bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Efecto en la erosión hídrica del suelo en pastizales y otros tipos de vegetación por cambios en el patrón de lluvias por el calentamiento global en Zacatecas, México
Authors: Echavarría-Cháirez Francisco Guadalupe , Medina-García Guillermo , Ruiz-Corral José Ariel
Published: March 2020

Para evaluar la erosión hídrica se utilizaron anomalías de temperatura y precipitación para el período 2021-2080, estimadas con un ensamble de 11 modelos de circulación global, para generar mapas de temperatura y precipitación futuras a partir de la climatología de referencia 1961-2010. En el caso del estado de Zacatecas el área de pastizal presenta valores promedio actuales de erosión del orden de 16.3 t/ha, estimadas mediante el modelo RUSLE. En otros tipos de vegetación o usos del suelo como es el matorral, bosque o el área agrícola se generan valores aún mayores (50.74, 65.99, 161.39, t/ha/año, respectivamente). La aplicación del modelo ensamble en las RCP 4.5 y RCP 8.5 indica que habrá un incremento en la temperatura y una disminución de la lluvia. En un escenario de menor efecto de calentamiento global (RCP 4.5) se espera una reducción gradual de erosión hídrica del pastizal respecto a 2010 de 2.3 % en 2030 (15.67 t/ha/año) hasta un 5.88% (15.18 t/ha/año) en 2070. En el mismo periodo hasta 2070, la tasa de decremento de erosión hídrica es de 14.1 kg/ha/año. La RCP 8.5, que fue diseñada para una condición de continua emisión de gases de invernadero, presenta valores de reducción aún mayores y para 2070 establece una disminución del 13.0 %, con una tasa de disminución de erosión de 31.5 kg/ha/año. Otros tipos de vegetación y uso del suelo mostraron la misma tendencia de disminución, aunque en tasas de decremento más altas. Aunque el escenario de disminución de erosión hídrica parece favorable, no se descarta un incremento de valores de pérdida de suelo por efecto de erosión eólica en las regiones áridas del norte del estado de Zacatecas. La valoración de niveles de erosión hídrica contribuye al ordenamiento del uso del suelo para reducir niveles de degradación y desertificación.
Impacto del cambio climático en la distribución potencial de Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray en México
Authors: Durán Puga Noé , Loya Olguín José Lenin , Ruiz Corral José Ariel , González Eguiarte Diego Raymungo , García Paredes Juan Diego , Martínez González Sergio , Crespo González Marcos Rafael
Published: March 2020

El objetivo fue estimar el posible impacto del cambio climático en la distribución potencial de T. diversifolia en México. Nichos de distribución fueron modelados con MaxEnt para la climatología de referencia 1951-2000, y dos escenarios de cambio climático 2041-2060 y 2061-2080, considerando 20 variables bioclimáticas y dos topográficas. Para las climatologías futuras se consideró el modelo de circulación global (MCG) HadGEM2-ES, con dos vías representativas de concentración de gases efecto invernadero (rcp4.5 y rcp8.5). Esta información se obtuvo de la página web Global Climate Data de WorldClim y se trabajó con el sistema Idrisi Selva como imágenes raster con una resolución de 2.5 min de arco. Las variables que más contribuyeron a explicar la distribución geográfica de T. diversifolia fueron la precipitación acumulada mayo-octubre (pa5-10) y la temperatura máxima media del mes más cálido (txmc). El umbral del percentil 10th de la presencia logística predice una superficie (para la climatología de referencia 1951-2000), que representa el 30.71 % de la extensión de México. La modelación de nichos en los diversos escenarios climáticos registra zonas de expansión, así como zonas de retracción para la distribución potencial de la especie, pero después de hacer un balance, se obtiene que las áreas potenciales para T. diversifolia se incrementarán ligeramente con respecto a la climatología de referencia 1950-2000, con valores estimados de 31.62 %, 31.83 %, 32.45 % y 32.45 % del territorio mexicano en los escenarios 2041-2060 rcp8.5, 2041-2060 rcp4.5, 2061-2080 y 2061-2080 rcp4.5  y rcp8.5, respectivamente. Se concluye que el cambio climático traería más beneficios que restricciones para la dispersión de T. diversifolia.
Causas y consecuencias del cambio climático en la producción pecuaria y salud animal. Revisión
Authors: Sánchez Mendoza Berenice , Flores Villalva Susana , Rodríguez Hernández Elba , Anaya Escalera Ana María , Contreras Elsa Angélica
Published: March 2020

La acumulación de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmosfera terrestre está ocasionando un cambio climático sin precedentes con graves implicaciones como, fenómenos meteorológicos extremos, cambios en la función y composición de los ecosistemas con la subsecuente diseminación o incremento de prevalencia de distintas enfermedades que afectan al hombre y a los animales. Debido a su importancia resulta relevante analizar el impacto del cambio climático en los sistemas de producción pecuarios, si se analiza la producción agropecuaria como un sistema en el que confluye lo social, ambiental y económico, los efectos del mismo tendrán un impacto directo en la organización social de las unidades de producción, en la seguridad alimentaria y en la salud animal/humana. Un área que requiere especial atención es precisamente la salud animal, la emergencia y reemergencia de enfermedades vectoriales en numerosas regiones del planeta constituye un claro ejemplo de asociación entre cambio climático y efectos sobre la interfaz de la salud humana/animal, las afectaciones a la salud animal pueden obedecer a múltiples factores sociales y medioambientales provocando las llamadas “enfermedades de la producción”, estos factores influencian la aparición de enfermedades emergentes, sin embargo, cada región y cada sistema de producción tiene sus propias vulnerabilidades, estos aspectos deben tomarse en cuenta para diseñar mapas de riesgos locales y regionales; así como diseñar, instrumentar y socializar eficientemente procesos de manejo de riesgos ante enfermedades.
Indian Boarding School Gothic in Older than America and The Only Good Indian
Authors: Kella Elizabeth
Published: March 2020

This article examines the appropriation and redirection of the Gothic in two contemporary, Native-centered feature films that concern a history that can be said to haunt many Native North American communities today: the history of Indian boarding schools. Georgina Lightning’s Older than America (2008) and Kevin Willmott’s The Only Good Indian (2009) make use of Gothic conventions and the figures of the ghost and the vampire to visually relate the history and horrors of Indian boarding schools. Each of these Native-centered films displays a cinematic desire to decenter Eurocentric histories and to counter mainstream American genres with histories and forms of importance to Native North American peoples. Willmott’s film critiques mythologies of the West and frontier heroism, and Lightning attempts to sensitize non-Native viewers to contemporary Native North American concerns while also asserting visual sovereignty and affirming spiritual values.
Mickey’s Trailer and Environmental Thought: Disney Cartoons and Countryside
Authors: Goddard Joe
Published: March 2020

The influence of popular cartoons on environmental cognition is explored in this essay through readings of Mickey’s Trailer, a 1938 cartoon directed by Ben Sharpsteen for Walt Disney. Other materials considered include Ford Motor Company’s 1937-38 film coproduced by Wilder Pictures, Glacier International Park, which promotes motor-tourism and automobile ownership, and Ben Sharpsteen’s other work for Walt Disney. The article also examines the ideas of physical and “illusional” zoning in the city, especially the way that they were applied in the mid-twentieth century. Physical zoning involved separating incompatible land uses, whereas illusional zoning entailed seeing what you wanted to see. What does Mickey’s Trailer say about how people can live, and can it inform where people choose to live? The essay muses that appreciations of nature and the environment are influenced by popular culture.
Imitative participation and the politics of 'joining in': paid work as a methodological issue.
Authors: Knox Hannah
Published: March 2020

In this paper I explore the ways in which participation as a research methodology is challenged by new kinds of anthropological enquiry and consider, from my own experiences, what the implications of these challenges might be for our expectations of how participation contributes to the construction of anthropological knowledge. I look at the ways in which different forms of participation affect what it is possible for the ethnographer to know, and look at the value attributed to not only what we know but also how we come to know it. This has important implications for our understanding of the interrelationship between different categories of knowledge and how to situate anthropological knowledge in relation to the processes of participation from which it is in large part derived.
Protecting Patients—Managing Persons
Authors: Langer Susanne
Published: March 2020

This paper is based on my experience of applying for ethics approval from two different Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) in the context of fieldwork with people suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Manchester area. I argue that LRECs are a form of audit intended to remove relationships from the decision process and to change practice. By focusing on the category of ‘informed consent’ and how it is conceptually and bureaucratically constructed, I analyse the ways in which ethics committees are able to preserve the notion of individual choice while at the same time defining its parameters. In so doing, ethics committees interfere with the efforts of people, such as the ones I worked with, to become productive in culturally-specific ways, for instance by being involved in research. I conclude by reflecting on how the removal of the relational dimension of research through bureaucratic technologies, such as ethics committees, affects anthropologists.
Visions of the future: technology and imagination in Hungarian civil society
Authors: Wormald Tom
Published: March 2020

The question of ‘new’ methods in the anthropology of science and technology is perhaps better phrased as the need to improve our understanding of experiences—as both participants and observers—of these fields of enquiry. This paper is based on ethnographic research on the role of computers in Hungarian civil society at the Hungarian Telecottage Association (HTA), a movement seeking to promote locally-oriented technological development with the aim of empowering and improving the lives of local people. The members of this movement are geographically dispersed, each representing a telecottage in their own village community. They are united organizationally through a mixture of face-to-face and internet-based interaction.
MINT COUNTRIES AS POSSIBLE RISING STARS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – BENCHMARKING WITH BRICS COUNTRIES
Authors: Gryczka Marcin
Published: March 2020

The main goal of the paper is to analyze the selected macroeconomic, trade-related and social-related indicators concerning Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey (collectively named as MINT) from 2000 till 2017, especially in comparison with BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The outcomes are to be the confirmation basis, if the MINTs could play more important role in the global economy in the near future. Conducted statistical data and report based research has proved that there is no convincing evidence of such process, especially taking into consideration the resent economic and political issues in Mexico and Turkey.
THE ROLE OF SPORTS BROADCASTS IN GAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BY TV STATIONS
Authors: Jaska Ewa
Published: March 2020

The aim of this paper is to explore the role of sports broadcasts in achieving competitive advantage by TV stations over their rivals on the basis of primary and secondary sources. Firstly, the study provides a review of the transformations of the television market in Poland resulting in more intense search for new content and sources of funding. Secondly, it presents analysis of viewership and advertising revenues of TV stations holding rights for sports broadcasts. Finally, it investigates what factors determine viewers’ decision to pay for premium content. The conducted analysis covers broadcasts of selected sporting events, namely football matches played as part of championships and ski jumping. TV stations holding rights to broadcast important sports events have higher advertising revenues, bigger audience market shares and launch additional channels, special platforms and use social media to deliver their content to all segments of the audio-visual market.
THE RESILIENCE OF REGIONS TO ECONOMIC RECESSION: THE ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
Authors: Kisiała Wojciech , Suszyńska Katarzyna
Published: March 2020

The aim of the paper is to identify the reactions of Polish regions to the negative macroeconomic shocks triggered by the global economic crisis dated for 2008–2010. In the course of the research, econometric forecasting and statistical hypothesis testing methods were used. The research was based on the analysis covering dynamics of increase in the employment using the indicator of employed persons in enterprise sector (as a fixed-based index of dynamics). The findings showed that the crisis of the end of the first decade of the 21st century had different course and impact on regional economies in Poland. Negative impact of the breakdown on regional labour markets prevailed, while positive outcome (a new, more dynamic growth rate of employment) was recorded in only one region.
THE PROBLEM OF GEOGRAPHICAL DELIMITATION OF AGRI-FOOD MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM THE BUTTER MARKET IN EUROPEAN UNION
Authors: Pietrzak Michał , Roman Monika
Published: March 2020

Although market is a basic economic category, many studies neglect the need to define it in geographical dimension. It is fundamentally important in agribusiness, where the spatial competition and problem of market power at successive stages of supply chain occur. The aims of the paper are twofold: to discuss the problem of geographical delimitation of agricultural markets and to define geographic limits of the butter market based on Elzinga–Hogarty method. Using secondary data we find that the butter market is international in the scope, and after the abolition of the milk quota, this scope is evolving from European to semi-global.
DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN THE OPINION OF THE AUTHORITIES OF RURAL AND SEMI-URBAN MUNICIPALITIES IN WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE VOIVODESHIP
Authors: Pomianek Iwona
Published: March 2020

The paper presents opinions of local government authorities on determinants of local entrepreneurship development. The research conducted in 2017 in rural and urban-rural municipalities of Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship (Poland) shows that among the locational conditions for entrepreneurship development the tourist attractiveness was rated as the highest. Infrastructural conditions were assessed as favourable while such features of the residents as education level, age or qualifications were satisfactory for the respondents. Protected natural areas, popular in the analysed region, were both a barrier and an opportunity for entrepreneurship development. Moreover, self-government activities were evaluated as good on the local level, and satisfactory on the regional level.
THE USE OF EUROPEAN UNION FUNDS FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES IN MAŁOPOLSKIE VOIVODSHIP FROM 2007 TILL 2015
Authors: Powęska Halina
Published: March 2020

The paper explores the issue of the use of European Union funds for cultural heritage in Małopolskie Voivodship during the period 2007–2015, taking into consideration spatial categories which include: rural areas comprising rural communes and small towns, towns with health resorts, land counties, urban counties (town with county rights), and Cracow as the capital of the Voivodship. It examines the structure of the total value and of the amount of EU funding for culture-related European projects by the purposes of their implementation which included: revaluation of the objects of culture, creation and development of a new tourism product, renovation of sports and recreation facilities, promotion and other issues. The study was conducted using the statistical database of the National Information System of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development of the Republic of Poland (KSI SIMIK 07-13) as of 31 December 2015.
THE PROBLEM OF THE OPTIMAL VOLUME OF ENTERPRISE PRODUCTION IN THE LIGHT OF THE THEORY OF TRANSACTION COSTS AND THE PRACTICE OF OUTSOURCING
Authors: Jarka Sławomir
Published: March 2020

The purpose of the article was to determine the importance of outsourcing and transaction costs accompanying it in the process of optimizing company structures. The practical reference of the adopted research objective was to indicate the optimal size of the enterprise. The aim is also to indicate, based on literature research, the impact of the transaction cost theory on the development of outsourcing. The findings of research show that the optimal size of the enterprise corresponds to the production volume at which the transaction function indicates the decreasing level of their marginal product, until the value reaches 0. With a high specificity of the company’s resources, which requires the use of specific technologies, there are transaction costs on this account that shape the price of the goods being the subject of the transaction. Thus, when further increasing the size of the production company, one should also take into account the added transaction costs, among others, control and monitoring of transactions. Modern enterprises focus their actions on key areas of activity. They give up production of what outsourcing providers can do more effectively, leaving what is specific for a given product, determining the company’s identity and the essence of production.
GENERATIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF IT OUTSOURCING IN POLAND
Authors: Słoniec Jolanta , Kaczorowska Anna , Motyka Sabina
Published: March 2020

The paper presents a study on the development of IT outsourcing (ITO) in large organizations in Poland. Based on the generations of outsourcing development presented in the literature, an attempt was made to develop the generation of IT outsourcing. Three generations of ITO development have been identified. The main research assumption was formulated as follows: The development of the ITO industry is carried out in accordance with the generation order of ITO development. Three detailed assumptions were also formulated. Each of them was referred to activities and functions included in individual generations. In order to address the assumptions, questionnaire surveys of ITO companies were carried out. Our own studies and analyses made it possible to confirm the adopted main and detailed assumptions. Confirmation of the ITO development in line with the ITO generations testifies to the harmonious development of the industry. Possible directions for further research concern new forms of ITO services related to the third generation of the ITO field development.
INTERDEPENDENCE OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Authors: Staniszewski Jakub , Czyżewski Andrzej
Published: March 2020

The aim of the study was to identify the most important determinants of economic and environmental efficiency of agricultural production in the EU countries in 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2013, with particular emphasis on structural conditions. The paper presents the results of modelling with the use of Eurostat data and methods of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and panel regression. In the case of economic efficiency, the importance of production concentration, understood as economic strength of farms, associated with an even distribution of production, was identified. In the case of eco-efficiency, its limiting factor turned out to be specialisation towards animal production. These results allow us to conclude that it is possible to achieve economic and environmental objectives at the same time, as none of the identified determinants was repeated in both models with the opposite sign. The results of the research are also a premise for the implementation of an active structural policy under the CAP after 2020.
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IN RURAL EASTERN POLAND
Authors: Majka Agnieszka , Zając Dariusz
Published: March 2020

The aim of the research was to assess the conditions and identify factors influencing the development of non-agricultural business activities in rural local government areas of Eastern Poland, making use of taxonomic methods and analyses of variance. The empirical content of the article was sourced from the Local Data Bank of Statistics Poland (Bank Danych Lokalnych GUS), including the 2010 Census of Agriculture (Powszechny Spis Rolny 2010), and also data from the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation (IUNG-PIB) in Puławy. The study findings indicate that rural local government areas of Eastern Poland are strongly differentiated in respect of prevailing conditions for the development of non-agricultural business activities. The most numerous of them was the group consisting of local government areas with moderate conditions while the group of local government areas with better or weaker conditions was less numerous. Moreover, the results of the statistical analysis have shown that significant factors favouring developments of such business activities in rural local government areas of Eastern Poland are essentially the influx of people, municipal investments, as well as European Union financial resources for programs and projects’ implementation.
THE LEVEL OF INVESTMENT IN FARMS IN EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES
Authors: Kisielińska Joanna
Published: March 2020

The aim of the study presented in the paper was to assess the level of investment in farms in European Union countries. The assessment applied the reproduction rate, fixed-asset reproduction rate and the investment rate. Studies were performed for all farms and farms divided into classes according to economic size (KS6 classification). The study covered years 2007–2016. As significant changes were observed in individual years, the study period was divided into two equal sub-periods, for which average values of the ratios were determined. The studies showed that the level of investment in farms as taken jointly for all EU countries is not enough to reproduce their assets in both sub-periods. What needs to be positively assessed is the fact that the values of all indicators grow as the economic size of farms grows. The level of reproduction and multiplication of property in Polish farms is lower than the EU average for economically weaker farms, but it is usually higher for the stronger ones.
DEVELOPMENT OF LISTED COMPANIES IN SELECTED VOIVODESHIPS OF EASTERN POLAND IN 2013–2017
Authors: Lisek Sławomir , Luty Lidia
Published: March 2020

Public companies are a subject of the public interest. Voivodships adjacent directly to the eastern border of Poland are industrialized less than the mean for Poland. This article to analyse changes of the financial conditions of the companies quoted at the Warsaw Stock Exchange (Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie) from these voivodships in 2013–2017. Findings prove that these companies are not endangered by bankruptcy. Their situation is average, stable in investigated period.
LIFESTYLE AND ITS QUALITY AMONG RESIDENTS OF WARSAW SUBURBAN COMMUNES
Authors: Majchrzak-Jaszczyk Anetta , Bartnik Piotr , Mogiła-Lisowska Jolanta , Pędraszewska-Sołtys Barbara
Published: March 2020

Research focuses on potential existence of relation between the quality of life of rural respondents (rated subjectively) and the level of physical activity and the amount of time spent on it. Additionally, it investigates to what extend the respondents lead healthy lifestyle which includes healthy diet. Diagnostic survey is a research method that was applied. The techniques used include: international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ) test, Batterie rapide d’efficience frontale (BREF) test – verifies quality of life and interviews with original questionnaire (developed by authors). The research shows that rural areas inhabitants are aware of factors that determine people’s health. At the same time they seem not to be aware of negative influence of using stimulants on their health. The remarkable thing is that respondents point out how important physical activity is as an element determining well-being. After conducting the research, a leading conclusion emerges that there is a need to formulate an educational program for rural residents, indicating the proper implementation of individual elements of the lifestyle.
Investigation the Success of Semidefinite Programming for the Estimating of Fuel Cost Curves in Thermal Power Plants
Authors: GÜVENÇ Uğur , BAKIR Hüseyin , DUMAN Serhat
Published: March 2020

Accurate estimation of fuel cost curve parameters in thermal power plants is of great importance because these parameters directly influence the economic dispatch calculations. In this paper, a semidefinite programming (SDP) approach was proposed for the estimation of fuel cost functions' parameters in thermal power plants. The parameter estimation problem was designed as a minimization problem, where the objective function was accepted as the total absolute error (TAE) in the study. Also, linear, quadratic, and cubic fuel cost functions were used to estimate the fuel cost parameters. Different fuel types such as coal, oil and gas were preferred for simulation studies. The results achieved from the semidefinite programming method were compared with that of particle swarm optimization (PSO), artificial bee colony (ABC), crow search algorithm (CSA) and least error square (LES) methods, respectively. The performance of the methods were compared according to the TAE parameter. Simulation results showed that SDP method is more successful than other methods considered in this paper. Clearly, the present paper showed that SDP has a higher potential to solve parameter estimation problems.
Titanyum Boruların Lazer Kaynak Yöntemi ile Birleştirilmesi ve Kaynak Bölgesinin Karakterizasyonu
Authors: UYGUNTÜRK Erkan , KAHRAMAN Nizamettin , DURGUTLU Ahmet , GÜLENÇ Behçet
Published: March 2020

Bu çalışmanın amacı titanyum boruların lazer kaynak yöntemi ile birleştirilebilirliğinin araştırılmasıdır. Kaynak işlemleri üç farklı lazer ışın gücünde (130, 140 ve 160 W) gerçekleştirilmiştir. Kaynak işlemleri esnasında ilave metal kullanılmış ve boru sabit hızda döndürülerek, torç yatay pozisyonda konumlandırılmıştır. Birleştirme işlemi yapılan titanyum borulara kaynak işlemi sonunda kaynak kalitesini ve mekanik özelliklerini belirlemek amacıyla, gözle muayene, çekme testi ve sertlik testi yapılmıştır. Ayrıca içyapıdaki kusurların belirlenmesi için kaynak bölgesinin mikroyapı incelemeleri ile SEM (EDS) çalışmaları yapılmıştır. Çekme testleri sonucunda, düşük lazer gücünde birleştirilen numunelerde kopma kaynak metalinden gerçekleşirken, yüksek lazer gücünde birleştirilen kaynaklı numunede kopma kaynak bölgesi dışından gerçekleşmiştir. Kaynaklı numunelere yapılan sertlik testleri sonucunda en yüksek sertlik değerlerinin kaynak metalinde, en düşük sertlik değerleri ise ana malzemede olduğu tespit edilmiştir.
The results of kidney transplantation in elderly recipients with diabetes mellitus
Authors: Khubutiya M. Sh. , Shmarina N. V. , Lazareva K. E. , Migunova E. V. , Kazantsev A. I. , Pinchuk A. V.
Published: March 2020

Introduction. Currently, the type 2 diabetes mellitus is in the nature of an epidemic of non-infectious etiology. In this regard, the incidence of diabetes mellitus complications, including diabetic nephropathy, which lead to end-stage chronic renal disease, is also increasing. The treatment of type 2 diabetic patients with end-stage chronic renal disease presents significant difficulties, which is associated with an additional risk of developing infectious complications and, as a rule, the presence of concomitant pathology of the cardiovascular system.

Objective. To analyze the results of kidney transplantation in elderly patients with diabetes mellitus in the early postoperative period.

Material and methods. The study is based on a retrospective analysis of the results of 77 kidney transplants ations performed to elderly recipients at N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine in the period from 2015 to 2019. The study group included 22 recipients over 60 years old with type 2 diabetes mellitus, as main or concomitant disease. The comparison group consisted of 55 recipients over 60 years without diabetes.

Results. Survival of recipients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was significantly lower (p = 0.026). So, there were 20 surviving recipients (90.9%) in the group of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and 55 (100%) surviving recipients in the group without diabetes. When comparing the kidney graft survival rates in the recipients between the two groups, no statistically significant difference (p = 0.29) was found. The overall graft survival was 77.3% (n = 17) in the group of recipients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and 89.1% (n = 49) in the comparison group.

Conclusions. It has been proven that kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have a significantly lower survival rate after transplantation than recipients without diabetes; and the kidney graft survivals were not significantly different early after transplantation. The recipients did not show differences in the recovery of the transplanted kidney function depending on the presence of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Authors declare no conflict of interest.
Peran Konselor dalam Mereduksi Tingkat Kenakalan Remaja di Kabupaten Pandeglang
Authors: Riswanto Dody
Published: March 2020

Abstract: This study discusses juvenile delinquency studies in Pandeglang district and the role of counselors in resolving the juvenile delinquency phenomenon, the research method used is qualitative data collection techniques of interviews, observation, and documentation studies, researchers act as key instruments, observations carried out for 1 year, interviews were conducted with 3 respondents, and documentation studies were collected from various literature, the findings and discussion of the study illustrated that juvenile delinquency consisted of criminal theft of motorbikes, high speed motorbikes and modified exhausts, and did not care about the environmental conditions of the residence , the conclusion of the study is that the role of the counselor is very important in reducing the level of juvenile delinquency with the counselor's mental and psychological readiness, namely the ability of the counselor to lead, understand multiculturalism, provide reinforcement to students, and train themselves in order to have good personality competencies, the implications of this research are very important for school teachers and the community to measure the level of juvenile delinquency and how to prevent future levels of juvenile delinquency in the future.  Abstrak: Penelitian ini membahas tentang studi kenakalan remaja di kabupaten Pandeglang dan peran konselor dalam menyelesaikan fenomena kenakalan remaja tersebut, metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data wawancara, observasi, dan studi dokumentasi, peneliti berperan sebagai instrumen kunci, observasi dilaksanakan selama 1 tahun, wawancara dilakukan bersama 3 orang responden, dan studi dokumentasi dikumpulkan dari berbagai literature, hasil temuan dan pembahasan penelitian menjabarkan bahwa kenakalan remaja terdiri dari tindakan kriminal pencurian sepeda motor, memacu sepeda motor dengan kecepatan tinggi dan knalpot modifikasi, serta tidak peduli terhadap kondisi lingkungan tempat tinggal, kesimpulan penelitian adalah bahwa peran konselor sangat penting dalam mereduksi tingkat kenakalan remaja dengan kesiapan mental dan psikis konselor, yaitu kemampuan konselor dalam memimpin, memahami multikulturalisme, memberikan penguatan kepada siswa, dan melatih diri agar memiliki kompetensi kepribadian yang baik, implikasi penelitian ini sangat penting bagi guru sekolah dan masyarakat untuk mengukur tingkat kenakalan remaja dan bagaimana strategi dalam mencegah tingkat kenakalan remaja di masa mendatang.
Budaya Organisasi dengan Work Engagement pada Karyawan
Authors: Prahara Sowanya Ardi
Published: March 2020

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara  budaya organisai dengan work engagement pada karyawan PT. X. Hipotesis  yang diajukan adalah ada hubungan positif antara budaya organisasi dengan work engagement pada karyawan PT. X. Subjek dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 60 orang yang memiliki ciri-ciri karyawan PT. X dan memiliki masa kerja minimal satu tahun. Teknik sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode purposive sampling. Alat pengumpul data menggunakan Skala Likert yaitu Skala Work Engagement dan Skala Budaya Organisasi. Hasil analisis dengan uji korelasi product moment antara budaya organisasi dengan work engagement pada karyawan PT. X menunjukkan nilai koefisien korelasi sebesar (R) = 0,440 dengan signifikansi p=0,000 (p<0,050). Hasil tersebut menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan positif yang signifikan antara budaya organisasi dengan work engagement karyawan PT. X.
Evaluation of higher education system management efficiency
Authors: Vinnik Alina Evgenievna
Published: March 2020

The article presents the study results of the effectiveness of managing the higher education system using the experience of leading countries of the world. The higher education systems of the United States, the UK and Sweden were chosen as the objects of study representing the North American, European and Scandinavian models of education. The educational organizations of the above countries traditionally hold the leading positions in the world ratings, including the rating of the national education systems Universitas 21, rating of the world's academic universities and ranking of the best universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education version. The official data of the leading world ratings in the field of education were analyzed, as well as the distinctive features of the educational policy of the United States of America, the UK and Sweden were identified, on the basis of which factors ensuring the high efficiency and competitiveness of the higher education system in the global educational service market were stated. Among the main factors are the following: high government spending on the education system, increasing the accessibility of higher education for the population, ensuring high quality educational services, export orientation, etc. The system of indicators has been formed to assess the effectiveness of managing national educational systems. The dynamics of coefficient of higher education propagation in the period within 1970-2014 has been illustrated; the forecast of involving the population of the leading countries into the higher education up to 2050 has been presented. It has been stated that in the developing countries the problem of higher education can be solved due to its accessibility and in the economically developed countries it is solved due to increasing the quality of educational programs, rising the number of educational trajectories and costs.
System approach in research and evaluation of educational potential of territory
Authors: Siraya Galina Sergeevna
Published: March 2020

The article describes the structure of the concept of educational potential of the territory in terms of a systematic approach and shows the scheme for managing its development within the framework of the functioning of the national innovation subsystem. The subjects and objects are defined, as well as the general functions of managing the development of the educational potential of the territory. It is noted that at present there is no single methodology for assessing the educational potential of the territory. In order to select indicators characterizing the educational potential at the regional level, the factors influencing its formation and development are determined taking into account the socio-economic status of the territory. The structural systematization of indicators for assessing the educational potential of the territory was carried out, as a result of which three components of the educational potential of the territory were identified: institutional, resource and reproduction, each of them includes synthetic indicators. The above mentioned indicators include standard indicators of state statistics of the Russian Federation. Various approaches to assessing the potential of territories are considered and analyzed. The original method of comparative assessment of educational potential of the territory is proposed, which allows determining both the integrated indicator and its component synthetic indicators. This approach ensures positioning of regions in the federal district, and taking into account the quality of indicators makes it possible to identify strengths and weaknesses for developing a regional strategy of development. A comparative assessment of the educational potential of the subjects of the Southern Federal District has been done. The evaluation results proved that the maximum level of educational potential in the Southern Federal District is in the Rostov Region (first place) and Krasnodar Territory (second place). The analysis of synthetic indicators of the level of educational potential of the Rostov region in comparison with the Krasnodar Territory made it possible to identify strengths and problem areas and determine further directions for its development
On development of stock market instruments for small and medium-sized businesses
Authors: Ushanov Aleksandr Evgenievich
Published: March 2020

The article focuses on the fact that contribution of enterprises and organizations of the segment of small and medium-sized enterprises to the creation of GDP does not exceed 21.9% in Russia. Entrepreneurial activity remains below the global average, and only 2.9% of the active population show interest in starting their own business, whose involvement in small business in our country is 1.5, 2 and 3 times lower than similar indicators in China, the EU and the United States. Conditions for business development are largely determined by the availability of funding sources. It is shown that one of the problems of small and medium-sized business market segment development is weak availability of bank credit resources. The actual absence of alternative financial sources for small and medium-sized enterprises to bank lending creates serious risks for the economy. The intensification of the use of exchange-traded instruments to finance small and medium-sized business enterprises is very important. The national project “Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship and Support of Individual Entrepreneurial Initiative”, the Roadmap of the Bank of Russia for the development of small and medium-sized entrepreneurship financing, the creation of the exchange segment “Growth Sector” on the Moscow exchange, guarantees and sureties of the Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship Corporation should implement an effective mechanism to stimulate the entry

of business enterprises into the stock market. It has been stated that there remains a set of unresolved problems hindering the achievement of this goal. In order to overcome them, there have been proposed a number of additional measures for the successful implementation of the conditions created for small and medium-sized enterprises to enter the corporate bond market
Entre la insurgencia y las enfermedades venéreas: la organización hospitalaria en Guadalajara, 1811-1823
Authors: Salas Pelayo Hugo Humberto
Published: March 2020

Este trabajo presenta un estudio sobre la población que ingresó al Hospital Real de San Miguel a causa de enfermedades de transmisión sexual (gálicos), entre los años 1811 a 1823 en Guadalajara. Se analiza el espacio hospitalario, la organización terapéutica de las salas y el impacto que causaron los enfermos de sífilis en el recinto. Este es el primer padecimiento consignado en los ingresos del hospital, con 25% de los registros totales del periodo analizado. Interesa rescatar los diversos nombres como se le consignó y quiénes fueron víctimas de la enfermedad, niños, hombres, mujeres y militares españoles, con pocas defunciones. Este fenómeno de salud pública es visto desde un contexto social de graves problemas endémicos y epidémicos surgido en la ciudad durante el movimiento de Independencia. El estudio se basa en la captura y sistematización de los registros hospitalarios consignados en los libros de entradas y salidas de enfermos del Hospital de San Miguel. La fuente proporciona, entre otros datos, el nombre de la sala en donde se coloca al convaleciente y el nombre de la enfermedad. El estudio descubre la presencia de un grave problema de salud pública en las normas culturales y prácticas sexuales de los tapatíos de inicios del siglo XIX y representa un instrumento de análisis que, desde el interior del propio recinto, explica los criterios que determinan la organización terapéutica y el funcionamiento del espacio hospitalario de San Miguel.
De paces, pactos, pacificaciones y tiempos de paz en la historia mexicana
Authors: Terán Marta
Published: March 2020

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Ciprian Porumbescu, creator and protagonist of the Romanian operetta
Authors: Filimon Rosina Caterina
Published: March 2020

Musical-theatrical pieces of the nineteenth century, propagated by Italian, French and German troops, were an inspiration for Romanian composers. They will create similar fashionable musical theatre genres, in Romanian, for entertainment purposes. Works placed on the border between vaudeville and the lyrical genre can be identified in the creation of the newly emerging genre of operetta: such pieces are the compositions of Alexandru Flechtenmacher, Eduard Wachmann, Eduard Caudella. In the cultural atmosphere of the time, patriotic musician Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883) would find the perfect way to put a longstanding artistic wish into practice: to compose an operetta, following the success of his humorous musical-theatre pieces Cisla and Candidatul Linte [Candidate Linte]. A multifarious personality, a lover of folklore and of his nation, Ciprian Porumbescu – one of the founders of the national school of music – contributed to the authenticity and identity of the Romanian musical language through his extensive works; one important contribution is the composition of the first Romanian cultivated operetta Crai Nou [New Moon] (1882). As a tribute to his art, on the centenary of his birth, the creator of the operetta Crai nou becomes the protagonist of the operetta Lăsați-mă să cânt [Let me sing] (1954) by Gherase Dendrino, set during the time of the staging of Porumbescuʼs musical-dramatic work. Crai Nou and Lăsați-mă să cânt are highlights of the Romanian lyrical theatre, from the artistic past and present, and hold their position as musical pieces frequently performed and received with interest and enthusiasm.
Constantin Silvestri, the problematic musician. New press documents
Authors: Vasiliu Alex
Published: March 2020

Constantin Silvestri was a man, an artist who reached the peaks of glory as well as the depths of despair. He was a composer whose modern visions were too complex for his peers to undestand and accept, but which nevertheless stood the test of time. He was an improvisational pianist with amazing technique and inventive skills, and was obsessed with the score in the best sense of the word. He was a musician well liked and supported by George Enescu and Mihail Jora. He was a conductor whose interpretations of any opus, particularly Romantic, captivate from the very first notes; the movements of the baton, the expression of his face, even one single look successfully brought to life the oeuvres of various composers, endowing them with expressiveness, suppleness and a modern character that few other composers have ever managed to achieve. Regarded as a very promising conductor, a favourite with the audiences, wanted by the orchestras in Bucharest in the hope of creating new repertoires, Constantin Silvestri was nevertheless quite the problematic musician for the Romanian press. Newly researched documents reveal fragments from this musician’s life as well as the features of a particular time period in the modern history of Romanian music.
Enescu’s Musical Language in Suite Impresii din copilărie [Impressions of Childhood]
Authors: Șuteu Cristina
Published: March 2020

The musical language of George Enescu (1881-1955) is sprinkled with symbolic valences that carry the imprint of the Romanian musical culture. For more than half of a century (57 years), Enescu wrote musical works inspired by the folkloric tradition. Between the Romanian Poem, written when he was 16 (in 1897) and the Chamber Symphony, when he was 73 (in 1954), Enescu also composed: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 (A major), op. 11 (in 1901), Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 (D major), op. 11 (in 1902), Sonata for piano and violin No. 3, A minor (in 1926), Caprice Roumain, for violin and orchestra (in 1928), Orchestral Suite No. 3 (From the country), op. 27, D major (in 1938) and the programmatic suite Impresii din copilărie [Impressions of Childhood for violin and piano], op. 28 in D major (composed in 1940). The paper presents the temporal-spatial structure of the musical masterpiece which reveals a cyclical thinking based on a presentation of the exterior images, followed by the interior images and a return to the exterior. And by an extrapolation of meanings, I created an analogy with the stages of life: childhood, maturity and old age. This article also deals with elements of the musical language used by George Enescu in a manner that reveals a re-created Romanian folklore in a way which bears the imprint of personality and originality of the composer.
Architecture and language in the seven String Quartets by Iulia Cibişescu-Duran
Authors: Cibişescu-Duran Iulia
Published: March 2020

Written between 1990 and 2009, my seven works for string quartet: Poems for string Quartet and 6 numbered Quartets approach different modal languages, from prepentatonic or pentatonic structures to heptachordic or dodecaphonic configurations, sometimes overlapping musical languages, generating those polymorphous languages, with moments of overlapping or juxtaposing of syntaxes, with a motivic cycling determinant of a conceptual unit of works linked to synthetic, elaborate thinking. Pluripartite, seen as suites of miniatures (String Quartet No. 3, Poems for string quartet), tripartite (Quartets No. 2, 4, 5, 6) or monopartite (Quartet No. 1), the 7 String Quartets are written in the sphere of formal patterns caused by construction based on dramaturgy inspired by literary works (see Quartet No. 5 inspired by Winter at Lisbon by Antonio Munoz Molina, see Poems for string quartet and Quartet no. 3 inspired by my own poems from the volumes Hiding places of Masks and Egyptian Mystery), from the contemplation of the chordal sonorities of some tonal-functional relations or of some jazz sonorities (Quartet No. 4), of a Byzantine song or children’s songs (Quartet No. 3), of philosophical meditations (see Quartet No. 1), of sonorities belonging to the Romanian song and dance (Quartet No. 6) or of some concision and refinement as reflections of Webern’s music, overlaying on small temporal spaces different musical languages belonging to different tuning systems (Poems for string quartet). The first audition of String quartets was at the International Festivals of the Musical Autumn of Cluj and Cluj Modern Festival (1990, 1993, 1999, 2001, 2003, performers: Concordia Quartet: Albert Markos, Grigore Botar, Olimpiu Moldovan, Adalbert Torok), as well as at the International Meridian Festival, Bucharest (2018, Quartet No. 6 played by the Ad Hoc Quartet: Vlad Răceu, Diana Man, Ovidiu Costea, Vlad Rațiu, musical management: Matei Pop).