bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Consumer behaviour of young generation in slovakia towards cocoa-enriched honey
Authors: Šedí­k Peter , Horská Elena , Ivanišová Eva , Kačániová Miroslava , Krasnodębski Andrzej
Published: January 2019

The new trend of healthy lifestyle increases consumers´ attention towards superfoods or functional food. Due to this fact, honey enriched with various healthy foods such as cocoa, cinnamon, ginger or dried fruits has started to appear on the European market. The aim of this research paper was to investigate consumer´s perception and preferences for cocoa-enriched honey. Consumer research was based on questionnaire survey extended by product testing. This survey was conducted in 2018 (February and March) and in total 257 young Slovak consumers between 18 - 30 years participated. Each respondent tested and evaluated sensory attributes of the product (taste, aroma, colour and texture) using a 5-point scale. Statistical analyses included Friedman test, Mann-Whitney U test, Fisher's Exact Test, Pearson Chi-square test and Cramer'V coefficient. Results showed that the cocoa-enriched honey was evaluated as tasty, aromatic, gently, delicious, special, with ideal sweetness and amount of cocoa. All sensory attributes were evaluated positively (2 - good). Females were more interested in the purchase of this product. Moreover, the product would be purchased mostly by respondents who consider it a healthier alternative to commercial chocolate spreads or by those who consider their eating habits healthy. Laboratory tests revealed that the antioxidant activity of the product was higher in comparison to normal honey. In conclusion, the obtained information could be used in product positioning, promotion and designing appropriate marketing strategy.
Neuromarketing and the decision-making process of the generation Y wine consumers in the Slovak Republic
Authors: Němcová Jana , Berčí­k Jakub
Published: January 2019

In recent years, interest in scholarly research on buying behaviour of Generation Y has grown. However, studies are mainly realized abroad and many of them deal with this issue in general. The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing the decision-making process of the Generation Y customers in the selection of wine in the Slovak Republic. A total of 21 respondents participated in the survey. Eye-tracking and a questionnaire were selected for research. For processing and evaluating the eye-tracking research, the Gazepoint Analysis UX Edition software and Microsoft Excel were used. For statistical data analysis, the Kruskal-Wallis test and Spearman's non-parametric test were performed. Based on the results of the questionnaire and the testing, a label was the most important factor. Differences were noted at the moment of examining the information on a label. The most important factor determined by the questionnaire survey was variety, or vintage year, but by using measurement, the most important factor was label design. With regard to bottle shape, the most preferred was the Bordeaux type of bottle. Testing was carried out in laboratory conditions that only simulated the real selection of wine. This could have caused the difference between conscious decision-making and unconscious visual attention. Therefore, in the future, it is recommended to carry out similar research using a mobile eye camera to realize the test with real wine bottles. It is also assumed to involve other methods to obtain information about real attention of the tested probands. The presented research provides information for winegrowers and merchants who can improve their products and communicate effectively with customers. Findings are particularly beneficial because this research is among the first carried out in this area and it was not based only on conscious participation of respondents, but also on unconscious perception, because a deeper understanding of unconscious influences, that shape consumer's decision, helps to better understand consumer's behaviour.
Solid Waste Management and Environmental Injustice in Poor Communities in Kinshasa: A Cultural theory and Systems Approach
Authors: Kubanza Nzalalemba Serge , Simatele Mulala Danny
Published: January 2019

This paper discusses injustice in solid waste management (SWM) and its impact on poor communities in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is argued that poor communities in Kinshasa tend to be the most affected by irregularities in solid waste collection and management. A divide between the rich and poor neighbourhoods is experienced in solid waste management engendering injustice in the city of Kinshasa. Using a qualitative and quantitative research methodology, it is suggested that the current governance systems for SWM in Kinshasa, is unfair by all the different ideas of fairness. In view of this, a cultural theory and systems approach are introduced to determine how actors (fatalist, hierarchist, individualist and egalitarian) influence the management of solid waste and how they are engagement can create environmental justice in SWM in Kinshasa. The paper provides that if the ideal form of urban SWM could be realised in Kinshasa, it should be called participatory resource recovery governance. An environmental policy tailored to very local circumstances-together with some financial support from the government public sector and private companies, and the deployment of social awareness campaigns designed to reduce the generation of “waste” at source (and to emphasise the economic resource value of the misnomer of “wastes”)-could succeed in shifting things towards participatory resource recovery governance. In it, all stakeholders would share equitably the responsibility of resource recovery and environmental protection, if not restoration.
No possessor inversion in German PPs
Authors: Popp Marie-Luise , Tebay Sören Eggert
Published: January 2019

There are several options to express possessive relations in German, one of them is the construction using a possessor introduced by the preposition von (‘of’). In non-standard German, these possessive PPs may occur before or after the possessee. However, this is not the case with possessees in dative case or after prepositions. In this case, the possessee obligatorily precedes its possessive PPs. In this paper, we will show that a feature-driven movement approach can derive the restrictions imposed on this construction by assuming a [•P•] on D. This feature can be checked either by merging a higher P or by moving a lower PP. The general constraint Merge-over-Move prefers the former whenever possible. Thus, the construction becomes sensitive to PPs as well as dative DPs, which both block movement to SpecDP.
Localización óptima de zonas potenciales para cosecha de agua lluvia mediante criterio booleano en la zona sur de Honduras, año 2017
Authors: Coello José Cáceres
Published: January 2019

En Honduras 137 de los 298 municipios son considerados vulnerables a la sequía según el Plan de Acción Nacional de Lucha contra la Desertificación y la Sequía (PANLCD) que es el instrumento técnico y estratégico elaborado en el año 2005. La captación de agua de lluvia, también denominada “cosecha de agua”, puede ser una de las soluciones para enfrentar el reto que plantea la baja disponibilidad del líquido en diversas regiones del país. Seis variables en criterio booleano fueron usados en esta investigación para seleccionar los sitios óptimos para la construcción de sistemas de cosecha y conservación de agua dentro del área de estudio. Se seleccionaron cinco municipios como área de estudio, todos en el departamento de Valle, y se encontró que las áreas óptimas para el establecimiento de cosechas de agua en la zona de estudio
Análisis de la distribución espacial de los espacios públicos en las ciudades del Distrito Central, Comayagua y Siguatepeque, Honduras, 2017
Authors: Sosa Caballero Celina Michelle
Published: January 2019

La identificación del patrón de distribución de los espacios públicos en las ciudades se analiza en el proyecto de investigación “Análisis Comparativo de la Distribución Espacial de los Espacios Públicos en las Ciudades del Distrito Central, Comayagua y Siguatepeque, Honduras”. Para cumplir con el objetivo de la investigación, metodológicamente se han utilizado las herramientas de los sistemas de información geográfica para realizar un análisis y conocer las similitudes y diferencias que existen entre la distribución espacial de los espacios públicos de las ciudades en estudio. El resultado produjo que la distribución espacial de los espacios públicos en las tres ciudades presenta similitud en la categoría de infraestructura deportiva y recreativa, y diferencia en la categoría cultural.
La astronomía y su impacto en las culturas antiguas - Estudio comparativo de los casos en Egipto y el mundo Maya
Authors: Rodas Quito Eduardo
Published: January 2019

En las culturas antiguas, los mitos jugaron un papel muy importante para crear un sentido de orden y de identidad en las mismas, al relatar el origen del orden natural percibido y al mismo tiempo justificar el orden social y vital en el que las culturas se desenvolvían. Se estudian los mitos de la creación de dos de las grandes culturas del pasado, la maya y la egipcia, realizando un análisis de las mismas utilizando como herramienta básica la metodología planteada por Antropología Cultural, identificando en ambas algunos aspectos que dan a conocer cómo los miembros de dichas culturas concibieron el pensamiento de sus dioses al momento de la creación, desde sus perspectivas geográficas, concepciones que de algún modo, puede haberles condicionado en la forma de dar culto a los dioses, de rendirles tributo, ofrendas y/o sacrificios y en última instancia, en el destino final de sus respectivas civilizaciones.
Revista Ciencias Espaciales,instrucciones a los autores y criterios para el diseño, diagramación y maquetación
Authors: Espaciales Ciencias
Published: January 2019

Revista Ciencias Espaciales, instrucciones a los autores y criterios para el diseño, diagramación y maquetación
Determinación de residuos de paraquat en lechuga y repollo cultivados en Lepaterique mediante HPLC-DAD
Authors: Garcia Dania A. , Galo Meylin J. , Velásquez Heidy , Calderon Gina , Ponce Henry D.
Published: January 2019

La determinación de residuos del herbicida paraquat en lechuga (Lactuca sativa) y repollo (Brassica oleracea) producidos en la comunidad de La Brea, Lepaterique y comercializados en la ciudad de Tegucigalpa fue llevada a cabo en los meses de octubre y noviembre de 2017, mediante la aplicación de cromatografía líquida de elevada resolución con detector de arreglo de diodos (HPLC-DAD) en menos de 6 minutos, con un mecanismo de separación de fase reversa empleando una columna superficialmente porosa C18 y una mezcla de ácido orto fosfórico al 0.1 M (pH 3,0) con acetonitrilo en proporción de 3:1 como fase móvil. El método se basa en la extracción con baño ultrasónico utilizando agua como solvente extractor y la subsecuente aplicación de la extracción en fase sólido (SPE) con sorbente de intercambio iónico débil (WCX). Los diferentes parámetros de la extracción (solvente extractor, tiempo de sonicación, solvente de limpieza y solvente de elución) fueron evaluados para optimizar la eficiencia del proceso de extracción. La validación del método fue llevada a cabo mediante la fortificación de muestras a 0.05 y 1mg Kg-1, con tres replicas (n=3) para cada concentración, determinando la linealidad, exactitud (expresada como porcentaje de recuperación), límites de detección (LOD) y cuantificación (LOQ). El límite de detección del método fue de 0.025 mg Kg-1, el cual se encuentra por debajo del límite máximo de residuo (MRL) que establece el Codex Alimentarius (0.07 mg Kg-1) para vegetales de hoja. Las muestras adquiridas fueron analizadas siguiendo el método validado, sin encontrar residuos de paraquat en un total de 10 muestras de cada vegetal.
Inventario y valoración económica de las especies forestales de alto valor comercial del CURLA
Authors: Calderón Jorge , Raudales Jefferson , Peralta Gloria , Portillo Teresa , Canelas Bryan , Lino Ruiz Julio Emilio
Published: January 2019

En Honduras existe una gran diversidad de especies forestales de alto valor económico las cuales son apetecidas en el mercado local e internacional. Dentro de los predios del Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico - CURLA (216 ha) se desconoce la cantidad de individuos por especie que entran en la clasificación de tradicionales y potenciales según su valoración económica en el mercado. Esto resulta en un control irracional de árboles aprovechados desconociendo su respectivo volumen, pie tablar, ubicación exacta y valor monetario. En este sentido se define como objetivo de investigación el recopilar y cuantificar el valor monetario de los datos del inventario de las especies forestales de alto valor comercial ubicadas en el CURLA, en los sectores del 1-8 de la Etapa I en el año 2018. La novedad de este trabajo reside en la cuantificación y georreferenciación de cada individuo por especie, creando una tabla de atributos con sus datos de crecimiento pertinentes como son el diámetro a la altura del pecho (DAP), altura comercial, volumen, pie tablar y valor económico según el mercado actual. La metodología empleada se basó en el análisis dasométrico, empleando herramientas de medición directa, sistemas de información geográfica y las tendencias del mercado. Los resultados demostraron la presencia de 421 árboles distribuidos en doce especies dentro de los ocho sectores, encontrándose que las especies con mayor valoración económico son la Tectona grandis (teca) y la Swietenia macrophylla (caoba).
Demanda de profesionales de educación superior en el área de Humanidades en la región 2 valles de Comayagua, Honduras (2015 – 2016)
Authors: Santos Sandra , Medina Edwin
Published: January 2019

Este artículo, tiene como objetivo principal analizar la demanda de profesionales de educación superior en el área de humanidades en los municipios de la región 2 valles de Comayagua durante el periodo 2015 – 2016. En la metodología empleada para el desarrollo de esta investigación, se utiliza un enfoque integral; es decir componentes tanto cuantitativos como cualitativos, ya que la información de esta última nos permite profundizar en las causas de las situaciones encontradas en cada municipio y así determinar la pertinencia de las carreras que oferta el CURC. Dado que se trata de un informe integral, se establecen preguntas de investigación que orientan la búsqueda de información y demás procesos relacionados con la investigación. Tomando como variables la oferta académica, demanda laboral y trayectoria laboral. Además, en la población y muestra se trabaja con los 27 municipios de la región 2 valles de Comayagua, debido que no se conoce una población exacta para hacer un cálculo adecuado. Los instrumentos que se utilizan son la encuesta y la entrevista, las que fueron aplicadas a estudiantes de último año de secundaria, graduados de educación superior, empleadores de profesionales universitarios, emprendedores, líderes comunitarios, ONG, universidades públicas y privadas. Se recolectaron los datos de los instrumentos aplicados para conocer la pertinencia de estas carreras, se analizaron los resultados y se determinó que, en el CURC, el área de Humanidades, no está ofreciendo carreras de ningún grado académico, y lalicenciatura de periodismo que se ofrece está ubicada en esta área, pero no pertenece a ella. Igualmente, este Centro Universitario necesita profesionales egresados de la licenciatura en lenguas extranjeras, así como capacitaciones, ya sean cursos, talleres o diplomados.
Social and healthcare personnel’s self-reported competence in small and medium-sized companies in preparation for simulation coaching
Authors: Salminen-Tuomaala Mari Helena , Haapasalmi Susanna , Jaskari Pasi , Tupiini Tomi
Published: January 2019

Purpose: The paper describes staff’s self-rated theoretical, practical and interaction competence in 20 social and healthcare companies. The study draws from a research and development project run jointly by two educational institutions and a health technology development center. The results can be used to develop the content of a multiprofessional simulation coaching intervention.Data and methods: Data were collected in the autumn of 2017 using an online survey software. The quantitative data were analyzed using the SPSS for Windows version 23 and the qualitative data using inductive content analysis. The response rate was 96% (n = 125). This article presents the quantitative results.Results: Respondents found that they were competent in interaction, in identifying their clients’ needs, in attending to client safety and in supporting clients’ psychosocial and physical function. Their ratings were lower for issues pertaining to severe disability, for encountering aggressive behavior and for some aspects of digitalization.Conclusions: The most important development needs involved making better use of digital tools and remote counseling, enhancing information technology competence and learning to encounter aggressive behavior.
Systematic review of predictors of infant care competence among women with postpartum depression
Authors: Jones Debbie , Letourneau Nicole , Duffett-Leger Linda
Published: January 2019

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious illness that affects mothers worldwide. The symptoms of PPD such as low mood and fatigue undermine the quality of mothers’ interactions with their children, likely explaining the less than optimal development of children of mothers with PPD. In this way, PPD reduces mothers’ Infant Care Competence (ICC), that is, mothers’ perceived and performed infant caregiving ability. ICC is similar to other concepts such as maternal competence; however, ICC is specific in its focus on a mother’s perceptions of her infant care abilities. Knowledge of predictors of ICC in the context of PPD would inform interventions for mothers with PPD to increase maternal caregiving quality, preventing negative long-term effects on children’s development. Thus, an integrative systematic review was completed to determine predictors of ICC (both performed and perceived abilities) in the context of PPD. Six electronic databases were searched (MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature [CINAHL], SocINDEX, and the Cochrane Library) for relevant studies that met search criteria. Twenty-one eligible articles were obtained. Results revealed variables that explained ICC in the context of maternal PPD including: depression severity and timing of depressive symptoms, social support, maternal adversities, infant characteristics, as well as demographic variables such as education and income. Overall, this review provides insight into common explanatory variables of ICC that could be used to target interventions in the postpartum period to promote maternal caregiving abilities, and ultimately children’s development and health in the context of PPD.
The relation between body mass index and end organ damage in white coat hypertension
Authors: DEMIR Atakan , DINCER Mevlut Tamer
Published: January 2019

Objective: White coat hypertension (WCH) is characterized byblood pressure, which is high in the outpatient clinic and normaleither on ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring or homeBP monitoring. In this study, our objective was to investigate theeffects of obesity on end organ damage and the correlation betweenbody mass index (BMI) and end organ damage caused by WCH.Patients and Methods: Individuals, who applied to ouroutpatient clinic due to other complaints or who were not diagnosedwith or treated for hypertension, were enrolled in our study. Basedon daytime values, systolic blood pressures below 135mmHgand diastolic blood pressures below 85mmHg were considered asWCH. The patients were examined for the findings of end organdamage. The left ventricular mass (LVM) was measured withechocardiography. Findings of hypertensive retinopathy wereevaluated and albumin levels were measured.Results: The mean left ventricular mass index (LVMI) andLVM values were 96.29±25.6g/m2 and 170.87±50.17g respectively.The rate of hypertensive retinopathy was 17%. We determineda significant correlation between BMI and LVMI independentlyfrom blood pressure levels.Conclusion: There are conflicting conclusions about the risksrelated to WCH. However, several types of end organ damagecan be observed independently from the blood pressure levels inthis group of patients. Cardiac failure is more common and hasan early onset in obese patients with WCH. In conclusion, endorgan damage may emerge during the follow-up of WCH patientswithout a significant change in the blood pressure values.
Influence of the Thickness of a Layer of Potassium Fluoride Incorporated in the CIGS/CdS Interface on the Macroscopic Electrical Parameters of the Solar Cell
Authors: Niane Djimba , Soce Mouhamadou M. , Domingo Jean Jude , Diagne Ousmane , Dieng Moustapha
Published: January 2019

In this work, the heterojunction composed of a n-type ZnO transparent conductive oxide (OTC) layer, a n-type CdS buffer layer and a absorber layer based Cu (In, Ga)Se2 p doped is studied under the influence of a KF layer placed in the CIGS/CdS interface. This study was done by varying the thickness of KF using thin-film simulation software named SCAPS-1D. The presence of KF for a doping of the CIGS absorber of 1016cm-3 improves strongly the electrical parameters that are the Vco, the Jcc the FF, the maximum power and the conversion efficiency of the solar cell Ƞ. However, a decrease of the FF and the Jcc is noticed when the thickness of the KF is greater than 30nm causing a deterioration of the performances of the cell.
Political Imbroglios in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Mohammad Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Authors: Lodhi Muhammad Arfan , Muqqadas Sania , Sikander Sobia
Published: January 2019

This research work aims at to scrutinize two novels of Pakistani writers, Mohammad Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017) comparatively. Hanif’s novel is about the ruling era of General Zia-ul-Haq and Shamsie’s novel is about the difficulties of Muslim migrants in a foreign country. The purpose of this study is to accentuate the working of politics and political imbroglios at personal, social, civil/political, and military level; intermingling of religious values into political values; and conversion of politics into capitalism through Marxism theory which is originated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, taken from Lois Tyson’s book Critical theory today (2006). The researchers have substantiated through the comparative analysis of both novels that the use of politics in a positive way becomes the cause of peace and prosperity and the use of it negatively becomes the cause of creating disintegration and demolition in the society. This study spotlighted that whatever people do in their life, they do so to get personal benefits, political advantages and economic power. Conspicuous findings of the study reveal that both novels explicate intricate ideologies at personal, political, cultural and somewhat emotional levels. The novels display themes and stories, with slight manipulation of political and cultural facts and realities.
Frequency of Using Najdi Arabic Words Among Saudi College Male Students
Authors: Ismail Sayed M. , Alshayhan Nasser Rashid , Alwafai Salwa , Essam Bacem A.
Published: January 2019

The study of dialects may be subsumed under the very broad rubric of colloquialism which comes at the bottom of the formality versus informality scale. We focus on the Najd dialect perception, as the central dialect in Saudi Arabia, among Saudi male college students. By conducting two experiments, questionnaires and follow-up semi-structured interviews, on 137 male students, user-based frequencies of the topper 50 Najdi words are generated. The second phase aims at semantically categorizing the topper content words so that conclusions can be drawn about the inclination of using Najdi words among the college students. Results show that the categorization of the retrieved 50 Najdi words, according to the part of speech, demonstrates that the most applauded Najdi Arabic words are verbs and adjectives. Synonyms are even retrievable from this method of compilation. Nouns are the most resistant part of speech at the morphological level.
Classroom Sources of English Language Anxiety: A Study of Fresh Engineering Students at Mehran UET, Pakistan
Authors: Bux Illahi , Memon Rafique A. , Sartaj Shabana , Bhatti Jahangir , Gopang Abdul Sattar , Angaria Noor Muhammad
Published: January 2019

The current study investigated anxiety-provoking classroom sources among undergraduate engineering students at Mehran UET, Pakistan. In this study, the participants (female 105 male 116) participated. The data were collected via questionnaire FLCAS and semi-structured interviews. The objective of this study was to identify classroom sources of anxiety quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings of study suggested some main sources of anxiety among fresh engineering students: (1) test anxiety; (2) apprehension in communication; (3) fear of negative evaluation; (4) presentation in English; (5) English language instructor; (6) competitiveness in English language; (7) negative self-evaluation; (8) individual tasks in classroom; (9) fear of making errors in English classroom; (10) English language difficulties. The participants have self-reported the main sources of anxiety in English language learning. These sources also confirm previous research on anxiety-causing sources among foreign language learners.
Factors Affecting Profitability of Smallholder Vegetable Farmers in the Shiselweni Region, Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland)
Authors: Rugube Lovemore M. , Nsibande Sifisile P. , Masarirambi Michael T. , Musi Patricia J.
Published: January 2019

Agriculture is the main anchor of the Eswatini economy and profitability in this sector still remains vital for sustainable development of the economy. This study investigated the factors affecting profitability of smallholder vegetable farmers in the Shiselweni region. Primary data was obtained using a structured questionnaire and personal interviews from 60 vegetable farmers. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, enterprise budget, profitability ratios and multiple linear regression models. The SPSS software was used. The results showed that the mean age of the vegetable farmers was found to be 50.5 years, the mean household size was 8 people, mean farming experience was 3 years, mean farm size was 3 hectares and the majority of the farmers had high school education. The net income of smallholder vegetable farmers was E5810.30. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis revealed that land size, gender, household size, had a direct relationship with profitability of vegetable production while age, education, experience, income and labour had a negative relationship. Farmers requested that the subsidized farm inputs should arrive on time, new engines be bought for them and dams be constructed to generate irrigation water in winter.
Koncepcja zwiększenia bezpieczeństwa transakcyjnych aplikacji internetowych
Authors: Strzelecki Łukasz , Ludew Andrzej
Published: January 2019

W artykule przedstawiono nowatorską koncepcję podniesienia bezpieczeństwa istotnych aplikacji internetowych wykorzystywanych np. podczas realizacji operacji finansowych, poprzez niestandardowe wykorzystanie mechanizmów języka HTML5 oraz tzw. przetwarzania po stronie serwera. Omówiono zalety proponowanego podejścia oraz wskazano jego potencjalne wady. ABSTRACT: The paper presents an innovative concept for increasing the security of crucial Internet applications, for instance ones used in financial operations processing, through non-standard use of HTML5 language mechanisms and server-side processing. Advantages of the proposed approach were discussed, and potential disadvantages of this concept were also pointed out.
ESTHETICS TOWARDS FEMINISM
Authors: Dziamski Grzegorz
Published: January 2019

When we talk today about women’s art, we think about three phemonena, quite loosely related. We think about feminist art, about the way that the feminist’s statements and demands were expressed in the creativity of Judy Chicago and Nancy Spero, Carolee Scheemann and Valie Export, Miriam Schapiro and Mary Kelly, and in Poland in the creativity of Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Natalia LL or Ewa Partum. We think about female art, the forgotten, abandoned, neglected artists brought back to memory by the feminists with thousands of exhibitions and reinterpretations. Lastly, we think about the art created by women – women’s art. However, we do not know and will never know, whether the latter two phenomena would develop without the feminist movement. What is more, it is about the first wave of feminism called “the equality feminism”, as well as the dominating in the second wave – “the difference feminism”. The feminist art was in the beginning a critique of the patriarchal world of art. In a sense it remains as such (see: the Guerilla Girls), yet today we are more interested in the feminist deconstruction of thinking about art, and thus the question arises: should feminism create its own aesthetics – the feminist aesthetics, or should it develop the gender aesthetics, and as a result introduce the gender point of view to thinking about art? In this moment the androgynous feminism regains its importance, one represented by Virginia Woolf, and referring – in the theoretical layer – to Freud as read by Lucy Irigaray. Freudism, which the feminists became aware of in the 1970s, is the only philosophical movement, which assumes a dual subject, that is, in the starting point assumes the existence of two subjects – man and woman, even if the woman is defined in a purely negative way, by the deficit, as a “not a man”. Freudism replaces the Cartesian thinking subject (consciousness) by the corporeal and sexual being, and forces us to re-think the Enlightenment beginnings of the European aesthetics.
THE PROBLEM OF NUDITY, IDENTITY AND GROWING UP IN WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS
Authors: Śnieciński Marek
Published: January 2019

The Problem of Nakedness, Identity and growing up (in the works by contemporary female artists)
The text discusses the oeuvre of the selected contemporary female art-
ists, who in their works analyse the problem of nakedness, treated as a costume, metaphor or event, as well as those, who deal with issues of identity, processes of creating it and the visual (media) identity masks. The works by such artists as Alba d’Urbano, Vanessa Beecroft, Katarzyna Kozyra, Alina Szapocznikow, Herlinde Koelbl, Tina Bara, Eva Bertram, Ur- sula Rogg and Tanja Ostojič are analysed. The text includes theoretical considerations by Lynda Nead, Agata Jakubowska, Giorgio Agamben and Hans Belting.
#TRACES#FEMINISM
Authors: Szuba Agata
Published: January 2019

Agata Szuba
#tropy#feminizm
The contemporary media message can be perceived in two perspec- tives: an active one, in which women perform a role of journalists and editors, and a passive perspective, in which they become a part of media message. The latter aspect is the most controversial for many reasons. Walter Lippmann defines a stereotype as an image created in the mind which allows a subordination of a certain fragment of reality a priori. The media’s visible, negative influence on women has them create a reality beyond the boundaries of acceptance, presenting it in a way the audi- ence expects. A new kind of feminism appears, i.e. one which answers the receiver’s needs (succumbing to the expectations and exposing to the look), and a question appears – whether in the time of the feminist legacy, thereby changes resulting from the development of the media, feminists should gain their own unique style? In a way this is beginning to happen.
Due to the development of the media, women gained an unrestricted possibility to express their views, and the reception and availability of the media lifts the restrictions and causes an inconspicuous person to please and sweep the crowd and his or her voice to be impossible to be ignored in the discourse.
POLISH FEMINISM – PARADIGMS
Authors: Witkowska Sylwia
Published: January 2019

Sylwia Witkowska
Polish Feminism – Paradigms
The issue of feminist art struggles with a great problem. In my study I focus solely on Polish artists, and thus on the genealogy of feminist art in Poland. Although all the presented activities brought up the feminist thread, in many cases a dissonance occurs on the level of the artists’ own reflections. There is a genuine reluctance of many Polish artists to use the term “feminist” about their art. They dissent from such categorization as if afraid that the very name will bring about a negative reception of their art. And here, in my opinion, a paradox appears, because despite such statements, their creativity itself is in fact undoubtedly feminist.
I think that Polish artists express themselves through their art in an unambiguous way – they show their feminine „I”. The woman is displayed in their statement about themselves, about the experiences, their body, their sexuality. Feminism defined the concept of art in a new way. The state- ment that art has no gender is a myth. The activities of women-artists are broader and broader, also in Poland women become more and more noticed and appreciated. Feminist art does not feature a separate artistic language, it rather features a tendency towards realism, lent by photogra- phy or video, which reflects the autonomy of the female reception of the world. It should be stated that feminism is a socially needed phenomenon, and its critique drives successive generations of women-artists.
Poems
Authors: Matuszkiewicz Antoni
Published: January 2019

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Murine models of Parkinson’s disease caused by an increased concentration of α‑synuclein
Authors: Wawer Adriana , Joniec-Maciejak Ilona , Sznejder-Pachołek Anna , Mirowska-Guzel Dagmara
Published: January 2019

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease of central nervous system. Despite many years of research its pathogenesis remains elusive. The main pathological process observed in PD is the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and the reduction in the concentration of dopamine and its metabolites in the striatum and basal ganglia. In addition, a reduction in the activity of enzymes involved in the synthesis and metabolism of dopamine (e.g. tyrosine hydroxylase) is observed. The process of neurodegeneration is accompanied by the development of inflammatory reaction and the formation of intraneuronal inclusions - Lewy’s bodies, which containing mainly of α‑synuclein (ASN). The presence of ASN in Lewy bodies and the association of mutations in the gene encoding ASN with the familial form of the disease indicates the important role of this protein in the pathogenesis of PD.
ASN is a small protein widely distributed in the brain. Under physiological conditions it is involved, among others, in dopamine metabolism. Changes in ASN levels due to its aggregation, overexpression or decreased expression may disrupt dopaminergic system functions and contribute to the neurodegeneration process observed in PD.
Our paper is focused on murine ASN-based models of PD. In this review we describe models based on transgenic mice, viral vectors containing the ASN gene, and those in which elevated ASN levels are obtained by intracerebral protein administration. We briefly discuss the advantages of developed models and their numerous limitations We also highlight the need for further search for the ideal disease model.
Kobieta jest nomadką, kobieta jest artystką. Spojrzenie na panny młode w podróży Pippy Bacca i Silvii Moro w feministycznym ujęciu Rosi Braidotti
Authors: Dzierżyc-Horniak Anna
Published: January 2019

The text is an attempt at looking at the art project Brides on Tour from
the perspective of the nomadic subjectivity by Rosi Braidotti. The project,
in the new context lent by the death of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo,
known under as Pippa Bacca, gave rise to diverse commentaries, at the
same time becoming a reference point for successive artistic and social
endeavours. The article analyses the strategy undertaken by “the brides”
as women-artists, the cultural symbols and archetypes used by them,
while as a counterweight questions are asked about the faith in unconditioned
hospitality in the frames of what Jacques Derrida called “Abraham”
tradition as well as about the presence of women in public space.
As a result, the project seems to be an artistic performance, which demands
including the specific, embodied female experience to be a subject
in culture and politics. Its true value is located in the acquired experience;
in the exchange that the artists initiate with people encountered on their
way; in breaking the borders between art and everyday life. This is quite
an alternative model of art and as such is an answer to the feminist demands
of Rosi Braidotti.
Metafizyczność literatury. Przypadek Antoniego Matuszkiewicza
Authors: Maliszewski Karol
Published: January 2019

The author in his sketch describes the early lyrics of Antoni Matuszkiewicz.
He emphasizes that what has been modernist in them, the avantgarde
shape of the poem, has been marked by a special spiritual fervor, as
if Matuszkiewicz tried to reconcile in a single record a revealing metaphor
with something eternal, with something what seems like a mystical spiritual
formation. Matuszkiewicz, in a dispute over poetry, is on the side
of those who believe in a substantial image of the world and, hence, the
metaphysical nature of literature.
NATACHA LESUEUR, DES CLICHÉS
IRONIQUES : UN FÉMINISME DISCRET1
Authors: Ferret Sandrine
Published: January 2019

Natacha Lesueur is a French photographer, who discreetly conforms with
the feminist tendencies, starting from her earliest works realized in the
1990s. Her first photographs depict compositions, in which fragments of
the body, the head, the bust, the legs, etc., are adorned with intricately
composed pieces of food, sometimes creating mysterious alphabets. The
colour photographs are exceptionally painstainkingly processed – refined
– and disorient the viewer with the vision of body fragments staged
in weird situations.
On the exhibition entitled White shadows, in the Marc Chagall Museum
in Nice in 2014, Natacha Lesueur presented a work realized during
several trips to Tahiti. Moved by the similarity of the Tahitian landscapes
to her own shots, she would ask herself a question, how to use visual
means to depict the reality in which the women and men of Tahiti lived,
the reality so distant from the postcards which we all see in front of
our eyes. Her choice included adopting these schematic representations
as a starting point, together with introducing elements of destruction
connected with colonisation, and especially with nuclear tests. She also
considered voluptuous looks cast at young Tahitian women (wahine) by
the colonizers.
Playing with the Tahitian exoticism in an exaggerated way, undertaking
strategic topics and perspectives (the landscape and wahine), Natacha
Lesueur stages these subjects in order to introduce distortions into
their perception. The light of the stroboscope lamp or red lighting make
the viewers embarrassed, as they also perceive typical pictures from the
well- known categories: the paradise lagoon, the lewd native, light flashes
or overly erotic dance. Lesueur’s work criticises depictions of the Tahitian
exoticism, with which it enters into a dispute, thus deconstructing it.
The article analyses in detail two video films, Omaï and Upa Upa,
shown during the exhibition mentioned. At the same time it attempts to answer the question, in what way, while making use of special lighting in
her work, Natacha Lesueur utilizes the feminist methodology, whose aim
is to deconstruct identity.
Polski feminizm - paradygmaty
Authors: Witkowska Sylwia
Published: January 2019

The issue of feminist art struggles with a great problem. In my study
I focus solely on Polish artists, and thus on the genealogy of feminist art
in Poland. Although all the presented activities brought up the feminist
thread, in many cases a dissonance occurs on the level of the artists’ own
reflections. There is a genuine reluctance of many Polish artists to use the
term “feminist” about their art. They dissent from such categorization as
if afraid that the very name will bring about a negative reception of their
art. And here, in my opinion, a paradox appears, because despite such
statements, their creativity itself is in fact undoubtedly feminist.
I think that Polish artists express themselves through their art in an
unambiguous way – they show their feminine „I”. The woman is displayed in
their statement about themselves, about the experiences, their body, their
sexuality. Feminism defined the concept of art in a new way. The statement
that art has no gender is a myth. The activities of women-artists
are broader and broader, also in Poland women become more and more
noticed and appreciated. Feminist art does not feature a separate artistic
language, it rather features a tendency towards realism, lent by photography
or video, which reflects the autonomy of the female reception of the
world. It should be stated that feminism is a socially needed phenomenon,
and its critique drives successive generations of women-artists.
Religion, schooling and the state: negotiating and constructing the secular space
Authors: Bash Leslie
Published: January 2019

As a prelude to the paper it should be stated that its genesis originates in conference presentations delivered on two separate occasions to two separate audiences. The first was to a mixed group of teacher educators, Roman Catholic priests and nuns, as well as others from diverse religious traditions, at a one-day conference on religion and pluralism held in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The expressed focus for this conference was ‘inter-faith’ but with the addition of a secular dimension. The second presentation was to an international group largely comprised of comparative education scholars in Glasgow, Scotland. Although the two presentations were broadly similar in content the Dublin paper had a distinct orientation. Given that the publicly-funded Irish school system was characterised by a strong involvement of religion (Department of Education and Skills, 2017) – in particular, that of the Roman Catholic Church, the dominant tradition in that country – the Dublin presentation pursued an approach which sought to widen the educational agenda. Specifically, it focused upon the continuing discussion concerning the role of secularity in school systems where confessional approaches to religion were sanctioned by the central state. On the other hand, the Glasgow presentation was more ‘academic’ in tone, seeking to re-position secularity and religion in a non-oppositional relationship which was, in turn, argued to be functional for 21st education systems.
¿Hacia dónde avanza la seguridad interior? Buscando respuestas desde los escenarios de futuro y la distopía
Authors: Jaime Jiménez Óscar
Published: January 2019

El objetivo del texto es identificar y analizar con detenimiento cadauno de los principales actores presentes y previsibles condicionantes del devenirfuturo de la seguridad interior en las sociedades democráticas. El análisis se realizadesde una perspectiva analítica, abordando la interacción entre cada uno deellos con la finalidad de desarrollar un marco general de influencias que permitegenerar una serie de escenarios mediante el enfoque prospectivo. La selección finaldel escenario más distópico verosímil responde a la intención de articular unespacio de reflexión para abordar las posibles consecuencias de las políticas públicasde seguridad en nuestros complejos escenarios sociales complejos.The main aim is to identify and analyze each one of the stakeholdersand foreseeable determinants of the future of internal security systems in democraticsocieties. The analysis is made from an analytical perspective, addressingthe interaction between each of them with the purpose of developing a generalframework of influences that generates a series of scenarios through the prospectiveapproach. The final selection of the most likely dystopian scenario creates aspace for discussion to address the possible consequences for the public securitypolicies in our complex social scenarios.
RECENSIÓN: VV. AA. "Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales", Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2018 (333 páginas)
Authors: Palomares Lerma Gustavo
Published: January 2019

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Avaliação da qualidade microbiológica e físico-química da água consumida em escolas municipais de Divinópolis/MG
Authors: Parreira Adriano Guimaraes , Oliveira Rafael Antonio
Published: January 2019

Tendo em vista a ausência de informações acerca da qualidade da água consumida em escolas municipais de Divinópolis - MG, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo levantar dados, de natureza microbiológica e físico-química, de amostras de água coletadas em unidades de ensino da cidade a luz da Portaria 2.914/2011 do Ministério da Saúde (MS). Com a autorização da Secretaria Municipal de Educação (SEMED) as coletas foram realizadas nos meses de junho, julho e agosto de 2016, e os experimentos conduzidos no Laboratório de Microbiologia da Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG) - Unidade Divinópolis MG e no Laboratório de Química de Proteínas da Universidade Federal de São João (UFSJ) - Campus Centro-Oeste (CCO). Foram assepticamente coletadas amostras em variados pontos de cada unidade escolar: caixa d’água, bebedouro e torneira da cozinha, seguindo manual prático de análise de água da FUNASA - 2013. Foram avaliados 8 parâmetros por ponto divididos em 3 microbiológicos e 5 físico-químicos. Para avaliação da presença de coliformes totais e termotolerantes foi adotada a metodologia do substrato cromogênico e empregada a técnica spread-plate para a contagem padrão de bactérias heterotróficas totais. Em relação aos parâmetros físico-químicos foram analisados cloro residual livre, pH, temperatura, cor aparente e turbidez, conforme protocolos padronizados. Ao longo do desenvolvimento dos trabalhos foram percorridos aproximadamente 420 km e avaliadas amostras de água de 15 escolas, sendo 9 da zona urbana e 6 da zona rural, selecionadas de tal forma a garantir distribuição espacial suficiente para cobrir boa parte da extensão territorial do município. Das 15 escolas analisadas somente 3 atenderam a todos os padrões de potabilidade, representando apenas 20% do total. As demais escolas apresentaram um ou mais parâmetros em desconformidade legal, totalizando 80% das unidades avaliadas.