bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Tortious Liability of Directors and Officers to Third Parties in Common Law Canada
Authors: O'Byrne Shannon , Philip Yemi , Fraser Katherine
Published: January 2019

The law regarding the tortious liability of corporate directors and officers to third parties remains conflicted. One line of authority, adopted in Alberta, provides that liability is rare in the context of torts committed in a corporate capacity, and it largely closes the door on liability for ordinary negligence. A competing line of authority, however, contends that tortious liability is common. Signalling a different approach, Justice Slatter of the Alberta Court of Appeal provides a policy-based stance that accounts for the importance of both tort law and corporate law principles to the question of liability for ordinary negligence. Beyond offering balance, Justice Slatter’s approach has the benefit of aligning with pronouncements from the Supreme Court of Canada regarding directors’ and officers’ liability in negligence to third parties. This article outlines the current authorities in the area, concluding that Justice Slatter’s judgment provides a clear and principled way forward.
Framed! The Failure of Traditional Agency Cost Explanations for Executive Pay Practices
Authors: Tingle Bryce C.
Published: January 2019

This is the second article in a series exploring the empirical evidence arising from the increasing use of certain executive compensation best practices. The first article, “How Good Are Our ‘Best Practices’ When It Comes to Executive Compensation?” summarizes research findings that these best practices are responsible for most of the growth in executive compensation, and lead to suboptimal corporate performance. It also suggests that the best practices currently in widespread use contradict practices that are often very helpful to directors in setting appropriate incentives in real world circumstances.This article goes on to argue that failures in executive compensation are the result, not of overly powerful CEOs confronting supine boards, but rather of directors and management earnestly striving to follow bad “best practices” promulgated by the corporate governance industry. This can be seen in: (1) the pattern of cause and effect distinguishable in the history of changing North American and British pay practices; (2) the link between these questionable pay practices and various measures of board independence and managerial weakness; and (3) the increasing use of these pay practices in circumstances of increased shareholder power. The most obvious solution is to increase board autonomy in setting pay. Regulatory steps for doing so lay close at hand, and in some cases have been discussed for years.
Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments in Canadian Inter-Partner Family Law Court Disputes
Authors: Netolitzky Donald J.
Published: January 2019

This article addresses the phenomenon of Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments (OPCA) from the lens of inter-partner disputes. The author begins by briefly reviewing the history of OPCA in Canada, and then proceeds to conduct a Canada-wide survey of OPCA judgments that involve inter-spouse conflict. One of the primary cases focused on is the Alberta judgment, Meads v. Meads. The author finds that there are few OPCA judgments to draw from, which he concludes is a result of the character of OPCA pseudolegal concepts. These concepts are typically intended to target government and institutional actors, rather than private individuals, meaning that these arguments are ill suited to family law situations.
An Action on the Equities: Re-Characterizing Bhasin as Equitable Estoppel
Authors: Maharaj Krish
Published: January 2019

In its 2014 decision of Bhasin v. Hrynew, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized that a duty of honest performance exists between contracting parties. Academics, practitioners, and courts across the nation have since contemplated the meaning and role of such a duty. This article looks to Australia’s doctrine of “equitable estoppel,” the equivalent of Canada’s “promissory estoppel,” to explain the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision. It thereby posits that the duty of honest performance can be re-characterized and interpreted as equitable estoppel. In that manner, the article provides a perspective that clarifies the newly proclaimed duty, and potentially answers several of the outstanding questions regarding the Supreme Court’s conclusions in Bhasin.
Foreignness and Otherness in Pedagogical Contexts
Authors: Lippitz Wilfried
Published: January 2019

This paper considers the issue of alterity in education, first defining the question of the "other" or the "foreign" as it appears in a number of educational discourses and contexts. The paper then presents two different, historically-localizable aspects of the pedagogical encounter with foreignness or otherness. Both of these are associated with periods that have an important place in German cultural and intellectual history. The first is the transition from the middle ages to the early-modern period, the time of John Amos Comenius' Orbis Sensualium Pictus. Despite the achievements of this particular work as an encyclopedic and pedagogical introduction to the "visible world," it presents a rather deleterious treatment of the foreign in its contemporaneous manifestation in Northern Europe. The second historical period is the 19th century, and what is of principle concern here is the treatment of the foreign in grand, synthetic neo-humanistic theories of time. While the processes of dialectical assimilation and integration to which the foreign or other was subjected in these theories were not as explicit or overt as in preceding periods, they are still comparable in terms of their ultimate effect. This paper concludes by considering two 20th century articulations of education or Bildung in which the irreducible presence of the foreign or other in human development is explicitly acknowledged and affirmed, and the issue of its respect and recouperation is directly addressed, sometimes with significant and valuable consequences for pedagogy.
Immigrant Children's Bodily Engagement in Accessing Their Lived Experiences of Immigration: Creating Poly-Media Descriptive Texts
Authors: Kirova Anna , Emme Michael
Published: January 2019

In this paper, we explore the role of the lived body in meaningful understanding beyond linguistic conceptualization in phenomenologically oriented inquiries. In this exploration we consider the role of visuality (i.e., still photography) and enactment (i.e., tableau) as possibilities for accessing meaning beyond language-bound descriptions of the phenomenon of moving childhoods--that is, children's lived experiences of immigration. We suggest that immigration is an experience that interrupts the familiarity of the lifeworld, and thus brings immigrant children's awareness of their bodies to a conscious level. We ask: What methods of inquiry can be used to access more directly the "embodied understanding" and, in particular, the lifeworlds of immigrant children as they leave the familiar "home world" and enter the "alien world" of a new school? In addressing this question, we focus on one aspect of phenomenological inquiry--gathering experiential accounts, or lived experience descriptions, in investigating childhood phenomena--which presents a particular challenge to researchers working with young children. We present an example of a method that bridges hermeneutic phenomenology and arts-based research methodology (i.e., fotonovela) developed specifically to engage immigrant children bodily in accessing their lived experiences of their first day of school in the host country, and in the development of a polymedia text showing these experiences. We believe that the example demonstrates how fotonovela facilitates immigrant children’s recollection of and reflection on their experience of being at the door of a new classroom. Moreover, the production of visual texts, when shared with or read by others, has an evocative power similar to that of a phenomenological text. Thus, we argue, fotonovela is a particularly suitable method for engaging children in developing polymedia descriptive texts about their lived experiences.
Becoming Horse in the Duration of the Moment: The Trainer's Challenge
Authors: Smith Stephen
Published: January 2019

Language skirts the somatic fringes of the moment, particularly in practices where the powers of human speech and writing seem nullified. Horse training is one such practice. We tell stories of horse training that sensitize us and bring us close to creatures whose movements, resonating with our own, connect us to a prelinguistic, animate world. In so doing, we bridge the gap between the reflective detachment of our customary, wordy practices and the wordlessness of pre-reflective animality. Yet a phenomenological discursiveness shows us how vital moments of “becoming animal” can be consciously and linguistically sustained. “Becoming horse in the duration of the moment” addresses the corporeally-charged consciousness of being with horses on the ground and in the saddle. This paper describes a relationality and temporality that, though mostly wordless in strictly human terms, speaks a sophisticated language of moment resonance. In so doing, it contests the dualisms of verbal and non-verbal discourses, the separation of humans and other animals, and the divisions that keep somaticity on the fringes of consciousness. It responds to the ecological challenge to get beyond the linguistic appropriation of the other, human speciesism and anthropomorphic projections, in order to discern the kinesthetic and energetic expressivities of connecting with other beings and with the elements of animate existence. Horse training provides a case for “living” in the somatic fullness of the moment.
Ethical Responsivity and Pediatric Parental Pedagogy
Authors: Van Manen Michael
Published: January 2019

This article explores the experience of ethical responsivity from the perspective of the parent whose child requires medical care. The concern is with the lived meaning of ethics itself as it originates and wells up in the parent’s experience of being touched by his or her child. Examples are taken from the practice of neonatal-perinatal medicine where newborns require hospitalization for issues such as prematurity, transitional problems, congenital abnormalities, and so forth. Here, the condition of the child and the techno-medical environment itself have the potential of complicating the touching contact of parent and child.
Pandemic and Pedagogy: Elementary School Teachers’ Experience of H1N1 Influenza in the Classroom
Authors: Howard Patrick , Howard Joy
Published: January 2019

This study examined elementary school teachers’ experience of pandemic preparedness efforts by provincial and local agencies in Nova Scotia, Canada during the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic. Eleven (11) elementary teachers were surveyed and interviewed and their responses analyzed to determine themes that have pedagogical significance for both education and health promotion. Teachers surveyed experienced a profound sense of responsibility for the children for whom they act in loco parentis. Teachers perceived themselves to be infection control agents and acted on behalf of students to mitigate the spread of the disease. Due to the unique relationship between elementary teachers and children there were high levels of fear and anxiety experienced. Teachers felt fearful for their personal safety and for the health and well-being of their students and reported high levels of anxiety in children. Elementary teachers, who are on the front line of pandemic response, need to be central to administrative efforts to prepare, educate and provide training for those in contact with a high number of vulnerable populations. Further research is required on the experiences of middle school, secondary teachers and principals at all levels of schooling.
The Call of Pedagogy as the Call of Contact
Authors: Manen Max van
Published: January 2019

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Seeing Pedagogically, Telling Phenomenologically: Addressing the Profound Complexity of Education
Authors: Saevi Tone , Foran Andrew
Published: January 2019

The paper exemplifies how we as teachers see children, and indicates ways of understanding the existential educational meanings of what we see. The authors suggest that the phenomenon of seeing is a personal and relational intentional act that opens up, as well as delimits educational practice. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach to education is suggested and the thought of seeing and telling as interwoven representations is put forth. However, despite a phenomenological inquiry’s immense qualities as a pre-reflective experiential source to understanding, the authors believe that phenomenology cannot overcome or erase the aporetic unavailability of a pedagogical practice and a pedagogical-ethical language. The paper intends to show that seeing pedagogically always will be more complex, paradoxical and unsettled than what can be shown and told phenomenologically.
Pedagogical Hope
Authors: Ayala Carabajo Raquel
Published: January 2019

This paper explores the experience of pedagogical hope from educators’ viewpoints. Starting from a multidisciplinary study, it has been developed through the collection and analysis of descriptions of experiences lived by educators, which have revealed some essential points: realism, sense of wonder, patience, and openness, among others. The discovery of the powerful and fundamental influence of hope in the lives of teachers exercising their role, assistants, school counselors, as well as in the lives of the children and youth whom they have been entrusted, leads us to preserve and attest to it.
Coming To Craft and Coming Of Age: Teaching Advanced Placement English In The Classroom-Workshop
Authors: Borenzweig Suzanne Rachel
Published: January 2019

This article explores the lived experiences of Advanced Placement English teachers in public high school, as the author addresses the question: "What is it like to teach Advanced Placement English while caught in the tension between teaching and testing?" The phenomenological text constructed from conversations and written reflections with six Advanced Placement teachers brings forth aspects of the experience of dwelling aright in the Zone of Between in AP English teaching: between teaching and testing, high school and college, and childhood and adulthood. The teachers use the exam as a foundation for courage and encouragement, confidence and passion building, and creative ways-of-being with students. The study suggests a need for Advanced Placement teachers to participate in the development of curriculum, to retain the autonomy to teach from the self, and to be trusted to provide students with meaningful experiences in the art and craft of literature study. The article also reveals the importance of widening the narrow definition of student achievement to include more than test scores.
Making contact: Experiences from the weight loss surgical clinic
Authors: Glenn Nicole M.
Published: January 2019

Weight loss surgery is an increasingly common treatment for medically defined class III obesity and related comorbidities. A rise in demand has resulted in progressively longer waiting times in Canada, lasting upwards of ten years. Extended surgical waits impact the lives of people pursuing the procedure, no doubt – I wonder in what way? What is the experience of waiting to have weight loss surgery? I sought to explore this question using a human science approach to phenomenology of practice. It is within this broader inquiry that this particular text is situated. The multiple interviews I conducted with people who were awaiting surgery revealed the experiential import of contact, of touch, metaphorical and otherwise, to the overall waiting phenomenon. In this paper I consider this particular dimension of the wait – I question the experiences and meanings of contact that occur within the pre-weight loss surgical period. I reflect on the possible ethical and clinical significance of contact within this particular context while focusing on the relational aspect of the phenomenon, particularly between patient and clinician. Ultimately this deeper understanding of the experience as it is lived may elicit new and possibly more tactful ways of being with, of making contact – as in touch, hearing from or connecting with – within weight loss surgery-related clinical encounters.
Technology help seeking and help giving in an intercultural community of student life
Authors: Tannis Derek
Published: January 2019

This paper presents a particular aspect of ‘being online’: the embodied, lived experience of interacting with digital devices and computer screens, involving seeking and giving help to learn and teach skills and abilities that are often taken for granted in our “wired world”.  The article includes analysis and reflection on a phenomenological study involving international students who arrived at their Canadian post-secondary institutions with limited or no background using computers and the Internet.    This exploration leads to an enriched perspective on technology support and training.   Meaningful, hands-on, task-oriented support is revealed as an ethical inter-subjective lived relation, experienced as reciprocity in an intercultural community of student life.
The return of pedagogic: On the Dutch translation of Klaus Mollenhauer’s Vergessene Zusammenhänge
Authors: Pols Woulter
Published: January 2019

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Differentiating Scholarly Generations: On Hitler’s child soldiers, 60’s Revolutionaries and Forgotten Connections
Authors: Aßmann Alex
Published: January 2019

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An elementary educational issue of our times? Klaus Mollenhauer’s (un)contemporary concern
Authors: Masschelein Jan
Published: January 2019

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"My Body Can Do Magical Things" The Movement Experiences of a Man Categorized as Obese –A Phenomenological Study
Authors: Rugseth Gro , Standal Øyvind
Published: January 2019

From a medical perspective, exercise and physical activity are valuable tools for losing weight, through an increase in energy expenditure. However, beyond this instrumental value, physical activity has meaning for the person experiencing it. Among individuals categorized as obese, that meaning is often problematic. The aim of this paper is to produce essential knowledge about one young man's embodied experiences of practicing martial art. Through a phenomenological analysis of research material concerning the young man’s passionate relationship to martial arts, we identify ways in which someone who has a body often regarded negatively, might still derive great pleasure from his movement experiences.
Writing the in-between spaces: Discovering Hermeneutic-Phenomenological seeing in Dadaabi Refugee Camp, Kenya
Authors: Kalisha Wills
Published: January 2019

In this paper, I explore my journey of discovering the meaning of pedagogy and phenomenology as a research methodology while doing my master’s thesis. Like new researchers in any field, we have a journey that we travel which is often marked with uncertainty and a lack of clarity, especially with regard to methodological considerations. I describe what seeing pedagogy entails for me as I write phenomenologically. I also outline the difficulties and tensions present as I weave my way into writing. I use personal examples of struggles that I encountered in the writing process that are characteristic of phenomenological methodology.
A Phenomenological Investigation of the Presencing of Space
Authors: Mata Francisco
Published: January 2019

In this paper the author explores certain fulfilling personal experiences that he describes as the presencing of space, i.e. the way in which an individual’s spatial involvement may put him or her in contact with reality as a whole. These experiences are investigated from a phenomenological perspective, and the differences between them and other similar experiences, such as that of the sublime or topophilia, are highlighted. A neologism is introduced: topoaletheia (from the Greek topos, space understood as region, and aletheia, disclosure) to name a distinctive type of spatial experience. This concept may enrich the discussion about our involvement with space in our built environments.
Editorial: "Lived Things"
Authors: Adams Catherine , Yin Yin
Published: January 2019

"Lived Things"
The Vanity Drawer
Authors: Goble Erika
Published: January 2019

The vanity is often considered a piece of traditional furniture for female beautification. Although it has changed form over time, some variant of the vanity drawer continues to exist in many men’s and women’s households. This article considers the unique roles that vanity drawers—in their various shapes and forms—can play in our daily life and the different meanings it can hold.
Voice No Voice Counter Voice...
Authors: Saevi Tone
Published: January 2019

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Nikâh Akdi ve Vasîlik Bağlamında Aksaray ve Çevre Yerleşimlerde Kadınlar ile Çocukların Hak Arama Hukuku (1742-1743)
Authors: AYGÜN Necmettin
Published: January 2019

Osmanlı Devleti, kadın ve çocukların haklarını koruma hususunda hukuk sistemini oluşturmuş ve işletebilmiş nadir devlet teşekküllerinden biridir. Osmanlı’da yetim kalan çocukların sahipsiz bırakılmayarak, korunmaları ve iyi yetiştirilmeleri esastı. Bu doğrultuda Osmanlı mahkemesi, yetime buluğ çağına gelinceye kadar, babadan intikal eden mülkünü idare edebilmek için bir “vasî” ve onu ileriki hayatına hazırlamak için de bir “velî” tayin etmekteydi. Vasî ataması, uygulamada, öncelikle ebeveynler veya yakın akrabalar arasından yapılmaktaydı. Bu durum, yetimlerin sahipsiz kalmalarına engel olmak ve böylelikle neslin devamını sağlama almak maksadının yanında, mirasın yabancıya gitmesine engel olmak amacı da taşıyordu. Yetimler buluğ çağına ulaştıklarında ise, ebeveynlerinden kendilerine intikal eden her türlü hakkı, mahkeme kanalıyla takip edip üzerlerine alabilmekteydiler. Osmanlı dünyasında, yetimler gibi, kadınlar da hukukî korumaya sahip idiler. Bu bağlamda Osmanlı kültüründe nikâh akdi, aile kurumunu yaşatmada “ana unsur” olarak görülmüş ve “nikâhlı olmak”, aile müessesesinde birtakım hukukî kazanımların garantisi olarak titizlikle uygulanmıştır. Bu çerçevede zaman zaman nikâhlı veya evli kadınlar gayr-ı kanunî müdahalelere maruz kaldıklarında şikâyetleri üzerine devletin müdahalesi ile adaletin tesisi mümkün olabiliyor; böylece mağduriyetleri bir ölçüde en aza indirgenebiliyordu.
İslâm Tarihinin Yazımında Hadis(çi)-Tarih(çi) İlişkisi -Hicret örneği-
Authors: DEMİREL Harun Reşit
Published: January 2019

Tarihin en önemli olaylarından birisi de hiç şüphesiz hicret olayıdır. Hz. Peygamber (s.a.v.), müşriklerin baskısı altında sıkıntı çeken ashabının daha rahat ibadet edebilecekleri yerlere hicret etmelerini tavsiye etmiştir. Hz. Peygamber (s.a.v.)’in bu tavsiyesine uyan ilk Müslümanlar önce Habeşistan’a ardından da Medine’ye hicret etmişlerdir. Kurân-ı Kerîm’de onların bu kutsal yolculuğundan övgüyle bahsedilmektedir. Her ne kadar bu olay mekânsal açıdan Müslümanların Mekke’den Medine’ye göçünü ifade etse de tarihi süreçte inananların hayatını çeşitli açılardan etkilemiştir. Hz. Peygamber (s.a.v.) ashabına hicreti tavsiye ettiği gibi kendisi de doğup büyüdüğü Mekke’den dostu Hz. Ebû Bekir ile yola çıkmış ve bu hicret yolculuğunda müşriklerin tüm engelleme ve tuzaklarına rağmen İslam’a kucak açan Medine’ye ulaşmış ve böylelikle İslam dini açısından yeni bir dönem başlamıştır. Bu çalışmada siyer kaynaklarıyla hadis edebiyatının değişik konuları altında serpilmiş bir şekilde bulunan hadisler mukayese edilerek hadis kaynaklarındaki bu haberlerle hicret örneğinde olduğu gibi bir siyer yazılıp yazılmayacağı araştırılacaktır. Yine bu bağlamda hadisçi-tarihçi ilişkisi –varsa- incelenecektir.
İdeolojinin Kur’ân Yorumuna Yansıması -Mevdûdî’nin Yûsuf Sûresi 76. Âyetini Tefsiri Özelinde-
Authors: NAROL Süleyman , ERSÖZ Muhammed
Published: January 2019

Her müfessir, döneminin siyasi, sosyal ve kültürel ortamından etkilenmiştir. Buna müfessirin kendi bilgi birikimi, ideolojisi, düşünce sistemindeki öncelikleri ve vazgeçilmezleri eklenince ortaya koyduğu yorumlar da hiç kuşkusuz bu etkilerden bağımsız olmayacaktır. Bu durum zamanla Kur’ân yorumunda âyetin tarihsel bağlamından uzak yorumların ortaya çıkmasına neden olmuştur. Mevdûdî de sömürge sonrası Hint alt kıtasında ortaya çıkmış olan yeni siyasi ortama uygun olarak benimsediği söylemi Kur’ân yorumuna yansıtmıştır. Onun söyleminin yansımalarından birisi de Yûsuf Sûresi 76. âyeti hakkındaki yorumudur. Mevdûdî, bu ifadeyi ilk muhataplardan gelen rivâyetlere ve genel kabule aykırı olarak kendi siyasi ve ideolojik görüşleri bağlamında yorumlamakta ve kendi görüşüne uymayan yorumları dil kuralları açısından tenkit etmektedir. Hâlbuki bahse konu olan ifadeye dair, rivâyet tefsirlerinde ve erken tefsir kaynaklarında Mevdûdî’nin görüşünü destekleyen herhangi bir argümana rastlamak mümkün değildir. Mevdûdî’yi bu şekilde yorumlamaya sevk eden en önemli etkenlerden birisi, yaşadığı dönemin refleksif bir tavrı olarak değerlendirilebilir. Bu, Kur’ân yorumunda insan unsurunun ne denli etkili ve belirleyici bir unsur olduğunu ortaya koyması bakımından oldukça önemlidir. Bu çalışmamızda öncelikle kısaca Mevdûdî’nin yaşadığı siyasal ortam ve onun siyasi görüşlerine değinilecektir. Akabinde çalışmamıza konu olan âyetin Kur’ân’ın ilk muhatapları tarafından nasıl yorumlandığı ortaya konularak âyetin anlam-yorum çerçevesi belirlenecektir. Bir sonraki aşamada da Mevdûdî’nin bunca rivâyetleri göz ardı ederek eleştirel bir bakışla yorumlamasının gerekçeleri tespit edilmeye çalışılacaktır.
المال الحرام فقه التصرف فيه و التعامل مع أصحابه
Authors: ELMEDENİ Enes
Published: January 2019

يتناول هذا البحث قضية من القضايا المهمة والمعاصرة في حياة كل مسلم، ألا وهي قضية المال الحرام، كيفية التصرف فيه، وكيفية التعامل مع أصحابه، فقد يكتسب المسلم المال الحرام لسبب من الأسباب سواءٌ أكان بقصد أو بغير قصد، ثم يرغب في تطهير ماله، والتخلص منه وفق الأحكام والقواعد الشرعية، أو قد يتعامل المسلم مع أصحاب المال الحرام، فيحتار في كيفية التعامل معهم دون الوقوع في الحرام.
من خلال البحث أحاول الإجابة عن هذه الإشكالية عبر تقسيم الموضوع إلى ثلاثة أقسام، القسم الأول خصص لبيان مفهوم المال الحرام عند العلماء واختيار التعريف الراجح له، ومن ثم بيان أقسام وأنواع المال الحرام. أما القسم الثاني فنشير فيه إلى المصارف الشرعية الممكنة للتخلص من المال الحرام، ونذكر خلاف العلماء في جواز إنفاق الحائز للمال الحرام على نفسه، أو استخدامه له، والشروط الواجب توفرها لجواز ذلك. أما القسم الثالث والأخير فأشرنا فيه إلى أهم قواعد التعامل مع أصحاب المال الحرام، سواء أكان المال مالاً حراماً خالصاً أو مختلطاً بالمال الحلال، وسواء أكان متيقناً من وجوده، أو مشكوكاً فيه.
Bizans Topraklarında Bir Mücahit: Abdülvehhâb Gazi
Authors: YÜKSEL Mücahit
Published: January 2019

Abdülvehhâb b. Buht (ö. 113/732) ya da meşhur adıyla Abdülvehhâb Gazi, hayatını hem ilmî çalışmalarla hem de cihat ile geçirmiş bir şahsiyettir. Anlatılanlara göre, Battal Gazi (ö. 113/732), Ahmet Turan Gazi (ö. 113/732) ve Abdülvehhâb Gazi Anadolu topraklarının İslâmlaşması için mücadele etmişlerdir. Battal Gazi ile birlikte Rûm topraklarına yapılan gazvelere katılmış ve 113/732 senesinde şehit olmuştur. Anlatıldığına göre 732 yılında Emevî komutanı Mesleme b. Abdülmelik (ö. 121/739), büyük bir ordu ile Bolvadin’e gelir ve burada Akrenon (Afyon) kalesini kuşatır. Rumlara karşı verilen mücadelelerde Abdülvehhâb Gazi’nin kahramanlıklarına şahit olunmuştur. Askerlerin kaçtığını gördüğü zaman onları savaşa devam etmeleri için teşvik etmiştir. Abdülvehhâb Gazi, hadis ile de meşgul olmuştur. İbni Ömer, Enes ve Ebû Hüreyre’den hadis rivâyet etmiştir. Yaşadığı dönemde önemli hizmetler yapmış olmasına rağmen çok fazla tanınmayan bu kahramanın da gelecek nesillere örnek olarak sunulması gerekmektedir. Abdülvehhâb Gazi hakkında kaynaklarda yeterince malumat mevcut değildir. Bu sebeple makalemiz, eldeki veriler oranında onun kişiliği, hayatı, ilim ve cihat alanındaki faaliyetleri ile sınırlı tutulmuştur.
Communication Skills in Handling Hoteliers' Grievances
Authors: Sapungan Ronel M. , Aceron Romel M. , Lat Lucina S. , M. Angeles Gea Micquelle , G. Gaspacho Jonil , P. Legion Maica Angela
Published: January 2019

Communication skills in handling hoteliers’ grievances have been a great concern in hospitality industry. Hence, this descriptive research was conducted to assess the extent of communication skills of the respondents in handling grievances relative to commissive, declarative, expressive, and representative. It determined the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of age, gender, civil status, status of employment, position, and role of committee on grievances. It also determined if there was a significant difference on the respondents’ assessment of communication skills handling hoteliers’ grievances when grouped according to their profile. It was conducted to provide input to have effective communication skills in handling grievances. The researchers used descriptive research method in order to assess the communication skills in handling hoteliers’ grievances. There were no sampling techniques used in the study. The researchers limited their respondents to fifteen hoteliers and members of grievance committee. The survey questionnaire served as data gathering tool while frequency, weighted mean, and ANOVA were used to test the communication skills in handling grievances. The researchers found out that majority of the grievance committee members in the selected hotel establishments were in the age of 24-38, male, married employee with a regular permanent job. The study found out that there was no significant difference on the assessment of the respondents when they were grouped according to their profile. It further revealed communication skills of members in handling hoteliers’ grievances was highly observed. Based on the findings, the researchers proposed a course of action as input for effective communication skills in handling grievances.
Feature Identification for Non-Intrusively Extracting Occupant Energy-Use Information in Office Buildings
Authors: Nabizadeh Rafsanjani Hamed
Published: January 2019

Detailed energy-use information of office buildings’ occupants is necessary to implement proper simulation/intervention techniques. However, acquiring accurate occupant-specific energy consumption in office buildings at low cost is currently a challenging task since existing intrusive load monitoring (ILM) technologies require a large capital investment to provide high-resolution electricity usage data for individual occupants. On the other hand, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) approaches have been proven as more cost effective and flexible approaches to provide energy-use information of individual appliances. Therefore, extending the concept of NILM to individual occupants would be beneficial. This paper proposes two occupancy-related energy-consuming features, delay interval and magnitude of power changes and evaluates their significances for extracting occupant-specific power changes in a non-intrusive manner. The proposed features were examined through implementing a logistic regression model as a predictor on aggregate energy load data collected from an office building. Hypotheses tests also confirmed that both features are statistically significant to non-intrusively derive individual occupants’ energy-use information. As the main contribution of this study, these features could be utilized in developing sophisticated NILM-based approaches to monitor individual occupant energy-consuming behavior.
Effect of Emergency Care Process Optimization on Rescue Efficiency of Emergency Patients
Authors: Wang Huifei
Published: January 2019

This paper discusses the impact of emergency care process optimization on the rescue efficiency of emergency patients. Methods: 102 cases of emergency patients received from January 2017 to February 2018 in our hospital were selected as research objects. According to the order of treatment, they were divided into control group and observation group. The routine nursing process was given to the control group, and the observation group was given an optimized nursing process to compare the rescue efficiency and nursing satisfaction of the two groups. Results: According to the results of the study, the nursing satisfaction of the two groups was compared. Among them, the total satisfaction of the observation group was 49, accounting for 96.07%; the control group was very satisfied with the nursing work, accounting for 82.35%. There was a significant difference in nursing satisfaction between the two groups, which was statistically significant (P<0.05). Comparing the rescue efficiency of the two groups of patients, the observation time, rescue time, infusion time and disease remission time were significantly lower than the control group, the rescue success rate was 94.11%, and the rescue success rate of the control group was 78.43%. The results have statistical significance (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The optimization of emergency nursing process can greatly improve the rescue efficiency of emergency patients, reduce the disability rate and mortality, improve the quality of nursing, and enhance the satisfaction of nursing. It is worthy of clinical promotion practice.
Effects of Xuezhikang (Red Yeast Rice) on Blood lipids, Hemorheology and the Expression of P65 and Tissue Factor in Atherosclerotic Rats
Authors: Yang Yabing , Liu Meilin
Published: January 2019

Objective: To observe the effects of Xuezhikang (red yeast rice) on blood lipids, blood rheology, and expression of P65 and tissue factor, and to explore the anti-atherosclerosis effect and related mechanisms of Xuezhikang (red yeast rice). Methods: 32 Wistar rats were randomly divided into normal control group, Xuezhikang treatment group, lovastatin treatment group and atherosclerosis model group (8 in each group). blood lipids, blood rheology, malondialdehyde (MDA), total antioxidant capacity (t-AOc), and expression of aortic tissue factor (tF) and P65 were measured in each group. results: (1) Both Xuezhikang and lovastatin could reduce blood lipid levels, but there was no significant difference between the two groups; (2) Both Xuezhikang and lovastatin can improve the hemorheology of atherosclerotic rats, but the difference between the two groups is not signifcant; (3) Compared with lovastatin, Xuezhikang inhibited the expression of TF and P65 in aorta of rats with atherosclerosis; (4) Compared with lovastatin, the Xuezhikang group had lower MDA levels and higher T-AOC. Conclusion: Xuezhikang can improve blood lipid levels and hemorheology in rats with atherosclerosis. Compared with lovastatin, Xuezhikang has stronger effects on inhibiting oxidative stress and down-regulating the expression of tissue factor and P65.
Study on the Effect of High Quality Nursing on the Compliance of Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B
Authors: Yang Huiling
Published: January 2019

objective: to explore the effect of high quality nursing on the compliance of patients with chronic Hepatitis B (CHB), and to use it as a reference for clinical nursing. Methods: 42 patients with chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) admitted in our infectious department within one year in 2014 were selected for traditional nursing care, 54 patients were selected for quality nursing, and the two groups were used as control group and study group, respectively. The drug compliance of the two groups was compared. Conclusion: for patients with chronic Hepatitis B, the use of quality nursing can improve their compliance to take medicine and arouse their enthusiasm subjectively, which is very important for the improvement of their condition. The effect is satisfactory to most patients and family members.
Caracterización de un glosario sobre el léxico gastronómico de las matronas de Mulaló
Authors: De la Cruz Melo José Alfonso
Published: January 2019

Objetivo: describir el léxico gastronómico de las matronas de Mulaló y su vinculación con conocimientos y saberes ancestrales expresados a través de rituales, prácticas y destrezas culinarias mulaleñas.

Metodología: en esta investigación descriptiva con enfoque cualitativo se aplicó la entrevista y la observación como técnicas de recolección de la información que permitieron revelar la existencia de un glosario y gastronómico y los aspectos y sentidos que han favorecido que las mujeres mulaleñas sean reconocidas como pilares fundamentales de su comunidad.

Resultados: las matronas de Mulaló, a través de la ritualidad de sus prácticas gastronómicas, se han apropiado de un saber ancestral y patrimonial que se constituye en un componente fundamental para la pervivencia de su comunidad; todo esto, materializado en la compilación del léxico específico de la gastronomía mulaleña en un glosario, del cual se concretó una caracterización lexicográfica.

Conclusiones: se resalta el aspecto simbólico presente en el oficio gastronómico de las matronas mulaleñas, ya que es fundamental en el desarrollo de la representación que ellas hacen de su oficio a través de su discurso. Los mulaleños entrañan un fuerte sentido por el término “matrona”, componente ancestral que liga el saber gastronómico, la inclusión de la mujer dentro de la especificidad de la matrona y el valor de la familia en esta inclusión.
Public Policies Between Theory and Practice
Authors: Gómez Arias Rubén Darío
Published: January 2019

Objective: this Reflection paper intends to question some theoretical issues that cloud the practice and whose improvement could increase the social benefit of management.

Methodology: an interpretative and critical reflection was made on the social phenomenon of Public Policies (PP); thus, the analysis of some issues from the fundamental theoretical perspectives on the subject were taken into account such as the cited original sources. This reflection was particularly focused on five issues to help understand the rationality of PP and their performance: the formal issues, the actors, the contexts, the processes, and the results.

Results: It was found that in many social scenarios, including academic, the PPs are introduced as technocratic options that political leaders assume neutrally and rationally for the benefit of people. Although this concept is very interesting, it is ideological and far from reality. The PPs are political devices that were developed in late modernity to control the tangible and intangible resources of society, and, as such, they are administered by different subgroups in defense of their own interests. Unlike the aim of the official discourse, the PPs are not always decisions made in favor of public interests, rather they are changeable expressions of social conflicts between antagonistic groups fighting for their own benefit.

Conclusions: beyond technical matters, the PPs are political issues whose main characteristic comes from the particular interests of their defenders. The PPs have become a good opportunity to face and solve priority public problems.
REDESAIN MATA PISAU ALAT PENCACAH BONGGOL JAGUNG
Authors: Harun Dayuwanto , Djafar Romi , Ginting Agus Susanto
Published: January 2019

Bongkol jagung merupakan salah satu limbah dari tanaman jagung yang tidak memiliki nilai ekonomi di Indonesia. Kandungan nutrisi bongkol jagung berdasarkan analisis di Laboratorium Ilmu Makanan Ternak meliputi kadar air, bahan kering, protein kasar dan serat kasar berturut-turut sebagai berikut 29,54; 70,45; 2,67 dan 46,52% dalam 100% bahan kering. Bongkol jagung sangat potensial untuk dapat dikembangkan sebagai pakan ruminansia. Namun untuk pengolahannya dibutuhkan suatu mesin yang bisa menghancurkan bongkol jagung kering ini hingga menjadi partikel kecil berukuran 1mm atau krang dari 1mm untuk pakan ternak atau bahan campuran pakan ternak. Untuk itu, dengan berkembangnya ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, perlu diciptakan inovasi untuk meningkatkan nilai ekonomis dan pemanfaatannya sebagai pakan ternak. “Redasin Mata Pisau Alat Pencacah Bonggol Jagung” dengan Kapasitas 23,11gr/jam sebagai Pakan Ternak” dimaksudkan untuk membantu para peternak, agar bisa memanfaatkan limbah bongkol jagung kering untuk pakan ternak. Setelah dilakukan perancangan mesin pencacah bonggol jagung, diperoleh dimensi dan ukuran mesin yang sesuai dengan standar yang ada, seperti daya motor penggerak yang digunakan, diameter poros yang digunakan, ukuran pulley dan jenis sabuk yang digunakan, serta komponen-komponen mesin lainnya. Sehingga akan dihasilkan mesin pencacah bonggol jagung dengan biaya yang lebih efisien dan terjangkau dan hasil produksinya juga sesuai dengan yang diharapkan.
Long-term results of treatment of varycose disease by metod of endovasal laser coagulation
Authors: B. O. Matviychuk  , N. R. Fedchyshyn
Published: January 2019

The aim —  to analyse the post‑operative results of treatment of patients with varicose disease after surgery with the endothermal method.Materials and methods. The research analysis covered 129 patients who underwent surgery for varicose disease of the great saphenous vein of C2–C6 class by CEAP for the period from 1.03.2016 to 12.09.2017. The average age of the patients was (43.4 ± 11.2) years. Among patients, women prevailed (76.1 %). CEAP class C2 was diagnosed in 39 (30.2 %) patients, C3 — in 47 (36.3 %) patients, C4 — in 21 (16.3 %) patients, C5 — in 9 (6.9 %) patients, C6 — in 13 (10 3 %) patients. The mean diameter of the great saphenous vein was determined by ultrasonographic examination in the vertical position of the patient. In the middle third part of the thigh, it was 0.9 ± 0.3 cm, in the area of the sapheno‑femoral anastomosis at the confluence of the vena epigastrica superficialis — 1.0 ± 0.2 cm.Results and discussion. The frequency of recanalization of the coagulated vein after 1 year was 4.6 %, recurrence of varicose disease — 8.3 %, skin irritation — 1.8 %, ecchymosis — 0.9 %, erythema — 0.9 %, hyperpigmentation — 1.8 %.Conclusions. The results obtained indicate a high efficiency of the endovasal laser coagulation method. Most of the complications are sporadic and do not significantly affect the overall satisfactory end result: the frequency of recanalization of the vein after one year was 4.6 %.
Prognostic significance of soluble ST2 as predictor of late left ventricular remodeling after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
Authors: O. V. Petyunina  , M. P. Kopytsya  , A. E. Berezin
Published: January 2019

The aim — to study the prognostic value of soluble ST2 regarding the development of pathological left ventricular remodeling (LVR) 6 months after acute ST‑ segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)Materials and methods. The study included 65 retrospectively selected patients with STEMI who were hospitalized in the intensive care unit of L. T. Malaya National Institute of Therapy of National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine for the period from January 2016 to June 2018 after myocardial revascularization. All patients had a recovery in TIMI III blood flow. Among the patients, men with a middle age 58.71 ± 11.04 years (83.1 %) prevailed. Ultrasound diagnosis with the determination of the longitudinal strain was conducted. The level of sST2 and N‑terminal cerebral natriuretic peptide was determined by ELISA. Patients were monitored for 6 months. According to the results of the re‑examination, two subgroups were identified, depending on the development of pathological LVR: in the first group, the increase in the endodiastolic LV volume was more than 10 % (n = 29), in the second — less than 10 % (n = 36).Results and discussion. Using ROC‑analysis, it was established that sST2 level > 35 ng/ml during the hospitalization period of STEMI is a predictor of pathological LVR 6 months after successful percutaneous coronary intervention (AUC = 0.672; 95 % confidence interval — 0.523 — 0.799, p = 0.0344, sensitivity — 46.7 %, specificity — 85.7 %). A single and multivariate log‑regression analysis revealed that sST2 > 35 ng/ml was an independent predictor of the development of late LVR.Conclusions. The serum sST2 level of more than 35 ng/ml in patients with STEMI after successful percutaneous coronary intervention with the bloodstream in the infarct‑dependent artery TIMI III is associated with abnormal LVR, which can be used to stratify its risk in this cohort of patients.
Molecular genetic aspects of early diagnosis and personalized treatment of obliterating atherosclerosis of lower limb arteries
Authors: V. G. Mishalov  , V. A. Cherniak  , L. V. Natrus  , B. M. Koval  , V. M. Holinko  , S. O. Makhynia
Published: January 2019

Obliterating atherosclerosis of lower limb arteries (OALLA) is a multifactorial disease, which results from the complex influence of genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors. Nowadays the role of about 50 single‑nucleotide genetic polymorphisms (SNPs) has been proven in the pathogenesis of OALLA. Conducting the genetic screening and determining the susceptibility to the development of OALLA will allow for the timely prevention of the disease by modifying the lifestyle and diet. Since the mere presence of a genetic mutation does not always lead to the synthesis of a defective protein, the treatment of the disease can begin even before the onset of clinical symptoms, but only after the detection of the earliest pathological biochemical markers of the disease, in this case — endothelial dysfunction. The use of modern methods of molecular biology, with consideration of the molecular genetic characteristics of the patient, will allow timely prevention, early diagnosis of the disease after detection of biochemical markers of endothelial dysfunction, individualization of the choice of conservative drugs, and therefore increase in their effectiveness and safety, delay of the start of surgical treatment and reduction of disability in patients with OALLA.
APPROACH TO MEASUREMENT AND PRACTICE OF EVALUATING AN INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL OF REGIONAL SYSTEMS
Authors: Сазонова Анна , Sazonova Anna
Published: January 2019

The national innovation system is one of the main mechanisms for restructuring the Russian economy. The implementation of innovations, the active development of the science and technology industry creates the necessary conditions and prerequisites for the transition of the economy to its new technological structure, providing an innovative type of economic growth. In recent years, the literature has developed many approaches to the definition of the concept of “innovative potential”. Some authors consider this category as a set of resources and capabilities of the system to create and implement innovations. Others define innovative potential as a measure of the region’s readiness to create and promote innovations. The third group of authors treats innovation potential as a result of innovation activity, identifying in some way the concept of “innovation potential” and “innovation process”. This article discusses approaches to the definition of a comprehensive indicator of innovative potential. The assessment methods considered in this article allow to determine the level of innovative potential of an organizational system, to perform a comparative analysis of systems according to a generalized indicator of innovative potential and its components, and also to develop programs for the development of organizational systems taking into account the effective use of innovative system capabilities.