bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Cyclophosphamide
Authors: Mohammed E , Ramrattan A , Santoriello D
Published: December 2020

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiological diagnosis defined as new onset seizures, headaches, impaired vision and consciousness. PRES is typically associated with hypertensive emergencies and pre-eclampsia but its association with autoimmune diseases is largely multifactorial with the combination of ongoing immunologic processes, sepsis and cytotoxic agents contributing to patient’s presentation. Cyclophosphamide induced PRES is rare and has been reported in cases of patients with renal failure and active autoimmune processes.
Self-reported percutaneous injuries of students and interns at the School of Dentistry in Trinidad: A follow up study of an updated sharps protocol
Authors: Smith WAJ , Mohammed SK , Al-Bayaty H
Published: December 2020

Objective To report the results of a survey of all percutaneous injuries that occurred between 2009 – 2014 among students and interns at the dental school in Trinidad and to evaluate compliance with the protocol for the management of percutaneous injuries. Methods Data was collected via questionnaires administered to 186 clinical students and interns in 2012 and 2014. Data were analysed using SPSS® 17.0 Statistical software. Results A 90% response rate was obtained. Forty-eight persons (29%) reported one or more sharps injuries at the dental school. Of the 76 sharps injuries reported, 55 were
percutaneous. Needle sticks and burs accounted for the majority of injuries and mostly occurred while working on patients. There were no significant relationships (p>0.05)
between sex nor student year with the occurrence of injuries. 76% of the respondents described their concern for contracting blood borne injuries from sharps injuries as “high.” After injury, 41% of the respondents followed the school’s protocol for sharps injuries. Conclusion The prevalence of percutaneous injuries among students and interns at the UWI dental school in Trinidad is 23% and occur most commonly while working on patients.
Compliance with the protocol for percutaneous injuries
needs to be improved. The protocol needs to be audited
to improve efficiency and reinforced to the students,
interns and clinical supervisors during their clinical years.
Shimon Peres
Authors: Levy Eylon
Published: December 2020

The late Israeli Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres was a towering figure in Israeli and Middle Eastern politics. But what drove the hawkish statesman behind Israel’s nuclear deterrence and early settlement policy to stake his political reputation on peace negotiations with the Arab world and the PLO, Israel’s sworn enemy?

In this insider’s account, written by Avi Gil, Peres’s closest confidant and adviser, we witness firsthand the tense moments during the historic Oslo talks, kept under the strictest secrecy, when the explosive revelation that Peres was directing direct communications with Yasser Arafat’s representatives for the first time threatened to leak to the press. We also see the fervent discussions and arguments between the personalities involved, including Peres’s rivalries with the Prime Ministers he served under, including Rabin, Sharon and Netanyahu. Although one of Peres’s most trusted colleagues, Gil offers a frank assessment of his mentor, recounting his foibles and failures as consistently as he does his victories. We are shown Peres's unique energy and optimism for Israel and its Arab neighbors in his vision of a ‘New Middle East’ – a vision that is sorely lacking in today’s leaders on all sides.

But most valuable of all, we gain unique insight into the actual thought processes, conversations and decisions of Peres and his colleagues and adversaries as they initiated, processed and reacted to events in real time, shedding new light on a historic period in Israeli and Middle Eastern History. Of unique value to all those interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the book is also an insightful meditation on the inner-workings of all high-level government and diplomatic negotiations.
Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama
Authors: Roisman Hanna M.
Published: December 2020

The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the women, as well as on those of the male playwrights, and offers multiple viewpoints and critiques that enable readers to understand the context of each play and form their own views. Four core themes bridge the depictions of the heroines: the socio-political dynamic of ancient Greek expectations of women and their roles in society, the conflict of masculinity versus femininity, the alternation of defiance and submission, and the interplay between deceit and rhetoric.

Each chapter offers clear descriptions of plot and mythical background, and builds on the text of the plays to enable reflections on language and performance. All technical terms are explained and key topics or references are pulled out into box features that provide further background information. Discussion points at the ends of chapters enable readers to explore various topics more deeply.
Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975–1990
Authors: Kelly Stephen
Published: December 2020

The first woman elected to lead a major Western power and the longest serving British prime minister for 150 years, Margaret Thatcher is arguably one the most dominant and divisive forces in 20th-century British politics. Yet there has been no overarching exploration of the development of Thatcher’s views towards Northern Ireland from her appointment as Conservative Party leader in 1975 until her forced retirement in 1990. In this original and much-needed study, Stephen Kelly rectifies this.

From Thatcher’s ‘no surrender’ attitude to the Republican hunger strikes to her nurturing role in the early stages of the Northern Ireland peace process, Kelly traces the evolutionary and sometimes contradictory nature of Thatcher’s approach to Northern Ireland. In doing so, this book reflects afresh on the political relationship between Britain and Ireland in the late-20th century.

An engaging and nuanced analysis of previously neglected archival and reported sources, Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990 is a vital resource for those interested in Thatcherism, Anglo-Irish relations, and 20th-century British political history more broadly.
The Cinema of Sofia Coppola
Authors: Ferriss Suzanne
Published: December 2020

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola’s oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. Suzanne Ferriss considers the central role of fashion - in its various manifestations - to Coppola’s films, exploring fashion’s primacy in every cinematic dimension: in film narrative; production, costume and sound design; cinematography; marketing, distribution and auteur branding. She also explores the theme of celebrity, including Coppola’s own director-star persona, and argues that Coppola’s auteur status rests on an original and distinct visual style, derived from the filmmaker’s complex engagement with photography and painting.

Ferriss analyzes each of Coppola’s six films, categorizing them in two groups: films where fashion commands attention (Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled and The Bling Ring) and those where clothing and material goods do not stand out ostentatiously, but are essential in establishing characters’ identities and relationships (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Somewhere). Throughout, Ferriss draws on approaches from scholarship on fashion, film, visual culture, art history, celebrity and material culture to capture the complexities of Coppola’s engagement with fashion, culture and celebrity. The Cinema of Sofia Coppola is beautifully illustrated with color images from her films, as well as artworks and advertising artefacts.
The Design of Race
Authors: Fine Peter Claver
Published: December 2020

Peter Claver Fine’s innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racialized ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction - typography, lithography, and photography - and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design.
Half Sound, Half Philosophy
Authors: Wang Jing
Published: December 2020

From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been developing in an increasingly globalized socio-political-aesthetic milieu, receiving attentions and investments from the art world, music industry and cultural institutes, with nevertheless, its unique acoustic philosophy remaining silent. This book traces the history of sound practice from contemporary Chinese visual art back in the 1980s, to electronic music, which was introduced as a target of critique in the 1950s, to electronic instrument building fever in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and to the origins of both academic and nonacademic electronic and experimental music activities. This expansive tracing of sound in the arts resonates with another goal of this book, to understand sound and its artistic practice through notions informed by Chinese qi-cosmology and qi-philosophy, including notions of resonance, shanshui (mountains-waters), huanghu (elusiveness and evasiveness), and distributed monumentality and anti-monumentality. By turning back to deep history to learn about the meaning and function of sound and listening in ancient China, the book offers a refreshing understanding of the British sinologist Joseph Needham’s statement that “Chinese acoustics is acoustics of qi.” and expands existing conceptualization of sound art and contemporary music at large.
Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction
Authors: López María J. , Villar-Argáiz Pilar
Published: December 2020

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with what is called ‘communities of secrecy’, it is fundamentally indebted to the thought of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who have pointed to the fallacies and dangers of identitarian and exclusionary communities, arguing for forms of being-in-common characterized by non-belonging, singularity and otherness.

Also drawing on the work of J. Hillis Miller, Derek Attridge, Nicholas Royle, Matei Calinescu, Frank Kermode and George Simmel, among others, this volume analyses the centrality of secrets in the construction of literary form, narrative sequence and meaning, together with their foundational role in our private and interpersonal lives and the public and political realms. In doing so, it engages with the Derridean ethico-political value of secrecy and Derrida’s conception of literature as the exemplary site for the operation of the unconditional secret.

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with what is called communities of secrecy, it is fundamentally indebted to the thought of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who have pointed to the fallacies and dangers of identitarian and exclusionary communities, arguing for forms of being-in-common characterised by non-belonging, singularity and otherness. Also drawing on the work of J. Hillis Miller, Derek Attridge, Nicholas Royle, Matei Calinescu, Frank Kermode, and George Simmel, among others, this volume analyses the centrality of secrets in the construction of literary form, narrative sequence and meaning, together with their foundational role in our private and interpersonal lives and the public and political realms. In doing so, it especially engages with the Derridean ethico-political value of secrecy and Derrida’s conception of literature as an exemplary site for the operation of the unconditional secret.
Ashton & Reid on Clubs and Associations
Authors: Ashton David , Reid Paul W , Snaith Ian
Published: December 2020

The diversity and complexity of the legal issues that can arise in the course of the activities of a club, society or association present numerous questions for those advising and managing those bodies for which they need guidance. Problems range from the interpretation of rules to anti-discrimination legislation. Legal issues can span alcohol licensing, charities, company law, employment law, expulsion procedures, litigation, meetings, promotion of lotteries, property law and taxation. This is the definitive guide to the legal framework within which clubs, societies and associations operate, bringing together the various strands of law (including new case law and recent legislation) to provide practical legal advice for these bodies, their advisers and officers. The work includes a full set of model rules as well as other useful material in the Appendices.
10
Authors: Andrew Geoff
Published: December 2020

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major features - including Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) - are relatively modest in scale, contemplative and humanist in tone. In 2002, with 10, Kiarostami broke new ground, fixing one or two digital cameras on a car's dashboard to film ten conversations between the driver (Mania Akbari) and her various passengers. The results are astonishing: though formally rigorous, even austere, and documentary-like in its style, 10 succeeds both as emotionally affecting human drama and as a critical analysis of everyday life in modern Tehran.

In his study of the film, Geoff Andrew considers 10 within the context of Kiarostami's career, of Iranian cinema's renaissance, and of international film culture. Drawing on a number of detailed interviews he conducted with both Kiarostami and his lead actress, Andrew sheds light on the unusual methods used in making the film, on its political relevance, and on its remarkably subtle aesthetic. He also argues that 10 was an important turning-point in the career of a film-maker who was not only one of contemporary cinema's most accomplished practitioners but also one of its most radical experimentalists.
Instituciones de justicia y violencias contra las mujeres Tensiones y desafíos para su abordaje
Authors: Miranda Pérez Fabiola
Published: December 2020

El presente artículo tiene por finalidad iniciar una reflexión sobre las subjetividades que intervienen al interior de las instituciones de justicia al tratar los casos de mujeres que han sufrido episodios de violencia de pareja. Este busca ampliar el conocimiento de la justicia chilena en tanto que objeto de interés para la Sociología y el Trabajo Social, además de otras disciplinas vinculadas. Para ello, se rinde cuenta de un trabajo de campo realizado en Fiscalías, Tribunales de Familia y Juzgados de Garantía en Chile. Se plantean los desafíos de estudiar a las instituciones de justicia en este contexto, para luego presentar algunos hallazgos relevantes que muestran las tensiones ético-prácticas que subyacen al tratamiento de las violencias hacia las mujeres por parte de las y los funcionarios del ámbito jurídico.
Algunas reflexiones sobre la presencia de Habermas en los escritos de Trabajo Social en Chile
Authors: Morales Paulina
Published: December 2020

Este artículo presenta una reflexión sobre lo que ha sido la presencia de Jürgen Habermas en los escritos de trabajo social en Chile en los últimos veinte años, a partir de la revisión de tres revistas de relevancia en esta área. El análisis se desarrolla a partir de ciertas categorías o tópicos identitarios del pensamiento habermasiano, en las cuales se insertan los artículos revisados, partiendo de una noción preeminente: la articulación entre sistema y mundo de la vida. Junto con esto, se propone un conjunto de reflexiones transversales a ello, que explican y problematizan la impronta de este autor en trabajo social.
Comentario: Aportes de Habermas en el Trabajo Social
Authors: Galdames Paredes Ana María
Published: December 2020

Resulta de gran interés el artículo de Morales, en torno a la impronta que ha dejado Habermas en el Trabajo Social chileno, a través del certero análisis de publicaciones académicas en revistas especializadas durante los últimos veinte años, cuyos aportes han nutrido las discusiones disciplinares, ubicando como ejes problematizadores transversales los conceptos de “sistema” y “mundo de vida”, como conceptos centrales del análisis social, a partir de la década de los noventa y con mayor énfasis entre 2011 y 2015.
Narrar la Jornada. Aplicaciones de la Metodología de Caso Extendido en una etnografía sobre territorios fronterizos
Authors: Guizardi Menara
Published: December 2020

El artículo aborda la propuesta narrativa etnográfica del Extended Case Method (Método de Caso Extendido) desarrollada por Max Gluckman. Tras discutir los lineamientos teóricos de esta propuesta, presento un ejemplo de su aplicación en el valle de Azapa (Arica, Chile). Para ello, describiré el contexto y desarrollaré la narración extensa de una jornada vivida en este valle, recuperando los encuentros con cinco actores sociales que allí habitan. Finalizo identificando los nudos analíticos que emergen de la jornada, discutiendo las configuraciones locales de las fronteras identitarias.
Cambios recientes en las políticas sociales en Argentina. Lecciones a partir del programa ‘hacemos futuro’
Authors: Jeremías Boga Dante
Published: December 2020

En el presente artículo proponemos analizar una manifestación de la política social de la alianza gobernante Cambiemos en Argentina durante el periodo 2015-2019. Para ello, se realizará un recorrido en torno a la normativa que le da origen al programa Hacemos Futuro, una relación con el programa que lo precedía (Programa Ingreso Social con Trabajo-PRIST) en términos de rupturas y continuidades y una descripción general de su funcionamiento. Por otra parte, se postulará la noción de capital humano como supuesto subyacente al funcionamiento estructural de la política. Para lo cual se planteará un recorrido teórico acerca de este concepto y se avanzará en su relación con las políticas de transferencias condicionadas. Por último, se debatirá la noción de responsabilidad individual que está pretende en la formulación de estas políticas, como una modalidad de disciplinar a la fuerza de trabajo no asalariada formal. En esta dirección, se concluye que la construcción de la agenda de las políticas sociales deberá incluir la noción de ciudadanía social como elemento vinculante a los proyectos societales, que funda un horizonte de responsabilidades colectivas en torno a los riesgos sociales.
Escuela, certidumbre y servidumbre “todo cuesta arriba” para la inclusión y la convivencialidad
Authors: Bazán Campos Domingo , Sanhueza Mendoza Rodrigo , Cayul Barra Miguel Ángel
Published: December 2020

El artículo aborda -desde un enfoque crítico- el papel social y político que juega la escuela moderna, específicamente bajo la pregunta por las posibilidades de formar a las nuevas generaciones en las exigencias éticas de la inclusión y la convivencialidad. En un contexto de hegemonía del discurso de la modernidad, se propone que la escuela ha llegado históricamente a configurar un relato de cientificidad basado en la certidumbre, lo que, finalmente, opera conformando una cultura escolar que presiona a educandos y educadores al desarrollo de prácticas educativas y sociales de servidumbre. De este modo, se plantea que la servidumbre es una forma de opresión moderna, tan intensa como invisible. Los autores proponen como desafío educativo la valoración de las incertezas y toda acción orientada por fines emancipatorios, condición imprescindible para aprender a vivir juntos.
Presentación Diccionario Histórico-Crítico del Marxismo
Authors: Instituto de Teoría Crítica de Berlín (InkriT)
Published: December 2020

El proyecto del Diccionario se fue gestando a partir de 1983, con motivo del centenario de la muerte de Karl Marx, sobre la base del plan original de producir suplementos complementarios al Diccionario Crítico del Marxismo (DCM) de Georges Labica. Es un proyecto del Instituto de Teoría Crítica de Berlin (Berliner Institut für Kritische Theorie o InkriT), y que se publica a través de la editorial Argument con sede en Hamburgo. La publicación del primer volumen del Diccionario Histórico-Crítico del Marxismo (DHCM) como tal data del año 1994.
DICCIONARIO HISTÓRICO-CRÍTICO DEL MARXISMO Histórico-crítico
Authors: Fritz Haug Wolfgang
Published: December 2020

Desde la ‹ilustración griega›, como documentan entre otras las obras de Tucídides y Aristóteles, la relación entre historia y crítica se fue construyendo y tomó su impulso de la tradición narrativa popular y del elogio poético al servicio de la dominación. La filología antigua y la práctica editorial crítica de los humanistas en la época del renacimiento habían preparado elementos que la conformarían. Pero la aproximación histórico-crítica a la tradición en su conjunto es un logro de los primeros intelectuales burgueses, formados en permanente confrontación con la censura y la persecución, especialmente la de los aparatos religiosos. De manera sistemática, esta combinación aparece por primera vez en el Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1696), inaugurando la era de la ilustración como la «era de la crítica» propiamente dicha (Kant). Para Bayle, historia (Geschichte) sigue significando Historia (Historie) en el sentido de transmisión escrita u oral; y crítica, su examen a ‹la luz natural de la razón›. Este racionalismo prepara el suelo para el historicismo y la historiografía ‹científica› (i.e. de referencia ‹crítica› a las fuentes). El materialismo histórico de Marx, y más tarde el marxista, buscan explicar la historia recurriendo al modo de producción y reproducción de la vida social.
DICCIONARIO HISTÓRICO-CRÍTICO DEL MARXISMO Temor, angustia/miedo
Authors: Fritz Haug Wolfgang
Published: December 2020

«La Ilustración, en el más amplio sentido […], ha perseguido desde siempre el objetivo de liberar a los hombres del temor y constituirlos en señores. Pero la tierra enteramente ilustrada resplandece bajo el signo de una triunfal calamidad». Así comienzan Max Horkheimer y Theodor W. Adorno, en el exilio americano, su Dialéctica de la Ilustración (1947, 13 |1994, 59, trad. modif.). –Tanto el pensamiento de Marx, como el marxista, surgen dentro de la tradición de la ilustración. Cuando Marx concibe la religión como «suspiro de la criatura acosada» (KHR, MEW 1, 378), por cierto que no lo hace para detenerse y quedarse en la conciencia ‘ilustrada’ del acoso. Es verdad que a «la opresión real hay que hacerla aún más opresora, añadiéndole la consciencia de esa opresión», pero esto con intenciones prácticas: «Hay que enseñarle al pueblo a asustarse de sí mismo, para que cobre coraje» (ibíd., 381).
Increased Vulnerabilities: Considering the Effects of Xeno-Racist Ordering for Romanian Migrant Sex Workers in the United Kingdom
Authors: Hanks Sam
Published: December 2020

This article draws on data from interviews with sex workers in Welsh massage parlours and individuals involved in the provision of support to migrant sex workers in Wales and England. Drawing on concepts of xeno-racism and ‘everyday ordering’, it illustrates the ways in which policies and state institutions enable violence against sex workers in a way that is increasingly mediated and compounded by race and immigration status. It argues that an awareness of regular and hostile policing practices, coupled with fears of deportation, among a sample of primarily Romanian migrant sex workers is exposing them to increased risks of harm and exploitation.
Towards Unified Data Exchange Formats for Reporting Molecular Drug Susceptibility Testing
Authors: Bonney Wilfred , Price Sandy F. , Abhyankar Swapna , Merrick Riki , Hampole Varsha , Halse Tanya A. , DiDonato Charles , Dalton Tracy , Metchock Beverly , Starks Angela M. , Miramontes Roque
Published: December 2020

Background: With the rapid development of new advanced molecular detection methods, identification of new genetic mutations conferring pathogen resistance to an ever-growing variety of antimicrobial substances will generate massive genomic datasets for public health and clinical laboratories. Keeping up with specialized standard coding for these immense datasets will be extremely challenging. This challenge prompted our effort to create a common molecular resistance Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) panel that can be used to report any identified antimicrobial resistance pattern.

Objective: To develop and utilize a common molecular resistance LOINC panel for molecular drug susceptibility testing (DST) data exchange in the U.S. National Tuberculosis Surveillance System using California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and New York State Department of Health as pilot sites.

Methods: We developed an interface and mapped incoming molecular DST data to the common molecular resistance LOINC panel using Health Level Seven (HL7) v2.5.1 Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) message specifications through the Orion Health™ Rhapsody Integration Engine v6.3.1.

Results: Both pilot sites were able to process and upload/import the standardized HL7 v2.5.1 ELR messages into their respective systems; albeit CDPH identified areas for system improvements and has focused efforts to streamline the message importation process.

Discussion: The common molecular resistance LOINC panel is designed to be generalizable across other resistance genes and ideally also applicable to other disease domains.

Conclusion: The study demonstrates that it is possible to exchange molecular DST data across the continuum of disparate healthcare information systems in integrated public health environments using the common molecular resistance LOINC panel.

Keywords: Data Exchange Formats, Electronic Laboratory Reporting, Health Information Exchange, LOINC, Health Level Seven, Public Health Surveillance.
Food systems resilience through dialogue: Localizing a food systems approach in pandemic response
Authors: Hansen Angela , Ronning Eilif , Collier Katie
Published: December 2020

Community and international development practitioners are increasingly adopting a food systems approach to research, planning, and intervention. This paper examines such an approach as part of the COVID-19 response of the Food Systems Dialogues (FSDs), a global effort facilitating multistakeholder interchange to build support for food systems transformations. The FSDs’ pandemic response involved redesigning the in-person global dialogue process for online delivery in localized settings. This paper documents how the online FSDs in New York’s Hudson Valley allowed local systems actors to share their experience mid-shock, as the system responded to the pandemic, and revealed FSDs’ ability to quickly adopt a systems orientation and thus take the first steps toward transforming food systems. It also highlights where new research is needed in food systems approaches to development.
Constructive Arrest: An Analysis of the Case of PP v Mohd Safwan Husain
Authors: Md Said Muhamad Helmi , Kathirvelu Sahanah , Min Lim Jia , Rahim Nur Aryannie Abd , Jamaie Nur Wafda Asyrani , Firuz Iman Camelia Abdullah , Abdullah Zulkarnain
Published: December 2020

After the landmark principle in Shaaban & Ors v. Chong Fook Kam & Anor that established a different set of definition for arrest in Malaysia Criminal Procedure Law in 1969, the case of Pendakwa Raya lwn. Mohd Safwan Husain again stirred the definition of arrest in the year of 2017. While it has long been a norm in this area of law to differentiate arrest into actual and constructive arrest, the judgment of Mohd Safwan Husain commented the differentiation critically. This paper aims to analyse the arrest happened in the case of Mohd Safwan Husain thoroughly, not only from the perspective of Criminal Procedure Code, but also from the view of Dangerous Drugs Act. Research method used are library research and case analysis. As for now there is no governing law on constructive arrest, the researchers believe that an explanation should be provided on what constitutes a constructive arrest in the Criminal Procedure Code and the present existing provision which is Section 15 Criminal Procedure Code should be amended.
Abolition of the Death Penalty in Mongolia :
Authors: Halbertsma Tjalling H.F.
Published: December 2020

[No abstract available]
Mongolia’s external environment: current status and future trends of regional and multilateral cooperation
Authors: Tsend Baatar , Baatar Battogtokh
Published: December 2020

Today, the economic globalization is staging and regional trade and economic integration is gaining strength. This trend is more accelerated from the proportion of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In this context, the countries revised their foreign policies and determined their priorities for cooperation.

In this article, Author analyzes the political and economic environment of Mongolia and the main tendencies of its foreign trade and economic cooperation with other countries, including Asian and neighboring countries.
India and its Extended Neighbourhood :
Authors: Krishna Vaishali
Published: December 2020

[No abstract available]
WORK AND GLOBALIZATION
Authors: MORAWSKI WITOLD
Published: December 2020

This paper aims at analysing some aspects of work and globalization from historical perspective with an intention to better understand neoliberal globalization challenges of the last 30–40 years. The trade globalization, which united the world in the 16th century, was followed by the industrial globalization with decisive transformation of the work area, for instance, marginalizing the agriculture. The post-1945 globalization is more complex, although based on technological-scientific revolutions, it is characterized by other important dimensions: geopolitical, economic (financial), socio-cultural, environmental, and some of them have disturbing consequences for the work area. Among them I discuss the President Trump’s rejection of neoliberal globalization, which resulted in the “export” of millions of jobs from USA to China, the collapse of the middle class and populist reactions of the general public and in the world of politics. Meanwhile the work area is full of uncertainty, but the situation is different in different parts of the world.
CONTINUATION OR CHANGE? SELECTED DILEMMAS OF THE EMPLOYMENT POLICY AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY FROM CURRENT PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Bednarski Marek
Published: December 2020

This paper aims at analysis of selected issues of the employment policy in Poland from the perspective of last twenty years. The issues raised in this paper are as follows: various unemployment dimensions, labour market segmentation, ownership of enterprises from the perspectives of employment, workforce migration, teleworking, the shadow economy
EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE STATE: MULTIPLE DEPENDENCIES
Authors: Golinowska Stanisława
Published: December 2020

The subject of the article is the consideration about the dissociation of dependencies between labour taxation and the development of the welfare state. On the one hand, we are dealing with the emergence of various types of nonstandard work and forms of remuneration with reduced taxation. On the other hand – with an increase in entitlement to appropriate (in terms of type and amount) social benefits determined on the basis of general human and social rights and various rights not related to work and employment. There is no coordination between the two sides, as evidenced by successive reforms; both in the labour market and in social security systems. They were indicated in the text and their limited effectiveness was assessed in reconciling the new labor market with the desired scope of the welfare state, which covers its most expensive segments today: health care, education and old age security
Public Conversion, Private Reason, and Institutional Crisis
Authors: Sullivan Meghan ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: December 2020

Following the 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report, which detailed the sexual abuse of clergy members, many have questioned the value of personal institutional commitment to the Catholic Church, preferring instead more individualistic expressions of faith. Alongside the sex abuse crisis, the age of free information makes the Church’s epistemology appear antiquated. This article explores the individualistic versus community-based practice of Catholicism, drawing a distinction between private conversion versus public conversion. The article offers a defense of public conversion, arguing it explains the rationality of conversion and offers a solution to the problem of divine hiddenness. Using details from her own faith journey, Sullivan explores why God graces us with less perspicuous knowledge, causing subluminous conversions, as opposed to the more glaring, which leads to luminous conversions. Sullivan suggests that we obtain knowledge of God by loving one another, which takes place in the framework of the institutional Church. She subsequently uses this Church-making theodicy to offer five ideas about how we might engage the Church institutionally as Catholic philosophers.
Is Purely Practical Agreement Possible? Maritain’s Mexico City Thesis Answers Some MacIntyrian Challenges
Authors: Schulz J. W. ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: December 2020

In 1947, Jacques Maritain argued before the UN that “men mutually opposed in their theoretical conceptions can come to a merely practical agreement regarding a list of human rights.” Maritain justified this thesis using a progressive theory of the natural law which rests on a distinction between the natural law as operative in human nature and the natural law as known and articulated. Drawing on Maritain’s 1951 Man and the State, this essay defends a MacIntyrian reading of Maritain’s thesis and its plausibility against four objections from Ralph McInerny, Charles Taylor, and Alasdair MacIntyre himself.
A new hyperchaotic system and its adaptive tracking control
Authors: Li Chun-Lai  , Yu Si-Min  ,   College of Automation,Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China;,   College of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang 414006, China
Published: December 2020

In this paper, a four-dimensional hyperchaotic system is constructed by adding a state feedback controller into a chaotic system. Numerical simulations and theoretical analysis show that this four-dimensional system will take on periodic,complex periodic, quasi-periodic chaotic hyperchaotic dynamical behaviours as parameters vary. Moreover, an electronic circuit diagram is designed for demonstrating the existence of the hyperchaos. Finally, an adaptive tracking controller is proposed to acquire adaptive tracking control for this hyperchaotic system.
Finite element analysis of the high-pressure tungsten carbide radius-anvil
Authors: Yu Ge  , Han Qi-Gang  , Li Ming-Zhe  , Jia Xiao-Peng  , Ma Hong-An  , Li Yue-Fen  ,   Roll-forging Research Institute, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China;,   National Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China;,   College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, China
Published: December 2020

The high-pressure tungsten carbide (WC) radius-anvil is analyzed and studied based on the finite element method (FEM). The results indicat that under the same transfer efficiency of pressure, the lifetime of high-pressure WC radius-anvil is longer than that of the traditional anvil, which can be enhanced about 3.05%16.75%. The highest sample cell pressure generation by the new design of high-pressure WC radius-anvil increases about 5% (from 5.80 GPa to 6.09 GPa) compared with that by the traditional anvil, which can be attributed to the technology of radius-bevel. The high-pressure WC radius-anvil will be indeed very useful to broaden the synthetic region of functional materials. Further more, in this work, the operational costs of cubic high-pressure apparatus is reduced and the cubic anvil type high pressure techniques is improved in many important aspects.
Electroluminescence properties of SiN molecule under different external electric fields
Authors: Xu Guo-Liang  , Xie Hui-Xiang  , Yuan Wei  , Zhang Xian-Zhou  , Liu Yu-Fang  ,   College of Physics and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China
Published: December 2020

In order to find how the external electric field affects the SiN molecule completely, in the present work the density functional B3P86/6-31(g) method is adopted to optimize the ground state structure and the time dependent density functional theory TDDFT/6-31(g) is used to study the absorption spectra, emission spectra, excited energies, oscillator strengths and dipole moments of SiN molecule under different external electric fields. We find that the absorption spectrum, excited energy, oscillator strength and dipole moment of SiN molecule are affected strongly by external electric field. One of the valuable results is that the absorption spectra in violet light and blue wavelength ranges of SiN molecule each have a red shift. The luminescence mechanism of visible light for SiN molecule is also investigated and compared with the experimental data.
Focal depth of digital lensless Fourier transform micro-holographic system
Authors: Wang Hua-Ying  , Zhang Zhi-Hui  , Liao Wei  , Song Xiu-Fa  , Guo Zhong-Jia  , Liu Fei-Fei  ,   College of Science, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China;,   Scholl of Information & Electrical Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
Published: December 2020

Based on the Strehl criterion of coherent lens imaging system, the focal depth (FD) of lensless Fourier digital micro-holographic system is deduced. The FD expressions of the holographic systems with symmetrical and unsymmetrical reference point sources are obtained. The results show that the FD of lensless Fourier digital micro-holographic system is dependent not only on the optical wavelength and the numerical aperture of the recording system but also on the offset of the reference optical source, which is different from the FD of lensless Fourier digital micro-holographic system. The validities of the theoretical analysis are demonstrated by the computer simulations and experiments.
Dynamic simulation of fiber orientation in mold filling process in a complex cavity
Authors: Yang Bin-Xin  , Ouyang Jie  , Li Xue-Juan  ,   Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China;,   Department of Mathematics, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
Published: December 2020

A dynamic simulation of fiber reinforced composite mold filling process in a complex cavity is presented based on the gas-solid-liquid three-phase model for mold filling and the finite volume method on non-staggered grids. The interface evolution and the information about physical quantities, such as velocity, stresses, pressure, etc, are given. The motions of fibers, including transformation and orientation, are obtained as well. Numerical results show that fiber orientation in the horizontal mid-plane is related to the shape of the cavity, which is quite different from the case of the skin-core-skin structure orientation along cavity thickness. In the inlet region, fibers encircle the cavity inlet, and fiber orientation is vertical to the incoming flow direction along the horizontal and the vertical regions of the cavity, while around the corners of the cavity, fibers point to the corners of the cavity.
First-principles investigations on the electronic, elastic and thermodynamic properties of Cr2MC(M=Al, Ga)
Authors: Yang Ze-Jin  , Linghu Rong-Feng  , Cheng Xin-Lu  , Yang Xiang-Dong  ,   School of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China;,   School of Physics, Guizhou Normal College, Guiyang 550018, China;,   Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Published: December 2020

We investigate the electronic, elastic and thermodynamic properties of nanolaminate Cr2MC(M=Al, Ga) by using the ab initio pseudopotential total energy method. Our results show that they have shown almost identical volume compressibilities. The axial compressibility investigations show that the c axis is always stiffer than a axis. The internal coordinate calculations revealed that the values of Cr atoms in Cr2AlC are always larger than those in Cr2GaC. The elastic constants calculations demonstrated the structural stability within 050 GPa. The obtained bulk moduli by quasi-harmonic Debye model observed that the bulk moduli of Cr2MC(M=Al, Ga)decrease with temperature at 0 GPa, but increase at 300 GPa. We also found that the Debye temperatures of Cr2GaC are always smaller than those of Cr2AlC at any conditions. However, the opposite cases can be found in thermal expansion coefficients, Grneisen parameter, entropy and heat capacity when comparing their respective counterparts between Cr2GaC and Cr2AlC. The electronic density of states and energy band distribution demonstrated that the Cr2MC(M=Al, Ga) have shown similar profiles with the only exception of the more localized s and p electrons in Cr2GaC than their respective counterparts in Cr2AlC.
Experimental study of thermal conductivity of polyethylene nanowire arrays fabricated by the nanoporous template wetting technique
Authors: Cao Bing-Yang  , Dong Ruo-Yu  , Kong Jie  , Chen Heng  , Xu Yan  , Yung Kai-Leung  , Cai An  ,   Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;,   Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China;,   Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;,   Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
Published: December 2020

We fabricate low-density polyethylene (LDPE) nanowire array with a diameter of 200 nm by using a nanoporous template wetting technique, and the thermal conductivity at 2080℃ is experimentally studied by a nanosecond laser flash method. The measured thermal conductivity of the fabricated nanowire array is about 2.2 W/mK at room temperature, which is about one order of magnitude higher than its bulk counterpart. The thermal conductivity is found to increase slightly with the increase of temperature. The estimated thermal conductivity of a single LDPE nanowire is as high as 5 W/mK at room temperature. The high orientation of chain of the LDPE nanowire may arise from the integrative effects of shear rate, vibrational perturbation, translocation, nanoconfinement and crystallization. Findings in this study provide a useful strategy for enhancing the intrinsic thermal properties of polymer nanostructures.
First-principles study of structural stability and electronic properties of rhombohedral and tetragonal PbZr0.5Ti0.5O3
Authors: Shao Qing-Sheng  , Liu Shi-Yu  , Zhao Hui  , Yu Da-Shu  , Cao Mao-Sheng  ,   College of Physics and Electronic Information, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China;,   College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Published: December 2020

The energetic stability, the structural and the electronic properties of rhombohedral and tetragonal PbZr0.5Ti0.5O3 are systematically investigated by the first-principles plane-wave pseudopotential and the virtual crystal approximation (VCA) based on the density functional theory, within the frameworks of local density approximation (LDA) and generalized gradient approximation (GGA). Our calculation results show that the total energy of the rhombohedral phase is lower than that of the tetragonal phase, which suggests that the rhombohedral structure is more energetically stable than the tetragonal one. Furthermore, the structural parameters calculated in the GGA are well consistent with experimental values. From the analysis of electronic structure, we can find the strong hybridization between Ti/Zr d and O 2p both in two phases. Furthermore the hybridization between Ti-O is stronger than that between Zr-O; there also exists the hybridization between Pb s, d and O 2s, 2p. Moreover, the hybridization between Pb 5d and O 2s in the rhombohedral phase is stronger than that in the tetragonal phase, which indicates that the rhombohedral phase is more stable than the tetragonal phase.
Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of nanostructured bismuth telluride alloys
Authors: Zhang Xin  , Ma Xu-Yi  , Zhang Fei-Peng  , Wu Peng-Xu  , Lu Qing-Mei  , Liu Yan-Qin  , Zhang Jiu-Xing  ,   The Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials of China Education Ministry, Beijing University of Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing 100022, China
Published: December 2020

The Bi and the Te nano-powders are prepared by inert gas protected evaporation-condensation method; the n-type Bi2Te3 bulk materials with nano-layer and twin crystallite sub-structures are then synthesized by mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering technique. The effects of grain size and microstructure on thermoelectric property are also systematically studied. The SEM and the TEM analyseis show that the nano-layered Bi2Te3 bulk materials with twin crystallite sub-structures could be fabricated by controlling the preparing procedures. The thermoelectric property result shows that the thermal conductivity is lowered compared with that of bulk material of coarse-grained starting powders. The thermal conductivity decreases from 1.80 W/mK to 1.19 W/mK at 423 K, the lattice thermal conductivity decreases from 1.16 W/mK to 0.61 W/mK at 423 K, indicating that the phonon scattering could be enhanced due to the coexistence of nano-layer and twin crystallite sub-structures, leading to reduced phonon thermal conductivity. The dimensionless figure of merit ZT reaches 0.74 at 423 K for bulk materials sintered at 693 K.