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Português do Rio Grande do Sul do século XIX: caracterização de uma sincronia passada
Authors: Costa Evellyne Patrícia Figueiredo de Sousa , Moreira Leici Landherr
Published: February 2024

Este artigo tem o objetivo de apresentar a caracterização do português do Rio Grande do Sul do século XIX a partir da descrição de fenômenos linguísticos de ordem grafo-fonética e variantes sócio-históricas em documentos manuscritos. O corpus compreende a edição filológica conservadora de documentos manuscritos oitocentistas não-literários do arquivo “Português Histórico do Rio Grande do Sul (PHRS)”. Sob o aporte teórico da Sociolinguística Histórica, descrevemos e analisamos os fenômenos fonológicos relacionados às variantes sócio-históricas de tipologia documental e profissão dos escreventes. Os resultados revelaram maior ocorrência de elisão, harmonia vocálica, abaixamento e alçamento em tipologias de caráter descrito-narrativo escritas por secretários, secretários militares e procurador da Câmara, geralmente, militares vinculados à formação das cidades em que registram os documentos. O estudo filológico dos textos, de suas características paleográficas mostram que os profissionais possuíam habilidade no ato de escrever, mesmo assim, não tinham um treinamento para exercer suas funções nem mesmo a prescrição de um manual de língua portuguesa, por isso, em textos descritos-narrativos, os fenômenos são mais evidentes. Desse modo, é correlação entre os fenômenos linguísticos, o perfil do escrevente associado à formação das cidades e sua prática de escrita bem como à tipologia documental que permite caracterizar o português do RS a partir do PHRS.
A cultura do álcool no Brasil: aspectos linguísticos e identitários nos séculos XVIII e XIX
Authors: Santana Liviane Gomes Ataíde
Published: February 2024

Por meio do presente artigo, buscamos apresentar aspectos inerentes à cultura do álcool no Brasil, bem como suas particularidades linguísticas e as questões identitárias que estão relacionadas ao país, durante os séculos XVIII e XIX. Objetivamos, com isso, trazer à baila o conhecimento de parte da história do nosso país que envolve o cultivo de um produto de uso secular, o álcool, e em torno dele, usos linguísticos e atributos que identificam o Brasil nos períodos citados. Um documento memorial setecentista e um manual oitocentista de destilação e preparo de licores foram utilizados para resgatar as informações sobre o álcool enquanto bebida, os aspectos linguísticos de ordem lexical em torno do álcool e os traços de identidade que tal cultura provia e também caracterizava o Brasil nas épocas relacionadas. Para tanto, a base teórica deste trabalho está fundamentada em alguns autores, tais como Cuche (1999) e Wagner (2010), que tratam de conhecimentos que envolvem a cultura, Silva (2012), que versa sobre questões identitárias, Mattos e Silva (2008), abordando aspectos da Linguística Histórica, Biderman (2001), com estudos de ordem lexical, dentre outros pesquisadores.
Cláusulas insubordinadas no Português Arcaico: notas preliminares
Authors: Rodrigues Violeta Virginia , Oliveira Thiago Laurentino de
Published: February 2024

Desde Evans (2007), inúmeras investigações acerca das cláusulas com forma de subordinada, mas com funcionamento sintaticamente independente têm sido desenvolvidas em diferentes línguas (EVANS; WATANABE, 2016). Esse fenômeno tem sido rotulado como insubordinação, embora existam descrições semelhantes que adotam outras nomenclaturas. Surge também do estudo pioneiro de Evans (2007) uma das hipóteses mais difundidas entre os estudiosos sobre as origens dessas estruturas, segundo a qual as cláusulas insubordinadas seriam fruto de um processo diacrônico em que a cláusula principal é elipsada e a cláusula subordinada é reanalisada, preservando traços formais da dependência sintática. A despeito da plausibilidade dessa hipótese, verificamos que grande parte das pesquisas em insubordinação tem examinado apenas dados sincrônicos, sem explorar efetivamente uma trajetória diacrônica de mudança que evidenciasse a hipótese da elipse. Diante disso, neste artigo, investigamos a existência de cláusulas insubordinadas no português arcaico, examinando documentos datados do século XIV e extraídos do Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval (CIPM). Nosso intuito é verificar a hipótese diacrônica sobre a origem das insubordinadas em português. Este texto tem caráter preliminar, uma vez que os dados reportados são parte de um projeto mais amplo, no qual pretendemos mapear diacronicamente as ocorrências de cláusulas insubordinadas na história do português, partindo do século XIII até o século XXI. Nossos primeiros resultados fornecem evidências contrárias à hipótese da elipse, visto que encontramos mais de um padrão de insubordinação no texto histórico analisado.
Demônias, santas, objetos e algo mais: apontamentos sobre metáforas para mulheres em cartas da inquisição do século XVIII
Authors: Almeida Aurelina Ariadne Domingues , Santos Elisângela Santana dos , Santana Neila Maria Oliveira
Published: February 2024

Apresentam-se, neste artigo, resultados de um estudo preliminar acerca da conceptualização metafórica de mulher em cartas encaminhadas ao Santo Ofício, em diferentes anos do século XVIII. Para proceder ao estudo, recorreu-se ao aporte teórico da Semântica Cognitiva, em perspectiva Sócio-Histórica-Cultural (ALMEIDA; SANTANA, 2019; ALMEIDA, 2020) e também da Teoria da Metáfora Conceptual (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2002 [1980]; KÖVECSES, 2017). No que concerne ao seu desenho metodológico, o trabalho investigativo realizado deu-se a partir de abordagem qualitativa do fazer científico, de natureza exploratória, documental, descritiva e interpretativa do corpus, que foi constituído por cartas inseridas no Projeto Post Scriptum, coordenado por Rita Marquilhas (2014). Após a realização deste estudo preliminar, já se sabe que, no período em questão e, particularmente, no corpus analisado, a mulher poderia ser conceptualizada em termos de DEMÔNIO e de SANTA, entre outras possibilidades.
Língua Geral de Mina: uma fotografia da história linguística dos africanos escravizados no Brasil
Authors: Da Silva Wellington Santos
Published: February 2024

Este artigo aborda a história linguística dos africanos escravizados no Brasil, tomando como exemplo a Língua Geral de Mina (LGM), uma língua africana de origem Gbe documentada no Brasil no século XVIII, durante o Ciclo do Ouro. O argumento central consiste em mostrar que a variedade Gbe oriunda da Costa da Mina continuou sendo falada no contexto colonial, preservando traços morfossintáticos característicos das línguas do grupo, como adjetivos atributivos reduplicados e verbos de complementação inerente, fenômenos analisados neste trabalho. Após a exposição dos aspectos teóricos que embasam a pesquisa, explicitamos os fatores ecológicos (MUFWENE, 2001; 2008) que garantiram a vitalidade da LGM no Brasil, sendo eles a homogeneidade etnolinguística dos povos Gbe, a estrutura socioeconômica da zona mineradora e as redes sociais estabelecidas pelos africanos escravizados em Minas Gerais. A discussão é acompanhada de dados linguísticos que reforçam a inserção da LGM nas interações sociais dos africanos mina naquela região. Com isso, temos o intuito de mostrar que as línguas são ferramentas mobilizadas pelos falantes a fim de atingir seus objetivos.
Pop music production and regulation online in select African countries and Brazil
Authors: Peukert Alexander , Röschenthaler Ute
Published: February 2024

Over the last quarter of a century, the sources of the global recorded music industry's revenues have changed fundamentally, from 100 per cent physical sources (mostly compact discs [CDs]) in 1999 to diversified sources between 2010 and 2015, to mostly intangible sources (mostly streaming) thereafter. However, such global statistics tell us little about developments on the ground in countries with very different socio-economic and cultural circumstances. This special issue examines, from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective, how technology, particularly the internet, cultural practices and law have interacted in the field of popular music in three African countries (Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa) and Brazil. The socio-economic and legal situations in these countries have been far less studied than those in the Global North. In addition, they are of great importance from an overall perspective because of their population and market size, as well as their ‘cultural influences’ on the regional and even global music scene – suffice it to mention Afrobeats, Bossa Nova and Amapiano. Remarkably, the studies featured in this special issue reveal more similarities than differences.
The South African music landscape and the Copyright Amendment Bill
Authors: Forere Malebakeng
Published: February 2024

In South Africa, the issue of musicians dying as paupers despite their fame relates to a set of factors, including technological developments that affected traditional modes of content distribution and archaic laws, that predates the internet. Relying on CISAC and IFPI reports, this article finds that while physical copies, which were by far the most rewarding mode of music distribution, have become obsolete, current modes of distribution – downloads and streaming – have diminished revenue for the South African musician. This situation is due to free streaming from platforms that enable user-uploaded content, as well as to negligible payouts from streaming platforms in general. Efforts by the legislature to address musicians’ dwindling income are nevertheless contradictory. Looking at sections of the Copyright Amendment Bill and stakeholder submissions thereto, it is clear that the bill diminishes artists’ economic rights through unmitigated exceptions while leaving the safe harbour provisions unaddressed, which pose a further risk to artists’ income.
Evaluation of different weed management practices on growth and yield of transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.) in Northeastern Zone of Tamil Nadu
Authors: BALAJI E. , RAMAN R. , KRISHNAMOORTHY R. , DHANASEKARAN K.
Published: February 2024

Weeds cause a 57 per cent yield loss in transplanted rice and an 82 per cent yield loss in direct seeded rice, resulting in a $4.20 billion monetary loss per year. Weed infestation, species richness, density, dry matter accumulation and duration of association significantly affects rice grain production. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted in farmer’s field in Thiruvennainallur village, Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu, India during Navarai season of 2021, in order to evaluate the different weed management practices on growth and yield of rice under transplanted conditions. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design, having fourteen treatment and replicated thrice. Treatment consists of hand weeding, butachlor, pretilachlor, pyrazosulfuron ethyl, bispyribac sodium, fenoxaprop-p-ethyl, Triafamone + ethoxy sulfuron, metsulfuron methyl + chlorimuron ethyl and penoxsulam + cyhalofop butyl were used as herbicides. Among the different herbicides tried out, pre emergence application of pyrazosulfuron ethyl 10% WP @ 0.15 g/ha fb post emergence application of bispyribac sodium 10% SC @ 0.25 l/ha recorded least weed density (15.55, 29.56 m-2), weed biomass (8.25, 16.02 g/m2) with weed index (2.18 %) and highest weed control index (89.22%, 85.18%), plant height (97.21 cm), dry matter production (12735 kg/ha), number of productive tillers/m2 (349.23), grain yield (6416 kg/ha) and straw yield (7839 kg/ha). Sequential application of pre-emergence followed by post emergence enhance the reduction of weed leads to higher productivity of transplanted rice.
Evaluating the effect of fly ash on soil properties and germination of rice (Oryza sativa): A study on the utilization of thermal power plant residue
Authors: PAUL BISWAJIT , SAMANTA ABHISHEK , BHATTACHARYYA NANDAN
Published: February 2024

India has a power capacity of 4,02,817 MW, with over half coming from coal-based thermal power plants like the Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant (KTPP), West Bengal, India. These plants produce harmful fly ash, requiring safe disposal. KTPP alone generated 0.5921 million tons of fly ash in 2020-21, managed using ash ponds. Concerns have arisen regarding contamination of nearby agricultural fields, impacting rice cultivation. The objective of the study was to understand how fly ash affects soil and seed germination and emphasizes the importance of making careful decisions when using industrial residues in agriculture to ensure sustainable and responsible practices that prioritize environmental health and plant well-being.Samples were collected from areas near KTPP, and plant growth substrates were prepared by mixing control soil with varying fly ash concentrations. The study was conducted between 15 February and 19 May 2023 in PnaskuraBanamali College (Autonomous), Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India. The physical and chemical properties of these substrates were analyzed, and rice seed germination studies were carried out over 30 days. The subsequent transplantation and growth assessments included measuring shoots and roots, analyzing leaf chlorophyll and carotenoids, and conducting statistical evaluations. The experiments were triplicated, and statistical analyses using SPSS 16 indicated statistical significance at p less than 0.05.The study helps to understand how fly ash affects soil and seed germination, revealing both positive and negative effects on soil properties and plant growth. It emphasizes the need for careful decision-making when using industrial residues in agriculture to ensure sustainable and responsible practices that prioritize both environmental health and plant well-being.
THE ORIGINS OF THE ALEXANDER BLOK MUSEUM IN PETROGRAD—LENINGRAD
Authors:   Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia, Ipatova Svetlana A.
Published: February 2024

The article reconstructs the history of an unrealized project to establish an apartment museum in memory of Alexander Blok in Petrograd immediately after the poet’s death in 1921. Other attempts to establish this museum, one in conjunction with Blok’s 60th anniversary in 1940 and another in 1941, also were unsuccessful. In 1940, the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkinskii Dom) established the “Commission for the study of A. Blok’s creative work.” Aside from preparing collections of academic articles about Blok and scholarly editions of his writings and of his correspondence, the Commission planned to participate in the organization of the Blok Museum in the author’s last apartment. The museum was to be opened in the autumn of 1941. This article also explores the biography of Georgii P. Blok (1888—1962), Alexander Blok’s cousin, who was an Afanasy Fet scholar and a prose writer, translator, and publisher himself. His letter to Boris M. Eichenbaum, in which G. P. Blok justifies his right to take the position of the curator of the museum not only because he was a relative of Alexander Blok but also because he was a Blok scholar, is published in an appendix to the article.
FEUILLETONISTS’ CRITIQUE AND “MEDICAL TEXT” Abstract
Authors:   Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia, Alexandrov Alexander S.
Published: February 2024

This is a study of the use of medical text by Alexander A. Izmailov, Korney I. Chukovsky, and Alexander V. Amfiteatrov, leading Russian critics of the early 20th century, in feuilletons published in mass periodicals. The article considers two situations when critics used medical terminology in their critical responses to literary texts. One type of such a critique addressed literary texts that were related to medical issues and themselves contained medical terminology. In other cases, the use of medical terminology in critical responses was not called forth by the contents of the criticized texts. This study examines the reasons why the terminology associated with the practice of medicine became part of the critique. Moreover, this study reveals an evolution of the views of critics-feuilletonists on medical discourse and points out that this phenomenon gave rise to a serious dialogue between medicine and literature.
DMITRY N. BLUDOV’S ACQUAINTANCE WITH NIKOLAY M. KARAMZIN (BASED ON BLUDOV’S LETTERS TO VASILY A. ZHUKOVSKY FROM THE YEAR 1804). Introductory article and comments by Svetlana V. Berezkina. Text preparation by Svetlana V. Berezkina and Nina L. Dmitrieva.
Authors:   Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia, Berezkina Svetlana V. , Dmitrieva Nina L. ,   Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia
Published: February 2024

This article introduces the reader to the letters Dmitry N. Bludov wrote to Vasily A. Zhukovsky in 1804 and includes the publication of these letters with an accompanying commentary. The article reconsiders the history of Bludov’s acquaintance with Nikolay M. Karamzin and presents an important chronological revision regarding Bludov’s biography. His personal acquaintance with the man changed the attitude of the young Bludov towards Karamzin. Bludov’s letters reveal that his literary taste was in tune with the declarations of the members of the Friends Literary Society in Moscow, and initially his rejection of sentimentalism entailed a hostile attitude towards Karamzin as the head of this literary movement. Zhukovsky, however, dissuaded Bludov from engaging in literary polemics against sentimentalism and helped Bludov in making Karamzin’s acquaintance.
LITERARY DEVICES AND REALITY
Authors:   Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia, Vetlovskaya Valentina E.
Published: February 2024

This article deals with literary devices that, due to an author’s discretion, arise out of the simple description of a real object or an event. Alexandre Dumas used a technique of this kind in the central novel of his trilogy Queen Margot, La Dame de Monsoreau and The Forty-Five Guardsmen (1845—1848). In La Dame de Monsoreau, Dumas details a hunt, one of the favorite amusements of the royal court of Henry III of France and of the upper nobility. He describes it from the beginning of the exciting action to the end: first, the flushing out of a wild animal, then its pursuit, and, eventually, the kill. The author also describes hunting in the other two novels, but only in La Dame de Monsoreau he turns the description into a lengthy, detailed metaphor with which he persistently correlates the motifs of different storylines. As a result, aside from the plot-event connection (and, as it were, in addition to it), the writer ties his motley, dynamic story together with one allegory, which is reflected in the personalities, actions and fortunes of many characters. Having observed this device in Dumas’s novel, Leo Tolstoy used it in his novel Anna Karenina (1875—1877). There the horse racing scene corresponds to the hunting scenes in La Dame de Monsoreau. Tolstoy attaches importance to the expanded metaphor in his work, and the original and spectacular solution of purely artistic problems becomes a means of embodying a deep social and philosophical concept. The article also refers to a distant echo of the same Dumas trilogy in the last novel by Dostoevsky. Whereas in Dumas’s text we see a description of a real fact, in Dostoevsky’s work it becomes a foundation for a literary device.
«I AM BUSTLING ABOUT A CHARIOT» (IVAN S. AKSAKOV IN THE MILITIA) In Commemoration of the 170th Anniversary of the Start of the Eastern War and of the Bicentennial of Ivan S. Aksakov
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia, Pirozhkova Tatyana F.
Published: February 2024

This article is about Ivan Sergeevich Aksakov’s service in the Moscow Militia in 1855. Aksakov joined the Militia as a volunteer on the last day of Nicholas I’s reign. Since the Crimean War was going on, Aksakov thought it dishonest not to serve his fatherland in those hard times. As a quartermaster of the Serpukhov regiment of the Moscow Militia, he immediately faced unpleasant supply problems, mainly theft. According to his observations, cases of theft occurred in the military department more frequently than in the civil department. During the campaign, Aksakov did his best to protect soldiers from their mercenary-minded company commanders. Regiments of the Moscow Militia advanced to Odessa and Bender but did not engage in actual combat action since peace negotiations were already underway. Aksakov regarded his year-long stay in the company of peasants during that military campaign as an experience that was very useful in his later life.
Реєстр PULSE-COR: взаємозв’язок між еластичністю лівого шлуночка та жорсткістю артерій у пацієнтів з есенціальною артеріальною гіпертензією
Authors: Torbas O. O. , Progonov S. O. , Sirenko Yu. M. , Radchenko G. D.
Published: February 2024

For a long time, the problem of the formation of diastolic dysfunction (DD) of the left ventricle (LV) in patients with arterial hypertension (AH) remained insufficiently studied. It was demonstrated that the formation of LV DD is largely related to the increase in stiffness of this heart chamber. We decided to evaluate the extent to which increased LV stiffness, determined noninvasively by echocardiography, is associated with LV diastolic dysfunction and determine the relationship of this method with arterial stiffness indicators for which validated methods have been developed.Materials and methods. A one-center registry called PULSE-COR was established in 2011 and is still in operation. There were 779 AH participants in our sample. A distinct cohort of patients (n=283) with essential AH and no substantial comorbidities were found from the final analysis, which comprised 320 patients who had undergone all requisite diagnostic procedures. Our tool of choice for measuring carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) was the SphygmoCor device (AtCor, Australia). We also used the VaSera 1500 device (Fukuda Denshi, Japan) to measure cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) and ankle-brachial index (ABI). Vascular ultrasound and intima-media thickness measurement (IMT) were included in the ultrasound diagnosis. The ASE 2016 recommendations were followed for the evaluation of diastolic LV function, and the standardized ASE protocol was followed for echocardiography. A standardized formula was used to assess the ventriculo-arterial coupling (VAC) which also included LV end-systolic elastance (Ees) and arterial elastance (Ea) evaluation. We conducted Spearman correlation analysis to identify relationships.Results and discussion. Our cohort were patients with AH, 51 % males; the mean age was 53.6±2.0 years. Mean office blood pressure (BP) was 159.8±4.5 mm Hg for systolic (SBP), 97.9±2.6 mm Hg for diastolic (DBP), 62.0±3.5 mm Hg for pulse blood (PBP) BP, and 76.6±2.2 bits per minute was the mean heart rate (HR). Both the left and right CAVI (R=0.698; p=0.012 and R=0.683; p=0.014) showed a strong correlation with VAC. Both E/A and E/e showed a substantial correlation with ABI (R=0.716; p=0.006 and R=0.764; p=0.002, respectively). cfPWV was linked with nearly the same parameters (R=0.248; p=0.001 for correlation with IMT, R=0.382; p=0.01 for correlation with low-density lipoproteins). Ea was substantially associated with IMT (R=0.491; p=0.24), total cholesterol (R=0.499; p=0.07), and low-density lipoproteins (R=0.687; p=0.001). Ees was substantially correlated with end diastolic volume (R=0.644; p=0.001), blood lymphocytes (R=–0.678; p=0.001), E/A (R=0.159; p=0.007), and E/e’ (R=–0.130; p=0.029).Conclusions. We have found a substantial correlation between validated arterial stiffness measurements and non-invasive LV stiffness evaluation parameters (VAC). VAC also was associated with LV diastolic function parameters
Реєстр перкутанних коронарних втручань: зміни за останні роки (2010–2022)
Authors: Sokolov M. Yu. , Danylchuk I. V. , Besh D. I. , Klantsa A. I. , Kolesnyk V. O. , Rafalyuk O. I. , Salo V. M. , Salo S. V. , Sorokhtey L. V. , Furkalo S. M.
Published: February 2024

In 2022, the number of coronary angiograms in Ukrainian clinics was 51 084, which is 27.6 % more than in 2019, the number of stented patients is 27 513 for all forms of coronary artery disease (scheduled and urgent patients), which is 19.7 % more than in 2019 year and 16 847 stenting were performed in STEMI patients in the first day from the onset of symptoms, which is 12.9 % more than in 2019.During the period of the Register operation, the fact of creation of 66 reperfusion centers was recorded, which are the main part of Regional Reperfusion Networks (RRN) and strive to function in accordance with national unified protocols for the treatment of STEMI, NSTEMI and stable coronary syndromes.Today, the distribution of patients by time from the onset of symptoms to mechanical reperfusion in Ukraine is distributed as follows: in the first 12 hours from the onset of STEMI symptoms, 85 % are present (15 % are «late» patients who are hospitalized at 12–24 hours from the onset of symptoms or later, often requiring urgent coronary angiography and possibly primary stenting). Patients arriving in the «ideal» period for reperfusion (in the first 2 hours) is about 15 %, the largest group of STEMI patients who arrived at the clinic in the first 2–4 hours from the onset of symptoms is 30 %, and the number of patients with AMI in the period of 4–6 hours from the onset of symptoms, the average is 25 %, and the 6–12-hour group completes the analysis by 15 %, respectively.The number of procedures in STEMI patients increased annually, which led to a decrease in hospital mortality in reperfusion centers (55–60 % of patients in catheterization laboratories in Ukraine are STEMI patients) to an average of 4.7 %, and in the general group of AMI in Ukraine to 12.3 %. Unfortunately, 40–45 % of patients are currently hospitalized in clinics without the possibility of primary stenting.A ten-year observation of the dynamics of primary stenting revealed changes, which we called the «reperfusion paradox», which occurred in 2015–2016, which fully confirmed the correct vector of technology development and determined the trend of its development. This phenomenon is the beginning of a natural decrease in the number of fibrinolytic procedures from 27 % (2010 year) to 4.6 % (2021 year), respectively, and an increase in the number of primary procedures in STEMI patients from 4.0 % (2010 year) to 56.4 % (2022 year), which is quite natural and confirms the processes of active development and systemic transformations in interventional cardiology in Ukraine and around the world.As a result, it was found that we have increased 17 times the number of primary percutaneous interventions per million population over the last decade, while European countries have increased the number of similar procedures by only 14 %. This fact indicates the correct direction of development and the speed of movement in this direction.
Предиктори серцево-судинних та ниркових ускладнень у пацієнтів із резистентною артеріальною гіпертензією за даними тривалого спостереження
Authors: Matova O. O. , Mishchenko L. А. , Talayeva T. V. , Kuchmenko O. B.
Published: February 2024

The aim – to evaluate the incidence of cardiovascular and renal complications and its predictors in resistant hypertensive (RH) patients during the long-term follow-up.Materials and methods. The frequency of cardiovascular and renal events was studied in 240 true resistant hypertensive patients. The duration of observation was 5.1±0.1 years. The comparison group consisted of 228 patients with controlled arterial hypertension (CAH) on a triple combination antihypertensive therapy. Cardiovascular endpoints included stroke/transient ischemic attack, myocardial infarction, cardiovascular death, myocardial revascularization, development of atrial fibrillation, hospitalization due to heart failure, and lower limb arterial disease. Kidney outcomes included dialysis or GFR decline by 40 % or greater. All the endpoints formed a composite primary endpoint. New cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus were also estimated.Results and discussion. The patients with resistant hypertension on multi-component antihypertensive therapy and significant reduction in arterial blood pressure (BP) levels (achievement of controlled office BP in 49.6 % of patients, office and ambulatory BP in 34.2 % of patients), maintained a higher risk of cardiovascular and renal events compared to patients with controlled arterial hypertension. It was found that the frequency of occurrence of the composite primary endpoint in resistant hypertensive patients was four times higher than in the group of patients with controlled hypertension – 30.0 % (72/240) versus 7.0 % (16/228) (p=0.001). The frequency of new cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with RH exceeded compared to CAH patients by 3.7 times (p=0.03).Conclusions. Independent predictors of the risk of cardiovascular and renal complications in patients with RH were the initial indicators of circulating endothelial progenitor cells if their concentration in the blood was ≤ 1818 cells/ml (HR 0.41; 95 % CI (0.21–0.79); p=0.007), the content of citrulline in the blood is more than 68 μmol/l (HR 1.13; 95 % CI (1.07–1.20); p<0.001); value of initial average daily systolic BP > 163 mm Hg (HR 1.10; 95 % CI (1.03–1.18); p=0.008).
Monitorización hemodinámica invasiva en paciente con síndrome de dificultad respiratoria aguda
Authors: Coral Arteaga Katherin , Lasso León Liceth Carolina , Acosta Romo María Fernanda
Published: February 2024

Estudio de caso de paciente con monitorización hemodinámica invasiva con síndrome de dificultad respiratoria aguda.
Paciente remitida del Hospital de Tumaco por falla respiratoria, con antecedente de VIH hace cinco años, con tratamiento antirretroviral, el cual fue descontinuado hace tres meses.
Paciente con cuadro clínico de dos días de evolución, caracterizado por dolor pleurítico en hemitórax izquierdo asociado con tos seca, dificultad respiratoria progresiva, que requiere manejo en unidad de cuidado intensivo.
Possible applications of the invention Light Emitting Apparatus with Integrated Emitter
Authors: PANARIN IGOR
Published: February 2024

Possible applications of the invention Light Emitting Apparatus with Integrated Emitter with the additional use of composite materials and the use of elements of artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks.
NER Sequence Embedding of Unified Medical Corpora to Incorporate Semantic Intelligence in Big Data Healthcare Diagnostics
Authors: Shafqat Sarah , Anwar Zahid , Javaid Qaisar , Ahmad Hafiz Farooq
Published: February 2024

Clinical diagnosis is a challenging task for which high expertise is required at the doctors’ end. It is recognized that technology integration with the clinical domain would facilitate the diagnostic process. A semantic understanding of the medical domain and clinical context is needed to make intelligent analytics. These analytics need to learn the medical context for different purposes of diagnosing and treating patients. Traditional diagnoses are made through phenotype features from patients’ profiles. It is also a known fact that diabetes mellitus (DM) is widely affecting the population and is a chronic disease that requires timely diagnosis. The motivation for this research comes from the gap found in discovering the common ground for medical context learning in analytics to diagnose DM and its comorbidity diseases. Therefore, a unified medical knowledge base is found significantly important to learning contextual Named Entity Recognition (NER) embedding for semantic intelligence. Researchers in this paper have searched for possible solutions for medical context learning and found that unified corpora tagged with medical terms were missing to train the analytics for diagnoses of DM and its comorbidities. Hence, effort was put into collecting endocrine diagnostic electronic health records (EHR) corpora for clinical purposes that are manually labeled with ICD-10-CM international coding scheme to minimise chances of error. International Codes for Diseases (ICD) by the World Health Organization (WHO) is a known schema to represent medical codes for diagnoses. The complete endocrine EHR corpora make DM-Comorbid-EHR-ICD-10 Corpora. DM-Comorbid-EHR-ICD-10 Corpora is tagged for understanding the medical context with uniformity. In this research experiments were run with different NER sequence embedding approaches using advanced ML integrated with NLP techniques. These experiments used common frameworks like; Spacy, Flair, and TensorFlow, Keras. These experiments led to yield albeit label sets in the form of (instance, label) pair for diagnoses that were tagged with the Sequential() model found in TensorFlow.Keras using Bi-LSTM and dense layers. The maximum accuracy achieved was 0.9 for Corpus14407_DM_pts_33185 with a maximum number of diagnostic features taken as input. The sequential DNN NER model diagnostic accuracy increased as the size of the corpus grew from 100 to 14407 DM patients suffering from comorbidity diseases. The significance of clinical notes and practitioner comments available as free text is clearly seen in the diagnostic accuracy.
Study of the drug Nephrospas tolerability in cats
Authors: Leonard Roman , YEngashyev Syergyey , Komarov Aleksandr , Muromcev Aleksandr , Mironenko Aleksey , Aleksandrova Yuliya
Published: February 2024

The article describes a tolerability study of the new drug Nephrospas, which contains telmisartan and excipients. The trial was conducted in cats with multiple daily administration at five times the therapeutic dose for 1 month (30 days).

Two groups of animals were formed: experimental (10 cats) and control (7 cats). Animals of the experimental group were administered Nephrospas in a fivefold therapeutic dose of 0.5 ml/kg live weight of a cat orally during 30 days immediately after feeding. Animals of the control group were not administered the drug.

Before the start of the experiment (day 0), on the 31st and 56th days of the experiment, weighing, thermometry, pulse and respiratory rates, blood pressure were determined, blood samples were taken for hematological studies (general clinical blood test, biochemical blood analysis), urine samples were taken for physical examination. chemical research.

Based on the results of the conducted studies, it can be concluded that the drug Nephrospas is safe for cats when administered in excessive doses, as the use of the drug in a fivefold therapeutic dose does not adversely affect the general condition of animals, dynamics of body weight, blood pressure, does not change body temperature, morphological composition and biochemical parameters of blood, general clinical parameters of cat urine.
Predicting COVID-19 Mortality and Identifying Clinical Symptom Patterns in Hospitalized Patients: A Machine-learning Study
Authors:   Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Talkhi Nasrin , Akbari Sharak Nooshin ,   Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Yousefi Razieh ,   Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Salari Maryam ,   Department of Biostatistics, Expert Management and Information Technology, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Sadati Seyed Masoud ,   Center of Statistics and Information Technology Management, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Taghi Shakeri Mohammad ,   Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Published: February 2024

Background and Purpose: Identifying effective symptoms, demographic information, and underlying diseases to predict COVID-19 mortality is essential. We aimed to study the effective clinical and symptomatic characteristics of COVID-19 mortality in hospitalized patients with positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results. Materials and Methods: For this study, we prospectively collected complete data on 26867 hospitalized individuals who tested PCR positive for COVID-19 from February 20, 2020, to September 12, 2021, in the Khorasan Razavi Province, Iran. We analyzed the data using artificial neural networks (ANN) and logistic regression (LR) models. Results: The accuracy of the ANN model was higher than the LR (90.27% versus 90.15%). The ten most important predictors that contributed to the prediction of death were decreasing consciousness level, cough, PO2 level, age, chronic kidney disease, fever, headache, smoking status, chronic blood diseases, and diarrhea using the ANN model. Conclusion: In conclusion, individuals suffering from chronic diseases such as cancer, kidney and blood diseases, as well as immunodeficiency are at a higher risk of mortality. This important finding can help decision-makers and medical professionals in their efforts to consider these conditions and provide effective preventative measures to reduce the risk of death.
Health Disparities in Developmental Status of One-year-old Neonates With Low and Normal Birth Weight: A Comparative Study
Authors:   Department of Nursing, Shirvan School of Nursing, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran., Mousavi Akram , Neshan Abed ,   Department of Epidemiology, Shirvan Health Center, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran., Hamedi Elham ,   Department of ITC, Faculty of Elecrtical & Computer, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran., Hamedi Andishe ,   Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Published: February 2024

Background and Purpose: Low birth weight (LBW) neonates usually experience delays in developing gross and fine motor skills. Studies in Iran reveal a prevalence of growth retardation ranging from 7% to 26.3% among Iranian children. Recognizing the significance of complications associated with LBW, this study aims to scrutinize the developmental status of LBW infants at one year of age and juxtapose it with that of normal birth weight (NBW) neonates. Materials and Methods: This retrospective cohort study involved 105 one-year-old children in Shirvan City, Iran. Participants were selected through a census, and their information was extracted from the SIB system (the integrated health record system). Data collection utilized the 12-month version of the ages and stages questionnaire (ASQ) and a demographic questionnaire. Statistical analyses, including the t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and linear regression, were performed using SPSS software, version 26. Results: The ASQ questionnaire revealed that the dimensions of problem-solving and individual-social skills had the lowest and highest mean scores, respectively. A comparison of developmental domains between the two groups did not yield any significant differences. However, when considering gender, a noteworthy relationship emerged in both groups, particularly in communication and gross motor skills, as well as individual-social development and problem-solving. Conclusion: Noteworthy disparities were identified between LBW and NBW infants at birth, encompassing factors such as breastfeeding and maternal educational levels. Consequently, public health policies should prioritize initiatives to enhance mothers’ and infants’ health and nutritional well-being before and during pregnancy and early childhood.
Doble arco aórtico y fistula aortotraqueal como causa de hemorragia masiva fatal: una asociación rara y peligrosa
Authors: Ramos Phoebe H. , Cabello Pablo , Contreras Alondra , Albrich Diego , Toso Alberto
Published: February 2024

Los anillos vasculares son malformaciones congénitas infrecuentes. Dentro de ellas, el doble arco aórtico (DAA) suele ser de difícil diagnóstico debido a su baja incidencia de síntomas. El DAA puede asociarse a compresión traqueal o esofágica y en casos severos, requerir intubación traqueal o uso crónico de sonda nasogástrica. Esto último, favorece el desarrollo de fístulas aortotraqueales (FAT) y/o aortoesofágicas (FAE).Objetivo: Presentar un caso con una inusual asociación de DAA con FAT y reforzar la importancia de mantener una alta sospecha diagnóstica en pacientes con hemorragia aerodigestiva masiva sin foco evidente.Caso Clínico: Se presenta caso de RNPT de 32 semanas de gestación que requirió ventilación mecánica prolongada con episodios intermitentes de hemorragia orofaríngea masiva, con compromiso hemodinámico, asociado a obstrucción de vía aérea inferior sin hemorragia pulmonar. Endoscopía digestiva alta y laparotomía exploradora sin evidencia de sangrado. Nasofaringolaringoscopía flexible y laringoscopía directa tampoco detectaron anomalías. Angiotomografía computada demostró DAA completo con indentación de arco dominante izquierdo sobre tráquea, sin estenosis severa ni evidencia de fístula. Se sospechó FAE y se planteó exploración quirúrgica. Sin embargo, el paciente falleció previo al procedimiento por hemorragia pulmonar masiva. La autopsia demostró la presencia de FAT.Conclusiones: En pacientes con hemorragia aerodigestiva masiva sin foco evidente se debe considerar la presencia de un DAA y posible FAE/FAT. Los estudios imagenológicos no tienen buen rendimiento para este diagnóstico, por lo que debe considerarse la cirugía como parte del proceso diagnóstico y tratamiento.
КОПІРАЙТИНГ ТА ВІЗУАЛІЗАЦІЯ В СОЦІАЛЬНОМУ МАРКЕТИНГУ НА ПРИКЛАДІ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ РЕКЛАМИ ПРО ЗАХИСТ ТВАРИН
Authors: Ткачук Світлана
Published: February 2024

У статті досліджується специфіка копірайтингу та візуального ряду у соціальному маркетингу на прикладі української соціальної реклами про захист тварин. Соціальна реклама такого типу розглядається як важливе суспільне явище, а проблема, яку вона висвітлює, потребує популяризації та пошуку шляхів вирішення. Окрема увага приділена складовим впливу на свідомість читача у рекламних повідомленнях про захист тварин. Виявлено, що така соціальна реклама в Україні має місце і розвивається. У рекламних зверненнях присутні необхідні чинники впливу успішної соціальної реклами. Розглянуті окремі рекламні кампанії, зокрема й після початку повномасштабних бойових дій, коли небезпека для людей і тварин явно збільшилась. Також виявлені резерви удосконалення соціальної реклами про захист тварин, зокрема посилення інформаційної компоненти щодо реальних шляхів допомоги тваринам, посилення когнітивної складової й емоційного зв’язку між благом тварин і благом людей, розрив і знищення стереотипів протиставлення цих двох благ. Також серед резервів актуалізації й вирішення проблеми негуманного ставлення до тварин пропонується нативна популяризація гуманного ставлення, висвітлення у рекламних комунікаціях реальних шляхів допомоги тваринам, посилення акценту на взаємозв’язку блага тварини і блага людини, поєднання допомоги тваринам із дозвіллям тощо.
Hiyab, un instrumento de control y sumisión de la mujer que preserva el otrora discurso machista en las sociedades musulmanas
Authors:   Universidad de Guadalajara, Martínez Rodríguez David Israel , Vázquez Flores Idalia Nicolle
Published: February 2024

En el presente trabajo se analiza con perspectiva de derechos humanos el código de conducta de vestimenta femenina o uso del hiyab establecido en los preceptos religiosos musulmanes; disposición que puede ser interpretada como un instrumento de control por medio del cual se busca establecer, mantener y preservar un rol de sumisión de las mujeres en la sociedad frente a los varones, fomentando así un trato de desigualdad que busca ser explica-do desde los conceptos de biopoder y biopolítica.
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Authors:   Universidad de Guadalajara, Arce Rodríguez Lourdes Margarita
Published: February 2024

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Harnessing Large Language Models for Coding, Teaching, and Inclusion to Empower Research in Ecology and Evolution
Authors: Cooper Natalie , Clark Adam , Lecomte Nicolas , Qiao Huijie , Ellison Aaron
Published: February 2024

1. Large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can perform various natural language processing tasks. The adoption of LLMs has become increasingly prominent in scientific writing and analyses because of the availability of free applications such as ChatGPT. This increased use of LLMs raises concerns about academic integrity, but also presents opportunities for the research community. Here we focus on the opportunities for using LLMs for coding in ecology and evolution. We discuss how LLMs can be used to generate, explain, comment, translate, debug, optimise, and test code. We also highlight the importance of writing effective prompts and carefully evaluating the outputs of LLMs. In addition, we draft a possible road map for using such models inclusively and with integrity.2. LLMs can accelerate the coding process, especially for unfamiliar tasks, and free up time for higher-level tasks and creative thinking while increasing efficiency and creative output. LLMs also enhance inclusion by accommodating individuals without coding skills, with limited access to education in coding, or for whom English is not their primary written or spoken language. However, code generated by LLMs is of variable quality and has issues related to mathematics, logic, non-reproducibility, and intellectual property; they can also include mistakes and approximations, especially in novel methods.3. We highlight the benefits of using LLMs to teach and learn coding, and advocate for guiding students in the appropriate use of AI tools for coding. Despite the ability to assign many coding tasks to LLMs, we also reaffirm the continued importance of teaching coding skills for interpreting LLM generated code and to develop critical thinking skills.4. As editors of MEE, we support—to a limited extent—the transparent, accountable, and acknowledged use of LLMs and other AI tools in publications. If LLMs or comparable AI tools (excluding commonly-used aids like spell-checkers, Grammarly and Writefull) are used to produce the work described in a manuscript, there must be a clear statement to that effect in its Methods section, and the corresponding or senior author must take responsibility for any code (or text) generated by the AI platform.
Estimations of the Geothermal Energy Potential in The Mount Anak Krakatau Region Based on Derivative Analysis and 3D Model of Gravitational Satellite Data
Authors: Gunawan Belista , Permana Nanda Ridki
Published: February 2024

Geothermal energy is a source of renewable energy that has the potential to be produced, considering that Indonesia is in the ring of fire, where there are many volcanoes, one of which is Mount Anak Krakatau. Even though direct exploration is not permitted, at least information on the geothermal system on the mountain can still be obtained using satellite data. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the geothermal energy potential of Mount Anak Krakatau using gravity satellite data with a total of 320 data consisting of gravity disturbance, geoid, and Digital Elevation Model. The data processing describes a 3D model that is correlated with the First Horizontal Derivative (FHD) and Second Vertical Derivative (SVD) analysis. Based on the results of the residual anomaly map analysis, the low anomaly has a value of -1.85–(-0.89) mGal which is suspected to be associated with magma pockets, and the high anomaly ranges from 0.04–2.13 mGal which is suspected to be associated with the caldera of Mount Anak Krakatau. Based on the results of the FHD and SVD graphical analysis, there are 18 faults that control the geothermal system. Based on the results of 3D modeling trending from west-east it can be seen that there is a clay cap layer with a value density 2.32–2.37 gr/cc at depths of 0–550 m and reservoir layers with density values of 2.23–2.29 gr/cc at depths of 500–1100 m. This geothermal research using the gravity method can be developed and become a reference for future research to calculate the potential for electrification in a research area.