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Research Productivity, Visibility, and Impact at the University of Namibia
Authors: Kalusopa Trywell , Zibani Patiswa , Kanguti Ronald , Leonard Anna
Published: October 2019

The global competitiveness drive, pursuit for relevance, and search for true identity continues to challenge many African universities in their quest to achieve the delicate balance of preserving national indigenous repute and worldwide visibility. For decades, universities have occupied a centre stage in this balancing act through research productivity, evaluation, and impact. The benefits of university research and innovation are varied, persuasive, well-documented, and acknowledged as benchmarks for the visibility, sustenance, and relevance of any modern university. This chapter examines the research profile of the University of Namibia (UNAM) by looking at its current research productivity, visibility, and impact in the SADC region and beyond. Using bibliometric and altimetric analysis from Web of Science, Scopus, and SciVal databases, and the institutional repository, the chapter underscores the fragility but evolving UNAM's research performance output and highlights open access and research data management as keys to enhancing institutional research productivity and visibility.
Environmental Literacy
Authors: Brereton Pat
Published: October 2019

Media literacy has become one of the key qualifications for taking an active part in contemporary society. As media technology becomes more intuitive and media and other social practices intertwine more and more across everyday living, this chapter draws on three contrasting but randomly-chosen popular media texts to tease out how they both situate and address various forms of environmental literacy.
Business Literacy Education in the Digital Age
Authors: Geylani Ozlem
Published: October 2019

The digital world currently presents many learning tools and knowledge sources about business literacy. Considering today's learners, digital improvements suggest time-saving learning tools and processes for individual or mass learning activities. Since the industrial age and through the knowledge age, we still use and improve network elements in the digital age. Computers, tablets, televisions, cell phones are instantly becoming the distributors of knowledge in or out of spaces. However, learners in the digital age by the freedom of internet connection points may easily reach to videos, podcasts, or especially, to games that are based on individual learning activities. In respect to the aim of this chapter, an overview is targeted about the understanding of business literacy in the digital age, and it also mentions financial literacy as a supporting literature review. The research finally proposes a realization on the dilemma of the abundance of the knowledge in business and financial literacy leaving out the scarcity of digital tools and sources.
Digital Transformation
Authors: Yilmaz Neslihan
Published: October 2019

This chapter is a research on the effects of the concept of information literacy on the economic, social, economic, and digital epochs. When examining the information, the authors also examined the facts. In defining information, it was discussed within the framework of a national statement. While focusing on how information changes technology, the effects of knowledge on society are also examined. The authors socialized the information by showing the correlations between the types of information and society and units. By socializing, they have used the concept of renewing the process, re-using the process, to provide systematic coordination. The authors saw that the problem of knowledge and the solution phases emerged. In fact, information literacy has a characteristic that affects and supports other types of literacy. In other words, it is possible for an individual to develop other literacy skills with the help of information literacy skills.
An Argumentative Study on Digital Advertising Literacy
Authors: Erdem M. Nur
Published: October 2019

Developments in communication technologies have given rise to the fact that media will increasingly acquire more space in daily life. This increase in media access area causes the expansion of its effect domain. Studies on the problem of media and its effects have led to the understanding that media are considered as dangerous in the socialization process of children and young people. This tendency has also put academics working in the field of sociology, communication sciences, and pedagogy into a state of control orientation. This field, which is the product these tendencies and called media literacy, has expanded, and new literacy models have emerged depending on the media content. One of these new approaches in media literacy is advertising literacy. Studies done on advertising literacy so far are too little in quantity. However, on the qualitative aspect, these studies have shortcomings that stem from the fact that they overlook media digitization.
Cyber Bullying and Violence Literacy in the Context of Digitalization
Authors: Kazan Hüseyin
Published: October 2019

The fact that technological developments are dominant in all areas of society has increased the number of communication channels and determined their quality. These media, which provide positive results in the context of interaction, provided important opportunities for individuals to interact interactively. The interaction process that started with mail, blog, and chat rooms has become more important with Web 3.0 and has become the most important channel that directs the communication of the society. The use of environments that offer important interactions such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have not always been the right way. The violent language used in these places and the sharing of elements of violence have had negative consequences in society. The main purpose of this study is to present these results and propose solution options. In this context, digital literacy and especially violence literacy are the focuses.
Religious Literacy Culture in the Digital Age
Authors: Ozturk Mustafa
Published: October 2019

The major aim here is to analyze knowledge literacy in general and religious knowledge literacy in particular. Knowledge literacy can be defined as the ability to find, select, evaluate, and at the same time, effectively use the desired information. Religious literacy in Turkey can be addressed in two categories. The first category is of scientific and intellectual nature, and the second is of popular nature. These two categories recall the distinction between “gentry and commons” (elites and ordinary people) in classical Islamic sources. The scientific and intellectual dimensions of religious literacy manifest itself in the work of scholars in the faculties of theology. However, most of the academic studies of theology community can be considered as insufficient and incompetent in terms of certain qualities such as selecting and criticizing the information and using it effectively to draw conclusions, because of the fact that these studies are shaped within the frame of existing templates and knowledge that passed through a sectarian interpretation filtering.
Effect of Cutting Parameters on Tribo-Electric Charging in the Ultra-High Precision Diamond Turning of an RGP Contact Lens Polymer
Authors: Liman Muhammad Mukhtar , Abou El Hossein Khaled , Cheng Yuan Chieh , Abdulkadir Lukman , Jumare Abubakar , Odedeyi Babatunde
Published: October 2019

This study present measurements of electrostatic charge that were performed in order to obtain the factors that influence the charging behaviour in the diamond turning process of advanced contact lens polymers. This can be used to decrease tool wear provided that tribo-electric tool wear is dominant in cutting contact lens polymers.The effective medical application of contact lenses is heavily dependent on their form accuracy and surface integrity. Tribo-electric charge which occurs when cutting polymeric contact lenses play a key role, having direct influence on the targeted form accuracy and surface quality of contact lenses. The research goal is to find out what parameter determine the amount of tribo-electric tool wear. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to establish the statistical significance of the cutting parameters on Tribo-electric charge. The results revealed that depth of cut of cut strongly affects the Tribo-electric charge followed by cutting speed, feed rate and interaction between depth and speed.
Resident Vehicles: A New Directive for Subsea Operations
Authors: Stevens Mark Alan
Published: October 2019

AbstractThe extended downturn experienced by the oil and gas industry has forced operators and service companies to look at new ways to operate more efficiently. Reductions in personnel and assets have led to a rethink of how operations are conducted to support operations
offshore. A newer concept of resident vehicle operations is changing the way the industry approaches the inspection, maintenance, and repair market. The resulting technology advances to support the enablement of resident vehicle programs are expected to change the planning, staging, and deployment
of personnel and equipment to support offshore operations. How companies interact with these advanced remote systems is migrating field planning back toward a centralized command and control feature set. This allows for shared resources to be used for multiple activities, thereby reducing
costs and enabling more efficient operations.
Overview of the Current State of Quantum-Based Technologies
Authors: Lanzagorta Marco , Uhlmann Jeffrey
Published: October 2019

AbstractIn this paper, we review the current state and discuss prospects for quantum technologies relating to computation, communications, and sensing. We also consider defense-related applications, especially in the maritime domain.
Measures of Agility and Single-Legged Balance as Clinical Assessments in Patients With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Healthy Individuals
Authors: Kirsch Aleah N. , Bodkin Stephan G. , Saliba Susan A. , Hart Joseph M.
Published: October 2019

Context

Current clinical assessments used for patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) may not enable clinicians to properly identify functional deficits that have been found in laboratory studies. Establishing muscular-function assessments, through agility and balance tasks, that can properly differentiate individuals with ACLR from healthy, active individuals may permit clinicians to detect deficits that increase the risk for poor outcomes.

Objective

To compare lower extremity agility and balance between patients with ACLR and participants serving as healthy controls.

Design

Case-control study.

Setting

Controlled laboratory.

Patients or Other Participants

A total of 47 volunteers in 2 groups, ACLR (9 males, 11 females; age = 23.28 ± 5.61 years, height = 173.52 ± 8.89 cm, mass = 70.67 ± 8.89 kg) and control (13 males, 12 females; age = 23.00 ± 6.44, height = 172.50 ± 9.24, mass = 69.81 ± 10.87 kg).

Main Outcome Measure(s)

Participants performed 3 timed agility tasks: Agility T Test, 17-hop test, and mat-hopping test. Balance was assessed in single-legged (SL) stance in 3 positions (straight knee, bent knee, squat) on 2 surfaces (firm, foam) with the participants' eyes open or closed for 10-second trials. Agility tasks were measured for time to completion. Eyes-open balance tasks were measured using center-of-pressure average velocity, and eyes-closed balance tasks were measured using the Balance Error Scoring System.

Results

For the Agility T Test, the ACLR group had slower times than the control group (P = .05). Times on the Agility T Test demonstrated moderate to strong positive relationships for unipedal measures of agility. The ACLR group had greater center-of-pressure average velocity in the SL bent-knee position than the control group. No differences were found between groups for the SL straight-knee and SL-squat balance tasks (P > .05). No differences in errors were present between groups for the eyes-closed balance tasks (P > .05).

Conclusions

The ACLR group demonstrated slower bipedal agility times and decreased postural stability when assessed in an SL bent-knee position compared with the control group.
On the subexponential growth of groups acting on rooted trees
Authors: Francoeur Dominik
Published: October 2019

We show that every group in a large family of (not necessarily torsion) spinal groups acting on the ternary rooted tree is of subexponential growth.
A p.c.f. self-similar set with no self-similar energy
Authors: Peirone Roberto
Published: October 2019

An example of a p.c.f. (
post-critically finite
) self-similar set without eigenform for any set of weights, is provided. The existence of an eigenform on such sets was an important, long-standing open problem in analysis on fractals.

This problem is related to that of existence of self-similar energies on fractals, because self-similar energies on p.c.f. self-similar sets are obtained by using eigenforms (and only in this way). A general existence result of self-similar energies was previously established by the present author with respect to a weaker version of self-similarity.
Courant’s nodal domain theorem for positivity preserving forms
Authors: Keller Matthias , Schwarz Michael
Published: October 2019

We introduce a notion of nodal domains for positivity preserving forms. This notion generalizes the classical ones for Laplacians on domains and on graphs. We prove the Courant nodal domain theorem in this generalized setting using purely analytical methods.
Internal Medicine Residency Program Responses to the Increase of Residency Applications: Differences by Program Type and Characteristics
Authors: Sweet Michelle L. , Williams Christopher M. , Stewart Emily , Chudgar Saumil M. , Angus Steven V. , Kisielewski Michael , Willett Lisa L.
Published: October 2019

Background

Over the past decade, the number of residency applications has increased substantially, causing many residency programs to change their recruitment practices.

Objective

We determined how internal medicine (IM) residency programs have responded to increased applications by program type (community-based, community-based/university-affiliated, and university-based) and characteristics (percentage of international medical graduates, program size, and program director [PD] tenure).

Methods

The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine conducted a national survey of 363 IM PDs in 2017. Five questions assessed IM program responses to the increased number of residency applications in 3 areas: changes in recruitment strategies, impact on ability to perform holistic review, and interest in 5 potential solutions. We performed a subgroup analysis to measure differences by program type and characteristics.

Results

The response rate was 64% (233 of 363). There were no differences by program type or characteristics for experiencing an increase in the number of applicants, altering recruitment practices, or conducting holistic reviews. There were moderate differences in alterations of recruitment practices by program characteristics and moderate differences in interest in proposed solutions by program type. Community-based programs had the greatest interest in a program-specific statement (59%, P = .032) and the lowest percentage in a national database of matched applicants (44%, P = .034).

Conclusions

IM residency programs are experiencing an increasing number of applications and are accommodating by adjusting recruitment practices in a variety of ways. A majority of IM PDs supported 4 of the 5 solutions, although the level of interest differed by program type.
Missing OH Reactivity in the Global Marine Boundary Layer
Authors: Thames Alexander B. , Brune William H. , Miller David O. , Allen Hannah M. , Apel Eric C. , Blake Donald R. , Bui T. Paul , Commane Roisin , Crounse John D. , Daube Bruce C. , Diskin Glenn S. , DiGangi Joshua P. , Elkins James W. , Hall Samuel R. , Hanisco Thomas F. , Hannun Reem A. , Hintsa Eric , Hornbrook Rebecca S. , Kim Michelle J. , McKain Kathryn , Moore Fred L. , Nicely Julie M. , Peischl Jeffrey , Ryerson Thomas B. , St. Clair Jason M. , Sweeney Colm , Teng Alex , Thompson Chelsea R. , Ullmann Kirk , Wennberg Paul O. , Wolfe Glenn M.
Published: October 2019

Abstract. The hydroxyl radical (OH) reacts with thousands of chemical species in the atmosphere, initiating their removal and the chemical reaction sequences that produce ozone, secondary aerosols, and gas-phase acids. OH reactivity, which is the inverse of OH lifetime, influences the OH abundance and the ability of OH to cleanse the atmosphere. The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) campaign used instruments on the NASA DC-8 aircraft to measure OH reactivity and more than 100 trace chemical species. ATom presented a unique opportunity to test the completeness of the OH reactivity calculated from the chemical species measurements by comparing it to the measured OH reactivity over two oceans across four seasons. Although the calculated OH reactivity was below the OH reactivity instrument's limit-of-detection for much of the free troposphere, the OHR instrument was able to measure the OH reactivity in and just above the marine boundary layer. The average measured value of OH reactivity in the marine boundary layer across all latitudes and all ATom phases was 1.9 s−1, which 0.5 s−1 larger than the average calculated OH reactivity. Concurrently, missing OH reactivity, the difference between the measured and calculated OH reactivity, was measured to be ~ 0.5–2.0 s−1 at some locations in the tropics and midlatitudes. Correlations of missing OH reactivity with formaldehyde, dimethyl sulfide, butanal, and sea surface temperature suggest the presence of unmeasured or unknown volatile organic compounds or oxygenated volatile organic compounds associated with ocean emissions.
Early results and Validation of SAGE III-ISS Ozone Profile Measurements from Onboard the International Space Station
Authors: McCormick Michael P. , Lei Liqiao , Hill Michael T.
Published: October 2019

Abstract. The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) instrument, was launched on February 19, 2017 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center, and integrated aboard the International Space Station (ISS). SAGE III-ISS has been providing ozone profile measurements since June, 2017. This paper presents an early validation of the Level 2 solar and lunar occultation ozone data products using ground-based lidar and ozonesondes from Hohenpeissenberg and Lauder, and satellite ozone vertical products from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier-Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) instrument. The Hohenpeissenberg one-year lidar results show that the average difference of ozone concentration measured by SAGE III-ISS is less than 10 % between 15 and 45 km and less than 5 % between 20 and 40 km. Hohenpeissenberg ozonesonde comparisons are mostly within 10 % between 15 and 30 km. The Lauder lidar comparison results were less than 10 % between 17 and 40 km, and less than 10 % between 10 km and 30 km for Lauder ozonesondes. The seasonal average difference of ozone concentration between SAGE III-ISS and ACE-FTS was mostly less than 5 % between 20 and 45 km for both the northern and southern hemispheres. All results from these comparisons show that the SAGE III-ISS ozone solar data have exceptional accuracy between 20 and 30 km, and believable accuracy throughout the stratosphere. With few comparisons available, the percentage difference between the SAGE III-ISS lunar ozone data and the ozonesonde data is less than 10 % between 20 and 30 km. The percentage difference between the SAGE III-ISS lunar ozone data and the ACE-FTS ozone data is less than 10 % between 20 and 40 km.
Measurement of specific surface area of fresh solid precipitation particles in heavy snowfall regions of Japan
Authors: Yamaguchi Satoru , Ishizaka Masaaki , Motoyoshi Hiroki , Nakai Sent , Vionnet Vincent , Aoki Teruo , Yamashita Katsuya , Hashimoto Akihiro , Hachikubo Akihiro
Published: October 2019

Abstract. In countries like Japan, particular solid precipitation particles
(PPs), such as unrimed PPs and graupel, often form a weak layer in snow,
which triggers slab avalanches. An understanding of weak PP layers is
therefore essential for avalanche prevention authorities to design a
predictive model for slab avalanches triggered by those layers. Specific
surface area (SSA) is a parameter that could characterize the physical
properties of PPs. The SSAs of solid PPs in Nagaoka – a city in Japan
experiencing the heaviest snowfall in the country – were measured for four
winters (from 2013/2014 to 2016/2017). More than 100 SSAs of PP
were measured during the study period using the gas absorption method. The
measured SSA values range from 42 to 153 m2 kg−1. Under melting
conditions, PPs showed comparatively smaller values. Unrimed and slightly
rimed PPs exhibited low SSA, whereas heavily rimed PPs and graupel exhibited
high SSA. The degree of PP riming depends on the synoptic meteorological
conditions. Based on the potential of weak PP layer formation with respect
to the degree of riming of PPs, the results indicate that SSA is a useful
parameter for describing the characteristics of PP, and consequently
predicting avalanches triggered by weak PP layers. The study found that the
values of SSA strongly depend on wind speed (WS) and wet-bulb temperature
(Tw) on the ground. SSA increases with increase in WS and decreases with
increase in Tw. An equation to empirically estimate the SSA of fresh PPs in
Nagaoka using WS and Tw was established. The equation successfully reproduced
the fluctuation of SSA. The SSA equation, along with the meteorological
data, is an efficient first step toward describing the development of weak
PP layers in the snow cover models.
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for rapid detection of L. monocytogenes in meat
Authors: Yushina Yuliya , Makhova Anzhelika , Zayko Elena , Bataeva Dagmara
Published: October 2019

There is a continued need to develop improved rapid methods for detection of foodborne pathogens. Rapid and sensitive methods for enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes are important for microbiological food safety testing purpose. The aim of this project was to evaluate a commercial loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) based system with bioluminescence, named as 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay (MDA), was validated for the detection of L. monocytogenes in food products with a standard GOST 32031-2012 method as reference. The results of this study revealed that a commercial LAMP-based method performed equally effective compared with method, showing from 94% to 100% specificity and sensitivity, respectively. The LAMP-based method was shown to be rapid and reliable detection technique for L. monocytogenes present at low numbers (10 CFU.g-1) on raw meat and meat products and can be applicable in meat industry. Thus, compared with the microbiological method based GOST 32031-2012, the LAMP assay is a relatively rapid and highly sensitive method for detecting L. monocytogenes and will facilitate the surveillance for contamination of L. monocytogenes in food. The 3M MDS result and culture-based detection (GOST 32031-2012) did not differ significantly (p >0.05) regarding the number of positive samples.
Antecedent Variables and Consequences of Religiosity on Fraud
Authors: Taqi Muhamad , . Sabaruddinsah , Ismail Tubagus , . Meutia
Published: October 2019

This study aims to analyze the antecedent variables of religiosity (suitability of compensation, money ethics and internal control system) and the consequences on accounting fraud among regional officials. The study method used here was descriptive quantitative method with a correlation approach, the sampling used purposive sampling technique. Data collection in this study was conducted by distributing questionnaires to the officials of the Regional Work Units (SKPD) of Serang City and Regency. Data analysis used Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with SmartPLS program. The results of the study showed that the suitability of compensation had a negative effect, money ethics had a positive effect, the internal control system had a negative effect and religiosity had a negative effect on accounting fraud among the regional officials. Then the suitability of compensation, money ethics and internal control systems were proved to be the antecedent variables of religiosity.
Valuation of Human Capital: A Review of Studies on Quali-Quantitative Methods
Authors: Ferraro Olga , Cristiano Elena
Published: October 2019

Human capital is an important component of company assets as an intangible element linked to the future potential of the company itself and, therefore, capable of contributing to a considerable extent to the creation of its value. It is clear, therefore, that the evaluation of the economic capital of a company cannot disregard the estimate of its human capital, or rather the enhancement of the knowledge, skills and intrinsic attitudes of the personnel and the methods of organization and management of the same, from the specialized technicians for ward assistants and management. The paper aims to present an overview of the techniques and models through which the business-economic literature and professional practice has addressed the problem of measuring human capital. The originality of this work is to follow a path that provides a framework as exhaustive as possible of methods, models and sources to refer to in the qualitative-quantitative measurement of human capital. This objective seeks to respond mainly, even if not exclusively, to the needs of those who work in the process of estimating the economic value of capital. From the comparison of the latter it is clear that there is no optimal choice for estimating the economic value of capital, but it is a prevalent opinion in the literature that qualitative and quantitative models, rather than antinomies, must be complementary.
Extraction of Proteins and Pasting and Antioxidant Properties of Soybean Hulls
Authors: Liu Sean X. , Chen Diejun , Singh Mukti , Xu Jingyuan
Published: October 2019

Soybean hulls are a by-product from soybean processing for oil and meal production which comprise approximately 8% of the whole seed. This study investigated water holding capacities and pasting properties, and first reported the phenolic contents and antioxidant activities from soybean hulls which are important to our long-term health. In addition, the conditions for extracting proteins from soybean hulls including optimum pH, as well as homogenizing and separation methods for extraction, were also studied. Higher protein content in extracts and recoveries was obtained with extraction at pH 9. Using sieve separation may be an effective way to extract proteins from hulls for industrial applications. The precipitated protein content increased from 51.52% to 59.29% after purification by washing with water once; however, after two washes, no further improvement was shown. The extracted proteins can be used for food applications. The ground hull powders (10% protein), dried supernatant (14% protein) and sediments (7-8% proteins) along with valuable fibers should be good food ingredients for several food categories. This research explored the great potential of converting the low value by-products into value-added functional food uses along with the benefit of reducing food and agricultural wastes.
Advances in Desmuramyl Peptide Research
Authors: Ribić Rosana , Paurević Marija , Tomić Srđanka
Published: October 2019

Immune adjuvants are added to vaccines in order to enhance the immune response to an antigen. Muramyl dipeptide, N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine, is the smallest structural unit of peptidoglycans showing the immunostimulating activity. Muramyl dipeptide analogues without the hydrophilic N-acetylmuramyl moiety are called desmuramyl peptides. Here, we provide review of desmuramyl peptides which were synthesized in order to improve the pharmacological properties of parent muramyl dipeptide, including our results regarding adamantane containing derivatives. Approach for future design of novel immunostimulators based on multiple pathogen recognition receptor activation was also considered.
Trends of tuberculosis rates before and after the declaration as a public health emergency in Japan, 1992–2006
Authors: Ota M. , Uchimura K.
Published: October 2019

SETTING: Over the period 1992 to 2006, Japan had tuberculosis (TB) notification rates of about 40 to 20 per 100 000 population. In 1999, the Minister of Health and Welfare of Japan declared a public health emergency based on the resurgence of TB.OBJECTIVE: To
compare the trends of TB notification rates before and after the declaration.DESIGN: This is an ecological study on the trends of TB notification rates. The trends per year in TB notification rates were compared before (1992–1997) and after (2001–2006) the emergency
declaration.RESULTS: The trends in the notification rates for all types of TB and sputum smear-positive TB (SSP-TB) decreased from −3.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] −4.6 to −1.9) and 0.94% (95%CI −0.33 to 2.2), respectively, per year before the declaration
to −5.8% (95%CI −6.3 to −5.3) and −3.3% (95%CI −2.4 to −4.2), respectively, per year after the declaration with statistical significance. Trends in notification rates for both all types of TB and SSP-TB statistically significantly decreased after the declaration
in Fukuoka, Osaka and Saitama Prefectures.CONCLUSION: The declaration of TB as a public health emergency in Japan in 1999 had a positive impact on TB control in Japan and thus TB epidemiology.
Adverse events among people on delamanid for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in a high HIV prevalence setting
Authors: Hughes J. , Reuter A. , Chabalala B. , Isaakidis P. , Cox H. , Mohr E.
Published: October 2019

SETTING: Patients with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa, were offered delamanid (DLM) within a decentralised RR-TB treatment programme.OBJECTIVE: To describe adverse events (AEs) among HIV-positive and negative
people receiving DLM for RR-TB in a programmatic setting.DESIGN: Patients were followed up monthly for blood, electrocardiography and clinical monitoring and AEs were assessed for severity grade, seriousness and relationship to DLM.RESULTS: Fifty-eight patients (55% male;
median age 35 years, interquartile range [IQR] 28–42) started DLM; 46 (79%) were HIV-positive, median CD4 count 173 cells/mm3 (IQR 70–294). Fifty (86%) patients experienced ≥1 new or worsening AE after starting DLM, most commonly vomiting, QTcB >450 ms and/or myalgia.
Serious and/or severe AEs were experienced by 22 (38%) patients; three HIV-positive patients died (not related to DLM). HIV status was not significantly associated with number (P = 0.089) or severity/seriousness (P = 0.11) of AEs during exposure to DLM. Two (3%) patients had
DLM withdrawn due to AEs.CONCLUSION: AEs during RR-TB treatment, both before and during DLM exposure, were common, with relatively few serious/severe AEs considered related to DLM and no significant association with HIV status. Clinical and electrocardiography monitoring should
be prioritised in the first two months after starting DLM.
Description of Security Systems — a Few Reflections
Authors: Wiśniewski Bernard
Published: October 2019

This article presents fundamental issues concerning the description of the security system of an organization understood as an entirety composed of people equipped with tools, machines and materials, which are connected with one another by a specific bond and between which there are relations connected to ensuring an undisturbed existence and creating opportunities for development. The description of security systems is a complex undertaking. It is a consequence of its complexity, which is primarily a result of the set of relations between organizational elements. They include: accumulation (expressed in the number of hierarchical levels, range (related to the number of subordinations and dependencies), spread (associated with the number of elements subordinate to a single
superior at each organizational level), organizational cohesiveness (connected to the mutual structural and functional dependencies between organizational elements due to performed tasks), information links (reflecting the channels and network of information flow), as well as the division of powers (associated with the right to make decisions), and division of duties (related to the relationship between organizational elements). The complexity of the description of security systems is also determined by the activity of the organization’s security systems, which can be divided into: material (concerning the types of activities), temporal (related to the
order of its conduct in a specific time), and spatial (connected to conducting activities in specific places). The description of security systems is only possible through the use of: appropriate methodological procedures and a systemic approach, as characterized within the constraints resulting from the expression formula. This paper also indirectly addresses the determinants of the description of security systems. These are: up-to-date knowledge, concreteness and reliability of the description and sufficient detail.
Nuevos territorios y enfoques para el desarrollo local. El olivar de Alcolea de las Alpujarras (Almería) = New Territories and Approaches for Local Development. The Olive Grove of Alcolea de las Alpujarras (Almería)
Authors: Sánchez Escolano Luis Miguel , Ruíz Moya Noelia
Published: October 2019

En un marco general caracterizado por la descapitalización humana y económica, así como por la falta de dinamismo y su escasa representatividad en nuestra sociedad, los espacios rurales mediterráneos encaran el siglo XXI con perspectivas precarias sobre su propia viabilidad y supervivencia. Las implicaciones de este proceso de debilitamiento territorial son enormes, ya sea enfocado desde lo antropológico, demográfico, económico o ambiental. Es necesario, por tanto, repensar la relación que la sociedad española mantiene con esa parte mayoritaria del territorio, la cual necesita de herramientas y la acción de agentes que aporten nuevas perspectivas para superar acciones agotadas por su formalismo y desapego a la realidad de los entornos rurales y sus problemáticas.El presente trabajo, aplicando las estrategias y herramientas del paradigma del desarrollo local, pretende reconocer y analizar los valores patrimoniales y territoriales del olivar de Alcolea (Almería). Éste, a través de un replanteamiento de su papel en la comunidad -ecológico, cultural y paisajístico-, puede ser transformado en una herramienta para el desarrollo endógeno y sostenible, lo que redundará en un aumento de la calidad de vida de los habitantes del entorno.AbstractIn a general framework marked by human and economic decapitalization, as well as by the lack of dynamism and its scarce representation in our society, the Mediterranean rural areas confront the 21st century with precarious perspectives on their own viability and survival. The implications of this process of territorial weakening are enormous, whether focused on the anthropological, demographic, economic or environmental. It is necessary, therefore, to rethink the relationship that Spanish society maintains with this majority part of the territory, which requires tools and the action of agents that provide new perspectives to overcome ineffective actions due to their formality and detachment from the reality of rural areas and their problems.The present work, applying the strategies and tools of the local development paradigm, aims to recognize and analyze the heritage and territorial values of the olive grove of Alcolea (Almería). This, through a rethinking of its ecological, cultural and landscape role, can be transformed into a tool for endogenous and sustainable development, which will result in an improvement in the quality of life of the inhabitants of the area.
Análisis de los impactos del turismo y de los eventos extremos para la determinación de áreas de estrés en los centros históricos de San Juan y Ponce, Puerto Rico
Authors: Sánchez Celada Miguel Ángel
Published: October 2019

Análisis de los impactos del turismo y de los eventos extremos para la determinación de áreas de estrés en los centros históricos de San Juan y Ponce, Puerto Rico. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Director: Manuel Antonio Zárate Martín. Fecha: 10 de julio 2018.
Can erotic capital subvert masculine economy? Aesthetic work and the post-feminist approach to economics / ¿Puede el capital erótico subvertir la economía masculina? Aesthetic work y el enfoque postfeminista hacia la economía
Authors: Valdés Lucas Alicia
Published: October 2019

The aim of this article is to elucidate whether and how the theory of erotic capital may function as a feminist tool to subvert the hierarchies and relations in current economy in favour of the empowerment and liberation of women. Thus, by analyzing the ways in which white, liberal feminism directly constructs its claims and petitions through the absorption of liberal epistemological dogmas, we intend to search the direct relation between the ideology developed by white, cisgender feminists and liberal economics and politics. This article demonstrates how a theory of erotic capital does not lead to a feminist subversion of economy, but reinforces the liberal economic and political system that relies on a masculine and androcentric epistemology. The subjectivity that women can achieve through the exploitation of erotic capital is only as consumers and not as productive agents.El objetivo de este artículo es arrojar luz sobre si el capital erótico puede ser considerado una herramienta feminista para la subversión de las jerarquías y relaciones económicas y favorecer una liberación de las mujeres. Para ello, observaremos cómo el feminismo blanco y liberal, ha construido sus peticiones sin cuestionar los principios fundamentales de la economía liberal con el objetivo de demostrar la relación que existe entre el feminismo blanco liberal cisgénero y el sistema político-económico liberal. Este artículo demuestra que la implementación del capital erótico no conduce a una subversión feminista de la economía, sino que fortalece el sistema económico y político liberal que se fundamenta en una epistemología masculina y androcéntrica. La subjetividad a la que acceden las mujeres por medio del capital erótico es en clave de consumidoras.
La paridad participativa propuesta por Nancy Fraser: ¿Una radicalización de la democracia?
Authors: Vaamonde Gamo Marta
Published: October 2019

Este artículo recoge la propuesta de Nancy Fraser de paridad en la participación como criterio que integra las reivindicaciones más valiosas de otras corrientes feministas con el objetivo de ampliar la justicia social en nuestras sociedades neoliberales. Asimismo, muestra los límites de su formulación: Fraser considera los condicionantes sociales que permitirían la realización de la paridad en la participación, pero no analiza en profundidad los condicionantes subjetivos de los que también depende. Por último, se sugiere superar esos límites ampliando el ideal normativo de Fraser con el pragmatismo de Dewey. El objetivo es visualizar aspectos de la justicia ocultos en la propuesta de Fraser en pro de una radicalización democrática.This article describes Nancy Fraser’s proposal of participatory parity as a criterion for the integration of the most valuable claims of other feminist schools with the goal of increasing social and gender justice within our neoliberal societies. At the same time, it shows its limits: Fraser examines the social constraints that would allow for the implementation of participatory parity, however it lacks a thorough analysis of the subjective constraints on which it also depends. Lastly, it aims to overcome those limits extending Fraser’s normative ideal with Dewey’s pragmatism. The main goal is to highlight aspects of justice hidden in Fraser’s proposal towards a democratic radicalization.
Artist introduction: Death by any other genre would probably not smell as sweet
Authors: Bülow Morten Hillgaard
Published: October 2019

On the next pages you will find three song lyrics which we see as aesthetic contributions to the ethico-political conversations of this issue. We recommend that you read the lyrics first, form your own impression, and then come back to this introduction afterwards to deconstruct them a bit with us.
From Becoming-Woman to Becoming-Imperceptible: Self-Styled Death and Virtual Female Corpse in Digital Portraits of Cancer
Authors: Herges Katja
Published: October 2019

Contemporary textual and visual representations of cancer engage self-reflectively with death and dying, yet they often rely on normative notion of death as the end of an individual life. This article focuses on stylised cancer portraits of the young German Nana Stäcker which she took in collaboration with her mother and professional photographers during her chemotherapy and until her death. Intervening in the field of Queer Death Studies this article explores if and how these images allow us to rethink normative Western notions of death. Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman theory of death and of female subjectivity, I argue that the photo shoots recast Nana’s illness and dying as a gendered and creative process of subject formation beyond individual death. Through creating aestheticised and eroticised camp images, Nana playfully performs und subverts a range of iconic Western femininities and styles both life and death as a constant becoming. Portraits of Nana as virtual female corpse further highlight this continuity of life and death by reinserting death into life. While these images resist a necropolitical engagement with cancer and dying, they suggest an impersonal and affirmative understanding of death that opens up bioethical questions about contemporary cultures of longevity and health.
Escrituras femeninas de su vida (Francia, siglos XVI-XVIII)
Authors: Mouysset Sylvie
Published: October 2019

En 1987, Michelle Perrot mencionó la escasa presencia de mujeres en nuestros archivos públicos y privados: «En el teatro de la memoria, las mujeres son una ligera sombra». Hoy, gracias al importante trabajo realizado recientemente por los historiadores sobre el inventario de los escritos personales, se ha reevaluado afortunadamente la estimación de la toma de la pluma por parte de las mujeres. Su escritura es notable por la extrema hibridación de sus medios y contenidos, desde el papel olvidado sobre una mesa hasta el diario íntimo más grueso.
En la medida de lo posible, observaremos aquí a todas las mujeres, incluso a las más discretas escritoras sin calidad que solo han dejado una frágil huella de sus minúsculas vidas.
En primer lugar, mencionaremos la diversidad de sus escritos y observaremos que las mujeres no se privan de ningún modo de expresión, aunque su presencia sea rara en algunos casos. A continuación, nos centraremos con mayor precisión en lo que hace que su escritura sea tan especial. Al hacerlo, observaremos que un bosque de escritoras probablemente sigue escondido en nuestros archivos y merece ser descubierto.
Daniel P. Grau, «El dit sobre el mapa. Joan Fuster i la descripció del territori», València, Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2017, 409 p.
Authors: Soldevila i Balart Llorenç
Published: October 2019

Ressenya sobre el llibre de Daniel P. Grau, El dit sobre el mapa. Joan Fuster i la descripció del territori, València, Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2017, 409 p., ISBN: 978-84-9134-003-4.
Abel Soler, «Enyego d’Àvalos i l’autoria del “Curial”», València, Institució Alfons el Magnànim-CVEI / Publicacions de la Universitat de València / Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2018, 307 p.
Authors: Gros Lladós Sònia
Published: October 2019

Ressenya sobre el llibre d'Abel Soler, Enyego d’Àvalos i l’autoria del «Curial», València, Institució Alfons el Magnànim-CVEI / Publicacions de la Universitat de València / Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2018, 307 p., ISBN: 978-84-7822-762-4.
Test-Retest Reliability and Response Stability of Gaze Stabilization, Postural Sway, and Dynamic Balance Tests in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis and Controls
Authors: Garg Hina , Schubert Michael C. , Gappmaier Eduard , Sibthorp Jim , Bo Foreman K. , Dibble Leland E.
Published: October 2019

Background:

Psychometric properties of tests that assess the angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (aVOR) and vestibulospinal reflex function are currently unknown. This study investigated the test-retest reliability and response stability of gaze stabilization, postural sway, and dynamic balance measures in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and controls.

Methods:

Nineteen adults with MS and 14 controls performed passive horizontal head impulses, quiet standing, and dynamic balance tests on two separate occasions. Gaze stabilization measures included aVOR gain, number of compensatory saccades (CSs) per head rotation, CS latency, and gaze position error. Postural sway included sway amplitude and total sway path. Dynamic balance measure included the Functional Gait Assessment. Intraclass correlation coefficient, standard error of measurement (SEM, SEM%), and minimal detectable difference at 95% confidence level were calculated.

Results:

Test-retest reliability for aVOR gain, CSs per head rotation, and gaze position error was moderate and for each postural sway and dynamic balance measure was good. Low error (SEM, SEM%) for aVOR gain, CS latency, postural sway, and dynamic balance variables and low minimal detectable difference values for aVOR gain and Functional Gait Assessment scores were seen, suggestive of acceptable response stability.

Conclusions:

These results support the utility of some of the gaze and postural measures for examination and treatment efficacy purposes in people with MS.
Thermoeconomic Performance Analysis of Steam Boilers of a Power Plant Operating with Various Fuels
Authors: MERT Mehmet Selçuk
Published: October 2019

Energy
consumption is one of the most concerned topics of the industry, and the cost
of energy represents a large proportion of operating expenditure for
energy-intensive sectors. In the analysis and design of industrial processes,
mainly thermodynamics is often used with economic principles to obtain the
optimum design for energy-efficient systems. The performance of the system can
be analyzed via applying the conservation principles of energy that is defined
by the first law of thermodynamics. However, only regarding the conservation of
energy is not sufficient to determine the real performance of the system. At
this point, an exergy analysis is done to predict the useful part of the
energy, also to provide the magnitudes and places of the irreversibilities and
losses within the system. Moreover, the thermoeconomic analysis is done for
providing useful information to design and operate a cost-effective system. In
this study, the thermoeconomic analysis of the steam boilers in a power plant
was performed. The simulations of the steam boilers were done by using the Aspen
HYSYS simulation software. The mass, energy and cost balance equations were
obtained for the boilers to determine the effect of various fuels on the
process economics.