bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
On the identity and rediscovery of Hedyotis beddomei Hook. f. (Rubiaceae): a lesser known endemic species of Western Ghats, India
Authors: PRABHUKUMAR KONICKAL MAMBETTA , JAGADEESAN RAVEENDRAN , AISWARYA PILATHOTTATHIL , SUNIL CHANDRASSERIL NARAYANAN , THOMAS VALUKATTIL PONNACHAN , PRASAD KOTHAREDDY , BALACHANDRAN INDIRA
Published: November 2018

Hedyotis beddomei Hook. f. (Rubiaceae ) is an endangered and little-known species, endemic to the Palghat hills in Kerala, India. The plant is known only from the type sheet collected by Beddome in 1872. It has been re-discovered from Elivalmala of Muthikulam forests, Palghat district after a lapse of 144 years. Detailed descriptions with colour photographs are provided along with its ecology and updated conservation notes.
Systematics of the Australian spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Blakistonia Hogg (Araneae: Idiopidae)
Authors: HARRISON SOPHIE E. , RIX MICHAEL G. , HARVEY MARK S. , AUSTIN ANDREW D.
Published: November 2018

A combined molecular and morphological approach was used to revise the Australian spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Blakistonia Hogg. Where possible, our molecular approach used sequence data from the COI barcoding gene, which were analysed using Bayesian, RAxML and neighbour-joining approaches. These molecular data were combined with morphology to describe and diagnose the genus, to redescribe the type (and only previously valid) species, B. aurea Hogg, 1902, and to diagnose, describe and map 19 new species: B. bassi sp. n., B. bella sp. n., B. birksi sp. n., B. carnarvon sp. n., B. emmottiorum sp. n., B. gemmelli sp. n., B. hortoni sp. n., B. mainae sp. n., B. maryae sp. n., B. newtoni sp. n., B. nullarborensis sp. n., B. olea sp. n., B. parva sp. n., B. pidax sp. n., B. plata sp. n., B. raveni sp. n., B. tariae sp. n., B. tunstilli sp. n., and B. wingellina sp. n. The genus Blakistonia is found to be distributed throughout the Australian arid and semi-arid zones, from the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia to central Queensland and western Victoria.
A taxonomic revision of the genus Sirthenea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) of the Old World
Authors: CHŁOND DOMINIK
Published: November 2018

This paper presents a taxonomic revision of 28 described species of the genus Sirthenea Spinola, 1837 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae) distributed in the Afrotropical, Oriental, Palearctic, Oceanian and Australian zoogeographical regions. The following new synonymies are proposed: Sirthenea africana Distant, 1903 = S. rapax Horváth, 1909, syn. nov. = S. leonina Horváth, 1909, syn. nov. = S. bequaerti Schouteden, 1913, syn. nov. = S. leontovitchi Schouteden, 1931, syn. nov.; Sirthenea picescens Reuter, 1887 = S. atrocyanea Horváth, 1909, syn. nov.; S. rodhaini Schouteden, 1913 = S. collarti Schouteden, 1931, syn. nov. = S. angolana Villiers, 1958, syn. nov.; S. flavipes (Stål, 1855) = S. clavata Miller, 1948, syn. nov. = S. bharati Sucheta & Chopra, 1988, syn. nov. = S. koreana Kerzhner & Lee, 1996 syn. nov. = S. melanota Cai & Lu, 1990, syn. nov. = S. nigripes Murugan & Livingstone, 1990, syn. nov.; S. obscura (Stål, 1866) = S. glabra (Walker, 1873), syn. nov. A neotype is designated for S. picescens Reuter, 1887. Three species, S. erythromelas (Walker 1873), S. fulvipennis (Walker, 1873) and S. sobria (Walker, 1873), are excluded from the genus Sirthenea. Two new species from the Oriental Region, S. kali sp. nov. (India) and S. setosa sp. nov. (Malaysia) are described. Identification keys are provided for the subgenera and species from each zoogeographical region treated. Drawings of dorsal habitus and genitalic structures, drawings and images of selected morphological characters, and distribution maps of all valid species are presented.
On the Equant Point for the Planets and the Moon
Authors: Recio Gonzalo L. , Carman Christián C.
Published: November 2018

The introduction of the equant point signified a major improvement in the history of planetary models. Thanks to its incorporation in ancient planetary hypotheses, Greek astronomy reached a higher degree of accuracy in its predictive capabilities than any of its predecessors, an accuracy that would not be surpassed until as late as the seventieth century, when Kepler postulated his laws. In the Almagest, Ptolemy explains how he arrived at the necessity of the introduction of the equant point for Venus and Mercury. There is, however, some unsolved matter surrounding the argument Ptolemy gives and most scholars dispute that his observations of Venus were in fact the empirical basis from which Ptolemy built his model. These considerations led scholars to wonder about the real path Ptolemy took to discover the equant. In this paper, we present a simple argument through which Ptolemy might have arrived to the conclusion of the existence of an equant for the models of the planets, and to his conclusion of the bisection of the equant’s eccentricity by the centre of the deferent. Moreover, we show that this same argument could have been used to solve the problems posed by the second lunar anomaly.
Scaling Up Diabetes Prevention Programs in North Carolina: Perceptions of Demand From Potential Program Recipients and Providers
Authors: Thomas Tainayah , Samuel-Hodge Carmen D. , Porterfield Deborah S. , Alva Maria L. , Leeman Jennifer
Published: November 2018

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to assess factors that influence demand for the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) from the perspectives of potential program participants and providers.

Methods

A qualitative study guided by a conceptual framework was conducted with potential DPP participants and potential DPP providers. Five focus groups with potential participants (n = 37) and key informant interviews with potential providers (n = 14) were conducted in community settings across North Carolina.

Results

Although providers considered prediabetes to be an important health problem, potential DPP participants expressed less urgency related to a diagnosis of prediabetes. Potential participants felt that they were more likely to adopt diabetes prevention programs if affordable and convenient. For potential program providers, funding, collaboration, and staff support were key considerations for DPP adoption. Providers were supportive of DPP features; however, there was concern from both stakeholders on retention in a 16-week program. Both groups cited transportation, cost, and health insurance reimbursement as existing barriers to the uptake of these programs.

Conclusion

This qualitative study highlights important considerations for scaling up diabetes prevention programs in community settings, including what constraints agencies face in adopting programs, the perceived demand and programmatic needs for these services by customers, and the need for improving patient education on prediabetes. This implementation science study allows us to increase the potential to scale up and sustain diabetes prevention programs that fit available resources and customer needs.
Personal Ties and Prejudice: A Meta-Analysis of Romantic Attachment and Ambivalent Sexism
Authors: Fisher Molly I. , Hammond Matthew D.
Published: November 2018

We examine how relational needs underlie sexism by conducting a meta-analysis ( k = 22; N = 4,860) on the links between adults’ romantic attachment and endorsement of ambivalent sexism. Results across two random-effects meta-analytic methods supported that men’s and women’s attachment anxiety predicted stronger endorsement of both benevolent sexism and hostile sexism. Simultaneously, men’s attachment avoidance predicted lower endorsement of benevolent sexism, and for men in relationships (vs. single men), stronger endorsement of hostile sexism. Thus, the way that people fulfil their relational goals lead people to adopt particular attitudes about gender, supporting that relationships are one key source of people’s adoption of sexism. These results bridge attachment theory and ambivalent sexism theory by illustrating how individual differences in the amplification or suppression of needs for relational security fuel adoption of beliefs that function to maintain gender inequality across the world.
The Times They Are A-Changin’: What Do the Expanding Uses of Travel Time Portend for Policy, Planning, and Life?
Authors: Mokhtarian Patricia L.
Published: November 2018

Personal travel is becoming increasingly “passengerized,” with new travel products and services being enabled by the same technology that is expanding the ways in which travel time can be used. This paper explores the implications of these changes from the traveler’s perspective. A typology of possible changes in travel time is presented, followed by an extended discussion of reasons why, and mechanisms by which, travel time could, in particular, increase. Some key research needs are suggested and concluding reflections offered.
The synthesis and characterization of a DOPO derivative bearing an active terminal epoxy group: e-DOPO and its application in rigid polyurethane foam
Authors: Jia Daikun , He Jiyu , Yang Rongjie
Published: November 2018

DOPO and its derivatives are excellent phosphorus-based flame retardants, which are applied to a series of polymer materials. In this article, a DOPO derivative bearing an active terminal epoxy group was synthesized using a non-solvent method. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, ultra-performance liquid chromatography, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, and viscosity measurements were performed to determine its molecular structure, purity, thermal performance, and fluidity. A possible fragmentation mechanism of the as-prepared DOPO derivative was analyzed using electron ionization mass spectrometer. All the results indicate that the synthesis was successful and the product had satisfactory purity and its initial decomposition temperature (T5%) under nitrogen and air atmosphere was 246°C and 240°C, respectively. Then, as a comparison with dimethyl methyl phosphonate, triethyl phosphate, and DOPO, e-DOPO was applied to a rigid polyurethane foam to investigate its effect on the flame retardancy, thermal stability, and cell morphology of polyurethane foam by limiting oxygen index, cone calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. The results indicate that e-DOPO has a greater effect than DOPO and can effectively reduce the heat release and smoke release and improve the limiting oxygen index and thermal performance of the polyurethane foam. The cell size of the sample containing e-DOPO was more uniform.
On Syzygy Street: The City and Planning in Analogy
Authors: Krieger Martin H.
Published: November 2018

A city is an identity in manifold presentations or profiles, some of which are reviewed here. Why and how do cities and planning allow for so many differing and apparently incompatible analogies (and theories)? To ask, What is really going on? is perhaps to miss that manifold. For cities allow for regionalized analogies, overlapping and incompatible, and many may be valid, at least regionally, at the same time. More generally, we describe thinking in analogy.
Audiences in an Age of Datafication: Critical Questions for Media Research
Authors: Livingstone Sonia
Published: November 2018

This article critically examines how fears of audience gullibility, ignorance, and exploitation impede media studies’ response to the pressing challenges posed by the growing power of social media platforms and their innovative datafication practices. I revisit the history of audience research to show how empirical findings contested the pejorative conception of the audience problematically yet persistently imagined by theorists of media power during the twentieth century. As media studies joins other disciplines in responding to the growing datafication of society, I propose that the circuit of culture model can help theorize media (including platform and algorithmic) power by opening up the hermeneutic and action space between production and consumption. In this way, critical scholarship might more effectively analyze such metaprocesses as mediatization and datafication precisely by recognizing rather than erasing audiences’ relation to both the everyday lifeworld and the public world of citizen action, regulatory intervention, and the wider society.
Accumulating phones: Aid and adaptation in phone access for the urban poor
Authors: Marler Will
Published: November 2018

This study draws on participant observation and interviews with low-income adults in Chicago to show how the poor stay connected to phone service and mobile Internet through the possession of multiple phones, including those subsidized by government aid. The “accumulation” of phones by individuals is widely observed, though underexplored in scholarship. Popular media coverage in the US frames the possession of multiple phones by people in poverty as criminal or excessive. In contrast, this study identifies three functions for phone accumulation as a strategy for maintaining phone access: to back up other phones, to build up capacities across phones, and to share phones with others in need. Each function responds to struggles unique for the urban poor as mobile technology advances and public phone access declines. Extra phones insure against regular disconnections due to loss and theft of devices and limits on subsidized service. Active service on one device combines with Internet functionality on another to approximate a single, high-end device and service plan. Subsidized phones help overcome the hesitation that poor people feel in lending out their devices to others in need. Accumulation thus contributes to the goal of securing reliable phone access for low-income Americans. There are limits to accumulation as a strategy for maintaining access, which result from the prevalence of inferior hardware, limited service plans, and lack of trust among strangers. Telecommunications policies should adapt to the needs of low-income phone users with accumulation in mind. The article concludes with recommendations for adapting policy to the needs of low-income phone users.
Invasive Respiratory or Vasopressor Support and/or Death as a Proposed Composite Outcome Measure for Perioperative Care Research
Authors: Mizota Toshiyuki , Dong Li , Takeda Chikashi , Shiraki Atsuko , Matsukawa Shino , Shimizu Satoshi , Kai Shinichi
Published: November 2018

BACKGROUND:

There is a need for a clinically relevant and feasible outcome measure to facilitate clinical studies in perioperative care medicine. This large-scale retrospective cohort study proposed a novel composite outcome measure comprising invasive respiratory or vasopressor support (IRVS) and death. We described the prevalence of IRVS in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery and assessed the validity of combining IRVS and death to form a composite outcome measure.

METHODS:

We retrospectively collected perioperative data for 2776 patients undergoing major abdominal surgery (liver, colorectal, gastric, pancreatic, or esophageal resection) at Kyoto University Hospital. We defined IRVS as requirement for mechanical ventilation for ≥24 hours postoperatively, postoperative reintubation, or postoperative vasopressor administration. We evaluated the prevalence of IRVS within 30 postoperative days and examined the association between IRVS and subsequent clinical outcomes. The primary outcome of interest was long-term survival. Multivariable Cox proportional regression analysis was performed to adjust for the baseline patient and operative characteristics. The secondary outcomes were length of hospital stay and hospital mortality.

RESULTS:

In total, 85 patients (3.1%) received IRVS within 30 postoperative days, 15 of whom died by day 30. Patients with IRVS had a lower long-term survival rate (1- and 3-year survival probabilities, 66.1% and 48.5% vs 95.2% and 84.0%, respectively; P < .001, log-rank test) compared to those without IRVS. IRVS was significantly associated with lower long-term survival after adjustment for the baseline patient and operative characteristics (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.72; 95% confidence interval, 1.97–3.77; P < .001). IRVS was associated with a longer hospital stay (median [interquartile range], 65 [39–326] vs 15 [12–24] days; adjusted P < .001) and a higher hospital mortality (24.7% vs 0.5%; adjusted P < .001). Moreover, IRVS was adversely associated with subsequent clinical outcomes including lower long-term survival (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.78; 95% confidence interval, 1.21–2.63; P = .004) when the analyses were restricted to 30-day survivors.

CONCLUSIONS:

Patients with IRVS can experience ongoing risk of serious morbidity and less long-term survival even if alive at postoperative day 30. Our findings support the validity of using IRVS and/or death as a composite outcome measure for clinical studies in perioperative care medicine.
Ευρωπαϊκή Ολοκλήρωση και Ελληνική Οικονομία: Η Ελλάδα στον Πυρήνα ή στην Περιφέρεια της Ευρώπης;
Authors: Χρυσομαλλίδης Χαράλαμπος , Μαραβέγιας Ναπολέων
Published: November 2018

A decade has passed since the outbreak of the global fi nancial crisis and the defi cit crisis in Greece. The question that arises is whether the Greek economy has been stabilized, reaching a new equilibrium, as the Greek economy seems to have overcome severe crisis conditions; however, returning to high and sustainable growth remains under question. The analysis lays emphasis on the fact that the country historically belonged to the EU periphery, which is considered a critical parameter for the operation of the Greek economy within the Eurozone. For this analysis we take into account the structure of the Greek economy and the existing architecture of the Eurozone. The article examines also the economy’s prospects, in relation to the European integration process.
Περί ΕΣΠΑ…
Authors: Αγοραστός Κωνσταντίνος
Published: November 2018

Δεν διατίθεται περίληψη/no abstract available
Die kommunale Wirtschaftsförderung in Deutschland – eine Bestandsaufnahme
Authors: Wied Arno
Published: November 2018

no abstract available
Bache, I. & Andreou, G. (eds) Cohesion Policy and Multi-level Governance in South East Europe
Authors: Χρυσομαλλίδης Χαράλαμπος
Published: November 2018

Δε διατίθεται περίληψη
The Notion of Resilience in Regional Science: Review and Decomposition
Authors: Καλλιώρας Δημήτρης
Published: November 2018

The concept of resilience tends, latterly, to become extremely popular in the fi eld of regional science, reverberating, to a great extent, the feeling of insecurity and uncertainty that prevails in regional economies many of which have become (extremely) vulnerable to the effects of internationalization and integration. Such a feeling is consolidated in the light of the on-going economic – and environmental – crisis. Resilience is a malleable concept: it is perceived in a different way by different people. The present study attempts to review and decompose the notion of resilience as it is perceived in the fi eld of regional science.
Growth Factors of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises at State and Regional Level
Authors: Ikonomou Constantinos
Published: November 2018

The present research investigates the signifi cance of various forms of capital and factors of production for SME growth in Greece, in the period before joining the Eurozone (1995-2002). A mathematical model associates SME growth with changes of features from various forms of domestic, local and regional capital and fi rm-level dummies, including fi rm size. The model is estimated using a representative sample. The fi ndings on the limited signifi cance of economic and manufacturing capital at state and regional level -especially in Attiki- are attributed to indirect causes, such as the 1999-2000 Athens Stock Exchange crash, SME increasing internationalization and the regional social, political and cultural capital. Additional fi ndings indicate substantial failures in delivering growth-oriented local and regional policies focusing on SMEs and their problems. The signifi cant association of SME growth with few forms of capital at state, regional and industrial level and with fi rm size is highlighted. The operation of a long-run economic capital-intensive accumulation process is investigated.
Conveying the Message of Trust through Written Texts in CouchSurfing.org
Authors: Ronzhyn Alexander , Kuznetsova Eugenia
Published: November 2018

The present article describes the results of research on online identity construction during participation in hospitality social networks. One type of user submitted data, references, was analysed to uncover and describe the way trust is conveyed in Couchsurfing.org. Through corpus-based linguistic analysis, authors explore the relative importance of different types of user interactions in the network and describe how references contribute to the framework of trust built within the Couchsurfing.org social network. Among the findings are the increased use of adjectives in references and the concepts used by the Couchsurfing management. Trust is seldom used in the references directly, but rather expressed through euphemisms and metaphors.
Into the Interior of Cultural Affiliations: Joan Anim Addo’s Imoinda and the Creolization of Modernity
Authors: Karavanta Mina
Published: November 2018

If creolization was represented as the property of the postcolonial world, the sign of hyphenated cultures emerging from the slave plantation economy and the slave trade, it has become a concept that names the transformation of the dominant cultures from within the other “minor” cultures and histories with which they have been living. Creolization emerges as the urgency to develop new concepts and disseminate “contrapuntal” and “affiliated” histories (Said) in order not only to narrate the Caribbean diaspora but also the social, political, and historical development of a wider British culture. In this light, this essay examines Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name as a text that mediates between cultures represented as oppositional and operates as a site where their discrepant histories are translated, written anew, and rethought. The text as a site of translation and affiliation of different aesthetics, genres and traditions represents a new poetics of the human whose history is now narrated by the formerly dispossessed and expropriated other. The history of imperialism and slavery narrated of imperialism and slavery is an old narration but its telling is new for it generates new ways of understanding this history in the present where constituencies and communities of different cultural practices, often speaking different languages while sharing the language(s) of the dominant culture, are called forth to live together and live well.
“Qu’est-ce Qu’elle Dit? What she say, what she say?” Translating the Resisting Other in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Writing
Authors: Scafe Suzanne
Published: November 2018

I focus my discussion of Amryl Johnson’s poem “Qu’est-ce Qu’elle Dit”, Erna Brodber’s second novel Myal, and Merle Collins’s The Colour of Forgetting, on the texts’ representations of cultural difference and cultural transformation. The poem and the novels, I argue, present a version of Caribbean history that resists colonial discourse and that effects a process of healing and recovery from the epistemic violence of colonial historiography and the continued imposition of its cultural norms. At the same time I suggest that part of the process of resistance involves a radical reconceptualising and transformation of the Other. In these texts, what Nathaniel Mackey defines as “artistic othering”(55) is, as I wish to demonstrate in this article, a mode of resistance, a textual strategy that confronts, resists and refuses a too easy reappropriation of meaning, and yet insists on possibility. I approach the three texts as examples of counterdiscursive praxis, as texts which make “an intervention into postcolonial theoretical discourse” (O’Callaghan “Play It Back” 67). Amryl Johnson’s poem, from which the title of this paper comes, is emblematic of the tensions that arise in seemingly paradoxical processes of othering, reintegration and recovery in a creolized Caribbean context.
Amitav Ghosh and the Uses of Subaltern History
Authors: Dutta Nandana
Published: November 2018

The interface between history and fiction has been an area of rich potential for the postcolonial novelist in South Asia and this is evident in the practice of many novelists from the region who have used historical material as backdrop but have also used fiction to comment on recent events in their countries. In this paper I examine the work of Amitav Ghosh as offering a fictional method that has evolved out of his immersion in subaltern historical practice and one that successfully bridges the gap between these two genres. I show this through his deployment of historical material in the three novels, The Shadow Lines (1988), The Glass Palace (2000) and The Hungry Tide (2004), where Ghosh is not simply ‘using’ the subaltern method but pointing to the possibilities of reparation. Ghosh adopts a complex inversion of the subaltern method that involves two processes: one, the selection of small, neglected events from the national story in a concession to subaltern practice –the little narrative against the grand; and two, the neglect by the narrative of some aspect of these stories. He does this by choosing his historical area carefully, keeping some part of it silent and invisible and then meditating on silence as it is revealed as a fictional and historical necessity. I suggest that Ghosh, by retrieving and giving place/voice to the historically repressed event in the fiction, achieves a swerve from simply ‘righting the record’ and releases the marginal as a referent in the present. Such fiction enters the realm of intervention in public discourse, or carries the potential, by introducing considerations that create public consciousness about historical injustices, successfully ‘using’ subaltern history.
Introduction
Authors: Christofides Roger Marios
Published: November 2018

No abstract (available).
Forgetting, Amnesia, Theory: An Interview with Jean-Michel Rabaté
Authors: Lampropoulos Apostolos , Rabaté Jean-Michel
Published: November 2018

No abstract (available).
“Why do you write what isn’t true?”: Dostoevsky and the Fantastic Paradox
Authors: Hollington Michael
Published: November 2018

In this paper, my starting point will be Philip Roth’s famous essay “Writing American Fiction,” in which he complains about the difficulty of writing novels in a country “where the actuality is constantly outdoing our talents.” I shall contend that this perception is not a new one, nor does it apply to American reality alone, and trace it back through a series of writers commenting on the difficulty of writing novels in the face of contemporary reality to its origins in Byron’s Don Juan: “For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.” I shall argue that the aesthetics of “romantic realism,” as Donald Fanger labels it—the writing of Dickens, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Gogol, etc—directly addresses this paradox, and that this partly accounts for the differences between it and “classic realism.” My contention is that we mistake the nature of such writing if we judge it by the criteria of “classic realism”—and find it wanting, as is often the case.
“There is no first reading”: (Re-)Reading Nineteenth-Century Realist Novels and their Critics
Authors: Walder Dennis
Published: November 2018

We all read with the knowledge, or at least the memory, of what we have already read. And even the novels we read are imbued with their predecessors to such an extent that reading a novel means in effect reading its predecessors as well. I take a contemporary novel, Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and look at how it echoes earlier novels in the realist tradition to make the point that such novels are written with other novels in mind. As Roland Barthes put it, “there is no first reading.” According to Barthes, the common view that there is some pristine first reading of a book is as fictional as other popular cultural myths. The idea of a first, or single, reading is a pretence fostered by “the commercial and ideological habits of our society.” Every reading, even a so-called “first reading” is to some extent conditioned by other reading. Using Edward Said’s Beginnings, I look at how this is to some extent also true of critics of realist fiction, who echo and complicate each other's readings.
Beaumont Matthew (ed.), Adventures in Realism.
Authors: Karastathi Sylvia
Published: November 2018

No abstract (available).
Santaemilia José & von Flotow Luise (eds.), Woman and Translation: Geographies, Voices and Identities / Mujer y traducción: Geografías, voces e identidades.
Authors: De Marco Marcella
Published: November 2018

No abstract (available).
Art Echo: María Zambrano and the Kouroi Relief
Authors: Peña Benavente Karen
Published: November 2018

The aim of this paper is to examine the role of early Greek thought in the work of María Zambrano, a Spanish critic and philosopher who lived most of her life in exile (1939-1984). Zambrano incorporates Greek concepts into her writing as a means to question conventional Philosophy, not as an aim or télos, but as an uncomfortable dwelling that paradoxically leads into suspension and doubt. Key concepts and artistic figures emerge in her seemingly illogical reasoning (razón poética) such as those arising from her work on the Greek Kouroi. Zambrano refuses fixity in Philosophy, where logic and method can be rigorously apprehended. She gracefully takes another turn: by elucidating ancient wisdom through allusive metaphors and ancient ruins, she resists direct pathways into History and Truth. Her style takes after her thinking and can often meander into the realms of enigma, mysticism, and other unconventional forms of thought such as intuition and dreams.
Contributors
Authors: - -
Published: November 2018

Notes on Contributors
Computer simulation of multiphase flows in solving problems of technosphere safety
Authors: Шарай Елена , Sharay Elena
Published: November 2018

The tutorial is devoted to solving problems of hydrodynamics of multiphase flows based on numerical simulation using ANSYS Workbench software based on ANSYS CFX analysis system. The basic concepts of numerical modeling, methodology of numerical calculations, models of multiphase flows are considered. Examples of solving problems of hydrodynamics and separation of particles in the channels and apparatus of protection of the atmosphere and hydrosphere are given.
Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation and programs of lectures and practical training on computer modeling of hydrodynamic and separation processes included in the preparation of masters in the direction of "Technosphere safety".
For undergraduate students studying in the direction of "Technosphere safety". It can be useful for students of other areas and specialties, graduate students, as well as all those who are interested in computer modeling of hydraulic and separation processes.
A failure of national mental health policy and the failure of a Global Summit
Authors: Beresford Peter
Published: November 2018

Peter Beresford comments on the Global Summit on Mental Health, hosted by the UK government, which gave rise to the open letters of concern regarding the event
Why cognitive behavioural therapy should stop being offered to people with schizophrenia
Authors: Laws Keith , Gournay Kevin
Published: November 2018

Keith Laws discusses new research examining the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy on improving the quality of life of people with schizophrenia
Government announces mental health crisis services to benefit from £15 million fund
Authors: Quaile Alistair
Published: November 2018

Alistair Quaile provides a brief overview of the news that the government will provide £15 million to mental health crisis services
Hospitalisations for suicidal behaviour: clinical characteristics and nursing care
Authors: Vanzela Amanda Sarah , Vedana Kelly Graziani Giacchero , Costa Juliana dos Santos , Zanetti Ana Carolina Guidorizzi
Published: November 2018

Introduction:

The care given to people with suicidal behaviour is an important predictor of future death by suicide; however, there is a lack of research on the issue in Brazil.

Objective:

This study investigated hospitalisations for suicidal behaviour (sociodemographic and clinic characteristics, nursing care and associated factors).

Method:

Data were collected through manual consultation of medical records of patients admitted in 2015 to a psychiatric emergency unit of a hospital, and analysed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test.

Results:

Adult women without a partner, with mood disorder, comorbidities, history of previous suicide attempts and who returned to their own homes predominated among the 127 study cases. The most frequent nursing diagnosis was ‘impaired social interaction’. Age and gender were associated with medical diagnoses. Marital status was associated with medical and nursing diagnoses. Changes in psychosocial assessment were associated with current suicidal ideation, number of attempts, and medical diagnoses. The nursing diagnosis ‘risk of self-directed violence’ was associated with thought disorders and self-harm history.

Conclusion:

This study contributes to the mapping of factors associated with suicidal behaviour, vulnerabilities and associated factors. It also reflects on the potential of nursing interventions in the care and prevention of suicidal behaviour.
Recognition and management of febrile convulsions in children
Authors: Kavanagh Frances Alexandria , Heaton Paul Anthony , Cannon Anna , Paul Siba Prosad
Published: November 2018

Febrile convulsions (FCs) are characterised by convulsions associated with fever in children aged between 6 months and 6 years. FCs are relatively common and affect 3–4% of children in western countries. This is the most common seizure disorder seen in children. The cause of febrile illness in FC is usually benign and most frequently due to acute viral infection. Convulsions secondary to an intracranial infection (e.g. meningitis, encephalitis) or from acute electrolyte imbalance should not be labelled as FCs. The diagnosis is based mainly on clinical history, and further investigations are generally unnecessary; management is largely symptomatic. Prolonged FC may need anticonvulsant medication to stop the seizure. Referral to paediatric neurologists may be considered in cases of complex or recurrent FC or in children where there is a pre-existing neurological disorder. One third of children with a first FC will develop a further FC during subsequent febrile illness; the likelihood increases in presence of other risk factors. This article outlines the presentation, management, investigations and prognosis for FC, and highlights how nurses in different clinical settings can provide education, support and counselling to help families return to normality after the event. An illustrative case study is also included to highlight the challenges faced by health professionals while managing children with this condition.
Assessing and treating adult patients with hearing loss
Authors: Almeyda Robert , Nash Robert
Published: November 2018

Hearing loss is a very common presentation both in primary and secondary care. In addition to causing significant morbidity, it can make communication with patients very challenging, and thus impact other aspects of their care. This article presents an approach to the assessment and management of this condition.
Child sexual exploitation
Authors: O'Connell Suzanne
Published: November 2018

Spotting potential child sexual exploitation is a key part of safeguarding work. Suzanne O'Connell provides a summary of what CSE refers to, how you and your staff might identify it, and what positive actions a primary school can take
Part-time working could offer solution to the retention crisis
Authors: Henshaw Pete
Published: November 2018

Major workforce study highlights potential of flexible working and importance of job satisfaction and autonomy for teachers
What makes a school world-class?
Authors: Denton Phil
Published: November 2018

What are the key components of a world-class environment and how can you cultivate that at your school? In this three-part series, Phil Denton looks at what makes an organisation ‘world-class’
Field Trial Analysis of Teaching Material Civic Education Based on Problem Based Learning (PBL) to Improve Student’s Outcome
Authors: Wulandari Tita , Suharno Suharno , Triyanto Triyanto
Published: November 2018

This research is part of developing study on the Civic education teaching material based on PBL. This research aims to determine the process of developing the teaching material of Civic education based on PBL for the fourth-grade of elementary school in order to improve students’ learning outcome. The result of the previous study shows that the teaching material does not currently fulfill the students’ need. Method of research used is a descriptive qualitative and quantitative. This research consists of two activities namely the composing of extensive and limited test. In the implementation, the extensive test has a broader scope than limited test. Methods of collecting data in this research are interview, observation, expert assessment and test. The instruments of this research are interview guide, field notes, expert assessment sheet and test sheet of the student learning outcome. Stages in this activity include the preparation of teaching material Civic education based on PBL, experts’ validation of Civic education teaching material based on PBL, and field trials. The result of this research is a draft of teaching material of Civic education based on PBL including introduction, content and closing. It is eligible used by nine experts. The student learning outcome that uses the teaching material Civic education based on PBL is improved.
Salvage of failed osteosynthesis for an atypical subtrochanteric femoral fracture associated with long-term bisphosphonate treatment using a 95° angled blade plate
Authors: Kim S. M. , Rhyu K. H. , Lim S. J.
Published: November 2018

Aims

The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of a salvage procedure using a 95° angled blade plate for failed osteosynthesis of atypical subtrochanteric femoral fractures associated with the long-term use of bisphosphonates. These were compared with those for failed osteosynthesis of subtrochanteric fractures not associated with bisphosphonate treatment.

Patients and Methods

Between October 2008 and July 2016, 14 patients with failed osteosynthesis of an atypical subtrochanteric femoral fracture were treated with a blade plate (atypical group). Their mean age was 67.8 years (60 to 74); all were female. During the same period, 21 patients with failed osteosynthesis of a typical subtrochanteric fracture underwent restabilization using a blade plate (typical group). Outcome variables included the time of union, postoperative complications, Harris Hip Score, and Sanders functional rating scale.

Results

In the atypical group, union was achieved in 12 patients (85.7%) at a mean of 8.4 months (4 to 12). The mean follow-up was 31.2 months (12 to 92) The plate broke in one patient requiring further stabilization with a longer plate and strut-allograft. Another patient with failure of fixation and varus angulation at the fracture site declined further surgery. In the typical group, union was achieved in 18 patients (85.7%) at a mean of 7.9 months (4 to 12). There was no difference in the mean Harris Hip Score between the two groups (83.1 points vs 86.8 points; p = 0.522) at the time of final follow-up. Sanders functional rating scores were good or excellent in 78.6% of the atypical group and in 81.0% of the typical group.

Conclusion

The 95° angled blade plate was shown to be an effective fixation modality for nonunion of atypical subtrochanteric fractures with a high rate of union and functional improvement, comparable to those after fractures not associated with bisphosphonate treatment. Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:1511–17.
Patellar fractures are associated with an increased risk of total knee arthroplasty
Authors: Larsen P. , Rathleff M. S. , Østgaard S. E. , Johansen M. B. , Elsøe R.
Published: November 2018

Aims

The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of knee arthroplasty and arthroscopy following patellar fractures, and to compare this with an age- and gender-matched group without a prior patellar fracture.

Patients and Methods

A national matched cohort study based on the Danish National Patient Register including all citizens of Denmark (approximately 5.3 million) was undertaken. A total of 6096 patients who sustained a patellar fracture in Denmark between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2000 were included. The median age of these patients was 50.6 years (interquartile range (IQR) 28.5 to 68.9); 49.1% were women. Patients were followed-up until 31 December 2015, with regard to treatment with knee arthroplasty and/or knee arthroscopy.

Results

Patients with a patellar fracture had an increased risk of knee arthroplasty (hazard ratio (HR) 1.83, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.57 to 2.13) compared with citizens without a patellar fracture, and the effect was strongest during the first five years (HR 3.02, 95% CI 2.26 to 4.03). Patients with a patellar fracture also had a higher risk of knee arthroscopy (HR 3.94, 95% CI 3.49 to 4.46), and the effect was highest during the first five years after the fracture (HR 7.40, 95% CI 6.32 to 8.66).

Conclusion

Patellar fractures are associated with an increased risk of knee arthroplasty and knee arthroscopy. The consequences of a patellar fracture may be more severe than previously considered, and patients must expect a lifelong increased risk of knee arthroplasty. Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:1477–81.
MEJORANDO LA INTERACCIÓN EN EL AULA A TRAVÉS DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN-ACCIÓN COLABORATIVA
Authors: Hernández Ortiz de Urbina Gaizka , Álvarez Álvarez Carmen
Published: November 2018

INTRODUCCIÓN. La investigación ha puesto de manifiesto la relevancia de las prácticas docentes basadas en el diálogo y la interacción en las aulas para la mejora de las relaciones docentes. Sin embargo, en España, aún se requiere mucho más estudio sobre la interacción como método de enseñanza-aprendizaje para lograr que sea un método más ampliamente empleado. En este artículo se sintetiza un estudio autocrítico de un docente novel dirigido a conocer y mejorar su interacción con los estudiantes en el aula. MÉTODO. Para la realización de este estudio se ha puesto en marcha un proceso de investigación-acción colaborativo entre los autores dirigido a explorar las posibilidades y límites de la interacción en un curso de Formación Profesional para el Empleo y una asignatura de un grado universitario. RESULTADOS. Este trabajo revela las numerosas y complejas fortalezas y debilidades del docente y la evaluación de sus principios de procedimiento a través de las diferentes fases de un ciclo de investigación-acción colaborativa (planificación, acción y reflexión), revelando aspectos relevantes susceptibles de mejora (fijar unas normas de intervención en el aula, promover más la participación del alumnado, saber cortar debates a tiempo, etc.). DISCUSIÓN. Es posible destacar el enorme potencial de la revisión autocrítica para la mejora del desarrollo profesional docente, pudiendo la misma ser de utilidad a gran número de docentes noveles que entienden que la interacción en el aula es relevante y necesaria y les gustaría que sus clases fuesen más allá de las lecciones magistrales, propiciando el diálogo y la interacción en el aula.
PERCEPCIÓN DE LOS ESTUDIANTES SOBRE EL VALOR DE LA TECNOLOGÍA EMERGENTE 3D Y LA CREATIVIDAD PARA SU FUTURO PROFESIONAL EN EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL
Authors: Serrano Díaz Noemí , Aragón Mendizabal Estíbaliz , Del Águila Ríos Yésica
Published: November 2018

INTRODUCCIÓN. El aprendizaje basado en experiencias que desarrollan las competencias profesionales es fundamental en la formación del profesorado, concretamente de Educación Infantil. El presente estudio revela la percepción del profesorado en su formación inicial sobre el uso de la tecnología 3D y el desarrollo de la creatividad. Este trabajo es el resultado de una de las acciones formativas que se enmarcan dentro del conjunto de actuaciones emprendidas por el proyecto Dream Makers, un proyecto internacional Acción Clave 2 (Key Action-2) de Cooperación para la Innovación e Intercambio de Buenas Prácticas. Dream Makers es un proyecto de investigaciónacción que se fundamenta en tres pilares básicos: inteligencias múltiples, creatividad y tecnología emergente en 3D. MÉTODO. Los participantes fueron 101 estudiantes (n=101) a los que se administraron tres escalas tipo Likert para evaluar el grado de satisfacción y percepción sobre los distintos aspectos de la formación impartida. Las variables objeto de estudio fueron: motivación, relevancia, claridad y realismo/practicidad de los contenidos del programa de aprendizaje. RESULTADOS. Los resultados obtenidos reflejaron un alto interés por la tecnología emergente 3D. El 96% de los participantes percibieron los contenidos del programa muy relevantes para su futuro profesional. Un 85,5% encontró la temática muy real y práctica. La motivación que en mayor medida se seleccionó por los asistentes fue adquirir nuevas habilidades, siendo un 74% el alumnado que seleccionó dicha opción. DISCUSIÓN. Los resultados encontrados auguran expectativas positivas para el uso e implementación, en un futuro no muy lejano, de tecnología 3D en las aulas de Educación Infantil.
Emotions as evaluative judgements: understanding volunteers’ evaluative feelings about things that matter to them
Authors: Sanghera Balihar
Published: November 2018

This article examines people’s emotional experience of volunteering. It offers an account of emotions as first-person evaluative judgements about things that are important to them. People’s relation to the world is one of concern, and they continually have to monitor and evaluate how the things they care about are faring, and decide what to do. The article moves away from accounts that treat emotions either as merely subjective or as only a product of social conventions. It discusses how volunteers’ emotions are evaluative feelings about the nature of their voluntary tasks and roles, their social relationships with fellow volunteers, and their orientation to the world. It also explores how social positions can affect emotions.
Gainazal-topografiak naturan duen eragina
Authors: Barroso Nagore , Moreno Maria Isabel , Perez Leyre
Published: November 2018

Naturan auto-garbiketa edo bakterioen aurkako propietate bitxiak aurkezten duten izaki bizidun ugari daude. Lan honetan, ñame edo loto lorea bezalako landareak eta zenbait animaliak aurkezten dituzten propietateak, auto-garbitzeko gaitasuna edo bakterioen aurkako propietateak azalduko dira, esate baterako, hauen gainazaleko topografiaren eta bustitze-ahalmenaren arteko loturak. Gainazalaren azterketa sakonek agerian utzi dute gainazal hierarkikoak (mikro- eta nano-egiturak dituztenak) eta gainazal homogeneoak (egitura unitariodunak) daudela, eta topografia propietate berezien erantzule dela. Horrez gain, gaur egun natura imitatzeko eta artifizialki gainazal zimurrak sortzeko oso erabiliak diren goitik beherako eta behetik gorako metodoak deskribatuko dira.
Diagnosing Sorites arguments
Authors: Stalnaker Robert C.
Published: November 2018

This is a discussion of Delia Fara’s theory of vagueness, and of its solution to the Sorites paradox, criticizing some of the details of the account, but agreeing that its central insight will be a part of any solution to the problem. I also consider a wider range of philosophical puzzles that involve arguments that are structurally similar to the argument of the Sorites paradox, and argue that the main ideas of her account of vagueness helps to respond to some of those puzzles.