bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Multidisciplinary Cancer Care With a Patient and Physician Satisfaction Focus
Authors: Litton Gregory , Kane Dianne , Clay Gina , Kruger Patricia , Belnap Thomas , Parkinson Brett
Published: November 2010

If implemented appropriately, multidisciplinary clinics can enhance quality of care and increase downstream revenue. The multidisciplinary clinic at Intermountain Healthcare has greatly improved the cancer care process for patients, physicians, and the community.
Implementing a Multidisciplinary Open-Access Clinic at a Private Practice–Based Community Hospital
Authors: Jury Robert P. , Nadeau Laura , Wasvary Harry , Levine Rebecca , Robertson John
Published: November 2010

With the acquisition of emerging technologies in the treatment of primary and metastatic hepatic malignancy by interventional radiology, a multidisciplinary tumor board was created by the authors to improve treatment planning for these diseases.
Pharmacist-Led, Interdisciplinary Model for Delivery of Supportive Care in the Ambulatory Cancer Clinic Setting
Authors: Valgus John , Jarr Sandra , Schwartz Robert , Rice Michelle , Bernard Stephen A.
Published: November 2010

The Supportive Care Consult Service and Clinic at the University of North Carolina Hospitals uses an innovative, pharmacist-led interdisciplinary model for delivery of outpatient care to patients with cancer.
Employment of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in Breast Cancer Care
Authors: Friese Christopher R. , Hawley Sarah T. , Griggs Jennifer J. , Jagsi Reshma , Graff John , Hamilton Ann S. , Janz Nancy K. , Katz Steven J.
Published: November 2010

This study found that nurse practitioner and physician assistant employment is higher with newer physicians and in more heavily resourced practices. Employment of nurse practitioners and physician assistants is relatively modest, which suggests an opportunity for physicians to employ these providers to alleviate workloads.
Systemic Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Patterns of Chemotherapy and Biologic Therapy Use in US Medical Oncology Practice
Authors: Hess Gregory P. , Wang Peter Feng , Quach David , Barber Beth , Zhao Zhongyun
Published: November 2010

The optimal combination and sequencing of new chemotherapies and biologic agents in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer are yet to be determined. This study examined the extent and pattern of use by line of treatment.
Multidisciplinary Care in the Oncology Setting: Historical Perspective and Data From Lung and Gynecology Multidisciplinary Clinics
Authors: Horvath Laura Elise , Yordan Edgardo , Malhotra Deepak , Leyva Ileana , Bortel Katy , Schalk Denise , Mellinger Patricia , Huml Marianne , Kesslering Christy , Huml Jeffrey
Published: November 2010

The authors show in their young multidisciplinary program that time from referral to evaluation, evaluation by appropriate specialists, satisfaction scoring and accessibility to clinic trials all were affected favorably by the development of two multidisciplinary clinics.
Management of Unexplained Symptoms in Survivors of Cancer
Authors: Feuerstein Michael , Bruns Gina L. , Pollman Courtney , Todd Briana L.
Published: November 2010

When survivors of cancer present with persistent symptoms after cancer diagnosis and treatment, the symptoms can affect the survivor's function and well being, even if “unexplained.”
Multidisciplinary Cancer Care: Development of an Infectious Diseases Physician Assistant Workforce at a Comprehensive Cancer Center
Authors: White Candice N. , Borchardt Roy A. , Mabry Mary L. , Smith Kathleen M. , Mulanovich Victor E. , Rolston Kenneth V.
Published: November 2010

The authors outline the process through which the infectious diseases department at The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center successfully integrated physician assistants into patient care services, as judged by an overall increase in departmental productivity, broadened patient care coverage, and physician satisfaction with midlevel services.
Multidisciplinary Cancer Care in a Community Hospital Setting: Challenges and Rewards
Authors: Hammond Denis B.
Published: November 2010

The patient diagnosed with cancer often gets only a glimpse of the people making life and death decisions for him or her. To improve patient care, physicians have tried to bring together the members of this care team in the form of multidisciplinary clinics.
Models of Multidisciplinary Cancer Care: Physician and Patient Perceptions in a Comprehensive Cancer Center
Authors: Bunnell Craig A. , Weingart Saul N. , Swanson Scott , Mamon Harvey J. , Shulman Lawrence N.
Published: November 2010

Models of multidisciplinary care vary among disease centers but seem to cluster around two primary models: sequential and concurrent.
Expanding Practice to Provide Integrated Cancer Care
Authors: Gesme Dean H. , Wiseman Marian
Published: November 2010

Specialists involved in cancer care are considering integrating their practices or have already done so. What's involved in forming a multispecialty practice? Could it work for you?
Implementing Clinical Trials: A Review of the Attributes of Exemplary Clinical Trial Sites
Authors: Baer Allison R. , Cohen Gary , Smith Dee Anna , Zon Robin
Published: November 2010

In this two-part series, members of the Exemplary Attributes Working Group outline in detail the seven attributes of exemplary clinical trial sites, as described in the ASCO Statement.
Reconsidering the Last Part of Orlando Furioso: Romance to the Bitter End
Authors: Javitch Daniel
Published: November 2010

This essay challenges the view that the last part of Orlando furioso takes an “epic” turn and abandons many of the “romance” features that characterize its first half. The essay does so by considering (1) the anachronism of projecting onto the Furioso a desire on Ariosto's part to upgrade the romance with which he began to an epic poem, given that the differences between romance and epic that modern critics claim are at work in Orlando furioso did not come to the fore as issues in Italian poetics until about fifty years after the poem's first composition; and (2) the persistence of romanzo matter and structure in the poem's last nine cantos. Modern interpreters who maintain that the Furioso becomes more epic in its last segment cite as evidence the more frequent imitation of the Aeneid, but in fact Ariosto modifies the Virgilian matter he grafts into his narrative to fit the language and ethos of chivalric romance.
When Dorothy Became History: L. Frank Baum's Enduring Fantasy of Cosmopolitan Nostalgia
Authors: Funchion John
Published: November 2010

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), L. Frank Baum imagines Dorothy's nostalgia for Kansas as a desire that compels her to develop a cosmopolitan ethics only as a means of returning home. But this psychic fantasy of cosmopolitan nostalgia inevitably compromises her engagement with strangers, transforming her ethics into an illiberal form of internationalist expansionism. By entwining these incompatible phenomena, Baum creates a lasting metaphor for U.S. foreign policy: Dorothy as the reluctant traveler who selflessly intervenes in the affairs of strangers with the intention of returning home instead of remaining abroad.
1,3,2,4-Diazadiphosphetidines as Ligand and Base for Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura, Sonogashira–Hagihara, and Homocoupling Reactions of Aryl Halides under Heterogeneous Conditions in Water
Authors: Iranpoor Nasser , Firouzabadi Habib , Tarassoli Abbas , Fereidoonnezhad Masood
Published: November 2010

1,3,2,4-Diazadiphosphetidines as easily prepared, cheap, and air-stable P(III) containing ligands are successfully used for the efficient C–C bond formation via Suzuki–Miyaura, Sonogashira–Hagihara, and homocoupling reactions of aryl iodides, bromides, and chlorides. The reactions occur heterogeneously in refluxing water and the nitrogen atoms in these ligands behave as base to exclude the need to add internally base. The ligand together with its Pd(0) complex is easily separated by filtration and reused for several runs.
Tailoring Material Properties through Defect Engineering
Authors: Tuller Harry L , Bishop Sean R
Published: November 2010

Many advanced materials today derive their function from precise control of point defects. Through manipulation of point defects, the electrical, optical, mechanical, and other properties of materials can be systematically modified and optimized. This feature paper illustrates the type of progress that has been made in understanding the often complex equilibria exhibited by many materials and shows, by use of examples, how this knowledge can be applied to tailor materials’ properties through defect engineering. Examples which highlight key points of defect engineering include: dark conductivity of radiation detectors, chemomechanics and nanoionics of solid oxide fuel cell materials, sensitivity of high frequency resonators for high-temperature mass measurements, and emission lifetime and luminescence intensity of phosphor materials.
Silicalite Pervaporation Membrane Exhibiting a Separation Factor of over 400 for Butanol
Authors: Negishi Hideyuki , Sakaki Keiji , Ikegami Toru
Published: November 2010

Bio-butanol is expected to be useful as a liquid fuel because the energy density of butanol is higher than that of ethanol. We developed a separation membrane that yielded an butanol concentration of 81.8 wt % from 1 wt % butanol solution by a pervaporation method. The membrane is a silicone-rubber-coated silicalite on a porous support tube. The butanol concentration process will be simplified greatly by the development of this membrane. Refining the butanol from 1 wt % butanol solution takes 13% of the amount of energy yielded by the butanol.
Robust Hole Transport in a Thienothiophene Derivative toward Low-cost Electronics
Authors: Oku Shinya , Takamiya Kazuhiro , Adachi Daisuke , Ishikawa Shuhei , Nagamatsu Shuichi , Takashima Wataru , Hayase Shuzi , Kaneto Keiichi
Published: November 2010

A new p-type organic semiconductor, bis(hexylthiophenyl)thienothiophene, was synthesized and evaluated for its transport characteristics. A robust hole transport was observed even on bare SiO2/Si and on flexible substrates under dark–air conditions. The discovered characteristics reduce the surface-preparation necessary for device fabrication for low-cost electronics.
Catalytic Beckmann Rearrangement of Cyclododecanone Oxime
Authors: Sato Satoshi , Hoshino Hideaki , Sugimoto Tsunemi , Kashiwagi Kohichi
Published: November 2010

The catalytic Beckmann rearrangement of cyclododecanone oxime (CDOX) was investigated in silane–nitrile–solvent systems. We have found that chlorosilanes, such as trimethylchlorosilane and tetrachlorosilane, are effective catalysts to produce ω-laurolactam (LRL) at 100 °C. Tetrachlorosilane is the most active catalyst, and hydrocarbon solvents such as cyclohexane, hexane, and decane are suitable for the system. Nitriles such as acetonitrile and benzonitrile would play an important role as a remover of silane species from the produced LRL–silane salt.
Guest Binding, Cellular Uptake, and Molecular Delivery of Water-soluble Cyclophanes Having a Pyrene Moiety
Authors: Hayashida Osamu , Eguchi Chika , Kimura Keiichiro , Oyama Yu , Nakashima Tomomi , Shioji Kosei
Published: November 2010

Cationic water-soluble cyclophane bearing a pyrene 1 was synthesized as a host for inclusion of anionic guest molecules. Cationic host 1 was found to be incorporated into human hepatoblastome HepG2 cells effectively. Moreover, 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonate (ANS) having an inherent poor cell permeability was taken up into the cells in the presence of 1 through formation of host–guest complexes.
Hybrid Inorganic–Organic Crystals Composed of Octamolybdate Isomers and Pyridinium Surfactant
Authors: Ito Takeru , Mikurube Keisuke , Abe Yukihiro , Koroki Takahisa , Saito Masaki , Iijima Jun , Naruke Haruo , Ozeki Tomoji
Published: November 2010

Hybrid inorganic–organic crystals containing α- and β-type octamolybdates (α-Mo8 and β-Mo8) were successfully prepared by using hexadecylpyridinium (C16py). Although both hybrid crystals consisted of alternate stacking patterns of monolayers of Mo8 anions and interdigitated bilayers of C16py cations, the Mo8 inorganic monolayers had different packing patterns between the hybrid C16py–α-Mo8 and C16py–β-Mo8 crystals. Each α-Mo8 was isolated by the inserted C16py cations, while β-Mo8 formed one-dimensional chains together with sodium cations.
Use of spectral pre-processing methods to compensate for the presence of packaging film in visible–near
infrared hyperspectral images of food products
Authors: Gowen A. , Downey G. , Esquerre C. , O'Donnell C.
Published: November 2010

The presence of polymeric packaging film in images of food products may modify spectra obtained in
hyperspectral imaging (HSI) experiments, leading to undesirable image artefacts which may impede image classification.
Some pre-processing of the image is typically required to reduce the presence of such artefacts. The objective of this
research was to investigate the use of spectral pre-processing techniques to compensate for the presence of packaging
film in hyperspectral images obtained in the visible–near infrared wavelength range (445–945 nm), with application in food
quality assessment. A selection of commonly used pre-processing methods, used individually and in combination, were
applied to hyperspectral images of flat homogeneous samples, imaged in the presence and absence of different packaging
films (polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene terephthalate). Effects of the selected pre-treatments on variation due to the
film’s presence were examined in principal components score space. The results show that the combination of first
derivative Savitzky–Golay followed by standard normal variate transformation was useful in reducing variations in spectral
response caused by the presence of packaging film. Compared to other methods examined, this combination has the
benefits of being computationally fast and not requiring a priori knowledge about the sample or film used.
Journal of a young man of Massachusetts
Authors: Agnew Robin
Published: November 2010

This is a shortened account of the bitter experiences of American prisoners of the British during the war of 1812–14 as seen through the eyes of a young New Englander who kept a diary of events in various prisons on both sides of the Atlantic. Resentment against the delay in release from captivity at Dartmoor prison boiled over in April 1815 and an attempt at mass escape resulted in many casualties. These were admirably dealt with by Surgeon George Magrath (1775–1857) who had been Flag Medical Officer to Nelson in the Mediterranean. His skill and humanity to the American prisoners at Dartmoor earned their deep respect.
The origins of the Francoist penitentiary system, 193648
Authors: Bravo Gutmaro Gmez
Published: November 2010

The aim of this article is to explore elements of the formation of Franco's penitentiary system in the 1940s. More specifically, three aspects regarding the policy allowing prisoners to redeem their sentences are studied: their intellectual origins, their legal influences and the idea
of conditional liberty. Although in the last few decades there has been an increase in research on repression under the Franco dictatorship following the Spanish civil war, the prison system is one aspect that has been under-studied. In this article, approaches to prison history in democracies
are examined and the peculiarities of the Spanish case highlighted.
Reviews
Authors: Lease Bryce , Cooke Jennifer , Jones Kelly , Lease Bryce , Schuitema Karian
Published: November 2010

The Applied Theatre Reader, Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston (eds), (2009) Abingdon: Routledge, 380 pp., ISBN 0415428874 (pbk), 19.99

Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence, Mark Pizzato, (2005) SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis
and Culture, Albany: State University of New York Press, 265 pp., ISBN 9780791462591 (hbk), 64.00

British Pantomime Performance, Millie Taylor, (2007) Bristol: Intellect, 208 pp., ISBN 1841501743 (pbk), 19.95

Sex on Stage: Gender and Sexuality in Post-War British
Theatre, Andrew Wyllie, (2009) Bristol: Intellect, 160 pp., ISBN 9781841502038 (pbk), 14.95

Lovefuries: The Contracting Sea; The Hanging Judge; Bite or Suck, David Ian Rabey, (2009) Bristol: Intellect Books, 96 pp., ISBN 9781841501840 (pbk), 14.95
The sexy maid in Indonesian migrant workers' activist theatre: subalternity, performance and witnessing
Authors: Lai Ming-Yan
Published: November 2010

The performances of Indonesian domestic workers in protests against the 2005 ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization included improvisatory dramas by an ad hoc theatre group of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union which countered the experiences of servitude and objectification
that were common to those workers. This article explores our responsibility as intercultural critics in receiving and interpreting these theatrical performances in terms of witnessing. Drawing on the double meaning of witnessing eyewitness testimony and bearing witness it discusses our responsibility
to simultaneously affirm the dramas as testimony to the enactment of an enabling subject position to refigure experiences of objectification, and bear witness to the subaltern silences underlying the articulation. The ethical issues of the intercultural critic as witness are examined in the
latter parts of the article.
A spectatorial dramaturgy, or the spectator enters the (ethical) frame
Authors: Keefe John
Published: November 2010

This essay attempts to raise certain issues considered as an ethos of spectatorship seeking to place the knowing experience of the spectator in relation to the stage. Six sections characterizing an ethics of recognition, looking, materiality, complicity and empathy, participation and
imagination, and attending show how these work together to construct a spectatorial dramaturgy. It is argued that such a dramaturgy is empirical, is an ethical economy of regard rooted in the material and social body in mutual and reciprocal concert; that it rests on the complicit, knowing
empathetic imagination located and manifested in the engaged but distanced spect-actor as agent who witnesses the work of the actor in the arena we call theatre. Therefore, this relationship between a presented mise-en-scne and the always-present spectator makes the spectator always active
in some way or other. An ethical spectatorial dramaturgy is the work of the actions of spectator(s) within the weave of the theatre event.
The ethics of embodiment: actor training and habitual vulnerability
Authors: Seton Mark Cariston
Published: November 2010

Students of acting and their teachers profoundly form each other and are formed by each other, through their embodied interactions, within the institutional processes of actor training. Yet this embodied formation requires appropriate and sustainable ethical training practices.
Such practices are lacking as evidenced by both the potential for and actual accounts of misuse of power by teachers over students in a highly intimate and vulnerable context of learning, exploration and risk-taking. Ethical values of respect, merit and integrity; justice and beneficence need
to be considered in discussions and policy development of teaching and learning practices in acting schools. Ethical and sustainable practices built in training will flow through to ethical and sustainable practices in actor employment.
Close proximity
Authors: Neumark Devora
Published: November 2010

The possibility for artistic practice to effectively catalyse and support wellness is a question of some urgency as more than 42 million people are currently living as refugees or internally displaced persons. This article explores resilience, the power of symbolic meaning-making and the scale of influence at the nexus of beauty and home relative to community performance.
Making Biology Teaching More “Graphic”
Authors: Taylor Mark F.
Published: November 2010

In an age of enhanced visual technology, the use of visual supplements in the classroom has become increasingly effective in conveying information about complex biological concepts. What is more, many students feel the need to “see” concepts depicted in one form or another. Over many years of teaching biology at a university, I discovered the usefulness of incorporating simple, generic graphs into lectures and assignments to show relationships between assorted variables discussed in class. Here, I show how to illustrate a relationship between two variables on a single graph and integrate relationships for multiple related variables on a series of “stacked” graphs. I also demonstrate how graphs can help make a distinction between two commonly confused concepts: negative correlation and negative feedback.
Enlightening the enlightenment: On the permanent concept crisis
Authors: Bajovic Tijana
Published: November 2010

Two hundred and twenty years after the French Revolution, the problem of
defining the concept of the Enlightenment still persists. Considering the
lack of agreement over the defining features of this movement or epoch, our
aim is to show that it has never been fully and clearly defined and
understood. The author therefore suggests making a distinction between
enlightenment (enlightening) and the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment as a
period linked to 18th century Europe, can be understood as part of a broader
process of enlightenment or enlightening. The Enlightenment should not be
viewed as a homogenous whole, an integral process, but as a (still living)
tissue, that still exerts considerable influence on Western thought and
culture. The author argues, however, that the accusations of projecting or
inventing the Enlightenment have not proved very useful, because they
interfere with our understanding of this complex phenomenon and important
movement in European history.
Negative dialectic and linguistic turn: The actuality of Adorno’s concept of the conflict nature of modern societies
Authors: Ivkovic Marjan
Published: November 2010

The author attempts at questioning Habermas? and Honneth?s claim that the
linguistic turn within Critical Theory of society represents a way out of the
?dead end? of the first generation of Frankfurt School theorists, who were
unable to formulate an action-theoretic understanding of social conflicts. By
presenting a view that Adorno, in his ?Negative dialectic?, develops an
insight into a crucial characteristic of the conflict nature of modern
societies, which eludes the lingustic-pragmatist Critical Theory, the author
tries to defend and reactualize Adorno?s perspective. The paper analyzes some
key aspects of the original idea of Critical Theory, and the ?negativistic
turn? that Adorno and Horkheimer made with the writing of ?Dialectic of
Enlightenment?. Having considered the central arguments of the ?Negative
Dialectic?, the author presents his understanding of Adorno?s concept of
social conflict, which is then being contrasted with Habermas? understanding
of social conflict, formulated in terms of a systemic colonization of the
lifeworld. Pointing out the weaknesses of Habermas? concept, the author aims
at sharpening the image of the conflict nature of modern societies that
Adorno sketches, concluding that his perspective is able to question the
framework of intersubjectivity that Habermas and Honneth take for granted.
Revolution with and without the mask
Authors: Milanko Vladan
Published: November 2010

This paper is an attempt to provide a certain ?second reading? of those
commonplaces which imply that a particular, personal interest always lies
behind the mask of objectivity, necessity and truth. As a paradigmatic
example of this kind of structure that implies ?hidden truths?, here will be
taken that of a revolution, whether it is a fascist, a liberal-democratic or
a communist revolution. By reexamining how this motif of
?truth-behind-the-mask? figures in those regimes, we will try to say
something about each of them, and also about the specific kind of subject
that is produced under them.
Context of culture: Critique of the primitive mind
Authors: Bozilovic Nikola
Published: November 2010

The author of this paper has the intention to reach the new meaning and sense
of the primitive mentality by analyzing it in early social communities. He
also wants to point out the possible reflections of the spirit and
consciousness of our ancestors on us, here and now. The first part of the
paper is dedicated to a critical deliberation on anthropological conflicts
which have arisen concerning the reasoning power of the so-called primitives.
The crucial question lies in the following: Is the difference between the
?primitive? and the ?civilized? mentality fundamental or is it possible only
to a certain degree. The author takes the notion of primitive mentality
through time and points to the medieval understandings, which are occupied by
teratological themes, then to the renaissance comprehension, which relies on
the first experiential observations, and, finally, to the enlightenment ideas
of exotic peoples out of which the myth of ?the good savage? is born. The
nineteenth and twentieth centuries introduce the notions of ?people?s
character? and ?national spirit?. The opinions are polarized, on the one hand
of ethnocentrism, carried by the prejudice of people and ethnic groups and,
on the other hand, of cultural relativism, based on the understanding and
appreciation of cultural differences. In the end, the author also recognizes
the modern primitive man, one who is not ready to deal with the challenges of
his age. The modern primitive recalls the spirits of the past, the surviving
and anachronic models of behavior, unaware of the fact that these are the
same models that he has ascribed to ?savages?. However, while such thinking
and acting was justified by the cultural level at which our ancestors had
lived, the mental frame of the contemporary primitives is significantly in
contrast with the high level of civilization development.
The society of the debacle: Triptych of the discourse of the university
Authors: Janovic Nikola
Published: November 2010

The main intention of this text is to present three inter-connected
projections of the current global crisis of the postmodern capitalism:
discursive, sociological and cultural/political. Discursive projection is
considering the crisis of the postmodern capitalism through the perspective
of the discursive paradigmatic restructuring (social link), sociological
projection is giving interpretation of the postmodern social economy paradigm
(society of knowledge), whilst the cultural/political projection is
discussing the postmodern ideological forms of everyday life (cultural
capitalism). In the last instance, all three are raising a question: Is there
any good alternative?
European standards of minority protections - from conditionality to limitation: Case of Croatia
Authors: Stankovic-Pejnovic Vesna
Published: November 2010

EU promotes norms which lack a basis in EU law and do not directly translate
into the acquis communautaire EU. Limits of EU conditionality in the area of
minority rights are visible in closer look at the EU?s monitoring mechanism,
including Regular Reports, which locate EU?s minority criterion in the
domestic political context. Reports have structure broadly follows the
Copenhagen criteria. Serious efforts are needed for achieving practical
results flowing from the implementation of the legislative framework
pertaining to minority issues. The same factors also affected the mechanisms?
ability to influence that implementation. These factors concern the
following: confusion regarding the juridical nature of the minority rights
instruments, the vagueness or flexibility in the formulation of the
standards, and unclarity as to the beneficiaries of the standards. Issue of
soft instruments, vague norms and the lack of a definition of the
beneficiaries of the norms will continue to trouble the minds of Governments,
minorities, international mechanisms. EU must undertaking efforts to sharpen
and further clarify the existing standards and to persuade Governments that
existence of minority groups can enrich a society as a whole and that
measures to preserve their specific characteristics will reduce the risks of
violent conflicts. The case of Croatia, through Regular Reports, shows
acceptation of European standards of minority protection in legal area, but
with the limits in their implementation. In these circumstances Regular
Reports describes attitude of EU toward minority issue; it is not priority of
EU in accession process, difficulties in monitoring the implementation of
minority issues and lack of precise definition norms in minority rights area.
Wissen - nihilismus – bejahung: Fichtes transzendentalphilosophischer offenbarungsbegriff
Authors: Drilo Kazimir
Published: November 2010

In dem Zeitraum zwischen 1792 und 1805 entwickelt Johann Gottlieb Fichte zwei
verschiedene Bestimmungen des Offenbarungsbegriffs: 1. Offenbarung ist eine
auf der g?ttlichen Autorit?t beruhende Lehre, mit der das sittliche Handeln
gef?rdert werden soll, 2. Offenbarung ist das Zusammenhalten des Wissens im
Sein und so die Rettung vor dem Nihilismus. In dem Beitrag wird gezeigt,
dass Fichte in seiner sp?ten Wissenschaftslehre und in st?ndiger
Auseinandersetzung mit Jacobis Kritik, Idealismus sei Nihilismus, mit dieser
letzten Bestimmung eine tragf?hige Alternative zu dem ersten, traditionellen
Offenbarungsbegriff gibt. Offenbarung, so wie Fichte sie in seiner
Sp?tphilosophie versteht, dient weder der F?rderung der Moral, noch h?lt sie
den Prozess der Selbsterkenntnis des Absoluten im Gang oder ist eine
Ent?u?erung Gottes. Der Begriff der transzendentalphilosophischen
Offenbarung hat vielmehr seine Bedeutung als der Garant der Realit?t des
Wissens. Als Beleg f?r diese These dienen die Schriften ?Versuch einer
Kritik aller Offenbarung?, ?Erlanger Wissenschaftslehre? und ?Erlanger
Logik?. Dar?ber hinaus wird auf die Interpretation der Fichte?schen
Religionsphilosophie von Emanuel Hirsch eingegangen, der Fichtes
Offenbarungsbegriff im Rahmen der theologischen Fragestellung mit dem
Gedanken der ?Bejahung? des Absoluten produktiv weiterf?hrt.
Memory of titoism: Hegemony frameworks
Authors: Kuljic Todor
Published: November 2010

The paper discusses today?s hegemony memory of titoism. The article presents
the different reductions in the actually domestic memory culture which are
connected with the demonisation and negative symbolisation of titoism. It was
broader discussed diffent myths and ideologisations, the factors of a
selective memory and a new context in the memory of titoism. Here are
outlined the privatisation and the retraditionalisation as the main factors
in the maintaing of a new frameworks for the memory of socialism and in the
negative symbolisation of titoism.
Is there a place for psychology in the framework of rational choice theory?
Authors: Mladenovic Ivan
Published: November 2010

This paper aims to discuss psychological aspect of rational choice theory.
The standard version of rational choice rests on a kind of psychology, since
it operates with mental states. In standard davidsonian version it is claimed
that we explain rational actions by stating proper desires and beliefs that
caused the action. We will explore two challenges to the standard version
that might be called cultural and naturalistic versions of rational choice.
Satz and Ferejohn (1994) challenged standard version by stating that we can
provide rational-choice explanations without relying too much on
psychological assumptions. They argued in favor of moderate externalism,
which should replace thin desire-belief model with thick structuralist
conception. According to their model moderate externalism is compatible with
realism about psychological states, while at the same time those states need
not figure in the best rational choice explanations of actions. The focus of
rational choice explanations therefore shifts to non-individual and
non-psychological entities, such as firms in explaining economic behavior,
parties in explaining functioning of democracy, etc. Although there is a
place for psychological states within a moderate externalism, those states
are not causally relevant. On Pettit?s account desires and beliefs figure in
rational choice explanations merely as ?standby causes?. They explain
resilience of certain behavior, not its actual cause. Quite contrary to
standard rational choice theory, the programming model (Pettit, 2002) defines
the neurophysiological level as more basic in explaining behavior. This means
that higher-level psychological states are causally relevant for certain
behavior only if certain lower-level neurophysiological producer obtains. In
this paper standard rational choice theory will be defended against
culturalist and naturalist criticism.
Identity paradoxes
Authors: Djuric Jelena
Published: November 2010

The article considers paradoxical nature of identity that emerges from: 1)
the very concept of identity whose abstract generality unites various and
even opposite features; 2) the processual nature of reality that is easier
to express in the poetical metaphors or abstract principles than in
unambiguous conceptual networks; 3) the oppose relationship between being
and knowledge, mind and matter, subject and object, self and personality.
Entangled in the labyrinth which evade efforts to be conceptually defined,
the modern thinking of identity moves towards abandoning the idea of ?self?
on behalf of the ?ego? and towards the misapprehension of identity as being
identical. This corresponds to the ?time of the lost spirit? stretched
between the simultaneous need to find an identity and to give it up.
Relation between personality dimensions and depressive symptoms in patients on hemodialiysis
Authors: Bugarski Vojislava , Sakac Vladimir , Vodopivec Slavenka , Slankamenac Petar
Published: November 2010

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between the presence
of depressive symptoms and certain dimensions of personality in hemodialysis
patients. The study included 93 subjects of both sexes, aged 24-78 years. All
subjects were undergoing hemodialysis treatment for terminal stage renal
insufficiency. The presence of depressive symptoms was operationally defined
by the factor scores for the first principal components on the Beck
Depression Inventory. Five personality dimensions were operationally defined
by the factor scores for the first principal components on each of the five
scales of the Big Five Inventory. The following dimensions of personality
were assessed: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and
conscientiousness. The relationship between the five dimensions of
personality and the presence of depressive symptoms was analyzed by the
multiple regression analysis. The results showed that personality dimensions
are significantly connected with the occurrence of depressive symptoms
(R=0.729; R?=0.532; F (5,87)=19.822; p=0.000). Two partial predictors were
significantly connected with depressive symptoms. They were higher degree of
neu?roticism (?=0.082, p=0.000) and a lower degree of openness (?=-0.235,
p=0.016).
Problem of creation of arteriovenous fistulae for hemodialysis in older patients
Authors: Stolic Radojica , Jovanovic Aleksandar , Trajkovic Goran , Lazarevic Tatjana , Zivic Ziva
Published: November 2010

Introduction. A significant problem in elderly on hemodialysis is vascular
access creation. The aim of the study was to determine the factors of
functionality of arteriovenous fistulas in elderly people. Material and
methods. Target groups in the four-year study were patients over 65 years of
life. The authors analyzed the demographic structure, the etiology of kidney
weakness, the type of anastomosis, arteriovenous fistula location, use of
catheters from hemodialysis, blood pressure and size of the lumen of blood
vessels used for anastomosis. Routine hematological and biochemical
parameters were determined in all subjects. The study included 120 patients,
42 (35%) women and 78 (65%) men. Results. Functional arteriovenous fistulae
were found in 62 (51.7%) patients, aged 72.5?4.23 years and nonfunctional
ones in 58 (48.3%) respondents aged 72?5.09 years. A significant difference
between the studied groups was reached in relation to the type of anastomosis
(p=0.005) and sites of the located fistulas (p=0.03). Hypertensive
nephropathy occurs statistically significantly more frequently in patients
with functional fistula (p=0.03). Sedimentation (p=0.01), hemoglobin
(p=0.04), platelets (p=0.003), total cholesterol (p=0.04) and low density
lipoproteins (p=0.03) had statistically higher values in patients with
nonfunctional fistulae. Conclusion. Atherosclerosis and increased coagulation
in the old people on hemodialysis represent an important cause of
complications of arteriovenous fistulae.
Functional hearing examinations in patients suffering from diabetes mellitus type 1 in regard to disease duration
Authors: Pudar Goran , Vlaski Ljiljana , Filipovic Danka , Tanackov Ilija
Published: November 2010

Introduction. Problems of hearing disturbances in persons suffering from
diabetes have been attracting great attention for many decades. Material and
methods. In this study we examined the auditory function of 50 patients
suffering from diabetes mellitus type 1 of different duration by analyzing
results of pure-tone audiometry and brainstem audi?tory evoked potentials.
The obtained results of measuring were compared to 30 healthy subjects from
the corresponding age and gender group. The group of diabetic patients was
divided according to the disease duration (I group 0-5 years; II group 6-10
years, III group over 10 years). Results and discussion. A statistically
significant increase of sensorineural hearing loss was found in the diabetics
according to the duration of their disease (I group = 14.09%, II group =
21.39%, III group = 104.89%). The results of the brain stem auditory evoked
potentials, the significance threshold being p=0.05 between the controls and
the diabetics at all levels of absolute latency of right and left sides, did
not show significant differences in the mean values. In the case of interwave
latencies, the diabetic patients were found to have a significant qualitative
difference of intervals I-III and I-V on both ears in the sense of internal
distribution of response. In cases of sensorineural hearing loss we found a
significant connection with prolonged latencies of I wave on the right ear
and of I and V waves on the left ear. In all probability, the cause of these
results could be found in distinctive individuality of the organism
reactions to the consequences of this disease (disturbance in the distal part
of n. cochlearis). Conclusion. The results of research have shown the
existence of a significant sensorineural hearing loss in the patients with
diabetes mellitus type 1 in accordance to the disease duration. We also found
qualitative changes of brainstem auditory evoked potentials in the diabetic
patients in comparison to the controls as well as significant quantitative
changes in regard to the presence of sensorineural hearing loss of the
patients.
Non-atherosclerotic arteriopathy as the cause of ishemic stroke among young adults
Authors: Jovicevic Mirjana , Divjak Ivana , Slankamenac Petar , Jovanovic Aleksandar , Ruzicka Svetlana , Dickov Aleksandra
Published: November 2010

The study comprised 100 ischemic stroke patients of both sexes aged 15-45
years who were treated at the Clinic of Neurology of the Clinical Center of
Vojvodina in the period January 2001 - September 2004. All study subjects
were divided into three age groups: 15-25, 26-35 and 36-45 years. Sex, age
and risk factors for cerebrovascular disease were determined in all patients.
Diagnostic procedures applied in all patients included brain computed
tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging, routine laboratory tests,
Doppler imaging of extra and endocranial blood vessels and coagulation tests.
Contrast and/or transesophageal echocardiography, immunological blood assays,
magnetic resonance angiography and/or computed tomography angiography and/or
conventional angiography, trombophilia markers, antiphospholipid antibodies
and toxicological examination, etc. were performed in selected patients.
Non-atherosclerotic arteriopathies were found in 8% of all study subjects,
and were the most frequent cause of stroke in the age group 15-25. Carotid
artery dissection was the most frequent diagnosis overall, found in 6% of all
patients. Fibromuscular dysplasia and systemic vasculitis were diagnosed in
one patient each. Moyamoya disease, Takayasu disease, infectious and isolated
vasculitis of the CNS were not found in our patients.
General calculating model of the needs for allogenic stem cell tran­splantation for the patients with leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome in Vojvodina
Authors: Vojvodic Svetlana , Popovic Stevan
Published: November 2010

Introduction. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) application
represents a treatment of choice that enables the eradication of malignant
clone and chance for remedy of the patients with hematological diseases. Only
30-40% of the potential patients for allogeneic SCT have an HLA identical
sibling, due to the fact that families in most of the developed countries are
relatively small. Material and methods. This study gives a general model for
calculating the needs for allogeneic SCT which, enables calculation of the
needs for allogeneic SCT per 1 million inhabitants of Vojvodina on basis of
number of potential patients who could be treated by allogeneic SCT. The
number of beds required for transplanted patients, and of days in hospital
per year as well as the estimation of financial aspect of allogeneic SCT,
have been calculated by means of the cummulative risk method, considering the
following parameters: the relative number of patients suffering from ANLL,
ALL, CML, CLL and MDS, 45 and 55 years old and younger, total incidence/100
000 inhabitants for each investigated disease and the average number of days
in hospital of transplanted patients. Results. Total annual needs for
allogeneic SCT for the patients suffering from ANLL, ALL, CML, CLL and MDS
together, in transplantation with stem cells from their related donors are
786 days, from the unrelated donors are 306 days, while for nonmyeloablative
transplantation with stem cells from their related donors are 558 days and
from the unrelated ones are 297 days. Conclusion. The general calculating
model of the needs for allogeneic SCT could be used as a basis for planning a
regional bone marrow donor registry and for creating a similar calculating
model of the needs for allogeneic SCT in other diseases treatable by HSCT.
Analysis of interjaw ratios in relation to permanent tooth size in subjects with class I malocclusion
Authors: Filipovic Gordana , Janosevic Mirjana , Stosic Maja
Published: November 2010

Introduction. A certain ratio of maxillary to mandibular tooth size is very
important for the proper occlusion formation. In regular occlusion, the teeth
must be proportional to size. A discrepancy in tooth size between the
mandibular and maxillary arch is usually the cause of disharmonious occlusion
ratios. One of the most widespread methods in determining of discrepancy in
tooth size between the upper and lower jaw is the Bolton analysis of
mesiodistal width of permanent teeth. Material and methods. The subjects of
both sexes with the permanent dentition and occlusive ratio of Angle Class I
classification had had the precise impressions taken on the basis of which
the study models were obtained. 60 patients were selected for this
investigation (30 males and 30 females) according to the following criteria:
the presence of completely erupted teeth of permanent dentition from the
first molar on one side to the first molar on the other side of the dental
string; good quality of the study models; the absence of mesiodistal and
occlusive abrasion, caries lesions, Class II fillings; the absence of
prosthetic or composite restoration; the absence of anomalies in regard to
shapes, structures and tooth development. We measured the mesiodistal width
of each tooth from the first molar on one side to the first molar on the
other side, from the mesial contact point to the distal contact point with
the greatest interproximal distance. Results. The obtained results for
mesiodistal tooth width of the right and left side do not show statistically
significant differences. The mean values of the Bolton anterior ratio showed
neither the sexual dimorphism nor did the mean values of the Bolton total
ratio show any differences in sexes. The mean values of the Bolton anterior
ratio in our examinees of both sexes are significantly higher compared to the
values of Bolton norms. The mean values of the Bolton total ratios in our
examinees of both sexes were not statistically different compared to the
values of Bolton norms. Conclusion. Determining of intermaxillary ratios is
an important diagnostic and prognostic value in orthodoncy since it offers a
possibility to predict the outcome of orthodontic therapy applied on persons
with tooth size discrepancy related to the upper and lower jaw.
Morphology of neurons of human subiculum proper
Authors: Stankovic-Vulovic Maja , Zivanovic-Macuzic Ivana , Sazdanovic Predrag , Jeremic Dejan , Tosevski Jovo
Published: November 2010

Subiculum proper is an archicortical structure of the subicular complex and
presents the place of origin of great majority of axons of the whole
hippocampal formation. In contrast to the hippocampus which has been
intensively studied, the data about human subiculum proper are quite scarce.
The aim of our study was to indentify morphological characteristics of
neurons of the human subiculum proper. The study was performed on 10 brains
of both genders by using Golgi impregnation and Nissl staining. The subiculum
has three layers: molecular, pyramidal and polymorphic layer. The dominant
cell type in the pyramidal layer was the pyramidal neurons, which had
pyramidal shaped soma, multiple basal dendrites and one apical dendrite. The
nonpyramidal cells were scattered among the pyramidal cells of the pyramidal
layer. The nonpyramidal cells were classified on: multipolar, bipolar and
neurons with triangular-shaped soma. The neurons of the molecular layer of
the human subiculum were divided into groups: bipolar and multipolar neurons.
The most numerous cells of the polymorphic layer were bipolar and multipolar
neurons.