bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Properties and applications of dental polyamides
Authors: Gligorijević Nikola , Igić Marko , Kostić Milena , Pejčić Ana
Published: March 2021

Introduction: By examining numerous thermoplastic and flexible materials that would aesthetically and functionally surpass acrylates used for the production of dental prostheses, polyamides were discovered as materials with great potential application in prosthodontics. The aim of this study was to describe polyamide materials used for the production of partial dentures. Material and methods: The main methodological approach of this study was a systematic search of the literature in two electronic databases: Google Scholar and PubMed using predefined keyword combinations. Results: The advantage of polyamide dentures is the comfort and ease of accommodation of the patient, with preserved optimal mechanical and physical properties. The dentures are flexible but rigid enough to be resistant to shock and fractures. Due to their low specific weight, polyamide dentures are light, extremely thin and do not interrupt patient speech. Excellent aesthetics are provided by a high choice of working colors and high translucency of the material, which ensures that the soft tissue that's covered by the denture base or clasp is seen through the prosthesis and gives it a more natural appearance in the patient's mouth. Conslusion: Polyamides, unlike acrylates, do not contain residual monomers, so they have an greater degree of biocompatibility. They can be used for the production of both complete and partial dentures, in combination with a Cr-Co skeleton, or crowns and bridges.
Characteristics of women suffering from alcoholism and treatment dynamics
Authors: Milošević Slađana , Zarić Kristina , Mihajlović Sanja
Published: March 2021

Objective. The main objective of the research is to determine the characteristics and dynamics of the treatment of women addicted to alcohol, at the Clinic for Addiction Diseases of the Institute for Mental Health, Belgrade. Methods. The sample consists of 136 women addicted to alcohol who were treated at the Clinic for Addiction Diseases of the Institute for Mental Health at the time of the study, as well as patients who had been treated in two wards for the last five years: Clinical ward and Daily hospital. The survey was conducted at the end of 2017 and during 2018. Secondary data sources, ie documentation from the Institute of Mental Health, were used in the research These include patient medical histories and medical records. Analysis of characteristics of women alcoholics aged 18-68 years, treated during 2018, at the Clinic for Addiction Diseases within the Institute for Mental Health in Belgrade. For the research and based on the research variables, a separate matrix was created to analyze the content which was completed for each patient covered by the research sample. Results. The age of the respondents ranges from 18 to 68 years. The results of the analysis of substance abuse in the primary family show that in more than half of the cases (51.5%) there is a history of substance abuse in the family. The key findings of the study show that the largest role in the treatment of women addiction is played by family members who participated in the treatment, and the outcome of treatment was positive with that kind of women. Conclusion. Based on the results presented and conclusions drawn to the specificity of women's alcoholism, the implication is that there is a link between family situation and support and the development of alcoholism and treatment.
Challenges of rational choice theory in contemporary economic science
Authors: Krstić Miloš
Published: March 2021

In the focus of the paper there are some basic insights and ideas of rational choice theory, that is the "core" of contemporary economic theory. Also, rational choice theory is the "center" of modern political science and is used in various other scientific disciplines, such as: sociology, philosophy, political science, psychology, and the like. There are two main goals of this paper. One is to point out the limitations of rational choice theory as one of the theories of economic behavior (and decision making). The second goal is to analyze certain problems detected during the application of the rational choice theory in economics and to adequately consider the importance of alternative concepts, models, and theories from the point of view of improving the understanding of economic, social, political, and other processes in the economy and society as a whole.
Cost calculation systems in commercial banks: Traditional system and activity-based calculation system
Authors: Siljanoska Slavica , Joksimović Marijana , Beke-Trivunac Jozefina
Published: March 2021

Increasing competition between banks in local and global markets imposed the need for the bank to determine the most competitive prices and markets for its products, which ensures profit maximization while minimizing risk, as well as maintaining optimal product quality. The ability of management to make the right decisions at the right time, largely depends on the adequacy of cost systems that provide a high degree of accuracy in costing, and timely receipt of complete information on each individual banking product. The paper presents a comparative overview of the traditional cost accounting system and the ABC cost accounting system, in order to find the most efficient cost system and to reach the best business results by banks.
25 years of the TETRA standard and technology for contemporary digital trunking systems of professional mobile radio communications
Authors: Svrzić Slađan
Published: March 2021

Introduction/purpose: For the construction of functional mobile radio communication systems today, the trunking systems of digital mobile radio communications are almost exclusively used, the main representative of which is the system with the application of TETRA standards. This article describes the beginnings and historical development of this standard, with the activities of ETSI and TETRA MoU in the fight for the availability and harmonization of the frequency spectrum. Methods: A description of relevant issues of the origin and development of the TETRA 1 standard is given as well as the analysis of the characteristic moments of the innovated TETRA 2 standard. Results: This article describes the beginnings and historical development of this standard, with the activities of ETSI and TETRA MoU in the fight for the availability and harmonization of the frequency spectrum. It also systematize the use of the key TETRA systems in the world and shows its share in the world market by sectors, emphasizing the dilemma of its further development at the crossroads after 25 years of existence. Also, a basic overview of the TETRA 1 standard is given while the basic elements and the principle of its application are described. The innovated TETRA 2 standard and the improvements achieved in the way of data transmission are described in more detail; the process of interoperability certification and, in connection with that, the entry of TETRA into the North American market is emphasized. The parameters selected for advanced data transfer according to the TETRA 2-TEDS standard are presented and analyzed, together with an overview of some limitations during practical application. Conclusion: In the conclusion, the current moment of TETRA is analyzed with a focus on its future after 25 years of development, emohasizing a possibility of modernizing and improving the TETRA network of the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia for the needs of the MoD and the Serbian Armed Forces.
Revisiting and revamping some novel results in F-metric spaces
Authors: Mitrović Zoran , Jounis Mudasir , Rajović Miloje
Published: March 2021

Introduction/purpose: This article establishes several new contractive conditions in the context of so-called F-metric spaces. The main purpose was to generalize, extend, improve, complement, unify and enrich the already published results in the existing literature. We used only the property (F1) of Wardowski as well as one well-known lemma for the proof that Picard sequence is an F-Cauchy in the framework of F-metric space. Methods: Fixed point metric theory methods were used. Results: New results are enunciated concerning the F-contraction of two mappings S and T in the context of F-complete F-metric spaces. Conclusions: The obtained results represent sharp and significant improvements of some recently published ones. At the end of the paper, an example is given, claiming that the results presented in this paper are proper generalizations of recent developments.
Model for selecting a route for the transport of hazardous materials using a fuzzy logic system
Authors: Milošević Teodora , Pamučar Dragan , Chatterjee Prasenjit
Published: March 2021

Introduction/purpose: The paper presents a model for the selection of a route for the transport of hazardous materials using fuzzy logic systems, as a type of artificial intelligence systems. The system presented in the paper is a system for assistance in the decisionmaking process of the traffic service authorities when choosing one of several possible routes on a particular path when transporting hazardous materials. Methods: The route evaluation is performed on the basis of five criteria. Each input variable is represented by three membership functions, and the output variable is defined by five membership functions. All rules in a fuzzy logic system are determined by applying the method of weight premise aggregation (ATPP), which allows the formation of a database based on experience and intuition. Based on the number of input variables and the number of their membership functions, the basic base of 243 rules is defined. Three experts from the Ministry of Defense were interviewed to determine the weighting coefficients of the membership functions, and the values of the coefficients were determined using the Full Consistency Method (FUCOM). Results: A user program which enables the practical application of this model has been created for the developed fuzzy logic system. Conclusion: The user platform was developed in the Matlab 2008b software package.
Physical nature of 'anomalous' electrons in high-current vacuum diodes
Authors: Kozhevnikov Vasily , Kozyrev Andrey
Published: March 2021

Introduction/purpose: A fundamental theoretical explanation is given for the fact that in subnanosecond vacuum diodes there exists a group of electrons with kinetic energies much higher than the applied voltage (multiplied by the value of the elementary charge) qUmax. Methods: A mathematical method is used based on the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson differential equations system for one-dimensional vacuum diodes of various designs. Results: It is shown in detail that the so-called "anomalous" electrons appear in the transient time domain characterizing the processes of establishing current flow in vacuum diodes. Conclusion: It has been convincingly shown that the presence of "anomalous" electrons is not associated with either the diode design or the presence of additional current carriers. In vacuum diodes with a subnanosecond leading edge of the voltage pulse, the excess of energy over qUmax can be over 20%.
Protection of jobseekers participating in job announcements and advertisements, and the right to an effective remedy in the general employment regime
Authors: Kovačević Ljubinka
Published: March 2021

Public job announcements and advertisements are instruments which provide for exercising the constitutional principle that all available jobs must be accessible to everyone under equal conditions. The application of this principle is most closely connected with the effective exercise of freedom of work and the right to work. For this reason, recruitment procedure cannot be beyond the scope of control which enables immediate elimination of irregularities in this procedure. In that context, this article discusses the issue of the right of participants in public announcements or job advertisements to an effective legal remedy, not only via the right to judicial and extrajudicial remedies, but also via the right to object or appeal, as the means to achieve internal protection of rights. In the Republic of Serbia, this issue is particularly delicate because the Labour Act does not recognize the two-instance internal procedure, while judicial protection of the rights of jobseekers has not been directly regulated, with the exception of protection against discrimination, and protection of workers whose employment was previously terminated due to redundancy, resulting in their employment priority when hiring for the same jobs. This legal solution is accompanied by a number of open questions, especially as the participants in public announcements and job advertisements procedures in special employment regimes enjoy the two instance internal protection in the same situation, which calls into question the effective application of the principle of equality before the law. Therefore, the article formulates proposals de lege ferenda to create conditions for effective exercise of the right to work, freedom of work, and protection against discrimination in a procedure in which a worker seeks to acquire a status that will provide him with the means of subsistence as well as an opportunity to develop his personality through work.
The right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights and legality of epidemiological monitoring measures to combat the Covid-19 virus pandemic
Authors: Milenković Jelena
Published: March 2021

In this paper, the author analyzes the protection of the right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) at the time of the Covid-19 virus pandemic. At the beginning of the pandemic, European countries had a large number of infected people and some countries encountered a collapse of their health systems. As the situation was beyond control, it raises the question whether such a situation was caused by the non-implementation of epidemiological monitoring measures, which is comparable to the extent and manner of implementing these measures in the Far East; namely, the question is whether the democratic system remained unprotected due to the EU countries' observance of democratic human rights standards, specifically the right to privacy. Given that epidemiological monitoring measures are currently the most important instrument for combating the Covid-19 virus pandemic, European countries have to fulfill the condition of legality in implementing these measures, which interfere with the citizens' right to privacy. In that context, the author explores the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which ensures judicial protection of the rights guaranteed by the Convention (including the right to private life), focuses on the definition of the concept of the right to privacy, and examines whether epidemiological monitoring measures fall into the corpus of privacy rights. Relying on a detailed analysis of the ECtHR case law, the author points to the specific requirements that must be met in order for the epidemiological monitoring measures to be considered legal.
Pros and cons of patenting stem cells
Authors: Damjanović Gordana
Published: March 2021

The evolution and transformation of research in the field of biotechnology are clearly reflected in patent rules. In view of further development of biotechnology and the pressure from multinational biotechnical companies, gene patenting was first granted in some legal systems in order to initiate the regulation of patent protection of stem cells. Further research should provide a better understanding of the differentiation and development of stem cells, including their potential effects in curing previously incurable diseases. It should also engender new ways of exploring fundamental issues in biology, such as the mechanism of cell growth. Therefore, researchers and primarily biotech companies advocate in favor of ensuring the monopoly on the results of their research. Such a monopoly is secured by patent law. Although remarkable progress has been made in the research of stem cells, many aspects of their use, especially of embryonic cells, have not been fully clarified and made comprehensible. Successful applications of products that use a stem cell derivative (on the one hand) and moral dilemmas primarily relating to embryonic stem cells (on the other hand) have resulted in a debate that has affected many legal areas, such as patent law. Such morally challenging products have caused great concern in the USA and the EU. However, these two entities have tried to solve the problem in different ways. Different views on law, ethics and embryos have also affected different views regarding patent protection of stem cells.
State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?
Authors: Čučković Bojana
Published: March 2021

The paper provides an in-depth analysis of the issue of extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in the specific context of transboundary environmental harm. The classic criteria for extraterritorial jurisdiction established through the landmark judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are revisited and compared with the extensive extraterritoriality threshold introduced by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its 2017 advisory opinion on environment and human rights. The author examines the features, requirements and limits of the new extraterritoriality threshold which is based on the effective control over intraterritorial activities that result in extraterritorial human rights' violations. The paper attempts to offer arguments for perceiving the new extraterritoriality threshold as a general standard of international human rights, as well as to examine whether it represents a (mis)interpretation of the duty to prevent transboundary environmental harm as a well-established rule of international environmental law. The author also discusses the prospects of expanding the application of the new jurisdictional threshold to other areas not necessarily linked to environmental degradation.
Withdrawal from the European Union: Consequences under EU law and international law
Authors: Lukić-Radović Maja
Published: March 2021

This article provides analysis of the most prominent legal issues arising as a consequence of a voluntary withdrawal of a Member State from the European Union pursuant to Article 50 TEU. Particular attention is given to the aspects which have not been explicitly regulated, as well as to those that remain unclear due to the complex wording of Article 50 TEU. Following the introduction, the first section focuses on the termination of application of EU law. The second section provides a more detailed insight into the consequences of the voluntary withdrawal on the issues related to the EU citizenship. The next section elaborates on the legal framework for establishing relations between the withdrawing state and the EU under international law. Finally, the last section of the paper analyzes the consequences for the position of the withdrawing state vis-à-vis international organizations and under international law in general.
Free legal aid in the context of the right of access to court
Authors: Palačković Dušica , Čanović Jelena
Published: March 2021

The Constitution of the Republic of Serbia explicitly regulates that free legal aid shall be stipulated by the law. In a series of reports on the progress of the Republic of Serbia in the process of joining the EU, there are warnings about the unacceptably low quality level and efficiency of the judiciary, and indications that there is a need to regulate the legal aid system. Finally, this matter was regulated by enacting the Legal Aid Act of the Republic of Serbia, which came into force on 1st October 2019. In addition to the conceptual definition of legal aid, the paper analyzes the right of access to court as a constituent element of the right to a fair trial prescribed in Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which entails the right to legal aid. The regulation of legal aid at the national level has to meet the standards formulated at the European Union level as well as the standards formulated through the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. In that context, the paper analyzes the regulations and decisions, i.e. the widely recognized and accepted standards. The Legal Aid Act of the Republic of Serbia has been analyzed in the context of meeting these standards, especially in relation to the conditions for granting the right to legal aid and the circle of beneficiaries and providers of certain types of legal aid.
Legal treatment of grant-back clauses in licence agreements from the aspect of EU competition law
Authors: Vasić Aleksandra
Published: March 2021

In this paper, the author explores the legal treatment of no-challenge clauses in license agreements. A grant-back clause obligates the licensee to grant the rights on future advances or improvements in the licensed technology to the licensor. The author analyzes the legality of contracting the aforementioned clause in license agreements from the aspect of European Union Competition Law, considering that the positive law of the Republic of Serbia still does not include legal norms regulating this institute.
Expropriation in a material sense
Authors: Prica Miloš
Published: March 2021

Expropriation as a legal institute is both narrower and broader than expropriation in a formal sense (formal expropriation). Expropriation in a formal sense implies a due legal process of revoking or restricting the ownership right in a particular legal case by the operation of the law. Formal expropriation generates the establishment of various legal institutes, one of which is expropriation in a material sense. On the other hand, expropriation as a legal institute emerges outside the scope of formal expropriation), which occurs within the framework of restricting one's private ownership, as a result of direct statutory regulation (legislation) in particular areas of the legal order, and a result of the legal regulation in particular cases in judicial and other legal proceedings. Expropriation in a material sense exists only in cases where the transformation of private ownership into public ownership occurs through expropriation in a formal sense, for the purpose of achieving a specifically designated general interest, including the possibility of return to the previous state of affairs (de-expropriation). De-expropriation takes place at the request of the former owner if it is established that the intended purpose of expropriation has not been achieved. In effect, the possibility of de-expropriation is the differentia specifica that separates expropriation in a material sense from other legal institutes related to expropriation in a formal sense, as well as from quasi-expropriation and other forms of revoking and restricting the private ownership right under the legal authority of the state.
Multigroup CFA and alignment approaches for testing measurement invariance and factor score estimation: Illustration with the schoolwork-related anxiety survey across countries and gender
Authors: Immekus Jason C.
Published: March 2021

Within large-scale international studies, the utility of survey scores to yield meaningful comparative data hinges on the degree to which their item parameters demonstrate measurement invariance (MI) across compared groups (e.g., culture). To-date, methodological challenges have restricted the ability to test the measurement invariance of item parameters of these instruments in the presence of many groups (e.g., countries). This study compares multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) and alignment method to investigate the MI of the schoolwork-related anxiety survey across gender groups within the 35 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (gender × country) of the Programme for International Student Assessment 2015 study. Subsequently, the predictive validity of MGCFA and alignment-based factor scores for subsequent mathematics achievement are examined. Considerations related to invariance testing of noncognitive instruments with many groups are discussed.
Knowledge on Intrapartum Danger Sign Influences Place of Delivery: The Case of Raya Kobo District, Northeastern Ethiopia
Authors: Yimer Nigus Bililign , Liben Misgan Legesse ,   School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Amhara, Ethiopia
Published: March 2021

Background: A skilled birth attendance for every pregnant woman during childbirth is the most crucial intervention for improving maternal health. This study aimed to assess institutional delivery service utilization and associated factors among mothers who gave birth in the last 12 months in Raya Kobo district, Ethiopia. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out in the Raya Kobo district of Amhara Regional State during March 2016. Logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the association between each independent variable and the outcome variable. Variables with a p-value <0.05 were considered significant. Results: A total of 493 mothers were included in the study, with a response rate of 95.4%. The mean (+SD) age of the study participants was 29.13 (±6.93) years. About 73% of the study participants had attended at least one antenatal care follow up for their last pregnancy, and 56.6% (95% CI: 52.0, 61.0%) gave birth at health institutions. Travelling for 30 minutes and less [AOR=2.95(1.89, 4.58)], attending antenatal care [AOR=6.0(3.55, 10.13)], having knowledge about intrapartum danger signs [AOR=2.48(1.44, 4.24)] and getting information from health extension workers (HEWs) regarding maternal health services were positively associated. Conclusion: The district health office should strengthen its effort to provide free ambulance accessibility and provide information on danger signs of intrapartum complications and the importance of using institutional delivery service to every mother who came to the antenatal clinic. Furthermore, the district health officials should focus on strengthening the capacity of HEWs in relation to maternal health services.
A Strategic Analytics Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Weed Identification in Sugar Beet Fields
Authors: Jabir Brahim , Falih Noureddine , Sarih Asmaa , Tannouche Adil
Published: March 2021

Researchers in precision agriculture regularly use deep learning that will help growers and farmers control and monitor crops during the growing season; these tools help to extract meaningful information from large-scale aerial images received from the field using several techniques in order to create a strategic analytics for making a decision. The information result of the operation could be exploited for many reasons, such as sub-plot specific weed control. Our focus in this paper is on weed identification and control in sugar beet fields, particularly the creation and optimization of a Convolutional Neural Networks model and train it according to our data set to predict and identify the most popular weed strains in the region of Beni Mellal, Morocco. All that could help select herbicides that work on the identified weeds, we explore the way of transfer learning approach to design the networks, and the famous library Tensorflow for deep learning models, and Keras which is a high-level API built on Tensorflow.
Synoptic characteristics of an extreme weather event: The tornadic waterspout in Tivat (Montenegro), on June 9, 2018
Authors: Mihajlović Jovan , Burić Dragan , Milenković Milan
Published: March 2021

Recently Montenegro has often been faced with extreme weather events. The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed synoptic analysis of a severe weather event, a waterspout, and to confirm an indication that in most cases such events could potentially be forecasted, which is of great practical significance, since human lives and property can be saved. The paper presents the research results of synoptic and mesoscale weather conditions which created a favourable meteorological environment for a waterspout development in Tivat (Montenegrin coast) on June 9, 2018, around 01 UTC (03 CET). Based on field survey analysis, the rating of tornado intensity by the Fujita scale (F-scale) has been done by assessing the damage. The synoptic type for this situation was CLOSED-SW and was determined by a detailed examination of atmospheric circulation. The results presented in the manuscript can help decision makers in Montenegro to take certain adaptation measures (above all, in tourism and construction) in order to mitig te the negative consequences of weather extremes.
Evolution of the hydrological regime in relation to climate change: Case of the Bouregreg River basin, Morocco
Authors: El Aoula Rajae , Mahe Gil , Mhammdi Nadia , Ezzahouani Abdellatif , Kacimi Ilias , Khomsi Kenza
Published: March 2021

The objective of this study is to investigate the evolution of rainfall and flow in the Bouregreg watershed, and to identify the most vulnerable regions to climate change over a period of 36 years from 1977 to 2013. Results show significant variations between these sub-regions in term of monthly flows and monthly regimes. January and February rainfall amounts are the most affected by the reduction of rainfall since the drought started end of the 1970’s, inducing a reduction of flows at all hydrological stations mainly since 1979. The year 1996 shows very high precipitations over all sub-basins, and also separates two periods with different rainfall time series variations according to two regions over the basin: the region of the Tsalat sub-basin in the Southeast wet and mountainous area (Middle Atlas) shows a durable decrease of rainfall compared to the Ain Loudah sub-basin in the Center-West semi-arid plateau area.
The Afterlife of the Roman de la rose
Authors: McWebb Christine
Published: March 2021

Mobility in learned circles was a reality in the Europe of the Middle Ages, and it is only when we consider the reception of well-known works, such as the thirteenth-century Roman de la rose, in the countries where they circulated in the local language that we are able to gain a more complete understanding of their impact on literary and cultural currents even after the authors had passed away. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s conjoined Roman de la rose (1236, 1269-78) is without a doubt one of the foundational works of French medieval literature with over 360 extant manuscripts. Focusing on two non-French adaptations of this work that appeared within a century of the date of its composition, I show that these translations, or more accurately rewritings, enabled its survival and contributed to its sustained popularity in medieval Europe. The adaptations that are the subject of this analysis are Il Fiore, a thirteenth-century translation and adaptation into Italian often attributed to Dante, and the Romaunt of the Rose, commonly attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer. I conclude that through the medieval practice of interpretatio, the authors of the Fiore, and the Romaunt of the Rose adapt the original text to reflect their own contemporary cultural realities.
Between Ethos and Moralité: Reading La Fontaine's "Préface" to the Fables
Authors: Bold Stephen
Published: March 2021

This paper proposes a reading of La Fontaine’s puzzling and coy preface to his first volume of Fables. Presented at the start as a friendly debate between the author and a rival, the “Préface” becomes an ironic sort of performance art that reveals the fabulist’s own ambivalence toward a genre that has come to him cloaked in the sober robes of a moralizing pedagogy. La Fontaine tries on the costume and does his best to play the part, composing his role from the illustrious examples of Socrates — a fabulist in extremis — and eventually a crafty Aesop, only to show us little by little that he is more a poet and artist than a moralist. Distrustful of those who would lecture on virtue and rectitude, La Fontaine’s teaching anticipates at once Rousseau’s negative education in the Émile and also Victor Turner’s pedagogy of anti-structure.
« Un beau viveur et un délicat vivant ». Le baron de Besenval, courtisan et collectionneur, à travers son iconographie
Authors: Calatayud Agnès
Published: March 2021

Le baron Pierre-Joseph-Victor de Besenval de Brünstatt (1721-1791), au zénith de son existence, après s’être vaillamment illustré au combat sous Louis XV au sein du régiment des gardes suisses dont il était le colonel, était devenu, sous les lambris dorés de Versailles, le plus exercé et le plus incontournable des courtisans. Membre assidu de la garde rapprochée de la reine Marie-Antoinette, spirituel et séduisant, il excellait dans les deux arts qui faisaient le sel de la petite société de la reine à Trianon: celui de la conversation et celui de la galanterie. Besenval avait pourtant une passion qui prévalait sur toutes les autres : c’était l’un des plus fins collectionneurs d’art de son temps. Au lendemain de la prise de la Bastille, retentissant événement qu’il ne put empêcher en dépit de son rôle de commandant militaire de la garnison de Paris, il quitta précipitamment la capitale, fut repris, incarcéré, jugé, et miraculeusement libéré. Cet article se propose d’analyser divers portraits-clés de cet aristocrate emblématique de l’Ancien régime et de sa chute, qui désira tirer sa révérence sur un exceptionnel portrait de lui-même en collectionneur. Unique tableau de ce genre dans l’art français du XVIIIe siècle, ce fascinant portrait intime, au coin du feu, conserve pour la postérité l’esprit et le goût dont faisait preuve le baron de Besenval à l’orée de la Révolution.
A Proustian Reading of Michel Onfray's Cosmos and Christian Signol's Les vrais bonheurs: "Privileged Moments" of Sensorial Ecstasy
Authors: Moser Keith
Published: March 2021

This study probes the philosophical significance of the strange joy induced by a trigger sensation that immediately strikes the reader in Michel Onfray’s Cosmos and Christian Signol’s Les vrais bonheurs. Heavily influenced by Proust’s vision of involuntary memory, the role of the senses, and the nature of time in A la recherche du temps perdu, Onfray and Signol attempt to explore the essence of everything in the context of powerful, transformative sensorial encounters. Some critics automatically dismiss the rending ecstasy depicted by the Proustian narrator in the “petite madeleine” scene as nothing more than a form of whimsical artistry. However, Onfray and Signol’s rewriting of this renowned passage demonstrates that the notion of a privileged moment, associated with Proust in French literary circles, is an all-encompassing metaphor for delving into the most fundamental philosophical questions of all.
L’homoérotisme en autotraduction : Le cas de Sud / South de Julien Green
Authors: Waite Genevieve
Published: March 2021

Écrivain translingue de nationalité américaine, Julien Green (1900-1998) a écrit une grande variété de romans, pièces, nouvelles, et essais, ainsi que l’un des journaux intimes les plus longs du vingtième siècle. Parmi ses textes bilingues se trouve une pièce d’inspiration homoérotique, Sud (1953), que l’auteur a traduite en anglais comme South (1959) avec l’aide de sa soeur, Anne Green. Quoique l’homoérotisme des personnages des oeuvres de Green ait déjà été examiné dans certains textes critiques, l’évolution de cet homoérotisme dans une pièce autotraduite comme celle de Sud / South n’a pas encore été étudiée de près. Dans cet article, on montrera ainsi comment cet auteur a transformé le drame de l’amour homosexuel de sa première pièce, Sud (1953), dans son autotraduction, South (1959), et les effets de ces changements linguistiques sur le lecteur. Plus précisément, on analysera comment Green a employé une approche translative du moins-dit pour cacher la plupart de l’intrigue centrale de la version traduite de sa pièce. À cause de multiples coupures, révisions, et ajouts en autotraduction, l’amour du lieutenant Ian Wiczewski pour le jeune Erik Mac Clure, ainsi que l’orientation homosexuelle d’Édouard Broderick, sont moins visibles dans South que dans Sud. Par conséquent, Sud et South apparaissent comme deux versions bien disparates de la même oeuvre.
From Transformative Travels to Translingual Poetics: the "Ultime voyage" of Victor Segalen and François Cheng
Authors: Tan Xinyi
Published: March 2021

François Cheng and Victor Segalen are widely acknowledged for their common role of “cultural ambassador” between China and France. However, according to Jean Mouttapa who wrote the preface for Cheng’s book L’Un vers l’autre. En voyage avec Victor Segalen (2008), there exists a “spiritual affinity” between the two authors that connects them in a fundamental way. Focusing on this unusual bond, this article examines how the dual destinations of travel – lieu (Other/Elsewhere) and milieu (Self/Home) – are represented in two poetic creations, namely “Perdre le Midi Quotidien” by Segalen and “Ultime voyage” by Cheng. At the intersection of French and Chinese, the travelers-poets trace and translate the courses of their internal progress through their physical displacements. Drawing on essential concepts from Segalen’s theory such as the Divers and the Exote, my analysis reveals the extent to which Segalen and Cheng’s translingual poetics serve as a powerful vehicle to display and disseminate their positive view of the Self-Other bond.
Cutaneous lupus tumidus: An unusual unilateral presentation
Authors: Mrabat Samia , aybay Hanane , Douhi Zakia , Elloudi Sara , Mernissi Fatima Zahra , Rimani Mouna
Published: March 2021

Lupus tumidus is a rare subtype of chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus characterized by erythema and bright urticarial erythematous and violaceous lesions on sun-exposed areas that heal without leaving scars. Lupus tumidus follows a benign and intermittent clinical course and is rarely associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. Treatment involves photoprotection, topical corticosteroids, and antimalarials. We report the case of a 42-year-old patient with an atypical unilateral form of lupus tumidus successfully treated with the administration of hydroxychloroquine in combination with photoprotection and tacrolimus.
Papular mucinosis (papular lichen myxedematosus): Clinical and histopathological evaluation
Authors: Sharquie Khalifa , Jabbar Raed I
Published: March 2021

Background: Papular mucinosis is a variety of mucinosis characterized by excessive production of mucin by fibroblasts and deposition in the dermis. It manifests itself with fleshy papules or plaques in different sites of the body and taking different clinical morphological cutaneous features. Objective: The objective is to report and evaluate the different clinical and histopathological features of the disease in Iraqi patients. Patients and Methods: This is a case series and a clinical descriptive study in which ten patients with papular mucinosis were reported during the period from 2012 through 2019. The age ranged from 4 to 56 years, with seven females and three males. Clinical evaluation regarding histories of the disease and examination was carried out. General investigation was done and skin biopsy for histopathological assessment was conducted. Results: Nine patients were adults, with their age ranging from 20 to 56 years, a mean of around 35 years, and only one 4-year-old child. It is a disease with a female predominance, as observed in 7 (70%) females. The common sites of involvement were the face but the rash may extend to affect the neck and upper arms. The rash appeared in the form of skin-colored or red fleshy papules and plaques or in diffuse erythematous orange peel-like forms. The rash was asymptomatic in most patients. The pathology of the disease clarified the diffuse deposition of mucin in the dermis, as was demonstrated with H&E staining. Conclusion: Papular mucinosis is a rare disease characterized by mucin deposition in the skin affecting mostly adult females. The face is commonly involved together with other areas such as the neck and upper arms, but the trunk and lower limbs are spared. It manifests itself with different clinical morphological cutaneous features. Papular granuloma annulare must be considered as an important differential diagnosis in all cases of papular mucinosis.
Numerical Simulation of Mechanical Properties of Series System with Bearing and Pier Under Lateral Load
Authors: Dong Zhenhua , Zhang Jinquan , Cheng Shoushan , Li Pengfei
Published: March 2021

The local series system with typical common plate rubber support/pier in highway reinforced concrete girder bridge is the object of the current research. The finite element numerical simulation method is used to study sensitive parameters – the mechanical properties of the series system under the horizontal load. The simulated results show that the interface bonding strength between the bearing and adjacent structure is reduced; the equivalent shear deformation and the horizontal force of bearing under horizontal load change insignificantly with the increase of horizontal displacement. However, the total shear deformation and equivalent shear deformation increase with the increase of the axial compression ratio. In addition, the top horizontal force and displacement of the pier significantly decrease with reduction of the connection strength at both ends of the bearing. Therefore, adjusting the axial compression ratio of the pier and interfacial connection mode can obviously affect the mechanical properties of the support and adjacent structure, even the failure mode of the local structure. This approach can help estimate the mechanical properties of the existing bridge and determine the reasonable maintenance plan.
Assessing the long-term sustainability of the groundwater resources in the Bacchiglione basin (Veneto, Italy) with the Mann–Kendall test: suggestions for higher reliability
Authors: Meggiorin Mara , Passadore Giulia , Bertoldo Silvia , Sottani Andrea , Rinaldo Andrea
Published: March 2021

The social, economic, and ecological importance of the aquifer system within the Bacchiglione basin (Veneto, IT) is noteworthy, and there is considerable disagreement among previous studies over its sustainable use. Investigating the long-term quantitative sustainability of the groundwater system, this study presents a statistical methodology that can be applied to similar cases. Using a combination of robust and widely used techniques, we apply the seasonal Mann–Kendall test and the Sen’s slope estimator to the recorded groundwater level timeseries. The analysis is carried out on a large and heterogeneous proprietary dataset gathering hourly groundwater level timeseries at 79 control points, acquired during the period 2005–2019. The test identifies significant decreasing trends for most of the available records, unlike previous studies on the quantitative status of the same resource which covered the domain investigated here for a slightly different period: 2000–2014. The present study questions the reason for such diverging results by focusing on the method’s accuracy. After carrying out a Fourier analysis on the longest available timeseries, for studies of groundwater status assessment this work suggests applying the Mann–Kendall test to timeseries longer than 20 years (because otherwise the analysis would be affected by interannual periodicities of the water cycle). A further analysis of two 60-year-long monthly timeseries between 1960 and 2020 supports the actual sustainable use of the groundwater resource, the past deployment of the groundwater resources notwithstanding. Results thus prove more reliable, and meaningful inferences on the longterm sustainability of the groundwater system are possible.
ADAPTATION OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA ORGANS IN VIDEO CONTENT: NEW MEDIA EXAMPLE: CNN TÜRK
Authors: TOPBAŞ Benan
Published: March 2021

The way these main media organs are included in new media outlets, video journalism has been examined. For this purpose, content analysis of the videos produced on cnnturk.com.tr Youtube and social media platforms, which have both traditional and new media organs, was performed. An institutionalized interview was conducted to make the content analysis results more meaningful. In the research, the social media planning of online news videos was examined and what kind of content they had was revealed. Research On cnnturk.com.tr, online news videos are from the pool of CNN TÜRK channel and from agencies, and the channels where readers and viewers react the most are Youtube and Facebook. The site cnnturk.com.tr, a new media organ, shared the online news videos broadcast from the CNN TÜRK channel, which is the traditional media organ, on platforms such as Twitter, Youtube and Facebook, and enabled the videos active in the traditional media to adapt to new media channels.
SUCCESS AND FAILURE ANALYSIS OF FILMS ADAPTED FROM VIDEO GAMES
Authors: ÖZSOY Özgür , TURAN Bülent Onur
Published: March 2021

One of the intersections of the video games and cinema industry is the subject of adaptation. There are many productions adapted from movies to video games or from video games to movies. In this study, it is aimed to define the response of the films adapted from video games on the audience side. The audience and the actor are part of these adapted productions, their location plays a role in shaping the future of these productions, in this context the results obtained in this study are valuable in terms of expressing the potential of these productions. In this study, two different methods were used to achieve objective results; Online survey with 11 professionals in the cinema industry and cinema education, an analysis of the data collected from the criticism sites on www.imdb.com and www.metascore.com, and the comments of registered users. With the analysis of these comments obtained from the audience, the focus of the audience has been determined, and with the answers given by the people who have received cinema education or professionals who are professional in the cinema sector, information has been provided on both the foresight and the situation in it. These methods are analyzed within themselves and in the conclusion part, the results of the two methods are combined. As a result, it is that the audience evaluates these films without separating them from the game and they wish that this cooperation will continue to develop and continue. It has been determined that failed film samples are not decisive for video games. Although the audience thinks that this genre will develop, more successful results will be achieved, it has been understood that the feeling of being active in the game is more dominant to the feeling of being passive in the movie. It was seen that the relationship of the audience with the films was video game centered, and the emotions he felt in the game and the details of the game were also looked for in the inner structure of the film.
An atlas of the binding specificities of transcription factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa directs prediction of novel regulators in virulence
Authors: Wang Tingting , Sun Wenju , Fan Ligang , Hua Canfeng , Wu Nan , Fan Shaorong , Zhang Jilin , Deng Xin , Yan Jian
Published: March 2021

A high-throughput systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment assay was applied to 371 putative TFs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which resulted in the robust enrichment of 199 unique sequence motifs describing the binding specificities of 182 TFs. By scanning the genome, we predicted in total 33,709 significant interactions between TFs and their target loci, which were more than 11-fold enriched in the intergenic regions but depleted in the gene body regions. To further explore and delineate the physiological and pathogenic roles of TFs in P. aeruginosa, we constructed regulatory networks for nine major virulence-associated pathways and found that 51 TFs were potentially significantly associated with these virulence pathways, 32 of which had not been characterized before, and some were even involved in multiple pathways. These results will significantly facilitate future studies on transcriptional regulation in P. aeruginosa and other relevant pathogens, and accelerate to discover effective treatment and prevention strategies for the associated infectious diseases.