bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Review of Pottery Cultures in Central Anatolia during the Middle Iron Age, taking Yassıhöyük (Kırşehir) as a Case Study
Authors: Küçükarslan Nurcan
Published: December 2020

Middle Iron Age (MIA): 9th-8th c. BC in Central Anatolia.Yassıhöyük is a mound located 160 km southeast of Ankara (Turkey), 25 km north of Kırşehir and 30 km east of Kaman-Kalehöyük.Kaman-Kalehöyük is a mound located 100 km southeast of Ankara.Region 1 (Representative Site: Gordion)Gordion was the capital city of Phrygia, 100 km southwest of Ankara.Diagnostic pottery type: monochrome grey wares.Political Entity: PhrygiaRegion 2 (Representative Site: Boğazköy)Boğazköy is a slope settlement located 208 km northeast of Ankara and 82 km southwest of Çorum.Diagnostic pottery type: painted pottery with matt dark paint, Alisar IV ceramics.Political Entity: -Region 3 (Representative Site: Porsuk-Zeyve Höyük)Porsuk is a mound located 359 km southeast of Ankara and 55 km southwest of Niğde.Diagnostic pottery type: -Political Entity: Many kingdoms under Assyrian control (Tabal Region) (More info:http://www.tayproject.org)
The Characterization of Animals in Sumerian Fables
Authors: Marcum Jill
Published: December 2020

Although classical education is waning and general historical knowledge is at its nadir, many ancient fables are still widely known and commonly cited in spoken language. For example, Aesop’s fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf has resulted in the phrase “crying wolf,” which—even today—is a cultural shorthand for expressing the idea of raising a false alarm. The successful communication of this idea, however, rests on culture: the shared understanding of the wolf as dangerous. If we thought of wolves as we do pet dogs, the reference would be lost.Fables constitute a subgenre of ancient Near Eastern ‘wisdom literature;’ they are short narratives utilizing anthropomorphized animals to impart conventional wisdom. Like proverbs, fables “belong to the speech of everyday life” (Alster 1997). Perhaps for this reason, they were among the first compositions that young scribes learned to write in ancient Mesopotamia. Sumerian fables are attested as early as the mid-third millennium BCE. Much like written language itself, fables traffic in tradition and “habitual connection” (Peirce 1885) in order to convey their meaning. This meaning is so strong that it can be carried even via elliptical (truncated) renderings, as in the example of “crying wolf.” This shorthand is possible, in part, because animals are not just things themselves, they are loaded with symbolic meanings that are imparted in fables via their role, their actions, and the words they speak. In fables, animals are characters, and these characterizations can reveal the context and values of the culture that created them.As Falkowitz (1980) notes, consistently and extensively employed animal images can become culturally ingrained as rhetorical topoi: the fox is cunning, the bee is busy. The meaning in these images” is derived from their characteristics, which fables can uniquely elucidate for us. Through the understanding that fables provide, we can more successfully “read” both the elliptical references to animals in proverbs and in images. Moreover, understanding animals in this way can provide us a method to access the contexts and values of ancient Mesopotamians without privileging our contemporary, Western symbolic or ethical norms.I will provide an overview of the small corpus of available Sumerian fables and analysis of the roles of the animals characterized within them. These will be linked to Sumerian proverbs and compared to ancient Greek fables to form a starting point for conceptualizing fauna in the ancient world.
Tiny House, Big Labor: Estimating the labor investment in Iron Age mobile dwellings
Authors: Nelson Thaddeus
Published: December 2020

Tents have an iconic place in anthropologists’ vision of Southwest Asia, largely through ethnographic analogy to the Bedouin black tent. Yet, tent nomadism and tent caravans emerged relatively recently during the Iron Age (c. 1200-568 BCE). Iconography, texts, and archaeology suggest that increased exploitation of tents as temporary or mobile housing would have required the use of large quantities of woven fabric. Yet, archaeologists have not considered the labor that members of the Iron Age population invested first in spinning fibers into yarn and then weaving these threads into cloth. This paper draws on published methods to estimate the labor investments required to produce the fabric structures from Iron Age Southwest Asia. The results demonstrate that although tents were well suited to mobility strategies, they were not inexpensive or disposable. Comparison to ethnographic examples from historic Southwest Asia supports the conclusion that tents were the result of large amounts of raw material and countless hours of work and coordination.
Space and Narrativity in Menna's Tomb Chapel (Theban Tomb 69)
Authors: Rogner Frederik A.
Published: December 2020

Tackling the issue of „Space and narrativity in two-dimensional images of the Egyptian New Kingdom“, the tomb of Menna (Theban Tomb 69) will serve as an example. The tomb of Menna , who held offices in the administration of temple land and royal land, is situated in the non-royal necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna on the Theban West Bank. Based on architectural and stylistical criteria as well as prosopographical data, it has been dated to the reign of Amenhotep III. (ca. 1390–1353 B.C.).The decorated tomb chapel is the part of the monument that was open to visitors and where the rituals for the deceased were performed as opposed to the burial chambers which were not intended to be re-opened after the burial except for the burial of the spouse or children of the deceased. In most cases they are undecorated.
Identifying Intentional Ambiguity
Authors: Meshel Nephtali
Published: December 2020

Identifying Intentional Ambiguity

 

It is widely acknowledged that certain genres in ancient Near Eastern literature including the Hebrew Bible are characterized by intense ambiguity. In particular, divination, Wisdom literature and erotic poetry thrive on a special type of ambiguity—“double-edged words”—in which a

single graphic or phonetic sequence is employed to convey a message and its precise opposite, at one and the same time.

However, it is often difficult to demonstrate that a specific case of “double-edged wording” is in fact intentional rather than a product of an eager reader’s over-interpretation. The proposed paper offers three criteria for identifying intentionality in the formulation of ambiguous texts, based on examples from Biblical and other ancient Near Eastern divinatory, Wisdom and poetic texts: (1) Ungrammaticality: Sometimes an author is forced to use an ungrammatical form in order to preserve two opposite meanings. This happens when smoothing the grammar would have been achieved only at the price of losing the ambiguity; (2) Multiple representation: At times the same exact ambiguity is evidenced in identical contexts, but in different words and by means of different sentence-structures (occasionally even in different languages, e.g., Hebrew and Aramaic); when it can be demonstrated that coincidence is highly unlikely, the argument for intentional crafting is strong; (3) Straussian “Art of Writing”: When the author addresses an issue that was demonstrably contentious (from the author’s perspective), potentially-subversive formulations are particularly suspect.

The intersection of two or three of these criteria in a single text strongly suggests intentionality
Papyri to the rescue: reconstructing Hellenistic male-female couple relationships through papyrological documentation
Authors: Golay Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The relationships of ordinary male-female couples in Antiquity remain a field of research still little explored, especially regarding the study of feelings, emotions, real-life experiences, and couple dynamics through everyday life. Thus, it is essential to look into this theme, both in the Greek and Roman worlds, in a diachronic and synchronic perspective; this is the purpose of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project at the University of Lausanne, entitled “Couple relationships in Antiquity”. My PhD thesis, as part of this project, intends to explore couple relationships during the Hellenistic period, in Greece, Asia Minor, and Ptolemaic Egypt, through literary, epigraphic, and papyrological documentation.

In this context, Greek papyri provide notable elements, that can complement and counteract the data issued from literary sources and inscriptions whose one of the biases is to present an idealized or incomplete vision of couples’ relationships; nevertheless, we must keep in mind that papyri suffer from their own specific biases.My aim in this paper is to show how possible it is to integrate different types of papyri – letters, marriage contracts, wills, complaints, etc – as part of a study on couples’ real-life experience, while identifying some of the key methodological aspects necessary for this type of analysis, by presenting excerpts from several documents. Furthermore, the addition of an adequate methodological canvas allows going beyond the cultural and/or typological filters and biases inherent to this type of documentation, and its inclusion in the global corpus of my thesis, in which most documents are from the ‘classical’ Greek world.
Toward a Syllabary and a Sign List of the Early Dynastic Umma Region
Authors: Bramanti Armando
Published: December 2020

After its decipherment in the middle of the 19th century, cuneiform came to be, together with its numerous recently discovered inscriptions, the object of intense attention on the part of both scholars and the general public. The first Old Persian and Neo-Assyrian monumental findings triggered the compilation of several sign lists, some of them still in use today. The discovery of older cuneiform archives, some of them dating to the end of the fourth and to the first half of the third millennium, made new approaches to cuneiform epigraphy and the compilation of new repertoires of signs necessary. After almost a century and in spite of its limited chronological and geographical scope, Deimel’s Liste der Archaischen Keilschriftzeichen (LAK, 1922) is still the standard sign list used for the Early Mesopotamian texts. In recent years the discovery of hundreds of new texts in several southern Mesopotamian regions compelled cuneiformists to create new tools for the epigraphic study of this material. In this talk I will present the ongoing work and the preliminary results of my current research project on the paleography of the Early Dynastic Umma Region, showing its potentialities and highlighting the critical issues in the creation from scratch of a cuneiform syllabary and sign list.
Sermons as data: Introducing a corpus of 11,955 Danish sermons
Authors: Agersnap Anne , Kristensen-McLachlan Ross Deans , Johansen Kirstine Helboe , Schjødt Uffe , Nielbo Kristoffer Laigaard
Published: December 2020

In this article, we present a newly established corpus of 11,955 sermon manuscripts written by pastors in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark (ELCD) in 2011-2016. We argue that this corpus provides a resource for studying how pastors within the same religious institution attend to general themes in church and society, respond to contemporary events, and represent social worlds. The aim of the article is twofold. 1) To present and discuss our approach to acquire and assemble the sermons corpus. This approach entailed sampling sermons directly from Danish pastors, and cleaning the corpus and annotating it with metadata manually. 2) To demonstrate the research potential of the corpus through a case study on gender representations in the sermons. We find that male and female pastors differ in their use of fundamental linguistic components, namely gendered pronouns and associated verbs. This affects how they assign agency to male and female characters in the corpus, and indicate that male and female pastors shape the social worlds in sermons in quite different ways. This case study therefore illustrates just one of the ways in which corpus-based research of Danish sermons may provide novel insights in the field of religion and society.
Empleo, desempleo y pandemia Covid-19: India
Authors: Sosa Jesús
Published: December 2020

El presente análisis estudia las repercusiones sobre empleo que trae la pandemia del COVID-19 en India. Es una exploración de las tendencias de empleo y desempleo en la economía de ese país desde la pandemia del COVID-19. El análisis utiliza datos oficiales publicados por fuentes oficiales. La economía india se desacelera en los últimos cinco años y la pandemia exacerba la pérdida de empleos. Una recuperación gradual de la actividad económica deja ver la fragilidad del crecimiento sin generación de empleo.

 
Financiarización en grandes empresas argentinas: El grupo Pampa Energía (2004-2019)
Authors: Navarro Rocha Leandro Ezequiel
Published: December 2020

Los procesos de financiarización, que tuvieron su origen tras el fin de los acuerdos de Bretton-Woods, alcanzaron también durante las décadas siguientes a los países periféricos. En el caso argentino, cobraron relevancia a partir de la liberalización y privatización de la economía durante la década de 1990. A partir de la década del 2000, y luego de la recuperación económica tras la crisis de comienzos del siglo XXI, es posible señalar una mayor vinculación de Argentina con los procesos de financiarización a escala global, tanto por una reorientación en el papel de las entidades financieras como de las empresas no financieras. El presente artículo aborda el estudio de la financiarización de las grandes empresas en Argentina a partir del estudio de caso, el grupo económico Pampa Energía. La hipótesis sostiene que durante el periodo 2004-2019, Pampa Energía se consolidó como un holding especializado en el sector de energía eléctrica, pero bajo una estrategia propia de una empresa financiarizada.

 
COVID-19 y prevención de brotes
Authors: Bastidas Pacheco Gilberto , Bastidas Delgado Geraldine
Published: December 2020

Objetivo: sintetizar aspectos epidemiológicos de la propagación de covid-19 como base para la planificación sanitaria en el abordaje de este problema de salud pública. Métodos: este escrito se basó en la revisión documental de información sobre el tema en bases de datos digitales. Con el propósito de facilitar la lectura y análisis de los datos hallados durante la revisión se dividió el presente escrito en tres secciones: transmisión, epidemiología y recomendaciones para el seguimiento y abordaje de la covid-19. Resultados: debido a la rapidez y contagio del sars-CoV-2 se requiere que se apliquen medidas de seguimiento y control implementadas por los primeros países en ser afectados, adaptándolas a las características socioculturales, geográficas y económicas de cada país. Conclusiones: la covid-19 es una enfermedad emergente con importante morbimortalidad, que requiere de pronta evaluación epidemiológica para la implementación de programas sanitarios para el control de la pandemia y prevención de brotes.
The Standard Story of Action and the Problem of Agential Guidance
Authors: Aguilar Jesús H.
Published: December 2020

The problem of agential guidance consists in explaining the possibility of guiding an action in purely reductive causal terms. After examining Harry Frankfurt’s articulation of this problem, the standard systemic reductive causal answer is explored and found wanting. Two general explanatory challenges are singled out as decisive in assessing the viability of a causal answer to the problem of agential guidance: first, the correct identification of the actual sources of action guidance in the form of guiding intentions, and, second, the recognition of the limitations of a content-based strategy to identify an action under guidance.
Sí hay negación lógica
Authors: Nicolás Francisco Ricardo Arturo , Estrada González Luis
Published: December 2020

En este artículo discutimos la tesis de Jc Beall según la cual no hay negación lógica. Evaluamos la solidez del argumento con el que defiende su tesis y presentamos dos razones para rechazar una de sus premisas: que la negación tiene que ser excluyente o exhaustiva. La primera razón involucra una presentación alternativa de las reglas de la negación en sistemas de secuentes diferentes al que Beall presupone. La segunda razón establece que la negación no tiene que ser excluyente o exhaustiva.
Effects of Happiness Levels in Asia
Authors: Firmansyah Rully , Wulansari Dyah
Published: December 2020

Happiness is the main goal in life. To measure someone's happiness is not easy, many opinions have emerged. Some say happiness can be measured through the satisfaction of one's life, some say happiness is measured through one's income, education, and health. The number of people's opinions to measure one's happiness appears as an indicator of happiness. At present, there are 48 indicators. One of the most accurate is HPI. The HPI indicator is very important for a country to increase the happiness of its people. Example: life expectancy in a country will increase and unemployment will decrease because a person has extensive knowledge and knowledge that is needed both by himself and the company that will accept him as his employee. The purpose of this study is to find out how HDI influences, life expectancy, unemployment on the level of happiness of people in ASIA. In this study using secondary data sources conducted by taking HDI data, life expectancy, unemployment in ASIA, and HPI data on ASIA. The results of the analysis using quantitative methods indicate that the independent variables namely HDI, life expectancy, and unemployment. Has a significant positive effect on the HPI dependent variable.
Why Development Failed? Facts and Analysis of Development Failure in Sumenep
Authors: Hidayaturrahman Mohammad , Hidayat Imam , Wibisono Aryo
Published: December 2020

This research was conducted to find a complete picture as well as to study comprehensively on the facts and factors causing the failure of development using the regional budget in Sumenep regency, East Java. During this time, national development which is supported by the efforts of regional governments in maximizing the potential of the regional budget is an important foundation in achieving public welfare. This research implemented an explanative qualitative method, with a single case study in Sumenep Regency that has an area consisting of mainland and islands, so it required large development funding. Data collection was done by in-depth interviews, direct observation, and online document search. This study also uses a quantitative method that measures the effect of the regional budget on development. From the research, it was found that with a large number of development funds from the regional budget there were still a lot of stagnant, abandoned physical developments that were not utilized. The aftermath was that the realized development fund could not overcome poverty, unemployment, and could not increase the income and welfare of residents in Sumenep Regency. Several factors were causing the failure of development in Sumenep Regency which was described comprehensively throughout the study.
A poética da relação na obra de Conceição Lima
Authors: Rodrigues Gonçalves Elen , De Almeida Pereira Prisca Agustoni
Published: December 2020

O presente artigo propõe um estudo da obra poética de Conceição Lima, escritora natural de São Tomé e Príncipe, à luz da Poética da Relação de Édouard Glissant (2005). Será analisada a forma como a poeta se auto define em meio às multiplicidades culturais em movimentos de diáspora, que lhe permite realizar um olhar crítico sobre sua terra natal, ao mesmo tempo em que lhe possibilita criar simbolicamente novas comunidades. Na sociedade multicultural, o sujeito torna-se híbrido, e os discursos dominantes e preten­samente homogeneizantes passam a ser contestados. Por isso, é insustentável hoje pensar em uma identidade nacional que seja pura e de raiz única, visto que o mundo se criouliza e se criam microclimas culturais e linguísticos inesperados. Lugares nos quais a repercussão da sobreposição das culturas é abrupta e imprevisível, predominando na totalidade-mundo, para Édouard Glissant (2005), a realidade crioula, sempre ao encontro de outras raízes e capaz de revelar a Utopia necessária – o povo que falta – a fim de esfacelar as concretudes e fazer emergir o micro, o uno, o múltiplo e o inextricável.
Inimizades geopolíticas e pós-colonialismo no contexto do romance Neighbours, de Lília Momplé
Authors: Gonçalves Moraes Claudia Letícia , Costa Sousa Rayron Lennon
Published: December 2020

Este ensaio propõe uma análise crítica do romance Neighbours (1995), da escritora moçambicana Lília Momplé, destacando as vizinhanças de inimiza­de entre Moçambique e África do Sul no período pós-independência como como mote central da narrativa e da mobilização de suas personagens. Assim, pretende-se observar como a animosidade entre os dois países desenha um quadro de instabilidade social no Moçambique pós-independência dos anos 1990, conformando uma série de violências que constituem o cotidiano moçambicano assustador, bem como outros conflitos de ordem geopolítica e social que se estabeleceram no pós-colonialismo. Para análise teórica dos aspectos destacados serão utilizados autores como Achille Mbembe (2017, 2018), Jéssica Falconi (2015, 2012), Anselmo Peres Alós (2011) e Ana Ma­falda Leite (2004), dentre outros autores. Esses nos auxiliarão na discussão acerca do conceito de pós-colonialismo e na crítica ao painel violento de vizinhanças geopolíticas baseadas nas políticas de inimizade entre países fronteiriços envolvidos em intrincadas dinâmicas de circulação de sujeitos que culminam em acirrados conflitos em contextos pós-coloniais.
Os lugares de memória na passada “Naquela noite”, da escritora guineense Odete Semedo
Authors: Carvalho Wellington Marçal de
Published: December 2020

O presente trabalho abordará o modo como Odete Semedo em seu texto literário, especificamente no conto “Naquela noite”, vale-se de estratégias que podem ser consideradas uma possível simbolização dos “lugares de memó­ria”. Tais estratégias reforçam mecanismos de resistência e indicam formas de sobrevivência para atravessar períodos difíceis do conturbado espaço da Guiné-Bissau. A discussão que ora se inicia pretende referendar trecho do pensamento de Amílcar Cabral, o mais expressivo líder revolucionário do chão guineense, no qual se esclarece o sentido maior da luta de seu povo pela independência. A lúcida percepção de Cabral parece ser a mesma que se depreende do trabalho realizado por Semedo quando encena, em seu projeto literário, possibilidades de o povo guineense assumir, ainda que seja com grandes dificuldades, a condução do seu destino. As estratégias assumidas pela escritora configuram, pode-se afirmar, um projeto literário de feição politizada. Este trabalho, alimentado por essas reflexões, pode verticalizar a discussão focalizando a simbolização dos “lugares de memória” em texto de Semedo, ressaltando, na enunciação literária, sua performatividade enquanto balizador de resistência e insumo de sobrevivência para atravessar a dureza dos tempos atuais da Guiné-Bissau. Em “Naquela noite” ficou comprovada a destreza de Semedo em manejar a concomitância de tempos e espaços divergentes, assim como os restos de tradições ameaçadas de extinção pela aceleração da história.
“A vida de Deolinda é a dedicação a um ideal”: entrevista com Roberto de Almeida
Authors: António Mateus Pedro Pimpão
Published: December 2020

A presente entrevista, concedida a nós pelo Dr. Roberto António Víctor Francisco de Almeida, irmão de Deolinda Rodrigues, no dia 25 de Fevereiro de 2019, em Luanda, capital de Angola, serve de meio para divulgação do percurso de Langidila, sua participação no processo de descolonização do seu povo durante o período da colonização portuguesa.
Deusa d'´África: uma voz feminista afro-moçambicana
Authors: Freitas Sávio Roberto Fonseca
Published: December 2020

O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar a poesia da escritora moçambicana Deusa D’África e mostrar como seus poemas se inserem no continuum projeto de moçambicanidade a partir de um discurso que se organiza no feminino no sentido de territorializar uma produção literária de autoria feminina que, do centro de Moçambique, ecoa ao ritmo do xitende e dissemina um feminismo afro-moçambicano cuja agenda de discussão se volta para a condição da mulher. Para a discussão e análise dos poemas “Hoje apetece­-me”, “Lágrimas de açúcar” e “A voz das minhas entranhas”, apoiamo-nos nos posicionamentos de Chimamanda Adchie (2015), de Djamila Ribeiro (2017), Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda (2018), de Judith Butler (2017), Paulina Chiziane (2013) entre outras referências.
Apresentação
Authors: Amâncio Iris Maria da Costa , Moreira Terezinha Taborda
Published: December 2020

Apresentação à Abril 25.
Atmospheric oxidation of 4-(2-Methoxyethyl) phenol initiated by OH radical in the presence of O2 and NOx: A mechanistic and kinetic study
Authors: Yao Junfang , Sun Yanan , Tang Yizhen , zhang yunju , Wu Wenzhong , Sun Jingyu
Published: December 2020

4-(2-Methoxyethyl) phenol (MEP) is an significant methoxypheolic
compound, which has been shown to play an important role in the
formation of secondary organic aerosols(SOA). The present work focuses
on the gas-phase oxidation mechanism and kinetics of MEP and OH radical
by the density functional theory (DFT). Energetically favourable
reaction channels and feasible products were identified. The initial
reactions of MEP with OH radical have two different channels: OH
addition and H abstraction. Subsequent reaction schemes of main
intermediates in the presence of O2 and NOx are investigated using
quantum chemical methods at M06-2X/6-311++G(3df,2p)//M06-2X/6-311+G(d,p)
level. Ketene, Phenyldiketones and nitrophenol compounds are
demonstrated to be possible oxidation products. The total rate
constant(1.69×10-11 cm3 molecule-1 s-1) and individual rate constant are
calculated using the traditional transition state (TST) theory at 298K
and 1atm. The lifetime of MEP is estimated to be 16.4 hours, which
provides a comprehensive explanation for atmospheric oxidation pathway
of MEP and shows MEP would be removed by OH radical in the atmosphere.
Is the Revascularization Strategy and Outcome Different in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in COVID -19 pandemic Era:A tertiary centre experience
Authors: aktürk ibrahim , Karabulut Dilay , Oflar Ersan , ertığrul sait , polat veli , şahin alparslan , koşar feridun , bayrak ibrahim halil , koyuncu atilla , bostancı ilayda , katkat fahrettin , karahan aysun , Keskin Kudret , çağlar nihan
Published: December 2020

Objectives: Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID 19) became a major public
health issue, causing millions of deaths world wide. The burden of COVID
19 pandemics on access to medical care and the treatment of patients
with chronic diseases and acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is not fully
determined yet. . Methods: A total of 239 patients with ACS were
enrolled into the study. Patients were divided into two groups. First
group was prepandemic group consisted of patients admitted at January
and February 2020, before the pandemic. Second group was consisted of
ACS patients admitted through April and May 2020 during pandemic. Both
groups were compared according to demographic properties, blood
chemistry findings, angiographic features, revascularisation strategies
and clinical outcomes. Results: During pandemic period we observed an
increase in total number of patient with ST elevation miyocardial
infarction (STEMI) patients compared to prepandemic period ( 59(45%) vs
32 (29.6%) respectively). Initial high sensitive troponin and CK-MB
levels were statistically higher in the pandemic group patients(1953
pg/ml vs 259 pg/ml for troponın I and 14 ng/ml vs 6ng/ml for CK-MB
p<0.0001, p=0.02 respectively). TYPE 4a myocardial infarction
due to stent thrombosis was more frequent in pandemic group relative top
re-pandemic group (10 vs 0 p=0.003). Post procedural TIMI flow grade was
lower in pandemic group and distal embolization and TIMI thrombus score
were significantly higher in the pandemic group compared top re-pandemic
group (, p=0.001, p=0.02 ,p=0.002 respectively). However; there was no
statistically significant difference in hospital mortality and short
–term all cause mortality, among groups (p>0.05).
Conclusion: We observed that although clinical, laboratory, and
angiographic features were worse in ACS patients admitted during the
pandemic compared to pre-pandemic period, the mortality rate of ACS was
similar. It is important to keep coronary care units open and
fully-functioning during the pandemic.
Association of Plasma Leucine-Rich α-2 Glycoprotein 1, a Modulator of Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling Pathway, With Incident Heart Failure in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: Liu Jian-Jun , Pek Sharon L.T. , Wang Jiexun , Liu Sylvia , Ang Keven , Shao Yi Ming , Tang Justin I.-Shing , Gurung Resham L. , Tavintharan Subramaniam , Tang Wern Ee , Sum Chee Fang , Lim Su Chi
Published: December 2020

OBJECTIVE

Leucine-rich α-2 glycoprotein 1 (LRG1) is a circulating protein potentially involved in several pathways related to pathogenesis of heart failure (HF). We aimed to study whether plasma LRG1 is associated with risks of incident HF and hospitalization attributable to HF (HHF) in individuals with type 2 diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

A total of 1,978 individuals with type 2 diabetes were followed for a median of 7.1 years (interquartile range 6.1–7.6). Association of LRG1 with HF was studied using cause-specific Cox regression models.

RESULTS

In follow-up, 191 incident HF and 119 HHF events were identified. As compared with quartile 1, participants with LRG1 in quartiles 3 and 4 had 3.60-fold (95% CI 1.63–7.99) and 5.99-fold (95% CI 2.21–16.20) increased risk of incident HF and 5.88-fold (95% CI 1.83–18.85) and 10.44-fold (95% CI 2.37–45.98) increased risk of HHF, respectively, after adjustment for multiple known cardiorenal risk factors. As a continuous variable, 1 SD increment in natural log-transformed LRG1 was associated with 1.78-fold (95% CI 1.33–2.38) adjusted risk of incident HF and 1.92-fold (95% CI 1.27–2.92) adjusted risk of HHF. Adding LRG1 to the clinical variable–based model improved risk discrimination for incident HF (area under the curve [AUC] 0.79–0.81; P = 0.02) and HHF (AUC 0.81–0.84; P = 0.02).

Conclusions

Plasma LRG1 is associated with risks of incident HF and HHF, suggesting that it may potentially be involved in pathogenesis of HF in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Additional studies are warranted to determine whether LRG1 is a novel biomarker for HF risk stratification.
Öppen utbildning och öppna lärresurser Policy och åtgärdsprogram för det finländska högskole- och forskarsamfundet 2021–2025 Delpolicy 1 – Öppen tillgång till lärresurser
Authors: Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen koordinatio
Published: December 2020

Denna policy har utformats av det finländska högskoleoch forskarsamfundet. Ansvaret för arbetet har legat hos en arbetsgrupp som sammankallats av Expertgruppen för öppen utbildning inom Samordningen av öppen vetenskap vid Vetenskapliga samfundens delegation (TSV). Arbetet har letts av den nationella styrgruppen för öppen vetenskap och forskning. Denna policy stöder Deklarationen för öppen vetenskap och forskning 2020–2025. Denna policy består av gemensamma principer samt delpolicyer för (a) öppen tillgång till lärresurser och b) öppna lärmetoder där mål och åtgärder fastställs.
Open education and educational resources. National policy and executive plan by the higher education and research community for 2021-2025. Policy component 1 – Open access to educational resources
Authors: Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen koordinaatio
Published: December 2020

The policy is composed of joint principles and policy components of (a) open access to educational resources and (b) open educational practices that determine objectives and actions. The principles define the general terms and conditions for promoting open education and educational resources. They consist of important principles for the higher education and research community that must be adhered to in the promotion of openness. The objectives recorded in the policy components are more time-dependent goals that involve concrete actions.
Organizing the Voice of Women: A Study of the Polish and Swedish Women's Movements' Adaptation to International Structures
Authors: Stuvøy Kirsti
Published: December 2020

Organizing the Voice of Women: A Study of the Polish and Swedish Women's Movements' Adaptation to International Structures, by Eva Karlberg, is reviewed by Kirsti Stuvøy, Associate Professor, Faculty of Landscape and Society, International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
Nöd och död. Den ryska ockupationen i norr 1809
Authors: Nielsen Jens Petter
Published: December 2020

Abstract: Distress and Death. The Russian Occupation in the North 1809Jens Petter Nielsen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) reviews Nöd och död. Den ryska ockupationen i norr 1809 (Distress and Death. The Russian Occupation in the North 1809) by K.-G. Bergström.
READING INTEREST, READING SELF-EFFICACY, AND READING COMPETENCY IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Authors: Mira Putu , Tantra Dewa Komang , Saputra I Nyoman Pasek Hadi
Published: December 2020

The research aimed at describing and correlating the students’ reading interest, reading self-efficacy, and their reading competency in Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri (SMPN) 3 Singaraja. This research used a quantitative research design. The sample consisted of 102 students in three classes of the eighth-grade students that were chosen by using cluster quota sampling. Three instruments to collect the data such as a reading interest scale, a reading self-efficacy scale, and an objective reading competency test. The data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially. The result revealed that the students’ reading interest, reading self-efficacy, and reading competency on high-order-items are classified into moderate levels. The pair-wise correlation between the students’ reading interest and reading self-efficacy, the students reading interest and reading competency, the students’ reading self-efficacy and reading competency on high-order-items are correlated positively and significantly, as well as the multiple relationships between the three variables.
A CASE STUDY OF THE SEATING ARRANGEMENT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS
Authors: Astuti Kadek Wedi , Suarnajaya I Wayan , Suputra Putu Eka Dambayana
Published: December 2020

This research aimed at observing the set-up of the seating arrangement during the instructions and identifying the students' reasons for having seating preferences. This study was conducted in SMP Negeri 1 Banjar, and the subjects were 32 students in 8F class. Two methods were applied in this study, namely observation and interview. Therefore, observation checklist and interview guide were used as the instruments. The results revealed that the set-up of the seating arrangement supported them in terms of comfort, flexibility in doing activities, doing tasks, spaciousness, and collaboration with the students. Meanwhile, it did not support them in terms of concentration, participation in class discussion, and collaboration with the teacher. Regarding their reasons for having particular seats, there were 14 reasons mentioned during the interview. Best friends and leaning on the wall were the factors that had the most and the least effect on the students in choosing their seats.
Tutoriales de Youtube como estrategia de aprendizaje no formal en estudiantes universitarios
Authors: Roque Rodríguez Ernesto
Published: December 2020

Los videotutoriales de Youtube se han convertido en un recurso necesario para el aprendizaje de los estudiantes. Por ello, el objetivo de este artículo fue conocer y analizar las razones del uso de esos recursos como estrategia de aprendizaje no formal en estudiantes universitarios. Se trata de un estudio mixto secuencial explicativo realizado en dos fases: una cuantitativa y otra cualitativa. Con un muestreo no probabilístico accidental en el que participaron 141 estudiantes, se usó una entrevista grupal para recibir retroalimentación y comentarios. Se realizó un análisis descriptivo a través de las técnicas de contenido y comparación constante. Los resultados demuestran que el 100 % de los estudiantes emplea los videotutoriales de Youtube para una mejor comprensión de un tema (66 %), porque son de fácil acceso y ahorran tiempo (57.4 %), para tener una guía de cómo hacer algo (53.2 %),  para obtener diferentes puntos de vista (17.7 %) y por experiencia en Youtube (3.5%). Se concluye, por tanto, que los videotutoriales pueden ser usados para promover el aprendizaje autónomo, así como el pensamiento reflexivo.
Methodological aspects of accounting of warranty provision in accordance with international financial reporting standards
Authors:   Mykolayiv national agrarian university, Davydiuk T , Syrtseva S ,   Mykolayiv national agrarian university, Endres V ,   Mykolayiv national agrarian university, Nadraga V ,   Mykolayiv national agrarian university
Published: December 2020

In order to ensure that warranty repair and maintenance costs are included evenly in accordancewith National Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards, entities are entitled to create provisions under warranty. Creation of such provisions allows to adjust the income and expenses for warranty repair and maintenance and to reasonably distribute expenses between the reporting periods, which helps to optimize the tax burden. The purpose of the article is to review the methodological aspects of accounting of warranty provisions in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards.The achievement of the stated goal necessitated the following tasks: to disclose the nature and conditions of recognition of provisions for warranty in accordance with international accounting standards; to present the methodology for accounting in the accounting and tax accounting and financial statements of the provision for warranty in accordance with IFRS; to propose methods of calculating the warranty provisions to determine their main advantages and disadvantages. The main general scientific methods of research were the analysis (for conducting the research of the main essential characteristics of the research object and peculiarities of its functioning in the context of the topic of scientific work). Analogy method, dialectical method and systematicapproach were used to reflect the methodological approach to accounting and to show in the financial statements the provisions for warranty. Comparison method was used for evaluating the techniques for calculating warranty provision for entities that prepare IFRS financial statements.
Accounting and analytical support of fundraising operations in organizations of non-profit sector of the economy
Authors:   Lviv Politechnic National University, Vysochan O , Ivasiuk T ,   Lviv Polytechnic National University
Published: December 2020

In the modern world, organizations that have based their activities not on economic but social benefits are becoming more widespread. Non-governmental non-profit organizations bring together individuals and/or entities for meeting economic, public, social, cultural, environmental and other interests, needs for political will, religious service, etc. Such organizationsare usually not commercially active, so finding sources of funding or fundraising is an important component of their business activity. Different types of funding sources and different approaches to attracting such funding can be applied to each type of non-governmental non-profit organization. Accounting of such funding and the cost of its finding is the core of transparent activity of these organizations and reflection of the results of their work. The purpose of the research is to explore the accounting and analytical support for the implementation of fundraising in non-governmental non-profit organizations. The article describes the concept of fundraising as an activity of finding and raising funds for the realization of social functions by non-governmental non-profit organizations. Types of non-governmental non-profit organizations in Ukraine and abroad are investigated, methods of fundraising implementation are disclosed. The nomenclature of expenses on fundraising, the procedure for recognizing such expenses and reflection in accounting of non-governmental non-profit organizations are defined. The location of the cost of searching funding in the transaction costs of the organization is determined.
Development of accounting for intangible assets based on the theory of intellectual capital
Authors:   Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Legenchuk S , Iskorostenska S ,   Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University
Published: December 2020

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that development of a market economy and enterprises themselves, especially in a highly competitive environment, is almost impossible without the active orientation of production structures towards innovative and intellectual activities. The question of the nature of intellectual capital and how it is measured is therefore relevant, since it is the efficient use of such capital that greatly improves the quality of information, and improve management technology and innovation. Intellectual capital is a necessary part of the economic policy of a modern enterprise. The study aimed to determine the essential characteristics and structure of intellectual capital. To achieve this goal, we were focused on the next tasks: determination of the intellectual asset, research in the framework of the legislative requirements of accounting for the composition of intangible assets, and improvement of accounting process of valuation of intangible assets. During the research following general and specific scientific methods were used: theoretical generalization, analogy, abstraction, statistical observation, analysis, synthesis, scientific abstraction, critical analysis of accounting issues.
THEORETICAL SUBSTANTIATION OF THE PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS DESTRUCTION BY SPECIFIC MICROFLORA USING ANAEROBIC DIGESTATE
Authors:   Sumy State University, Ablieieva Iryna
Published: December 2020

Implementation of the proposed approach to bioremediation of oil-contaminated soils provides an intensification of the hydrocarbons degradation process biologically using a digestate as a bio-stimulant, contributes to the production of an ecologically safe substrate, and excludes its toxicity to living organisms due to the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons.
CLEAN UTILIZATION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS DERIVED FROM IT
Authors:   Coal Energy Technology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Topal Alexander , Holenko Iryna ,   Coal Energy Technology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Haponych Luidmyla ,   Coal Energy Technology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Published: December 2020

For the municipal solid waste (MSW) to be used in a proper way, it is necessary to implement clean technologies capable of thermal treatment of MSW and RDF in order to produce heat and electricity while meeting current ecological requirements. Nowadays, a number of technologies for MSW/RDF thermal treating are being used worldwide. Among them, the most proven technologies, applicable for industrial introduction, have been considered while analyzing their advantages/ disadvantages accounting for local conditions of Ukraine.
ANALYSIS OF THE UKRAINIAN CITIES’ SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY ON THE EXAMPLE OF LVIV
Authors:   Lviv Polytechnic National University, Barvinska Khrystyna , Leonova Sophiya ,   Lviv Polytechnic National University, Barvinska Yelyzaveta ,   Lviv Polytechnic National University
Published: December 2020

The world tendencies of popularization of ecological elements of sustainable mobility and the results of their introduction in Lviv on the way to sustainable development are considered in the article. Examples of implementation of the Sustainable Mobility Plan in the city in accordance with the set priorities are given: residents, public transport, ecological means of transportation, private transport. The development of infrastructure for individual environmental means of mobility and public transport is analyzed.
Predictive Values of Quantitative VS Qualitative Culture of Broncholaveolar Lavage in Diagnosis of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Patients on Mechanical Ventilation
Authors: Travar Maja , Kovacevic Pedja , Golic Darko
Published: December 2020

Purpose: Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infection in patients hospitalized in intensive care unit (ICU). Aim of this study was to evaluate predictive values of quantitative and qualitative culture of broncholaveolar lavage (BAL) in the diagnosis of VAP comparing with clinical pulmonary infection score (CPIS), and to determine positive and negative predictive values of the tests in patients on mechanical ventilation. Methodology: 209 samples were prospectively taken from the patients hospitalized in ICU on mechanical ventilation; along with the clinical pulmonary infection score (CPIS). After sampling, quantitative and qualitative culture of BAL was done. As the cut off value of quantitative culture 104 CFU/mL was taken, according CDC recommendations. Results: In our study, sensitivity of the quantitative culture of BAL was 91%, specificity 70%, positive predictive value 80% and negative predictive value was 85%. Sensitivity of the qualitative culture of BAL was 93%, specificity 36%, positive predictive value 70,2% and negative predictive value was 76%. Conclusion: Quantitative culture of BAL has better predictive values in VAP diagnosis in patients on mechanical ventilation, helping in the discrimination between colonization and the infection. Qualitative culture of BAL has higher sensitivity, but lower specificity than quantitative culture.
Evaluation of P Dispersion and P Dispersion Recovery in Patients with Pseudoexfoliative Syndrome
Authors: Ayhan Cosgun , Alper Gunes
Published: December 2020

Background: Pseudoexfoliative syndrome (PEX) is an old-age disease characterized by the accumulation of fibril materials in both the eye and extraocular organs. PEX is associated with many morbid and mortal cardiovascular diseases. The aim of our study was to investigate the effects of the stress test on P Wave dispersion (PWD) in patients with PEX. Patients and Methods: Forty patients who presented to the ophthalmology outpatient clinic between February 2018 and September 2018 and diagnosed as PEX in the ophthalmologic examination were included in the study. As a control group, forty-four patients, age and gender-matched, who applied to the cardiology outpatient clinic, diagnosed in the outpatient clinic of ophthalmology non-PEX, were included in the study. The study and control group were subjected to treadmill exercise test (TET) according to Bruce protocol. Results: The recovery PWD value of the study group in the third minutes was 34.4 ±4.35 ms and rest PWD value of study group 32.925±5.17 ms. There was no statistically significant difference between the two values (t=1.37992, p=0.08). The basal PWD value of the control group was 31.79±3.9ms, the recovery PWD value of the control group in the second minute 32.65±3.48 ms. There was no statistically significant difference between the two values (t=1.09495, p=0.13). Conclusion: The most interesting result of the study was that the difference between the recovery PWD value and the resting PWD value in the study group was statistically insignificant in the third recovery minute, whereas in the control group it occurred in the second minute.