

Baseline characteristics of the patients, including age and concomitant medications, could be used to identify individuals at high risk of neuropathy, personalizing chemotherapy treatment and reducing the risk of severe neuropathy.
HS2 railway, UK – route development to the hybrid bill: the environmental statement
Authors: Bonard Christian , Richards Caroline , Mudiganti Arun
Published: November 2018

The environmental statement (ES) for the first phase of the UK's High Speed Two high-speed railway (London to West Midlands) was submitted with the hybrid bill for the project in November 2013. It described the phase one scheme both during construction and operation, detailed the main alternatives considered and reported the likely significant environmental effects and proposed mitigation to avoid or reduce these. The statement also provided the justification for the land that was proposed to be compulsorily acquired for the construction and operation of the scheme. Following its deposit, additional provisions were required to seek additional powers for changes resulting from the select committee process and design development. Any resulting new or different significant effects on the environment were reported in the accompanying ES. This work required the coordination of engineering and environmental consultancies over nearly a 5-year period. The ES also had to comply with parliamentary standing orders and the European environmental impact assessment directive.
The Heraldic “Theater” of Russian Cities
Authors: Рогачев Сергей Вячеславович
Published: November 2018

The usurpation of the right to unite the surrounding territories bestowed some exclusive rights upon Moscow. Which other coat of arms apart from that of Moscow could surround itself with such a suite, such an entourage, of serving shields of arms on its heraldic map? An almost ideal social and geographical model is drawn up around the capital by the coats of arms of Moscow’s retinue: all three principal forces of society are gathered in this national nucleus — those being craftsmen, parishioners and warriors — forming the trade, monastic and defense appendages to St. George’s robe.
AÇLIK SERUM GRELİN DÜZEYLERİ VÜCUT KİTLE İNDEKSİ, KOLESTEROL, TRİGLİSERİT VE C- REAKTİF PROTEİN İLE NEGATİF İLİŞKİLİDİR
Authors: CEBECİ Defne , EVGEN TÜLÜCEOĞLU Eda , GONCA Taner , ŞAHİN CALAPOĞLU Nilüfer , ÖZTÜRK Önder , CALAPOĞLU Mustafa
Published: November 2018

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, vücut kitle indeksi (VKİ)
kriterlerine göre normal ağırlıktan morbid obeze kadar gruplandırılan erişkin
erkek ve kadın kohortunda grelin hormonunun VKİ, serum lipitleri ve C-reaktif
protein (CRP) ile ilişkisini değerlendirmektir. Gereç
ve Yöntem: Isparta Gülkent
Devlet Hastanesi Göğüs Hastalıkları Uyku Laboratuarı
ve Süleyman Demirel
Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Uyku Hastalıkları Merkezine başvuran 20-59 yaş arası
toplam iki yüz altmış erkek (n = 151) ve kadın (n = 109) çalışmaya dahil
edildi. Toplam grelin, CRP, serum lipitleri ve glukoz seviyeleri gece
açlığından sonra ölçüldü. Bulgular: Grelin düzeyleri obez olgularda istatistiksel
olarak anlamlı derecede düşük bulundu (P <0.001), Glikoz düzeyleri obez
olgularda klinik olarak daha yüksekti ancak istatistiksel olarak anlamlı
değildi. Açlık plazma grelin, VKİ, kolesterol, trigliserid ve CRP ile negatif
korelasyonlar gösterdi (sırasıyla, r = -0.402, P <0.01; 0,259, p = 0,01;
0,137, p = 0,05; r = 0,146, p = 0,05). Grelin ve glukoz arasında zayıf anlamlı
korelasyon vardı (r = 0,131, p = 0,05).

Sonuç: Obez bireylerin grelin düzeylerinin düşük olması
glikoz, CRP, kolesterol, trigliserid ve vücut kitle indeksi ile anlamlı
derecede ilişkilidir. Grelinin insan obezitesinin patogenezindeki rolünü
belirlemek için daha ileriye dönük çalışmalara ihtiyaç vardır.
Doing Justice to Stories: On Ethics and Politics of Digital Storytelling
Authors: Parvin Nassim
Published: November 2018

Researchers and activists are increasingly drawing on the practice of collecting, archiving, and sharing stories to advance social justice, especially given the low cost and accessibility of digital technologies. These practices differ in their aims and scope yet they share a common conviction: that digital storytelling is empowering especially when curating and disseminating life stories of marginalized groups. In this paper, I question this conviction and ask: is it possible that such practices take away from what is found to be meaningful and worthwhile in practices of storytelling and listening, and, if so, how? To answer this question, I argue for a renewed attentiveness to story scenes, highlighting the inherently relational nature of storytelling and listening. I examine this relational nature through a fictional account that exemplifies storied encounters and demonstrates the ethical issues they entail through three themes—reciprocity, responsiveness, and communion—borne out of the plurality of philosophical positions on what it means to relate to another. I explain each of these themes as a starting point for thinking through how digital storytelling may be just, with implications for participatory methods in science and technology studies, design studies, and human-computer interaction inclusive of participatory design, co-design, ethnographic research, and participatory action research.
Characteristics of Role Substitution in Preschooler’s Play with Different Materials Psychological-Educational Studies
Authors: Ryabkova I.A.
Published: November 2018

The paper compares the role play of preschool children from 3 to 7 years with two different types of play material: play clothes and open-ended materials. The role is understood as a three-part process, including renaming, changing the appearance and playing actions. It is shown that role substitution depends on the object environment: children of the same age play differently in two different object environments. Children 3-5 years demonstrate more integral play in open-ended environment. They call themselves a role-name and their actions and changing the appearance often support it. In comparison children of this age often rename themselves, but rarely realize a new name in play actions in environment with play clothes. Role substitution of children of 6 years are different: children do not play in a open-ended environment, but they realize plots with varying degrees of complexity in play clothes' environment. It could be explained by the structured environment is much safer for this age group. It concluded that open-ended environment is more suitable for play needs of preschool children, because role substitution is accompanied by research, testing activity, which fill the role with emotionally content.
Social Volunteering in Student Submissions
Authors: Almazova O.V. , Churbanova S.M.
Published: November 2018

This research article covers the topic of the way students see social volunteering put in conditions of insufficient distinctness of volunteers’ regulatory legal status, and differences in their activities in different countries. In terms of methodology are considered ontological, epistemological and methodological stages to examine the effectiveness of social volunteering as a complex of activities professional and personal self-determination. The method of questioning is applied on the basis of author's questions for 111 students of different faculties and specializations of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The content analysis of the results revealed the students' perceptions of volunteering basis in the context of assigning responsibility for helping people in spheres of state as a social institution, business, social organizations and between activist volunteers. The article also contains statements concerning the need of educating volunteers professionally, of extending their abilities in other spheres such as career-guidance, for example (since government pays little attention to teenagers’career-guidance).
Clinical presentations of diabetes in children attending the paediatric ward in the medical institute: a cross sectional study
Authors: Vyas Dilipkumar Bhikhalal , Thacker Vinit
Published: November 2018

Background: By 2025, India due to its immense population size and high diabetes prevalence will contribute about 57 million diabetics. Hence the aim of the present study was clinical presentations of diabetes in children attending the paediatric ward in the medical institute.Methods: Total of 50 cases were included in the study. All the children who were less than age of 18years and also diagnosed with diabetes that is fasting blood sugar >126mg/dl or random blood sugar level > 200 mg/dl were included in the study. A detailed clinical examination of the child was carried out with detailed anthropometric measurements. Metabolic profile was done by investigating for the following. Fasting blood sugar, post prandial blood sugar, glycoslated haemoglobin.Results: The various ranges of fasting blood sugar were as follows: 25% were in the range of 130-200mg/dl, 35% in 200-300 mg/dl, 25% in 300-400mg/dl and 15% had more than 400 mg/dl fasting blood sugar levels. The various ranges of post prandial blood sugar were as follows: 16% were in the range of 200 - 300mg/dl, 40% in 300-400mg/dl, 44% had more than 400 mg/dl post prandial blood sugar levels. In the present study lipid profile of all the children was analysed by their serum cholesterol and triglycerides.Conclusions: A total of 50 diabetic children of age less than 18 years attending medical Hospital were studied using a predesigned and pretested proforma. Information was collected on socio-demographic, dietary intake, treatment and compliance history. Detailed clinical examination done and anthropometric measurements were taken. Metabolic profile was done by investigating for blood sugar levels, glycoslated haemoglobin and lipid profile. In the present study 46% had onset of diabetes mellitus at 15 to 18 years age group with male to female ratio of 1.26:1.
Profile of organo phosphorous poisoning at a tertiary medical centre in Jharkhand, India
Authors: Ojha Umesh Kumar , Jha Dharmendra Kumar , Ansari A. J. , Nath Bibhuti
Published: November 2018

Background: Poisoning is the most common method, employed for the act of deliberate self-harm. The wide availability, lack of rules and regulations for the sale of pesticides resulted in wide spread use of Organophosphate as one of the most common poison used for deliberate self-harm.Methods: In this study, authors aim to find out clinical profile with respect to different O.P. compounds, prognosis and outcome of each patient in relation to the delay in getting medical attention. Present study objective is to find out if there is any specific clinical finding which can predict bad outcome.Results: Out of 344 cases, 189 cases had type 1 respiratory failure, while in 34 cases type II respiratory failure present. 61 cases expired and out of these 61 cases 47 cases died within 24 hours and 11 cases died in next 48 hours.Conclusions: Maximum number of cases were in the age group of 21 - 30years. The maximum number of deaths were in the first 72 hours. Number of cases were more in males as compared to females. Chances of survival was better in persons who reached early to the hospital.
Kookum Knew ... Exploring Historical Contexts: Aboriginal People, the Justice System, and Child Welfare
Authors: McCaffrey Shanne
Published: November 2018

This paper concerns the inclusion of a “Gladue Report” in Aboriginal child welfare cases in Canada. A Gladue Report is named after a criminal trial in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, involving a Cree/Métis woman, Jamie Gladue. During the trial, the defence referred the court to Section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code that allows a judge to take into consideration the historical context pertaining to an accused Aboriginal person. This section was added to the Code in 1996 in response to the gross overrepresentation, as a percentage of the Canadian population, of Aboriginal people in the justice system. Using this section as an additional tool of analysis, the judge and the court can consider the unique experiences, context, and circumstances of the Aboriginal person’s life, factors that may have played a role in bringing this person before the court. Providing valuable historical context in the life of a child, family or community, the Gladue Report is quickly evolving into an important assessment tool in criminal sentencing, as well as in child welfare cases. Often, the wisdom keepers – the grandmothers and grandfathers in a community – keep these historical memories and stories. They are proving invaluable in supplying insight, information, and understanding, not only in court cases, but in relating the story of the broader dynamic of human interaction and discourse that has clashed and thundered on this land for the past 300 years.
in-Between, Across, and Within Difference: An Examination of "Cultural Competence"
Authors: Morris Jonathan
Published: November 2018

“Cultural competence” is often part of contemporary discourses of practice in child and youth care and is often referred to in curricula and documents that lay out the expected competencies of practitioners. This article represents an effort to critically examine the notion of “cultural competence”, paying particular attention to how “culture” and “competence” are taken up in the literature, and how they are positioned in relation to each other in the context of practice. Efforts are made to critique the idea that “culturally competent” practice can be attained through the linear and proceduralized acquisition of pre-specified competencies. Rather, an argument is made for the development of a practice that is critically reflexive, relational, and constantly in motion while working inbetween, across, and within difference.
Lesões cervicais não cariosas: da etiologia ao tratamento
Authors: Solino Ady Coutinho , Lima Walkiria Mendes , Tavares Fernanda Villas Boas , Queirós Junior José Lincoln De , Yamaguti Paulo Márcio , Bernadon Jussara Karina , Maia Elaine Auxiliadora Vilela
Published: November 2018

Objetivo: este artigo tem como objetivo revisar a literatura sobre lesões cervicais não cariosas, da etiologia ao tratamento, considerando-a uma doença multifatorial. Material e Métodos: Trata-se de uma revisão de literatura sobre lesões cervicais não cariosas, utilizando a base de dados PubMed e a ferramenta de busca Google Scholar em 2017 e 2018. Essa pesquisa também utilizou como base um livro didático sobre o tema. Resultados: a literatura citada no artigo mostrou que, embora não haja consenso, o estresse mecânico e a biocorrosão parecem desempenhar um papel importante na formação e progressão dessas lesões. Conclusão: mais estudos com metodologias padronizadas são necessários para ajudar a explicar a etiologia das lesões cervicais não cariosas.
The challenge of restoring mesio-distal dimension: the rational use of the development of dental materials in Pediatric Dentistry
Authors: Meyfarth Sandra , Barcelos Roberta , Warol Flávio , Scarparo Angela
Published: November 2018

Objetivo: o objetivo deste estudo foi apresentar a versatilidade do compósito de resina de fluxo a granel e composto de resina regular utilizado para restaurar a perda de espaço mesio-distal de um paciente pediátrico apresentando lesões de cárie nos elementos dentários 74 e 75. Relato de Caso: após tratamento planejamento, procedimentos restauradores com massa composta e adesivo universal foram realizados em duas visitas, precedidas do uso de anéis elásticos ortodônticos para abrir o espaço interdentário entre os dentes para recuperar o espaço necessário. Conclusão: a recuperação do espaço afetado pela cárie é de difícil execução e requer múltiplas consultas odontológicas. No entanto, quando o tratamento é corretamente conduzido em associação com o novo realizado e aliado às novas tecnologias, garante-se o restabelecimento do comprimento do arco minimizando as sequelas da doença cárie.
Progress on Active Analgesic Components and Mechanisms of Commonly Used Traditional Chinese Medicines: A Comprehensive Review
Authors: Wang Ruizhou , Han Lu , Gao Qixia , Chen Dan , Wang Yun , Zhang Xia , Yu Xin , Zhang Yueming , Li Zhiyong , Bai Changcai
Published: November 2018

Many clinical diseases are accompanied by the symptoms of pain, and the degree of pain is closely related to the patients’ suffering. Therefore, effectively relieving pain has become one of the vital concerns of clinical treatment and analgesic drug research. Non-opioid drugs are mainly used for the clinical treatment of mild to moderate pain, whereas opioid drugs are mainly used for treating moderate to severe pain. However, opioid drugs easily elicit adverse reactions, such as gastrointestinal discomfort, addiction, dependence, and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine and its active ingredients have unique advantages in the treatment of pain for quite a long time, and many analgesic drugs directly or indirectly were isolatiedfrom Chinese medicine or natural products, such as Liu Suan Yan Hu Suo Yi Su Pian and aspirin. With the development and modernization of research on herbal medicine more and more studies have been conducted on the active ingredients and mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine analgesics. However, no review has been done on analgesic active components and their mechanisms. In this paper, 81 active components with clear chemical structure and definite analgesic effects in vivo and in vitro of traditional Chinese medicine and mechanisms of action reported in recent literatures are reviewed and summarized to provide reference for clinical analgesia and analgesics research.
Evaluation and Advantages of Algae as an Energy Source
Authors: YAŞAR Fevzi
Published: November 2018

Primary energy consumption is increasing gradually together with population growth, urbanization and industrialization in the world. It is known that most of the energy used throughout the world is obtained from fossil fuels called primary energy sources such as coal, petroleum and natural gas. Within this context, the more the humanity continue to search for sustainable development and better living conditions, the more the renewable energy production will be a priority in whole world. As a result of all these, renewable energy sources used in the world today are classified as solar, wind, wave and geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass and hydrogen energies. Biomass energy, depending upon agriculture within the context of alternative energy politics, has found a wide range of application field in all over the world with its properties which target development and provide eco-friendly, sustainable energy production and environmental management. However, biofuel production that increases along with agricultural potential and technological levels of the countries brings about some crucial debates with itself. In this case, scientists express that algal biomasses, defined as third generation fuel, might be an alternative energy source; and that they have a lot of advantages. In recent years, algae have started to be seen as a promising energy source as a result of biomass energy researches accelerated due to increasing oil prices. The studies, in which biofuels such as biodiesel, renewable aviation fuel/biojet fuel, biogasoline/green gasoline, biobutanol, bioethanol, and methane are obtained from algal biomass, have enhanced widely. Algae are potentially best-yielding product that can be produced in large quantities of biofuels. This microscopic plant can be produced in dirty water, saltwater, deserts and in environments unsuitable for any other plant. Because they connect the carbon dioxide in the environment, it is produced especially around the power plants, thus reducing the damage caused by the carbon dioxide from the plants. One of the most important advantages of algae is that the amount of oil obtained is very high. Moreover, it is one of the other advantages that they are not affected by changing climate conditions and can be produced in high quantities in a short period of time.