bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
L’habitat « non réglementaire », un impensé des politiques ou politique en soi ? Villes du Maghreb et du Liban
Authors: Semmoud Nora , Kaedbey Rouba
Published: May 2021

Aujourd’hui, phénomène structurel des villes dans de nombreux pays du Sud, l’habitat non réglementaire recouvre une réalité diverse et mouvante qui se traduit notamment par des irrégularités juridiques à géométrie variable. Les politiques de régularisation achoppent, dans une grande majorité de cas, sur la sécurisation foncière et la légalisation. Les quartiers non réglementaires sont pour ainsi dire « maintenus » de fait dans leur statut et leur image. Dans les pays du Maghreb et au Liban, ils demeurent stigmatisés et représentés comme pauvres et marginaux par les pouvoirs publics, alors que leurs trajectoires indiquent des morceaux de ville qui se sont « banalisés » et ont développé de nombreuses ressources. Les auteures cherchent à montrer dans cet article que les quartiers non réglementaires sont envisagés par les pouvoirs publics comme un dispositif de régulation sociale, politique et urbaine qui supplée aux limites des politiques en matière d’habitat ou à leur absence. Dans les cas abordés pour Alger comme pour Beyrouth, les mêmes tendances peuvent être observés dans dans plusieurs villes du Maghreb et du Machrek, toute mesure gardée, par ailleurs. Les pratiques des pouvoirs publics à l’égard des QNR, font apparaître l’aggravation des ségrégations socio-spatiales et des fractures territoriales, sans doute porteuses de conflits car elles occultent les revendications de justice des mouvements sociaux de ces dernières années.
Les minorités d’Europe centrale dans la politique étrangère allemande 1949-1990
Authors: Plyer Ségolène
Published: May 2021

Dès 1949, la RFA et la RDA rivalisèrent pour protéger les intérêts des germanophones vivant encore en Europe centrale. Puisant aux moyens de protection des minorités élaborés depuis le xix e  siècle, elles établirent avec les pays hôtes des relations respectant les frontières de 1945, où ces derniers garantissaient des droits minoritaires et (ou) autorisaient l’émigration dans l’un des États allemands. En particulier, le gouvernement Kohl réaffirma – avec le soutien d’anciens expulsés – le lien entre migrations et minorités allemandes, considérées comme discriminées et liées à un territoire particulier. Les mobilités, qui répondaient à la crise multiforme des pays de l’Est, restaient ainsi prévisibles des deux côtés du Rideau de fer. Ce système particulier a quasiment disparu après 1990.
The Novel as Theory of History: Early Modern French Theories of Historical Writing
Authors: Rotger Neus
Published: May 2021

Cet article traite de la relation entre l’historiographie et le roman dans la France moderne. Il remet en cause la vision établie qui minore le rôle du roman dans le débat historiographique du dix-septième siècle et avance au contraire que la fiction en prose a joué un rôle important dans la configuration des paramètres théoriques de l’histoire (de la même manière que nous savons comment l’écriture de l’histoire détermine les origines du roman). L’examen d’une série de traités d’épistémologie de l’histoire, allant de Sorel à La Mothe Le Vayer, à Le Moyne, Saint-Réal, Saint-Évremond et Rapin permet de montrer comment le roman participe au processus de réhabilitation d’une discipline en crise.
Alexis de Tocqueville, del Humanismo cívico al nacionalismo excluyente
Authors: Usategui Basozabal Elisa
Published: May 2021

La obra de Alexis de Tocqueville se dirige a hacer salir a los individuos del círculo de sus intereses privados, para que asuman su responsabilidad individual, política y social frente a la masa, escuchen a su deseo innato de libertad y hagan surgir de la igualdad, y, nunca contra ella, sino a través de ella, la libertad política y social. Su amor a la libertad está siempre presente e impregna de sentido ético su pensamiento y su actividad política. De ahí deriva su profundo humanismo ante la situación de la población india y negra en tierras americanas y su oposición frontal a la esclavitud y a cualquier planteamiento racista, como algo contrario a los derechos naturales de los seres humanos. Sin embargo, cuando el diputado Tocqueville toma la palabra, su objetivo primero no es ya la dignidad de los seres humanos, sino los intereses de Francia. Su posición ante la emancipación de los esclavos en los territorios franceses de ultramar, su actitud ante la conquista de Argelia, sus intervenciones en la Asamblea Nacional sobre política exterior nos muestran a un hombre de Estado imperialista, colonialista y racista. Anteriormente había mostrado la ambivalencia de los fenómenos sociales, ahora aparece él mismo ambivalente e incoherente: el filósofo político versus el diputado en la Asamblea Nacional, el defensor de la dignidad humana versus el hombre remiso a asumir los derechos políticos y sociales de una parte de la humanidad, el moralista en América versus el imperialista y colonialista en Argelia y las colonias de ultramar.
fabsam @ AMI: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach
Authors: Fabrizi Samuel
Published: May 2021

The presence of misogynistic contents is one of the most crucial problems of social networks. In this paper we present our system for misogyny identification on Twitter. Our approach is based on a convolutional neural network that exploits pre-trained word embeddings. We also experimented a comparison among different architectures to understand the effectiveness of our method. The paper also described our submissions to both subtasks A and B to Automatic Misogyny Identification competition at Evalita 2020.
MDD @ AMI: Vanilla Classifiers for Misogyny Identification
Authors: El Abassi Samer , Nisioi Sergiu
Published: May 2021

In this report1, we present a set of vanilla classifiers that we used to identify misogynous and aggressive texts in Italian social media. Our analysis shows that simple classifiers with little feature engineering have a strong tendency to overfit and yield a strong bias on the test set. Additionally, we investigate the usefulness of function words, pronouns, and shallow-syntactical features to observe whether misogynous or aggressive texts have specific stylistic elements.
ghostwriter19 @ ATE_ABSITA: Zero-Shot and ONNX to speed up BERT on sentiment analysis tasks at EVALITA 2020
Authors: Bennici Mauro
Published: May 2021

With the arrival of BERT1 in 2018, NLP research has taken a significant step forward. However, the necessary computing power has grown accordingly. Various distillation and optimization systems have been adopted but are costly in terms of cost-benefit ratio. The most important improvements are obtained by creating increasingly complex models with more layers and parameters.In this research, we will see how, by mixing transfer learning, zero-shot learning, and ONNX runtime2, we can access the power of BERT right now, optimizing time and resources, achieving noticeable results on day one.
Fontana-Unipi @ HaSpeeDe2: Ensemble of Transformers for the Hate Speech Task at Evalita
Authors: Fontana Michele , Attardi Giuseppe
Published: May 2021

We describe our approach and experiments to tackle Task A of the second edition of HaSpeeDe, within the Evalita 2020 evaluation campaign. The proposed model consists in an ensemble of classifiers built from three variants of a common neural architecture. Each classifier uses contextual representations from transformers trained on Italian texts, fine tuned on the training set of the challenge. We tested the proposed model on the two official test sets, the in-domain test set containing just tweets and the out-of-domain one including also news headlines. Our submissions ranked 4th on the tweets test set and 17th on the second test set.
QMUL-SDS @ SardiStance: Leveraging Network Interactions to Boost Performance on Stance Detection using Knowledge Graphs
Authors: Alkhalifa Rabab , Zubiaga Arkaitz
Published: May 2021

This paper presents our submission to the SardiStance 2020 shared task, describing the architecture used for Task A and Task B. While our submission for Task A did not exceed the baseline, retraining our model using all the training tweets, showed promising results leading to (f-avg 0.601) using bidirectional LSTM with BERT multilingual embedding for Task A. For our submission for Task B, we ranked 6th (f-avg 0.709). With further investigation, our best experimented settings increased performance from (f-avg 0.573) to (f-avg 0.733) with same architecture and parameter settings and after only incorporating social interaction features- highlighting the impact of social interaction on the model’s performance.
CHANGE-IT @ EVALITA 2020: Change Headlines, Adapt News, GEnerate
Authors: De Mattei Lorenzo , Cafagna Michele , Dell’Orletta Felice , Nissim Malvina , Gatt Albert
Published: May 2021

We propose a generation task for Italian – more specifically, a style transfer task for headlines of Italian newspapers. This is the first shared task on generation included in the EVALITA evaluation framework. Indeed, one of the reasons to have this task is to stimulate more research on generation within the Italian community. With this aim in mind, we release to the participating teams not only training data, but also a baseline sequence to sequence model that performs the task in order to help everyone get started, even when not accustomed to Natural Language Generation (NLG) approaches. Contextually, we explore the complex issue of automatic evaluation of generated text, which is receiving particular attention in the NLG community.
UNIGE_SE @ PRELEARN: Utility for Automatic Prerequisite Learning from Italian Wikipedia
Authors: Moggio Alessio , Parizzi Andrea
Published: May 2021

The present paper describes the approach proposed by the UNIGE_SE team to tackle the EVALITA 2020 shared task on Prerequisite Relation Learning (PRELEARN). We developed a neural network classifier that exploits features extracted both from raw text and the structure of the Wikipedia pages provided by task organisers as training sets. We participated in all four sub–tasks proposed by task organizers: the neural network was trained on different sets of features for each of the two training settings (i.e., raw and structured features) and evaluated in all proposed scenarios (i.e. in– and cross– domain). When evaluated on the official test sets, the system was able to get improvements compared to the provided baselines, even though it ranked third (out of three participants). This contribution also describes the interface we developed to compare multiple runs of our models.
matteo-brv @ DaDoEval: An SVM-based Approach for Automatic Document Dating
Authors: Brivio Matteo
Published: May 2021

This paper describes our contribution to the EVALITA 2020 shared task DaDoEval – Dating Document Evaluation. The solution we present is based on a linear multi-class Support Vector Machine classifier trained on a combination of character and word n-grams, as well as number of word tokens per document. Despite its simplicity, the system ranked first both in the coarse-grained classification task on same-genre data and in the one on cross-genre data, achieving a macro-average F1 score of 0.934 and 0.413, respectively. The system implementation is available at https://github.com/matteobrv/DaDoEval.
University of Padova @ DIACR-Ita
Authors: Wang Benyou , Di Buccio Emanuele , Melucci Massimo
Published: May 2021

Semantic change detection task in a relatively low-resource language like Italian is challenging. By using contextualized word embeddings, we formalize the task as a distance metric for two flexible-size sets of vectors. Various distance metrics like average Euclidean Distance, average Canberra distance, Hausdorff distance, as well as Jensen–Shannon divergence between cluster distributions based on K-means clustering and Gaussian mixture model are used. The final prediction is given by an ensemble of top-ranked words based on each distance metric. The proposed method achieved better performance than a frequency and collocation based baselines.
UNIMIB @ DIACR-Ita: Aligning Distributional Embeddings with a Compass for Semantic Change Detection in the Italian Language
Authors: Belotti Federico , Bianchi Federico , Palmonari Matteo
Published: May 2021

In this paper, we present our results related to the EVALITA 2020 challenge, DIACR-Ita, for semantic change detection for the Italian language. Our approach is based on measuring the semantic distance across time-specific word vectors generated with Compass-aligned Distributional Embeddings (CADE). We first generate temporal embeddings with CADE, a strategy to align word embeddings that are specific for each time period; the quality of this alignment is the main asset of our proposal. We then measure the semantic shift of each word, combining two different semantic shift measures. Eventually, we classify a word meaning as changed or not changed by defining a threshold over the semantic distance across time.
UmBERTo-MTSA @ AcCompl-It: Improving Complexity and Acceptability Prediction with Multi-task Learning on Self-Supervised Annotations
Authors: Sarti Gabriele
Published: May 2021

This work describes a self-supervised data augmentation approach used to improve learning models’ performances when only a moderate amount of labeled data is available. Multiple copies of the original model are initially trained on the downstream task. Their predictions are then used to annotate a large set of unlabeled examples. Finally, multi-task training is performed on the parallel annotations of the resulting training set, and final scores are obtained by averaging annotator-specific head predictions. Neural language models are fine-tuned using this procedure in the context of the AcCompl-it shared task at EVALITA 2020, obtaining considerable improvements in prediction quality.
Impact of Work-Family Conflict on Career Development of Knowledge Workers in Indian IT Sector
Authors: Kumari Thriveni , Vangapandu Rama Devi
Published: May 2021

Work-family conflict is one of the major problems that influence career development of knowledge workers in the information technology (IT) sector. The purpose of the paper is to examine the relation between work-family conflict and career development with the moderating effect of age. The data was collected from 278 knowledge workers (IT professionals) employed in different IT companies across India. The data is analysed with descriptive statistics, correlation, and hierarchical regression through statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) 21.0 software, AMOS for structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis, and interaction software for analyzing interaction item age. The results of the study revealed that there is a negative relation between work-family conflict and career development. In addition, the findings also supported that age moderates the relation between work-family conflict and career development. This study is important to IT companies, which will provide useful insights in managing the employees' well-being.
An Observational Survey to Appraise the Influence of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Training Programs in India
Authors: Das Anupam , Sil Abheek , Chakrabarti Aditi
Published: May 2021

Background:

Given the all-encompassing foothold of COVID-19, it is plausible that the pandemic would have a long-lasting impact on medical training programs, including dermatology. We conducted a survey amongst the residents of dermatology (across India) to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their teaching and education programs.

Materials and Methods:

An online semi-structured English questionnaire was prepared on the Google-forms platform and the link was circulated among the residents. The questionnaire comprised of five sections (demographic details, impact on clinical training, procedural training, academic curriculum, and research activities). Appropriate statistical tests were carried out to analyze the data obtained.

Results:

Three-hundred and seventy-eight responses were taken into consideration. A majority of the respondents (63.5%) were engaged in both COVID-19-related duties and departmental work (out-patient and in-patient duty). Around two-thirds of the trainees (65.1%) claimed a reduction in patient footfall (greater than 50% compared to pre-COVID times). Sixty-nine percent reported a decline of more than 50% in in-patient admission; 47.6% felt that the discontinuity in patient care had severely affected their residency training; 50.8% highlighted that no procedures were being performed in their department; 54.5% opined that academic activities were relatively unhampered as regular seminars were being conducted through online web-based applications; and 65.1% of the trainees were not able to devote any time to their thesis-related work.

Conclusion:

Since the after-effects of this pandemic will last long, it is advisable that residents and faculties adapt themselves to web-based learning programs in the academic curriculum so that the training of the future consultants does not get jeopardized. Our survey, being the first of its kind in dermatology, will throw some light on the perspective of residents and the way forward to combat the untoward consequences on their training programs.
Management of severe Raynaud’s Phenomenon secondary to autoimmune vasculopathy in a young woman
Authors: Amissah-Arthur Maame-Boatemaa , P. Wu Lily
Published: May 2021

Raynaud’s phenomenon as a cause of acute limb ischaemia in the warmer climates of Sub-Saharan Africa region is uncommon because it is usually thought of as a disease common in cold weather. The prevalence of connective tissue diseases among Black Africans is increasing, and these conditions are associated with secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon and ischaemic digital lesions. We present the case of a 36-year old female with dermatomyositis/systemic sclerosis overlap and secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon who presented with acute limb ischemia (wet gangrene of all digits) in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana. Young patients presenting with acute limb ischaemia should also be screened for an underlying connective tissue disease. In patients with connective tissue disease, the onset of digital vasculopathy can be rapid and progressive, hence treatment must be prompt and comprehensive to enable better clinical outcomes.
EFFECT OF DIETARY TOASTED LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA SEED MEAL ON THE GROWTH AND FEED UTILIZATION OF CLARIID CATFISH CLARIAS GARIEPINUS FINGERLINGS
Authors:   Department of Fisheries, University of Benin, Benin-City, Nigeria., BS Aliu , OI Obuseli ,   Department of Fisheries, University of Benin, Benin-City, Nigeria.
Published: May 2021

An experiment was designed and carried out to assess the growth performance and feed utilization (weight gain, feed conversion ratio, protein efficiency ratio, specific growth rate, feed intake and survival) of Clarias gariepinus fingerlings fed graded levels of toasted Leucaena leucocephala seed meal based diets with the aim of establishing the best inclusion level of Leucaena seed meal. One hundred and eight (108) fingerlings with an initial mean weight of 2.10g were allotted at random to six treatments in triplicate groups with each treatment tank having six fingerlings and were fed with isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets containing 40% crude protein (CP). The toasted seed meal was used to replace soybean meal in the diets in the following proportions: diets I (0%), diets II (10%), diets III (20%), diets IV (30%), diets V (40%) and diets VI (50%). At the end of the feeding trials that lasted for 6 weeks, the mean weight gains of fish, relative weight gain, specific growth rate, feed intake, feed conversion ratio and protein efficiency was highest in treatment I while mean weight gain of fish, relative weight gain, specific growth rate and feed conversion ratio was lowest in treatment V. Feed intake was lowest in treatment VI and protein efficiency was lowest in treatment II. Survival among treatments slightly varied significantly but was not as a result of the feed consumed. At the end of the experiment, the recommended inclusion level of Leucaena seed meal was 20%.
Teaching Practices of EFL Teachers and the Enhancement of Creative Thinking Skills among Learners
Authors: Saleem Masadeh Thouqan
Published: May 2021

Development of students' creativity has been a prerequisite for the survival in this fast-changing technological age. Enhancement of learners' higher-order thinking skills should be the main concern of education systems around the world. Therefore, the present study aims to survey EFL teachers' knowledge about creative thinking, the activities they practice to enhance creative thinking skills. It also aims to understand EFL teachers' perceptions about the importance of creative thinking activities in promoting EFL learners' creativity. Moreover, it aims to check if there are significant differences between participants' perceptions due to teaching experience and stage. A total of 56 teachers took part in the present study through responding to a questionnaire developed to achieve the aims. Results revealed EFL teachers' lack of knowledge of creative thinking skills. Nevertheless, they showed that they "Often" practice creative thinking activities in classroom. Results also indicated that these activities were perceived "Important" for the enhancement of EFL learners' creative thinking skills.
Etiología del Daño Cerebral: Un Aporte Neuropsicológico en su Construcción Teórica (Primera Parte)
Authors: Silva-Barragán Micaela , Ramos-Galarza Carlos
Published: May 2021

El cerebro es el órgano responsable de todas las actividades que realiza el ser humano, como pensar, actuar, hablar, resolver problemas, tomar decisiones, regular las emociones y otras fascinantes habilidades mentales. Cualquiera de estas funciones cerebrales puede dañarse en el momento menos esperado, generando problemas cognitivos y comportamentales en el paciente que sufre un daño cerebral adquirido. En este artículo se propone una revisión teórica de diversos factores etiológicos del daño cerebral: (a) el más frecuente de ellos, el traumatismo craneoencefálico (TCE), afección que provoca un abanico de deficiencias cognitivas y comportamentales, además de ser la principal causa de disfunción prolongada en países industrializados; (b) los tumores cerebrales, también constituyen un factor etiológico importante, ya que cualquier área del Sistema Nervioso Central (SNC) puede resultar afectada y los efectos son muy variados de acuerdo a la localización del tumor, su nivel de gravedad, su naturaleza y si se realizó o no una cirugía; (c) en tercer lugar, se presenta a la epilepsia como una enfermedad neurológica presente en 50 millones de personas alrededor del mundo y cuyas consecuencias sobre el SNC están relacionadas a las crisis convulsivas y los fármacos anti comiciales; por último, (d) se expone la neurobiología del maltrato infantil, que puede generar alteraciones en la configuración cerebral de un menor. En cada uno de estos factores se presentará su definición clasificación, factores de riesgo asociados y, por último, cuál es su efecto en el cerebro y la naturaleza del daño. Palabras clave: Daño cerebral adquirido, Epilepsia, maltrato infantil, traumatismo craneoencefálico, tumores cerebrales
Organizational Support as Perceived by Staff Nurses and its Relation to their Autonomy
Authors: Saad Ehsan S. S. , Elsayed Samah M.
Published: May 2021

Context: Nurses need support at all levels in the organization. When staff nurses perceive organizational support, this can promote their sense of well-being, raise positive work behaviors and enhance their autonomy in patient care and unit operational decisions through having the right to make decisions and do their best to increases productivity and achieve organizational goals.

Aim: The current study aimed to assess organizational support as perceived by staff nurses and its relation to their autonomy.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional analytical research design utilized to achieve the aim of the current study. This study conducted in all units of Benha University Hospital. Study subjects were301 out of 1224 staff nurses; their selection was based on a simple random sample. Two tools used for data collection namely perceived organizational support questionnaire and staff nurses' autonomy scale.

Results: The result of the study yield that more than two-thirds (73.3%) of the studied staff nurses had low perception levels regarding organizational support, while less than half (45.8%) of them had moderate autonomy levels. Also, there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation (p-value <0.001) between organizational support as perceived by studied staff nurses and their autonomy.

Conclusions: The study concluded that a positive, highly statistically significant correlation was found between organizational support as perceived by studied staff nurses and their autonomy. The study recommended that hospital as an organization should clarify available types of its organizational support for staff nurses and encourage them to express their needs and put strategies to increase needed support. Hospital administrators should enhance staff nurses’ autonomy regarding patients' care and the unit's operational decisions. A training program should be provided for staff nurses about how to be more autonomous to make independent, wise decisions. Future research is suggested regarding a broader cross-section replication of this study for diverse nurses from all over the country that may yield generalization of the results. Also, further research is needed to explore barriers that staff nurses face in autonomous decision making and how to promote them in participation in unit operational decisions.
Analysis of population dynamics of the regional unit of Chania using remote sensing and census data
Authors:   Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, PAPANIKOLAOU Paschalina , MITSI Terpsichori ,   National and Technical University of Athens, Greece
Published: May 2021

Information about the size and the evolution of a place’s population has been sought from ancient times. That kind of information can be secured by periodic census enumerations. The Hellenic Statistical Authority provides data about the population and social conditions, also economical indices for each economic sector and the industrial trade. The study area, the regional unit of Chania, is in the island of Crete and the population resides mostly in the lowlands. In order to study the density, distribution and evolution of the population, many quantitative geographical methods were used, such as the Location Quotient (LQ), the Coefficient of Specialization (CS), the Coefficient of Localization (CL) and the Gini – Hirschman Index. The dataset chosen to execute the models, is derived from the Hellenic Statistical Authority’s website, for the years 2001 and 2011, the most recent census available data and is free of charge. To examine the distribution and the density of the population in accordance with the urban sprawl in the area the results were correlated with remotely sensed image. To do so, the Built – up index was calculated and for each municipality in the county and the mean value was used in a linear regression model with the population. In conclusion, the analysis combines the results of the quantitative methods for the productive sectors, the population density and growth with the urban sprawl, to examine the way the population of the county evolved.
Spatial changes of forests in a coastal and a remote mountainous area of Greece over a 65-year period
Authors:   University of Ioannina, Department of Physics, Laboratory of Meteorology, KOLIOS Stavros , NTOGAS George ,   Hellenic Open University, Greece, ZERVAS Efthimios ,   Hellenic Open University, Greece
Published: May 2021

The scope of the study is to detect spatial changes in the forested areas over six decades (1945 - 2010) of two completely different landscapes in Greece (pilot areas). The first pilot area is Kastoria which is a relatively remote and mountainous area located northwestern on the Greek peninsula, while the second one is Propontida which is a coastal area in the Chalkidiki peninsula (central Macedonia, Greece). High resolution orthorectified aerial images are used to detect the general types (classes) of land use/land cover (LULC) in these pilot areas. The results reveal that during the examined period, a notable spatial growth and thickening of the forest areas was found (10,51%) in the pilot area of Kastoria. The spatial homogeneity of the forested areas in Kastoria decreased only by 2,11%. Regarding Propontida, the forested areas decreased in total about 13,02% while the agricultural and arable land has increased by 12,10%.
SCIENCE EVALUATION: SOME FEATURES
Authors: Lamanauskas Vincentas
Published: May 2021

Scientific work evaluation is becoming an urgent and even a sharp question, raising various discussions as never before. Science, in some sense, has strong immunity, but in recent years, it has been rapidly weakened both internally and externally. Of course, we have to believe, that universities will understand that it is firstly on them to save and strengthen both quality of activities and prestige and develop real but not demonstrated science. Europe “has been having a headache” for a long time thinking how to withstand ever - strengthening competition with such regions as North America (especially USA), South-east Asia and so on.
It is obvious, that plenty of science work ranking and evaluation systems exist. On the other hand, it is doubtful if any of them is suitable for the whole science direction, science work and university type variety or for other evaluation purposes. In spite of various contradictions, evaluation systems have to be improved, elements, having negative influence have to be sought to eliminate.
The Conference ‘Technologies Transforming Research Assessment’ took place in Vilnius on March 19, 2014. The attention of the conference was paid to the new and effective technologies of an assessment of scientific publications. One of such technologies ‘Epistemio’. It was stated that it is an effective instrument to manage institutional lists of publications (http://www.epistemio.com). The Snowball Metrics initiative was also introduced. Elsevier`s new generation of SciVal was presented.
The evaluation of scientific publications requires to keep transparency and reliability of the process. On the other hand, universities have to create optimal conditions to all the scientist for scientific activity, to develop encouragement mechanisms.
Thus, science quality, science policy formation and other related questions are very urgent in Lithuania. There is no clear and distinct science policy formation mechanism. The expansion of science seeking only pragmatic aims leads only to a deadlock. Science, first of all, is cognition, creation of knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to keep and develop science for the sake of cognition but not just for money.
Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients Aged 85 Years or Older: A Retrospective Analysis of Outcomes
Authors: Aubiniere-Robb Louise , Reid George , Murphy Aengus
Published: May 2021

Background

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) is the first-line treatment for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Evidence of benefit from PPCI in the elderly is sparse. Our aim was to evaluate survival outcomes in patients aged ≥85 years who undergo PPCI for STEMI.

Methods

Clinical data were collected retrospectively on all patients aged ≥85 years who were referred and accepted for PPCI to our centre between 2013 and 2018.

Results

One hundred and forty-three patients received PPCI. Median hospital stay was seven days. One hundred and thirty-one patients survived admission. One-year mortality was 33.5%. Age and baseline renal function were independent predictors of one-year mortality. Median survival was 2.55 years.

Conclusion

Advanced age alone should not be used as an exclusion criterion for PPCI; rather, a personalised approach that takes into account all clinically relevant patient factors should guide PCI decision-making. Our findings suggest that PPCI as first-line treatment for STEMI in the very old should be considered routinely.
Challenging Presentations of Germ Cell Tumours in Routine Clinical Practice
Authors: Bezawada Navya , Norton Arthur , Mactier Karen , MacDonald Graham , Waterston Ashita , Mmeka Walter , Malik Jahangeer , Law Alistair , Barrie Colin , Drummond Allan , Muir Colin , White Jeff
Published: May 2021

Testicular cancer is the most common malignancy in young men. We discuss four cases of germ cell tumours (GCTs) presenting to general practitioners and physicians where there were notable preventable delays in the diagnosis and management. This diagnostic delay is associated with a more advanced stage of disease, and subsequent increased treatment-related morbidity and decreased survival. Our series highlights the variety of ways in which GCTs may present and we discuss the importance of prompt diagnosis through a thorough history and examination, early measurement of serum tumour markers and appropriate multidisciplinary team discussion. GCTs are highly curable cancers in the majority of patients and delays in management can, therefore, have devastating consequences.
Clinical Guide to Musculoskeletal Palpation
Authors: Masaracchio Michael , Frommer Chana
Published: May 2021

Musculoskeletal palpation—used in examining the size, consistency, texture, location, and tenderness of anatomical structures—is recognized by medical professionals as a method for detecting and treating a variety of injuries and medical conditions. A comprehensive guide supported by photos that demonstrate palpation techniques of surface body landmarks, Clinical Guide to Musculoskeletal Palpation assists students and health care professionals in becoming proficient in surface palpation techniques, which are a prerequisite for working in the manual therapy professions.

As working professionals and instructors with years of experience using musculoskeletal palpation, Drs. Masaracchio and Frommer are in a unique position to provide a guide that is both clinically oriented and user friendly. For optimal readability and most direct delivery of its content, the text divides the human body into regions instead of joints. Bony and soft tissue structures are covered conjointly instead of independently, allowing for better comprehension of anatomical relationships and ultimately leading to improved clinical examination skills.

Employing a step-by-step approach, Clinical Guide to Musculoskeletal Palpation describes each stage in using palpation as a key component during a physical examination, covering the bony tissue, soft tissue, and neurovascular structures of all body regions. Following are some key features of this text:

• Regional body sections and bulleted text allow for easy reading and enhanced comprehension.

• Techniques are illustrated in a manner unique to clinical practice, which facilitates student learning.

• Each chapter contains pearls of information that promote an appreciation for and acquisition of the inherent feel that is essential for effective palpation.

• Each chapter concludes with a case study presenting a common regional clinical condition, providing readers the opportunity to integrate and apply their new understanding and proficiency.

• The size and format allow the text to be durable and user friendly for clinic and lab activities.

All palpation techniques are presented with easy-to-follow instructions that enable a complete command of the procedure. Anatomical artwork of bony anatomy and soft tissue structures allows for visualization and thus better comprehension of anatomical relationships. This approach fosters a strong foundation that enhances clarity and application of anatomical knowledge to optimize the development of palpation skills. The most comprehensive resource of its kind, Clinical Guide to Musculoskeletal Palpation is a must-have for all practitioners, instructors, and students in the manual therapy professions.
Sport Therapy for the Shoulder
Authors: Ellenbecker Todd S. , Wilk Kevin E.
Published: May 2021

In Sport Therapy for the Shoulder: Evaluation, Rehabilitation, and Return to Sport, readers will learn about best practices and evidence-based guidelines for assessing and treating patients’ shoulder injuries for re-entry into sport. Written by renowned physical therapists Todd S. Ellenbecker and Kevin E. Wilk, this text is a key resource for physical therapists, athletic trainers, sport chiropractors, massage therapists, strength and conditioning professionals, personal trainers, and other clinicians in sports medicine who work with patients recovering from shoulder injuries.
The BioMechanics Method for Corrective Exercise
Authors: Price Justin
Published: May 2021

Many people suffer from temporary or chronic musculoskeletal issues that cause pain and discomfort when performing even the simplest forms of physical activity. The BioMechanics Method for Corrective Exercise is designed to help fitness professionals, athletic trainers, strength and conditioning specialists, and physical therapists to identify and correct underlying imbalances so their clients and patients can resume pain-free movement.

Written by Justin Price, creator of The BioMechanics Method and a former IDEA Health & Fitness Association Personal Trainer of the Year, The BioMechanics Method for Corrective Exercise provides a systematic approach for applying effective corrective exercise strategies to assess and address muscle and joint pain:

• Identify and assess common musculoskeletal imbalances

• Understand how those imbalances affect different structures of the body

• Learn about the various types of corrective exercises

• Select appropriate exercise strategies for a client’s circumstances

• Design a corrective exercise program that addresses the underlying cause or causes
Massage for Sport Performance
Authors: McGillicuddy Michael
Published: May 2021

Train harder, recover quickly, and improve performance! Today's top athletes rely on sport massage to stay healthy, at the top of their game, and a step ahead of the competition. With Massage for Sport Performance, you can too.

In this special book and video collection, renowned sport massage therapist Michael McGillicuddy demonstrates the same techniques he has used to train and prepare the world's elite track and field athletes for Olympic competition. Massage for Sport Performance will show you how to

• perform both self-massage and partner-assisted massage;

• administer the most effective routines for pre- and postcompetition;

• stretch, warm up, and activate primary muscles;

• treat critical muscle groups for elevated performance;

• speed recovery; and

• minimize injury, pain, and fatigue.

Throughout you’ll also find advice, tips, and variations for specific sports as well as massage recommendations for basketball, running, track and field, soccer, and swimming.

With step-by-step instruction, photo sequences, and video demonstrations of the primary techniques, Massage for Sport Performance is the definitive guide for players, coaches, and athletes alike.
Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Imbalance
Authors: Page Phil , Frank Clare C. , Lardner Robert
Published: May 2021

A reference for physical and manual therapists, athletic trainers, personal trainers, massage therapists, chiropractors, and physiatrists. A textbook for physical therapy students learning theory and application of skills for care in rehabilitation of muscle imbalance.
It’s A Pirate Tale – A Supplementary Approach To Coaching In Business And Management
Authors: Giebe Carsten
Published: May 2021

The article deals with the scientific discussion on coaching in the business context. On the one hand, the need for qualified human capital is increasing; on the other hand, the possible requirement profiles of employees are becoming more and more extensive. Given the prevailing framework conditions in human resource development, a need for action in terms of innovative approaches can be assumed. The number one success factor is and remains the human being. The main purpose of this research paper is therefore to investigate to what extent the topic of "piracy" can be implemented as a complementary approach in coaching processes for business and management. The relevance of this problem is that there is insufficient scientific literature on innovative approaches to coaching and thus a need for new impulses can be assumed. From the author's point of view, integration is therefore possible, as almost everyone is likely to have a positive association with the topic of pirates. For the research, a literature search was first conducted. In the subsequent conceptual work, an approach was developed to embed and apply the context of pirates in existing established coaching elements, such as the Logical Levels (according to Robert Dilts), goal work or the theme of values. The results and practical implications of this contribution are concrete approaches to make the potential of this approach recognizable and usable.
Uma crítica filosófica à cristandade, segundo Kierkegaard.
Authors: Da Silva Adenilton Moises
Published: May 2021

Este trabalho é uma abordagem que busca analisar em algumas obras de Kierkegaard sua crítica a respeito da noção de Deus, sobretudo, a partir do cristianismo luterano de sua época. Religião esta profundamente marcada por um discurso idealista, com conceitos abstratos, de influências vindas do pensamento hegeliano. Busca-se, com este artigo, apresentar a impossibilidade, segundo Kierkegaard, de conceituar Deus através categorias objetivas ou dos dogmatismos religiosos. Apresentar-se-á Deus como sendo o Desconhecido, o Absoluto, o Paradoxo. Definições usadas para não definir nada de fato, apenas com o intuito de mostrar os limites do racionalismo; postulando que Deus pode ser conhecido mediante um vislumbramento da fé. O conhecer Deus é um pressuposto da fé, afirmando as limitações de uma ciência objetivista, ao mesmo tempo, recusando os dogmas religiosos, as trincheiras institucionais, narrando a incapacidade de abarcar a realidade de Deus. Diante disso, abre-se a possibilidade de romper com o Deus elaborado pelos discursos das instituições religiosas, na perspectiva de construir uma relação mais subjetiva entre “Eu e Deus”.
Fake news e colonialidade de mentes: considerações via paradigma da complexidade
Authors: Moroni Juliana
Published: May 2021

Neste artigo, nós buscamos compreender como a disseminação de fake news, através do uso de tecnologias digitais, tornou-se uma ferramenta poderosa na manipulação da opinião pública, contribuindo para o processo de colonialidade[1] de mentes. A colonialidade de mentes, contextualizada nos estudos de Dascal (2009), é um tipo de violência epistêmica, caracterizada como transmissão e modificação de hábitos através de sistemas sociais como família, linguagem, religião, ciência, educação, ideologia e mídia que disseminam as formas de imposição do pensamento e ação do colonializador. Nossa hipótese é a de que o paradigma da complexidade, fundamentado no pensamento de Morin (2003; 2005), oferece subsídios teóricos para pensarmos o problema da disseminação de fake news, bem como a sua influência na colonialidade de mentes na medida em que expressa uma visão de mundo não fragmentada e sistêmica, pautada por princípios como o hologramático e o dialógico. Com base nestes princípios, nosso principal foco será oferecer um caminho para pensarmos sobre a colonialidade de mentes através da ética da complexidade.
Contra el poder. Alberto Donadío y el periodismo de investigación
Authors:   Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Universidad de los Andes, Serrano Juan
Published: May 2021

“Este es un libro que cumple con todo lo que se propone. Estaba haciendo falta en las librerías, en las mesas de noche, en los salones de clase. En Colombia son escasos los volúmenes sobre periodismo, pero son doblemente escasas las biografías que de paso cuentan el país. Este retrato preciso es ambas cosas: una serie de lecciones sobre periodismo y sobre periodismo investigativo, pero asimismo la biografía de un hombre —premiado con el Simón Bolívar a su vida y su obra— que ha visto crecer con sus propios ojos la bola de nieve de la corrupción en los tiempos en los que el oficio ha estado tratando de sacudirse el poder. Y es una verdadera rareza entre nuestras publicaciones no solo porque tiene adentro los testimonios de todos los implicados, sino porque sabe, en el momento justo, que reivindicar a Alberto Donadío es reivindicar las promesas de la democracia.” Ricardo Silva Romero “Este libro resulta sorprendentemente útil para descubrir —precisamente hoy en medio del desconcierto de la era digital—que el periodismo que se apega a su labor esencial de servir al público es capaz de sobrevivir el temporal tecnológico. La manera en que Donadío y otros de sus colegas del primer equipo investigativo de un diario en Colombia, la unidad investigativa de El Tiempo, han ejercido su labor contiene los elementos de lo que perdurará en el periodismo y esboza el futuro de lo que este será cuando muchas estructuras que hoy lo alojan se hayan derrumbado.” María Teresa Ronderos
Crónica de la calle 513.2
Authors:   Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Universidad de los Andes, Borges Coelho João Paulo
Published: May 2021

Crónica de la calle 513.2 condensa en un microcosmos los años previos y posteriores a la Independencia mozambiqueña y se integra en un proyecto que concilia unidad en el campo del imaginario y experimentación en el plano formal. A este equilibrio, poco común en el escenario literario actual, se une la regularidad en la producción del autor. Nacido en 1955, João Paulo Borges Coelho tenía veinte años cuando Mozambique celebró la llegada de la Independencia; esta novela, publicada más de tres décadas después de la revolución, reconstruye aquel periodo con la distancia suficiente para deslindarse de la euforia e incidir en las paradojas que abriga toda temporalidad transitoria. La narrativa elige el escenario de la capital, Maputo, una ciudad aún poco explorada por la prosa mozambiqueña, y se centra en una experiencia colectiva que se vivió de manera intensa, entre otros lugares, en la calle del autor. Entre la euforia de una nueva perspectiva y la melancolía de los muros que se erigen con el pasar del tiempo, las relaciones presentadas en esta narrativa dan la medida de un momento histórico vivido con alegría, pero también con muchos sobresaltos.