bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
O papel dos aplicativos de carona na empregabilidade local: pesquisa com motoristas atuantes em município do interior de São Paulo
Authors: Ceriani de Oliveira Gomes Mike , De Oliveira Ribeiro Ana Júlia , Ferraz Campos Guilherme Henrique
Published: June 2021

Este trabalho foi desenvolvido a partir do interesse dos autores por aplicativos de carona enquanto potenciais redutores de desemprego em âmbito local. Optou-se então pela realização de uma pesquisa de campo no município de Botucatu, interior de São Paulo, na busca por informações relevantes para a compreensão de como os aplicativos influenciam na dinâmica econômica local, considerando a diversidade de perfis e objetivos de motoristas que aderem a este meio de trabalho. Para obter dados dos motoristas relacionados aos interesses da pesquisa, foram distribuídos formulários através do Google, onde 58 motoristas, entre as faixas etárias de 22 e 64 anos responderam duas sessões de perguntas, primeiramente quatro sobre seus gêneros, faixas etárias, tempo de residência em Botucatu (aos que residem) e os aplicativos para os quais trabalham e posteriormente cinco perguntas que fazem relação ao trabalho em si, tendo a segunda sessão maior foco de análises. Em seguida, as respostas foram analisadas em sua totalidade, e com isso foi possível explicar algumas tendências locais de adesão ao aplicativo como empregabilidade, interesses em termos de modalidades de trabalho, objetivos e seguridade. Ao final das análises do questionário, os autores propõem alternativas socialmente sustentáveis de gerenciamento dos aplicativos por parte de suas respectivas empresas, bem como a necessidade de participação de outros órgãos administrativos.
Planejamento estratégico para abertura de canal de venda de uma fábrica de artes em madeira
Authors: Campigotto Sandri Emanuel , Do Rosário Contani André Ricardo , Cruzara Giovani , Vieira Cruz Kumasaka Júlia Mitsue
Published: June 2021

O conceito de planejamento estratégico pode ser definido como um método cujo intuito é diminuir riscos ao prever o futuro a partir de um processo sistemático e contínuo. Nesse sentido, este relato técnico-científico teve como objetivo analisar a abertura de um novo canal de venda diante do planejamento estratégico e do contexto competitivo de uma empresa estabelecida na cidade de Cascavel, no Paraná. O método baseou-se no estudo de caso único qualitativo e de natureza descritiva-explicativa, com entrevistas com o gestor. Acompanhou-se e auxiliou-se na implantação de um novo canal de venda derivado do planejamento estratégico da empresa, cujo desenvolvimento se baseou no uso de ferramentas como a análise de cenário, análise do posicionamento, análise SWOT e análise dos canais. Como resultado, entende-se que a empresa está ciente dos seus pontos fortes e fracos, bem como das oportunidades presentes no mercado que poderão ser aproveitadas e das ameaças que deverão ser tratadas com cautela. Ainda que não esteja formalizado e registrado em um único documento escrito, o processo de planejamento estratégico foi conduzido e está acessível ao gestor para a definição dos cursos de ação da empresa.
Self-care practices, patient education in women with breast cancer-related lymphedema
Authors: Deveci Zeynep , Karayurt Özgül , Eyigör Sibel
Published: June 2021

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate self-care practices, sociodemographic and clinical factors that affect self-care and patient education among women with breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL).

Patients and methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study included a total of 102 women with BCRL (median age: 59 years; range, 35 to 80 years) who received lymphedema (LE) treatment at least once between July 2014 and May 2016. A Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Form and the Lymphedema Self-care Survey were used to collect data via face-to-face interviews.

Results: The median LE self-care practices score for women was 10 (range, 5 to 14). A total of 39.1% of the women implemented regular self-care. A statistically significant relationship was found between the score for perceived benefit of LE self-care and the score for self-care practice. No statistically significant difference was found among the self-care scores of the women with LE in terms of sociodemographic and clinical factors, except for education status. A total of 90.2% of the women with LE received self-care education, mostly from a physical therapy specialist and a physiotherapist. There was a statistically significant difference among self-care scores between patients who were educated and uneducated about LE.

Conclusion: It is recommended that healthcare professionals should educate patients diagnosed with breast cancer to reduce LE risk and promote the implementation of self-care practices following the breast cancer surgery. Interventions should be made to increase the perceived benefits and reduce the perceived barriers and burden towards self-care behaviors to prevent and manage LE.
Effects of low-density pulsed ultrasound treatment on transforming growth factor-beta, collagen level, histology, biomechanics, and function in repaired rat tendons
Authors: İnceoğlu Alperen , Şahin Füsun , Akkaya Nuray , Ök Nusret , Yörükoğlu Çağdaş , Mete Gülçin , Akgün Şakir
Published: June 2021

Objectives: The aim of this study is to compare the effects of low-density pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) treatment on growth factors/collagen production, histological, biomechanical, and function of rats with Achilles tendon injury.

Materials and methods: A total of 44 Wistar Albino rats were used in the study between April 2017 and June 2018. The rats were randomized to two treatment groups. Group 1 (n=6) received LIPUS treatment (0.3 Watt/cm2; 1 MHz, 1:5 pulse mode) and Group 2 (n=6)received sham ultrasound (US) treatment following Achilles tendon surgery. Transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) and collagen gene expression levels were evaluated using polymerase chain reaction. The histological evaluation was performed with the Bonar scoring system. The tensile strength was measured by biomechanical testing and the function was evaluated with the Achilles Functional Index (AFI).

Results: Although TGF-β1 expression and tensile strength evaluation showed a tendency to improve in favor of the LIPUS group, no statistically significant difference was found (p=0.065 and p=0.053, respectively). The COL3 gene expression in the LIPUS group and the COL1 expression in the sham US group were significantly higher. Bonar scores and AFI scores showed a statistically significant improvement in the LIPUS group, compared to the sham US group.

Conclusion: Our study results show that LIPUS yields positive effects on tendon histology and functional status in repaired Achilles tendon in rats.
The effect of cardiac rehabilitation on kinesiophobia in patients with coronary artery disease
Authors: Baykal Şahin Hanife , Kalaycıoğlu Ezgi , Şahin Mürsel
Published: June 2021

Objectives: The aim of this study was to define the level of kinesiophobia in cardiac patients, to determine whether there was a positive change in kinesiophobia after an exercise based cardiac rehabilitation (CR), and to define the associated variables with the change in kinesiophobia.

Patients and methods: Between September 2017 and December 2018, a total of 98 patients (63 males, 35 females; mean age: 58±10.4 years; range, 36 to 78 years) diagnosed with coronary artery disease (CAD) were included in the study. The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia Heart (TSK-SV Heart) was used to measure kinesiophobia. The short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) was applied to measure physical activity level. The Short Form 36 (SF-36) was used to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL). After CR, kinesiophobia was reevaluated.

Results: A high level of kinesiophobia was present in 74.5% of the patients. The mean TSK-SV heart score was 41.4±6.2. After CR, 34.6% of the patients had a high level of kinesiophobia (p<0.001). The patients with a high level of kinesiophobia were physically more inactive than those with a low level of kinesiophobia (p=0.001) and HRQoL scores were significantly lower (p<0.05).

Conclusion: Kinesiophobia is quite common in patients with CAD. Aerobic exercise capacity and physical activity levels are lower in patients with a high level of kinesiophobia, compared to those with a low level of kinesiophobia. After an exercise-based CR program, kinesiophobia significantly reduces.
Is it possible to develop a new measurement tool to assess the functional status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?
Authors: Seher Özalp Ateş Funda , Gökmen Derya , Kutlay Şehim , Halil Elhan Atilla , Adile Küçükdeveci Ayşe
Published: June 2021

Objectives: This study aims to develop measurement tools for assessing patients’ functional status with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in terms of upper and lower extremity function and to evaluate the tools’ construct validities with classical and modern psychometric approaches.

Patients and methods: Between April 2010 and April 2012, a total of 300 patients with RA (77 males, 223 females; mean age: 52.3±11.5 years; range, 18 to 82 years) who answered items from a range of widely used instruments were included. After examining initial dimensionality with exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and Rasch analysis were used to evaluate the tools’ construct validities. The data-model fit was evaluated with goodness-of-fit (GoF) statistics in CFA, while the tools were examined in terms of item and person fit, unidimensionality and differential item functioning (DIF) from the perspective of Rasch analysis.

Results: According to EFA, two dimensions were identified and named as “self-care-mobility-household activities related to lower extremity” and “self-care-mobility-household activities related to upper extremity” taking into account the factor loadings and the clinical classifications. While the clinical classification was tested with CFA, all items were loaded on their pre-defined dimensions with the factor loadings of ≥0.40 and GoF statistics were within the acceptable ranges. When the “self-care-mobility-household activities related to upper extremity” and “self-care-mobility-household activities related to lower extremity” tools were evaluated via the Rasch analysis, both tools were found to fit the Rasch model expectations, with a mean item fit statistics of -0.528 logit (standard deviation [SD]: 1.365) and -0.213 (SD: 1.168; mean person fit statistics of -0.412 logit (SD: 1.160) and -0.303 logit (SD: 0.859), respectively.

Conclusion: For the evaluation of a scale’s construct validity, it is recommended to use the Rasch analysis in tandem with factor analytic methods, as the Rasch analysis explores a scale’s construct validity in terms of item and person fit, DIF and unidimensionality which is the only aspect of the factor analysis.
Pulmonary rehabilitation principles in SARS-COV-2 infection (COVID-19): The revised guideline for the acute, subacute, and post-COVID-19 rehabilitation
Authors: Kurtaiş Aytür Yeşim , Füsun Köseoglu Belma , Özyemişci Taşkıran Özden , Kutay Ordu Gökkaya Nilüfer , Ünsal Delialioğlu Sibel , Sonel Tur Birkan , Sarıkaya Selda , Şirzai Hülya , Tekdemir Tiftik Tülay , Alemdaroglu Ebru , Figen Ayhan Fikriye , Duyur Çakıt Burcu , Genç Aysun , Gündoğdu İbrahim , Güzel Rengin , Demirbağ Kabayel Derya , Bilir Kaya Başak , Öken Öznur , Özdemir Hande , Soyupek Feray , Tıkız Canan
Published: June 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious infection disease, which may cause respiratory, physical, psychological, and generalized systemic dysfunction. The severity of disease ranges from an asymptomatic infection or mild illness to mild or severe pneumonia with respiratory failure and/or death. COVID-19 dramatically affects the pulmonary system. This clinical practice guideline includes pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) recommendations for adult COVID-19 patients and has been developed in the light of the guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 provided by the World Health Organization and Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Health, recently published scientific literature, and PR recommendations for COVID-19 regarding basic principles of PR. This national guideline provides suggestions regarding the PR methods during the clinical stages of COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 with its possible benefits, contraindications, and disadvantages.
Least Squares Support Vector Machine Regression Based on Sparse Samples and Mixture Kernel Learning
Authors: Ma Wenlu , Liu Han
Published: June 2021

Least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) is a machine learning algorithm based on statistical theory. Itsadvantages include robustness and calculation simplicity, and it has good performance in the data processingof small samples. The LSSVM model lacks sparsity and is unable to handle large-scale data problem, this articleproposes an LSSVM method based on mixture kernel learning and sparse samples. This algorithm reduces theinitial training set to a sub-dataset using a sparse selection strategy. It converts the single kernel function in theLSSVM model into a mixed kernel function and optimizes its parameters. The reduced sub-dataset is used fortraining LSSVM. Finally, a group of datasets in the UCI Machine Learning Repository were used to verify theeffectiveness of the proposed algorithm, which is applied to real-world power load data to achieve better fittingand improve the prediction accuracy.
A New Multi-stage Secret Sharing Scheme for Hierarchical Access Structure with Existential Quantifier
Authors: Xu Guoai , Yuan Jiangtao , Xu Guosheng , Jia Xingxing
Published: June 2021

Multi-stage secret sharing scheme is practical in the case that there is a security system with m ordered checkpoints.It is natural to divide the m checkpoints into m different levels. There are m different secrets, and eachof them with a different importance corresponds to a checkpoint/level. The participants are also divided intom disjoint levels as they do in the hierarchical threshold access structure. Hierarchical threshold access structurewith the existential quantifier ( HTAS∃ ) does not cover the common practice that at least a few numbersof high-ranking participants are required to be involved in any recovery of the secret. The popular schemeswith hierarchical access structure were needed to check many matrices for non-singularity. We propose amulti-stage secret sharing scheme for HTAS∃ , and the tools are based on the linear homogeneous recurrencerelations (LHRRs) and one-way functions. We give the HTAS∃ a modification, so that this hierarchical accessstructure can satisfy the common practice. In our scheme, if the participants are divided into m levels, thereusually has m secrets. But before the (j − 1)-th secret is recovered, the j-th secret cannot be recovered. Ourscheme is a computational secure. The proposed scheme requires a share for each participant and the shareis as long as each secret. Our scheme has high efficiency by comparing with the state-of-the-art hierarchicalsecret sharing schemes.
Ontological Realism and the Later Wittgenstein
Authors: Humphries Carl ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

If Wittgenstein’s later writings have implications for ontological investigations, they would appear to center on the thought that metaphysical claims, along with ontological commitments more broadly conceived, are problematically distanced from our everyday activities of language use and the contexts these involve. If they are taken in this way, it can seem natural to view them as furnishing a basis for thinking that ontological realism, at least when construed as metaphysically motivated, can be ruled out on linguistic-conceptual and/or ethical grounds as incompatible with how language figures in our lives. This paper argues against such a conclusion by claiming that on each of the currently prevalent approaches to interpreting Wittgenstein’s later thought, if we construe him as essentially an anti-dogmatic thinker, then we cannot draw such implications from his work without uncharitably attributing to him an internally inconsistent stance—one involving some sort of dogmatic commitment itself.
Kafka's Angel
Authors: Powell Matthew T. ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

In June 1914, Franz Kafka found himself overwhelmed by his life. Struggling personally, professionally, and artistically he sat one night to compose a story in his diary of a man confronted by the Divine, In this story, never published outside of his diary, Kafka sought to measure the distance between God and the individual in a post-traditional world. The result was the story of an aborted mystical experence in which Kafka defined the post-traditional existential experience in terms of failure. In so doing, Kafka also defined the post-modern existential condition in terms of the overwhelming distance the individual feels from God.
The Flesh Made Word
Authors: Tilghman Carolyn M. ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

Luce Irigaray's concept of the "sensible transcendental" is a term that paradoxically fuses mind with body while, at the same time, maintaining the tension of adjacent but separate concepts, thereby providing a fruitful locus for changes to the symbolic order. It provides this locus by challenging the monolithic philosophical discourses of the "Same" which, according to Irigaray, have dominated western civilization since Plato. As such, the sensible transcendental refuses the logic that demands the opposed hierarchal dichotomies between time and space, form and matter, mind and body, self and other, and man and woman, which currently organize western civilization's discursive foundations. Instead, it provides a useful means for helping women to feel at home in their bodies, and it signifies the implementation of an ethical praxis based on the acknowledgment of sexual difference. Such a praxis demands philosophical, theological, juridical, and scientific accountability for systemic sexism and, in its acknowledgment and validation of the alterity of sexual difference, it respects life in its various forms and its vital relationship with biological and physical environments.
The Enigma of the Will
Authors: Roche G.T. ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

Scholars have traditionally taken the Marquis de Sade to he a straightforward advocate of immoral hedonism. Without rejecting outright this view, I argue that Sade also presents a theory of the psychology of pleasure, placing him amongst the more insightful psychological thinkers of the late 18th century. This paper outlines Sades description of the immoral will, in particular his account of how an agent can come to enjoy the humiliation, torture and murder of others. I argue for thefollowing claims: firstly, that Sade, perhaps despite himself, suggests that the sadistic will is pathological; secondly, that Sade's work gives a far less flattering view of the sadistic will than is commonly supposed.
A Duel with Fernando de Rojas
Authors: Baker Susan ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

In 1971, Picasso pulled sixty-six out of 347etchings first executed in 1968 for an edition of Spanish writer Rojas's Celestina. While the complete group of prints, known as the Suite 347, has been discussed in the context of Picasso's late work, few have considered how the location of the sixty-six prints in Rojas's text affects their reading. Understanding where Picasso actually inserted the prints into the text sheds light on the play between narrative and image that Picasso intended when binding his etchings with the Rojas story. Considering the prints as part of a book provides a more complete context for understanding the imagery revealing them to be depictions done to rival Rojas's own narrative strategies.
Bataille on Lascaux and the Origins of Art
Authors: White Richard ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

Batailles hook Lascaux has not received much scholarly attention. This essay attempts to fill in a gap in the literature by explicating Bataille's scholarship on Lascaux to his body of writing as a whole—an exercise that, arguably, demonstrates the significance of the book and, consequently, the shortsightedness of its neglect by critics who have not traditionally grasped the relevance of the text for illuminating Bataille's theory of art and transgression
Technology and Society
Authors: Simons Massimiliano , Kelchtermans Mauritz , Lauwaert Lode ,   DePaul University
Published: June 2021

It is commonly accepted that technology and society have always been intertwined. The question is rather how we should understand that relation. This introduction to the special issue ‘Technology and Society’ gives a brief overview of the history of the questions related to this intertwinement. The special issue consists of six essays, emanating from presentations at the 2019 conference on Technology and Society at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. It was organized by the Working Group on Philosophy of Technology (WGPT), whose aim is to promote philosophy of technology at the KU Leuven, but also more broadly in Belgium.
Anti-colonial Middle Eastern and North African Thought
Authors: Harfouch John ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: June 2021

I argue that while recognition is important for Middle Eastern and North African philosophers in academia and society, recognition alone should not define the anti-colonial movement. BDS provides a better model of engagement because it constructs identities in order to bring about material changes in the academy and beyond. In the first part of the essay, I catalog how MENA thought traditions have been and continue to be suppressed within the academy and philosophy in particular. I then sketch one possible path to better representation in philosophy by reading Fayez Sayegh’s analyses of Zionist colonialism and Palestinian non-being. In the second half of the essay, I argue that BDS is among the premier anti-colonial movements on American campuses today because it is a materialist anti-racist movement. Insofar as that movement is often shunned and prohibited, an anti-colonial society offers a membership in exile.
Global Britain in a competitive age: strategy and the Integrated Review
Authors: Strachan Hew
Published: June 2021

Since 2010, the UK government has conducted a strategic review at five-yearly intervals, a pattern which it has maintained, at least formally, despite the strategically destabilising effects of Brexit and the Trump administration. Accordingly, on 26 February 2020 the Prime Minister announced the next iteration, albeit one which would he maintained go �beyond the parameters of a traditional review�. COVID-19 understandably delayed the publication of the Integrated Review until March 2021. This article examines the results, using the prism of strategy to examine the review�s coherence. Global Britain in a Competitive Age is as aspirational as its original ambition suggested it should be, but is light on specific policies and their delivery. The accompanying publications from the Ministry of Defence contain more substance, but their implications are not sufficiently aligned with either foreign policy or the possible eventuality of armed conflict, nor do they allow for capabilities commensurate with the scale of the task which �Global Britain� anticipates.
Performing temporal processes
Authors: Redhead Lauren , Zaldua Alistair , Gisby Steve , Stone Sophie
Published: June 2021

This article explores the way that the performance of temporal processes in recent contemporary music reveals something about the nature of musical time. Process music deals with time as a part of its material, offering the opportunity to experience time as time: the expression and experience of units of time that are defined by, and enclose, processes, in works whose forms are defined by their durations. This experience of musical time has been described by Kramer as 'vertical time' (1981/1988): the extended perception of a single moment. Such an experience can be identified in Gisby's Iterative Music (2012-) and Zaldua's Foreign Languages (2013-17). The moment-to-moment sonic details of the works are undefined and are discoverable only as they unfold, highlighting the unpredictability of sometimes highly prescriptive music. Bergson's (1889;1910) Time and Free Will outlines the distinction between time as units of duration and 'real duration', which is the experience of time passing in the present. In the latter case, "several conscious states are organized into a whole, permeate one another, gradually gain a richer content" (1910, 122). The duration of Spahlinger's Eigenzeit from Vorslage (1992-93) is determined by its processes, which are undetermined until they are enacted. Stone furthers this in As sure as time... (2016-) by imagining each performance as a unit of duration in a theoretical meta-performance. These pieces show how the performance of the temporal process makes concrete the quantitative nature of duration and shifts the focus of the listener to vertical time.
Was Mokranjac the first Serbian ethnomusicologist?
Authors: Golemović Dimitrije
Published: June 2021

The question posed in the title of this article stems from the widespread belief that on account of his work in collecting folk melodies for his Rukoveti (Rukoveti; Garlands), Stevan St. Mokranjac (Stevan St. Mokranjac) gained a place among Serbian ethnomusicologists; since ethnomusicology is still a young field in Serbia, the author puts even more emphasis on that belief by asking whether Mokranjac was Serbia's first "real" ethnomusicologist. After establishing clear criteria that define an ethnomusicologist as a scholar, including, above all, fieldwork, transcription, analysis, etc., and studying Mokranjac as well as other cultural workers (Vuk St. Karadžić and Vladimir Karić), as well as Mokranjac's successors (Vladimir Đorđević, Miloje Milojević, Miodrag A. Vasiljević, and D. Dević), the article concludes that the first Serbian ethnomusicologist was in fact Dr. Dragoslav Dević (Dragoslav Dević). This ethnomusicologist and long-time professor at the Music Academy (today the Faculty of Music) in Belgrade is a true example of a scholar-ethnomusicologist who engaged in multiple activities that, in addition to those mentioned above, also included the tonometry of the folk-music material he collected, as well as something that his predecessors lacked - paying due attention to the living context of that music, especially the rituals and customs. Furthermore, Dević paid ample attention to traditional music instruments, shedding light on many of them from the aspect of their main features and thus leaving valuable recordings of their existence and function in Serbian traditional music practice (works on the bagpipes, ocarina, cevara (cevara), rikalo (rikalo, shepherds' trumpet), as well as on various instrumental ensembles).
Temporality and movement in the composition of 'Toba' by Branka Popović
Authors: Teparić Srđan
Published: June 2021

The composition Toba for Symphony Orchestra by Branka Popović, according to the composer's own words, is a piece that "invokes the movement and energy of volcanic activity (...)". Over time it develops as a directed movement, with the reproduction and reduction of texture content. Such a shift of different intensities realised on a kinetic and colorful plane, leads to the constant flickering of the sections and to the creation of a kind of rhythmic texture that retains the melodic and harmonic musical properties. The movement through music time is always accomplished in the same way: a strong impulse of prolongation leads to an intensified texture movement and accumulation of energy that is released in one instant. Such a concept is disrupted at the moment of the intrusion of a contrasting section in which a circular motion occurs that is caused by the appearance of repetition. Not only will the specifics concerning the perception of music time be considered in this composition, when discussing the principle of the construction of temporality and movement. The time flow of the stylistic references of the work neutralised by the appearance of the texture itself indicates the authenticity and the specific stylistic determination of this composition.
Analytical observations of 'Duality in Time' by James (Jim) C. Scully
Authors: Schüler Nico
Published: June 2021

This paper offers an analysis of Duality in Time for flute and violoncello by Californian composer James (Jim) C. Scully (b. 1972), which was composed for a composition competition in 2009, for the which the composer had 60 minutes to write the piece and the performers 60 minutes to rehearse it. The analytical observations focus primarily on melody/motives, pitch collections, vertical sonorities/harmony, rhythm, form, texture, and instrumentation. The paper includes an analytical score of the composition.
Teleological strategies in 'Octandre' by Edgard Varèse
Authors: Ilišević Tijana
Published: June 2021

The objective of this work is the discovery and analysis of teleological strategies, i.e. the ways in which music that is not tonal-oriented finds points of orientation, how it is structured around them and directed towards them as formal supports. A modernist composition Octandre by Edgar Varèse which is composed of seven wind instruments and double-bass will serve as an analytical sample. An important element of the composition is the use of sound masses as basic building units, whose expressive meaning is within the general character of the sound, and not in the concrete melodic content. Seemingly, the relevance of individual pitches is minimized, which could indicate the possible statics and absence of goal-oriented movement. However, the analysis has discovered an orientation towards certain goals, as well as the crucial importance of parameters of pitches during the process of their realisation. By tracking these processes, as well as by analyzing the sets from which the sound masses of the work are built, it will be concluded that the analyzed work rests upon advisedly elaborated compositional strategies that make its course targeted.
Improvising (with) sounds: A sonic postcard from Belgrade
Authors: Cobussen Marcel
Published: June 2021

This impressionistic essay is indeed an attempt to record the thoughts I developed on improvisation while visiting different places in Belgrade, meeting various musicians who are living in this city, and reflecting on a few texts dealing with musical improvisation. In seven short meditations, seven "stops", I criticize the anthropocentric discourse around improvisation, formulate ideas about improvisation that try to overcome dichotomous constructions, and trace improvisational structures in sound art, rock music, contemporary composed music, and everyday listening.
Noise in inner silence by Miloš Zatkalik: The place where composition, theory and analysis become one
Authors: Ilić Ivana
Published: June 2021

In this text the composition Noise in Inner Silence by Miloš Zatkalik is discussed from the viewpoint of transformation which, influenced by the composer's theoretical work, took place in his creative output approximately during the last ten years. The creative process and the theoretical work are viewed as two equal, parallel and mutually permeated domains, and the relationship between their products as two-way: the writings are a metalanguage of the musical work, whereas the work itself reconsiders and complements, in a critical and a creative way, the theory that lies in its basis. The analytical emphasis is on large-scale goal-oriented processes in the musical flow.
Harmonic language as a generator of mediation between contrasting meanings in the post-tonal context
Authors: Sabo Atila
Published: June 2021

This paper examines the influence of harmonic language on the narrative processes in post-tonal music. The main assumption is that the phenomenon of mediation, expounded on by David Lidov on the examples of music of Classicism and Romanticism, is quite similarly manifested when the major-minor system is suspended. Mediation, according to Lidov, implies cancelling opposition or blurring opposed semantic categories, which can be achieved by various music means. In music that emerged after the suspension of tonality, especially in authors who have not opted exclusively for either of the two opposed ways of harmonic thinking, the tonal or the atonal, harmonic language remains a significant factor in generating narratives. They play a key role in forming transitional categories between contrasting meanings within a binary opposition, that is to say, in emphasising the process of mediation. Departing from these views, the paper analyses the role of specific manifestations of the tonal vertical in forming meaning in the second movement of Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta by Béla Bartók (1881-1945).
Moderate modernism as the third way in the opus of Alfredo Casella
Authors: Spaić Maša
Published: June 2021

The work of an artist is related to society, politics, and ideology, which are important aspects of the context in which the work of art is created. The multi-layered relationship between art/music and society/politics can especially be seen when we consider neoclassicism, which was for decades after the Second World War in literature defined as a stylistic movement in the service of the ruling (totalitarian) regimes. Consequently, authors of neoclassical works were criticised for returning to tradition and order, and their works for reducing expressive means. Among them, the name of Italian composer Alfredo Casella stands out, whose works were criticised because of their alleged coherence with the aesthetic requirements of the regime. Starting from the hypothesis that neoclassicism is a modernist movement, I will examine the third period of Casella's work in the context of moderate modernism, as a third way between the aesthetic requirements of the regime and modernistic expression that was characteristic of the composers' earlier period.
Musicological discourse of Vesna Mikić (1967-2019): Characteristics, effects, and achievements
Authors: Leković Biljana
Published: June 2021

The aim of this paper is to gain an insight into the entire musicological discourse of Vesna Mikic, to offer its systematization, or, in other words, to shed light on her use of scientific and research procedures, methods and contributions. By analyzing her texts, I will try to define the development train of her musicological thought. Furthermore, I will emphasize the key characteristics regarding her field of research, and the mechanisms they are founded upon. I will also try to define the thematic fields she analyzed, thus demonstrating the valuable achievements of her work.
The anatomy of voice: Two views on the exhibition post-opera ('Tent' Gallery and 'V2_Lab for the Unstable Media', Rotterdam, April 19 - June 30 and May 3-26 2019)
Authors: Ilić Ivana , Nenić Iva
Published: June 2021

In this paper we discuss the exhibition Post-Opera, a complex and provocative curatorial project by Kris Dittel and Jelena Novak, in which the changeable relations between the voice and the (human) body are investigated from the creative and the theoretical perspectives, relying on juxtaposing and reflection between visual arts, technology and opera. Firstly, in the paper we examine the curatorial procedure, in its shift from the mediatory function between the work and the audience towards the practice, which intervenes in both of these domains and results in an exhibition as an autonomous art object. In the second part we interpret the politics and the effectiveness of the singing and the speaking voice in contemporary art and culture, while in the third part we write about the resemantization of the relation between the singing body and the sung voice within 'installing the operatic'.
The improvement of collaborative networks to increase small and medium enterprises (SMEs) performance
Authors: Mulyana Mulyana , Wasitowati Wasitowati
Published: June 2021

This study aims to examine the effect of collaborative networks on business performance. This study tries to find a collaborative network format that can improve business performance. The respondents in this study were 295 owners of the fashion sector SMEs in Central Java, Indonesia. Data analysis used the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The results showed that collaborative networks (CN) significantly influence innovation capability (IC), competitive advantage (CA), and business performance (BP). Furthermore, the capability of innovation and competitive advantage also significantly influence business performance. Innovation capabilities and competitive advantages can mediate the relationship between collaborative networks and business performance.
Financial situation and challenges for management of SME hospitals: Evidence from Poland
Authors: Szewieczek Aleksandra
Published: June 2021

The hospital represents a specific organisation, operating in a turbulent environment and financed to a large extent by public funds. The health sector is exposed to constant political and social pressure. This causes significant problems with maintaining its financial stability, which particularly affects hospitals in the SME sector. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between selected financial indicators and some environmental phenomena that affect the financial situation and future financial stability of a selected group of hospitals from the SME group. The results will also be compared to the situation of other SME entities. The research is based on descriptive analysis, descriptive statistics, and correlation analysis of selected data. The results indicate that the financial situation of hospitals belonging to the SME group differs significantly from the overall SME sector, and does not bode positively for their future development. The current financial situation presents particular challenges for managers in balancing financial streams and ensuring economic sustainability. At the same time, this situation should encourage decision-makers to ensure an adequate level of revenues for these public service providers, as well as face other challenges related to operational management.
The influence of organizational culture on supply chain integration
Authors: Aćimović Slobodan , Mijušković Veljko , Todorović-Spasenić Ana
Published: June 2021

A team of employees that strives for the realization of a common goal is what every company needs, and the success of business depends on the way of functioning and thinking of that team. The organizational culture shapes the way employees think, react and behave. The business practice of companies in the Republic of Serbia has shown that the organizational culture oriented to employees, action and challenges is an important determinant of improving all business performance indicators, including the supply chain integration, which is the main topic of analysis within this paper. The dimensions of organizational culture affect internal integration, integration with customers and integration with suppliers, determining the generation of the key goal of supply chain management which refers to the delivery of the right product, at the right place, at the right time and at reasonable costs.
Gastroenterocardiology: Or what do the gut and the heart have in common?
Authors: Joksimović Zoran , Bastać Dušan , Pavlović Snežana
Published: June 2021

The gut microbiota of our organism is a community of bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses and parasites that make up a unique ecosystem in the digestive tract, which consists of about 1014 microorganisms. The diversity of this community between individuals occurs because of the differences in the host genome and the impact of environmental factors, including hygiene, diet, lifestyle and the use of different drugs. Significant evidence suggests that changes in the microbiota could play a role in cardiovascular diseases. The results of research papers for the last two decades have confirmed that altered gut microbiota composition (dysbiosis) contributes to the development of various diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, chronic inflammatory bowel disease and even certain types of cancer. There is growing evidence that in the future, apart from current predisposing factors for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, including genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors, one should count on new risk factors such as nutritional disproportion and gut dysbiosis. Thus, we look upon the relationship between the gastrointestinal tract and cardiovascular system, i.e. the "gut-heart axis" in a new way.
Educação não-formal online em Design
Authors: Gomes Rafael Peduzzi , Ribeiro Vinicius Gadis , Silveira Sidnei Renato
Published: June 2021

A Educação online tem despontado, na atualidade, como uma alternativa à educação formal. Com o apoio das Tecnologias Digitais da Informação e da Comunicação, pode-se estudar utilizando diferentes dispositivos acerca de diversas ferramentas, técnicas e softwares, o que tem se popularizado ainda mais na área do Design. Neste contexto, o objetivo do presente estudo é o de realizar uma análise conceitual quantitativa de uma base de dados de 603 cursos de Design Gráfico da plataforma Udemy, a qual oferece cursos online em diversos temas. São abordados um perfil geral dos cursos, seus níveis e outras variáveis a partir de estatística descritiva. Como resultados, notou-se a predominância de cursos relacionados a ferramentas e de cursos para todos os níveis ou iniciantes. A partir da análise quantitativa, são traçadas reflexões acerca da Educação em Design e da Pesquisa em Design como previamente estabelecidas, frente a um possível novo paradigma educacional que ganha relevância nos últimos anos: o da educação não-formal.
Le nouveau cadre institutionnel de la négociation collective dans le secteur municipal au Québec : un examen détaillé
Authors: Delorme François , Lecourt Roger
Published: June 2021

En 2016, l’Assemblée nationale du Québec adoptait un nouveau régime de négociation collective et de règlement des différends pour le secteur municipal. La Loi concernant le régime de négociation des conventions collectives et de règlement des différends dans le secteur municipal peut être qualifiée d’exceptionnelle dans la mesure où elle rompt avec les règles régissant les rapports collectifs du travail dans ce secteur qui, depuis 1964, étaient partie intégrante du Code du travail. Le nouveau régime modifie de manière significative le mode de nomination des arbitres appelés à trancher les différends entre les employeurs municipaux et les syndicats de salariés, particulièrement ceux qui représentent des policiers et des pompiers, ainsi que les principes directeurs qui guident la détermination des conditions de travail pour toutes les catégories de salariés. De plus, ce régime introduit plusieurs critères décisionnels qui limitent la marge discrétionnaire des tiers décideurs. Les auteurs analysent les conséquences de ces particularités par rapport au cadre général établi par le Code, ce qui donne lieu à un regard critique sur les outils de médiation et d’arbitrage mis à la disposition des parties pour les aider à régler leurs litiges de même qu’à une réflexion sur la politique législative du travail.
Le Canada devant ses principes constitutionnels sous-jacents en temps de crise : regards sur la gestion de la COVID-19
Authors: Guénette Dave , Mathieu Félix
Published: June 2021

La pandémie de COVID-19 a engendré des bouleversements majeurs dans de nombreux pays. Or, en temps de crise, il est probable que certaines normes juridiques encadrant le fonctionnement d’une société, de même que les idéaux qui la guident, soient court-circuitées pour répondre à des impératifs plus pressants. C’est notamment ce qu’avait théorisé Kenneth C. Wheare dans son ouvrage phare Federal Government. Fondée sur une logique hypothético-déductive, la présente étude se propose de mesurer l’incidence de la COVID-19 sur la gouvernance au Canada au plus fort de la « première vague » de la pandémie. Concrètement, les auteurs testent l’hypothèse suivante : en temps de crise, les modalités exceptionnelles en fonction desquelles la gouvernance est réorganisée pour un temps donné mettent à mal les principes fondamentaux qui sont censés animer un système politique fédéral. À travers le prisme d’analyse du Renvoi relatif à la sécession du Québec, les auteurs montrent que la gouvernance au Canada, au cours de la première vague de la pandémie de COVID-19, a eu des répercussions différenciées sur les principes constitutionnels sous-jacents du fédéralisme, de la démocratie, du constitutionnalisme et de la primauté du droit, ainsi que de la protection des minorités.
L’arrêt Vavilov : à la recherche de l’équilibre perdu entre la primauté du droit et la suprématie législative
Authors: Popescu Monica
Published: June 2021

Rendu en décembre 2019, l’arrêt Canada (Ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l’Immigration) c. Vavilov établit le cadre d’analyse contemporain en matière de contrôle judiciaire d’une décision administrative sur le fond. La Cour suprême du Canada exprime à cette occasion le souhait de rendre ce domaine du droit plus certain et plus cohérent. Le présent article s’intéresse à l’aptitude de la nouvelle approche à atteindre cet objectif. L’analyse part du constat que l’instabilité qui caractérise historiquement le droit du contrôle judiciaire est liée à l’incapacité des approches précédentes à guider de manière appropriée les cours de révision dans la réalisation de leur mission de recherche de l’équilibre entre la primauté du droit et la suprématie législative. À la lumière de la jurisprudence antérieure, l’auteure conclut que l’arrêt Vavilov permet d’espérer davantage de certitude sur le plan de la détermination de la norme de contrôle applicable, mais que le risque d’instabilité subsiste en matière d’application de la norme de la décision raisonnable. En effet, bien que les indications de la Cour suprême à cet égard témoignent généralement du souci d’apaiser la tension sous-jacente à la relation entre les principes de la primauté du droit et de la suprématie législative, certaines affirmations des juges majoritaires, selon lesquelles des dispositions législatives « touchant à la portée du pouvoir d’un décideur » peuvent ne comporter qu’une seule interprétation, risquent d’affaiblir l’autodiscipline des cours de révision sur laquelle repose la déférence judiciaire.
Packaging materials and articles for food: legislation and codes of good manufacturing practice
Authors: Porjazoska Kujundziski Aleksandra , Chamovska Dragica
Published: June 2021

The basic objectives of food packaging materials are to provide safety and to pre- vent physical damage of the product, to retain or improve sensory characteristics, to offer a pleasing appearance, to be functional, to facilitate distribution, to give dimensional stability, but also to be compatible with the requirements regulated by the law. Consumers’ demands for an extended shelf life of the product, as well as increased competition in the packaging industry, foster the need for continuous growth and application of innovative solutions for food packaging. While the tradi- tional packaging acts as a passive barrier toward atmospheric effects, the innovative packaging systems offer “active” interactions with the foodstuff, providing increased shelf life and improved quality of the product. The selection of the appropriate pack- aging material is influenced by many factors, and, among many packaging materi- als offered on the market, polymer materials and articles have a significant place. On the other hand, some interactions occur 0 between the plastics and the food in contact. The migration of the low-molecular-weight components from the polymer packaging to the packed food is emphasized when the so-called active and intelli- gent systems are used. Therefore, all the issues related to the packaging materials for food and the substances used as part of the packaging systems, are elaborated in the directives and regulations of the materials and articles intended to come in contact with the food.