bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
CRITÉRIOS DE ESCOLHA DE COBERTURAS PRIMÁRIAS NO TRATAMENTO DE LESÕES POR PRESSÃO EM PACIENTES HOSPITALIZADOS
Authors: Macêdo Simone De Miranda , Bastos Leticia Lemos Ayres da Gama , Oliveira Rafaela Gomes Campello , Lima Marize Conceição Ventin , Gomes Flávia Carolina Ferreira
Published: July 2021

Objetivo: analisar os critérios de escolha de coberturas primárias prescritas pelos enfermeiros para o tratamento de lesão por pressão em pacientes hospitalizados.Método: estudo transversal e descritivo com abordagem quantitativa realizado em Hospital privado em Jaboatão dos Guararapes-Pernambuco, Brasil, entre fevereiro e abril de 2019. A amostra contou com 345 prontuários de pacientes com lesão por pressão, admitidos de janeiro a dezembro de 2018. Foi utilizado instrumento para coleta de dados sociodemográficos, realizadas análises descritivas e teste Qui-Quadrado com nível de confiança de 95% (p<0,05.)Resultados: houve relação significativa entre a escolha de coberturas e as características da lesão. Porém, 64 (18,5%) pacientes da amostra continham registros adequados e 10 (3%) apresentavam discordância com evidências científicas.Conclusão: Esse estudo ressalta a importância da implantação de protocolos que ratifiquem os critérios de escolha das coberturas para o tratamento das lesões por pressão nos serviços hospitalares.
CONTEÚDOS TEMÁTICOS PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DE APLICATIVO MÓVEL SOBRE COVID-19
Authors: Bonifácio Michelly Cristynne Souza , Silva Aline Cerqueira Santos Santana da , Góes Fernanda Garcia Bezerra , Santos Andressa Silva Torres dos , Pinto Layanne Fonseca , Coelho Yasminn Canella Cabral Banjar
Published: July 2021

Objetivo: analisar conteúdos temáticos acerca da covid-19 para o desenvolvimento de um aplicativo móvel para a população, na perspectiva dos profissionais de saúde.Método: pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida no estado do Rio de Janeiro, entre agosto e outubro de 2020, por meio de formulário eletrônico com profissionais de saúde, cujos dados foram processados no software IRAMUTEQ pelos métodos: Classificação Hierárquica Descendente, Análise Fatorial de Correspondência e Análise de Similitude.Resultados: os conteúdos temáticos identificados para o desenvolvimento do aplicativo móvel foram: medidas protetivas e comportamentais, informações precisas e confiável dos fatos que circundam a covid-19, contágio, transmissão, além de informações sobre locais de atendimento para a população.Conclusão: conclui-se que a disponibilização desses conteúdos em um aplicativo móvel é mais do que um facilitador para os enfermeiros; ele se apresenta como um componente crítico para transformar a prática e a educação da enfermagem.
DETALHES DA ARGUMENTAÇÃO NO DISCURSO RELIGIOSO MIDIÁTICO: ANÁLISE DA PREGAÇÃO “O SEGREDO DO SUCESSO NO CASAMENTO: ATENTANDO PARA OS DETALHES”
Authors: Storto Leticia Jovelina , Burgo Vanessa Hagemeyer , Ferreira Eduardo Francisco
Published: July 2021

Com este artigo, objetivamos identificar as marcas linguístico-discursivas da argumentação deixadas na pregação “O segredo do sucesso no casamento: atentando para os detalhes”. Para tanto, recorremos às teorias da Semântica Argumentativa e da Linguística Textual. Para isso, realizamos uma pesquisa bibliográfica e uma pesquisa documental cujos dados receberam análise descritiva. Como resultados, observamos que, entre os recursos argumentativos utilizados pelo locutor, estão a intertextualidade com a canção “Detalhes”, de Erasmo Carlos e Roberto Carlos (1971), e com o discurso bíblico, a repetição, a interrogação e o uso de marcadores conversacionais e de operadores argumentativos. Além desses, também verificamos a presença da ironia, a qual levou ao riso dos fiéis durante a pregação. Todos esses tiveram como consequência a construção de um estilo próprio, carregado de bom humor.
EPICUREUS, ESTOICOS E A QUESTÃO DA RESSURREIÇÃO NO LIVRO DE ATOS DO APÓSTOLOS
Authors: Oliveira Francisco Eduardo de
Published: July 2021

Este artigo tem por finalidade apresentar possíveis motivos pelos quais os filósofos estoicos e epicúreos não aceitaram a noção de ressurreição apresentado no discurso do apóstolo Paulo, proferido no areópago e descrito por Lucas no livro de Atos dos Apóstolos.
INTERSECÇÃO DA FENOMENOLOGIA DA RELIGIÃO NA MEDIDA E DESMEDIDA DA EXISTÊNCIA PARA A SAÚDE MENTAL EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA
Authors: Chaves Flavio Da Silva , Nascimento Crisóstomo Lima do
Published: July 2021

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo apresentar o paradoxo entre a medida e desmedida da existência pelo viés da crise científica enquanto verdade universal ao fenômeno religioso enquanto possibilidade de saúde em tempos de pandemia. Ainda que se admita os paradoxos e antagonismos entre ciência e religião, fé e razão, conjectura-se a possibilidade de a espiritualidade atuar como chave terapêutica na sustentação psíquica do sujeito frente aos dilemas existenciais e contextos traumáticos. A partir da revisão bibliográfica de cunho qualitativo, ponderou-se os antagonismos científicos sob a forma de verdade inequívoca e universal, além de pontuar que a medida e desmedida da existência se dá pelo próprio sujeito. Neste contexto, se apresenta a urgência de uma ciência que leve em consideração a correlação sujeito/objeto e a sua subjetividade para, então, analisar as experiências fenomênicas da religião na saúde mental.
RE-DUÇÃO: DAS CIÊNCIAS DAS RELIGIÕES À UMA INVESTIGAÇÃO FENOMENOLÓGICO-HERMENÊUTICA DO FENÔMENO RELIGIOSO
Authors: Fernandes Marcos Aurélio
Published: July 2021

este artigo pretende ensaiar um fio condutor para a investigação fenomenológico-hermenêutica da religião. A condução investigativa se propõe como re-dução (retorno às fontes da experiência religiosa). A perspectiva é de um caminho que parte das ciências da religião, especialmente a história e a antropologia das religiões, para uma fenomenologia descritiva, uma fenomenologia essencial e, por fim, uma fenomenologia transcendental do fenômeno religioso. O sagrado é o elemento do fenômeno religioso. É uma região de ser, uma estruturação de sentido, um mundo aberto pelo lógos do fenômeno religioso.  Ele abre a dimensão do “nada do mistério”. A fenomenologia hermenêutica, investigando-o, faz-se, por fim, hermética.
“EVANGELIZAR É COMPROMISSO, NÃO É VIAGEM!”: ESPACIALIDADES NA RELAÇÃO HIP-HOP E RELIGIÃO
Authors: Fernandes Dalvani
Published: July 2021

Neste texto traremos algumas reflexões frutos de um estudo a nível de doutorado em Geografia Humana, que se pautou em observações participante realizadas na Célula da Rima, espaço criado pela Comunidade Evangélica Sara Nossa Terra (Curitiba/PR) para evangelização dos jovens através do Rap. Nesse lugar religião e hip-hop se enlaçam resultando em conflitos e novas compreensões da realidade: a periferia torna-se local de evangelização em potencial, os discursos sócio-combativos entram em choque com conteúdo conservador, a comunidade religiosa acolhe o Rap, e os rappers acabam tendo um templo para expressarem uma face da sua própria comunidade. São conceitos importantes nesse trabalho: espacialidade, forma simbólica, religião, igreja e hip-hop. Apresentaremos algumas contribuições conceituais provenientes dos estudos em Geografia da Religião, na qual nos pautamos para criação do nosso método de pesquisa. Alguns resultados de nossa tese também serão compartilhados com objetivo de ilustrar algumas possibilidades abertas pela Geografia no campo de análise do fenômeno religioso.
EDITORIAL
Authors: Holanda Adriano F. , Orengo Alex Ander De Souza , Conceição Antonio Manoel , Fernando Ilídio , Da Silva Lucas Luis Jesus
Published: July 2021

Editorial da Seção Temática e da Seção de Artigos
FENOMENOLOGIA E RELIGIÃO: APROXIMAÇÕES E REFLEXÕES SOBRE ESTE ESPAÇO ATRAVÉS DO ESPAÇO
Authors: Orengo Alex Ander De Souza
Published: July 2021

As grandes transformações da ciência não ocorrem na rotina mas exatamente na possibilidade de se pensar no limite desta rotina na qual os pesquisadores se encontram. Este artigo, através de uma visão panorâmica apoiada por uma breve revisão bibliográfica, reflete sobre a possibilidade do que seja pensar de forma a dirigir a mente na direção do inusitado e produzir aquelas grandes transformações que impulsionam o conhecimento.
What Do Interindustry Wage Premiums Represent?
Authors: Loureiro Paulo RA , Arbache Jorge , Nascimento Júnior Antônio , Ellery Júnior Roberto , Neto José C. C. O.
Published: July 2021

The aim of this paper is to investigate wage structure in Brazil between 2002 and 2015 based on National Household Surveys (PNADs). Given the nature and simultaneity of economic changes in the assessed period, as well as their potential impacts on the labor market, it is reasonable to assume that, despite the stylized fact that wage structure is quite stable, there have been non-negligible changes in the structure of relative wages. First, the labor market has become highly segmented and complex. Second, changes in wage structure have been observed. Relative wages in some sectors have increased, whereas relative wages in other sectors have decreased, suggesting a tendency towards resource allocation to sectors. There are remarkable potential impacts on income and on labor. Sectors that stand out include petroleum and alcohol, mineral extraction, and civil construction. However, if indirect effects are taken into account, via value chains, the petroleum and civil construction sectors have a major contribution. Fund transfers to these sectors would increase good-quality jobs, productivity, and economic value added. Aside from these changes, the international economy has been put through profound transformation (e.g., financial crisis, changes in relative prices), which has affected the sectors unevenly.
Formação docente e interdisciplinaridade em tempos de pandemia Covid-19
Authors: Magalhães Solange Martins Oliveira , Silva Simei Araújo , Paula Leandro Silva de
Published: July 2021

O atual cenário de Pandemia de Covid-19 exigiu reorganizações imediatas do trabalho docente para adaptá-lo ao ensino remoto emergencial. Na especificidade da docência, na universidade pública, surgem novas formas de trabalho com ferramentas digitais e tecnológicas, o que exigiu a revisão de princípios fundantes da docência associada a formação integral – bildung. O ensino remoto altera a essência da docência, exigindo novas formas de atuação que ajudem a superar a fragmentação que o ensino remoto tem imposto à docência e a formação de professores na universidade pública. Neste artigo apresentamos um relato de experiência fundamentada na interdisciplinaridade. Embora tenhamos identificado sua aprovação, uma parcela dos estudantes relatou fadigas em relação ao tempo de exposição à tela do computador, além de dificuldades em participar dos debates, e assimilar o conteúdo neste novo formato de ensino.
Dąbska Tumor – a rare neoplasm of the paranasal sinuses in children and teenagers. Case report
Authors: Piotrowski Sławomir , Śmiałek Urszula , Kropidłowska Sylwia
Published: July 2021

The authors present a rare case of endovascular papillary angioendothelioma also known as “Dąbska tumor”, which occurs mainly in children and young adults. This neoplasm was found in the right maxillary sinus and nasal cavity in a 22-year-old woman that remained undiagnosed for one year. After the initial diagnostic imaging, the tumor was removed through the endoscopic approach. After a year, the patient developed a mucopurulent cyst in the postoperative cavity, which was removed without any recurrence of the neoplastic disease in the follow-up histopathological examination. The authors present the clinical picture of this potentially malignant neoplasm and review the current literature.
Passenger’s routes planning in stochastic common-lines’ multi-modal transportation network through integrating Genetic Algorithm and Monte Carlo simulation
Authors: Peng Yong , Mo Zhiyao , Liu Song
Published: July 2021

In the urban transportation network, most passengers choose public transportation to travel. However, bad weather, accidents, traffic jams and other factors lead to uncertainty in transportation network. Besides, transport vehicles running on the same segments of routes and belonging to different modes or routes make the transportation network more complicated. In order to improve the efficiency of passenger’s travel, this paper aim to introducing an approach for optimizing passenger travel routes. This approach takes the travel cost and the number of transfers as constraints to finding the shortest total travel duration of passenger in urban transporta-tion network. The running duration and dwell duration of the vehicles in the network are uncertain, and the vehicles are running according to the timetables. As transportation modes, bus, rail transit and walk are consid-ered. In terms of methodological contribution, this paper combines Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Monte Carlo simulation to deal with optimization problem under stochastic conditions. This paper uses Monte Carlo simula-tion to simulate the running duration and dwell time of vehicles in different scenarios to deal with the uncertainty of the network. The shortest path of passenger’s travel is solved by GA. Two kinds of population management strategies including single population management strategy and multiple population management strategy are designed to guide the solution population evolving process. The two kinds of population management strategies of GA are tested in numerical example. The satisfactory convergence performance and efficiency of the model and algorithm is verified by the numerical example. The numerical example also demonstrated that the multiple population management strategy of GA can get better results in a shorter CPU time. At the same time, the influ-ences of some significant variables on solution are performed. This paper is able to provide a scientific quantita-tive support to the path scheme selection under the influence of common-lines and timetables of different modes of transportation in stochastic urban multimodal transportation network.
Future of the Waste Management in Distilleries for home Fruit Growers – Case from Slovakia
Authors: Beňuš Ondrej , Bielik Peter , Turčeková Natália , Adamičková Izabela
Published: July 2021

Distilleries for home fruit growers play an important role in the Slovak spirits industry.  They represent from 5% to 15% of the total spirits production in the country. In this paper, businesses with a focus on waste management and its future potential were investigated. The investigated industry creates a significant amount of bio-waste when under 10% of raw materials used for the distillation process are transformed into the final product. The waste production in distilleries for home fruit growers based on the available annual production data was estimated in this research. Based on these estimations, distilleries for home fruit growers produce annually 37,407.07 tons of bio-waste on average. The median distillery produces annually around 211.4 tons of bio-waste. The bio-waste from investigated distilleries is used directly as fertilizer on the arable soil at this time. This option is the cheapest solution for distilleries for home fruit growers. The different reuse options for bio-waste from distilleries were compared. All of them were more expensive compared to direct use of bio-waste as a fertilizer. Due to the higher cost, there is no interest to reuse this significant amount of the bio-waste produced in small distilleries for home fruit growers at this moment.
Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable Business Model Development: Practical Insights
Authors: Stasiškienė Prof. Dr. Žaneta , Meilienė Evelina , Čiutienė Rūta , Petkevičienė Jūratė
Published: July 2021

The capability to rapidly and successfully move into new business models is an important source of sustainable competitive advantage and a key leverage to improve the sustainability performance place-based innovations of organizations. However, the performed research suggests that many business model innovations fail. Despite the importance of the topic, the reasons for failure are relatively unexplored, and there is no comprehensive review of the successful sustainable business model innovation framework. This paper provides a review of drivers and barriers for sustainable business innovations in the context of ecosystem and its services.
Building Back Better? Eine Bewertung der ersten hundert Tage der Präsidentschaft von Joseph R. Biden
Authors: Siewert Markus B. , Böller Florian
Published: July 2021

Biden’s first hundred days in office were marked by significant policy-changes, for example in the areas of the COVID-19 crisis management, environmental and anti-discrimination policies. From the beginning, the new administration sought to highlight the contrast to its predecessor - in style, rhetoric, and policy. This seems to confirm a trend in US politics: The ideological pendulum keeps swinging. While Trump’s policies shifted towards the right, the pendulum under Biden is now swinging back to the political spectrum’s left. Yet, there are also several continuities. For example, regarding the increasing use of unilateral instruments of policy-making, in terms of national interests on the global stage, and in the area of immigration policies, where progressive campaign promises remain unfulfilled. Partisan politics also persist. The American Rescue Plan, Biden’s signature legislation during his first hundred days in office, could not attract bipartisan support. At the same time, tensions within the Democratic Party reveal frictions between progressives and moderates, which may shape the party’s course, in particular in view of slim majorities in the Senate.
„A more perfect Union“: Zu möglichen Demokratiereformen in den Vereinigten Staaten
Authors: Gawehns Florian
Published: July 2021

American democracy is facing a series of grave challenges. The post Trump era begins with a public debate over democracy reforms as possible remedies. What are the prospects for these institutional changes? The reforms discussed here - a new Voting Rights Act and the admission of new states to the Union among other things - face strong Republican resistance. Reforming Senate rules is therefore a key challenge for the Democratic Party in this Congress. It is, however, doubtful whether Democrats have the necessary votes to enact an extensive reform agenda, despite President Biden’s openness for reform. State-level reforms on voting rights, electoral systems, and gerrymandering are considerably more likely.
Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt auf dem Prüfstand
Authors: Ahrens Petra-Angela , Sinnemann Maria
Published: July 2021

Ausgehend vom vielfältigen freiwilligen Engagement im Rahmen der Flüchtlingsthematik - (i) für die Unterstützung bzw. Hilfe von Geflüchteten oder (ii) für die Begrenzung der Flüchtlingsaufnahme bzw. Verschärfung der deutschen Flüchtlingspolitik - befassen wir uns mit der Frage, was die Engagierten antreibt. Es kann gezeigt werden, dass bei Auseinandersetzungen zur Aufnahme von Geflüchteten nicht nur sozialstrukturelle Merkmale und konkrete inhaltliche Fragen, sondern auch grundlegende Konfliktlinien um Werthaltungen zu veranschlagen sind. Aufgrund ihrer Tragweite werden diese Konfliktlinien häufig mit dem weiten Begriff des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts in Verbindung gebracht. Der Zusammenhalt erweist sich in beiden Gruppen als gleichermaßen stark. Die Sorge darum wird vor allem von Gruppe (ii) geäußert und ist an ein erhebliches Vertrauensdefizit geknüpft, das sowohl auf individueller als auch auf institutioneller Ebene ansetzt.
Die Rechtsschutzversicherung im Großschadensfall
Authors: Horacek Tim
Published: July 2021

In 2015, Volkswagen AG admitted to having installed an inadmissible defeat device in 2.4 million vehicles. Case law and literature quickly established that the injured parties were entitled to damages as a result. Nevertheless, until the decision of the Federal Court of Justice in May 2020, many legal protection insurers refused to cover the costs of the litigation, using a wide variety of arguments.

In order to examine this settlement behavior, the author, as a scientific employee of the consumer law firm Gansel, evaluated more than 10,000 letters in over 4,000 cases. The result: denials of coverage and refusals of payment predominantly represent breaches of contract on the part of the insurers.
Zweite Autorschaft
Authors: König Christoph
Published: July 2021

Insistierende Lektüren und Forschungskritik - nach Maßgabe der kreativen Praxis in Nietzsches späten Werken.

Friedrich Nietzsches Prosawerk »Also sprach Zarathustra« und der späte Gedichtzyklus »Dionysos-Dithyramben« (1889) sind in der Ausdrucksweise poetisch, verfolgen ein philosophisches Ziel und entwickeln ihre Ordnung philologisch, wenn Nietzsche seine überschießenden Einfälle kommentiert und textkritisch ordnet: Diese dreifache

Vernunft leitet die Kreativität und deren »Arbeit am Sinn«. Angesichts ihrer Komplexität sind die Werke nur unter Verlusten den einzelnen Disziplinen zugänglich: der Literaturwissenschaft, der Philosophie und den Philologien. Daher übt sich dieses Buch in einer kritischen, insistierenden, die Vernunftformen engführenden Lektüre. Die Lektüre ist kritisch, weil sie ihre Praxis theoretisch betrachtet und das in wissenschaftshistorischer Klarheit tut. Die Lektüre insistiert, wo sie stets wieder zum kreativen Gang der Werke zurückkehrt. Die Lektüren als raison d`être des Buchs gelten exemplarischen Kapiteln des »Zarathustra« und allen neun »Dithyramben«, und sie spiegeln sich in der entschiedenen Analyse bisheriger Forschungstopoi - vertreten durch Lou Andreas-Salomé, Heidegger, Bennholdt-Thomsen, Kommerell, Schlaffer, Groddeck und anderen.
Biosynthesis of the Immunomodulatory Molecule Capsular Polysaccharide A from Bacteroides fragilis
Authors: Sharma Sunita
Published: July 2021

Capsular Polysaccharide A (CPSA) is a polymer of a tetrasaccharide unit found on the surface of the symbiotic gut bacteria Bacteroides fragilis. CPSA has been suggested to be important for maintaining a natural equilibrium between Th1 and Th2 cell levels in the normal immune system of mammals. If this equilibrium is disrupted, the human body can develop different autoimmune disorders. The gene locus responsible for CPSA biosynthesis has been previously identified. The locus was proposed to encode one glycosyl-1-phosphate transferase (WcfS) and three glycosyltransferases (WcfN, -P and -Q), three sugar modifying enzymes (WcfM, WcfR and WcfO), a flippase (Wzx) and a polysaccharide polymerase (Wzy) based on homology tools. A route for the complete biosynthesis of CPSA has been elucidated. The initiating sugar transferase, WcfS has been previously identified and characterized. An in vitro method was used to enzymatically synthesize CPSA, which was assembled on a fluorescent analogue of the native bactoprenyl diphosphate anchor one sugar at a time. Function of the hypothesized pyruvyltransferase WcfO was also determined. This is the first study to characterize a pyruvyltransferase involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis from a prokaryote. The biosynthesis of the polysaccharide was achieved in a single pot, compared to multiple steps involved in chemical synthesis, displaying an enormous leap in the biosynthesis of complex molecules like CPSA.
Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System Functions in Renovascular Hypertension
Authors: A. Gomez Jose
Published: July 2021

The renin angiotensin aldosterone system (RAAS) plays a key function in renovascular hypertension induced by renal artery stenosis (RAS). RAS causes a decrease in renal perfusion in the stenosed kidney which in turn stimulates renin the rate limiting enzyme in RAAS. This stimulation triggers a series of events starting with renin release leading to Ang II production, decrease in sodium excretion, increase sympathetic tone; all contributing to the development of renovascular hypertension. In RAS increase of superoxide reduce nitric oxide in the afferent arteriole increasing vasoconstriction and a marked decrease in glomerular filtration rate. In renovascular hypertension prostaglandins mediate renin release in the stenosed kidney. Targeting different RAAS components is part of the therapy for renovascular hypertension, with other options including renal nerves denervation and revascularization. Different clinical studies had explored revascularization, RAAS blocking and renal nerves denervation as a therapy. We will discuss organ, cellular and molecular components of this disease.
Evaluation of Climate Change-Induced Impact on Streamflow and Sediment Yield of Genale Watershed, Ethiopia
Authors: Feyissa Negewo Tufa , Kumar Sarma Arup
Published: July 2021

In the 21st century, changes in induced climate can significantly affect the water resources system in the watershed. Understanding climate change disrupts hydrological processes can facilitate sustainable water resource strategies to resilient impacts of global warming. The hydrological response of watersheds will be accelerated by climate change, altering the rainfall, magnitude & timing of runoff, and sediment yield. The study investigates climate change aspects on the hydrological responses using Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model interfaced with Geographical Information System (GIS) of Genale Basin, Ethiopia. The calibrated SWAT was applied to simulate the impact of climate, and the SUFI-II algorithm was used for parameter optimization & finalization. The change of climate scenarios was built using the outcomes bias-corrected CORDEX RCM daily precipitation, min/max temperature for Ethiopia under RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5. The average monthly change of streamflow from −16.47% to 6.58% and − 3.6% to 8.27% under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively (2022–2080). The monthly average sediment yield change was −21.8% to 6.2% and − 5.6% to 4.66% for the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios, respectively, over 2022–2080. It implies that the climate change-induced impacts on sediment yield are more significant than streamflow and suggest substantial adaptive management in watershed systems.
Solanum tuberosum Cultivation Using Nitrogen Recovered from Local Wastewater
Authors: P. Smith Daniel , T. Smith Nathaniel
Published: July 2021

This chapter presents an approach to recover nitrogen from human waste-water at local-scale for cultivation of Solanum tuberosum (potato) as food crop. Nitrogen capture is by ion exchange of ammonium (NH4+) onto zeolite, a natural low cost mineral which is available worldwide. A coupled process is described in which wastewater ammonium is sorbed to granular zeolite, biologically extracted (desorbed), and used to support Solanum tuberosum growth in fill-and-drain or irrigation cultivation. The system employs separate components to optimize conditions for ammonium sorption (anaerobic ion exchange), desorption (aerobic bioextraction), and cultivation (flexible timing of water and nitrogen supply and nutrient recycle). System architecture provides a low cost and readily implemented system for highly efficient nitrogen capture and incorporation into potato tuber. The nitrogen recycle system enables sustainable local-scale intensification of Solanum tuberosum production and enhanced food security through use of a reliable local nutrient supply. Metrics are presented for per capita tuber production, land area, and productivity. A system design is presented with a path forward for demonstration and development.
Ecological Effects of Oasis Shelterbelts in Ulan Buh Desert
Authors: Luo Fengmin , Xin Zhiming , Gao Junliang , Ma Yuan , Li Xing , Liu Huaiyuan
Published: July 2021

In arid region, shelterbelt is the ecological barrier for oasis. Understanding its ecological effects can provide theoretical supports for its long-term management and sustainable development. Two standard meteorological stations were used to monitor climatic factors continuously for 7 years, and two 50 m dust monitoring towers were used to continuously monitor sandstorm for 10 times, which were located inside and outside oasis shelterbelts in the northeastern edge of Ulan Buh Desert. The microclimate differences were analyzed, as well as the ecological effects of oasis shelterbelts was clarified inside and outside oasis. In the present study, under the influence of a large-scale shelterbelts, air temperature, land ground temperature and evaporation respectively decreased 5.13% ~ 24.74%, 2.38% ~ 20.09% and 7.06% ~ 17.68%, whereas the relative humidity and precipitation respectively increased 6.93% ~ 25.53% and 4.30% ~ 50.15%. During the occurrence of sandstorms, the wind speed inside and outside shelterbelt showed an increasing trend with the increase in height. The relationship between wind speed and height was expressed as a power function. The wind direction was mainly W, WNW and NE, but the proportion of each direction was different inside and outside shelterbelt. When the sandstorm passed through oasis shelterbelts, the wind speed was significantly weakened, with an average reduction of 30.68%. The horizontal aeolian sediment flux decreased 414.44 g·m−2 and the aeolian deposition flux decreased 0.81 g·m−2. The results revealed that the microclimate was improved by oasis shelterbelts, especially in the growing season. Therefore, oasis shelterbelts help to maintain the sustainable development of oasis.
Classic and Traditional Music Role in Cognitive Function and Critically Ill Patients
Authors: Agung Ayu Putri Laksmidewi Anak , Tjandra Dewi Valentina
Published: July 2021

Music has been known since the ancestral era, and undoubtedly it has become an integral part of human life. Music has been widely studied, and its purpose encompassed not only as art and recreational but also as therapeutic agents. Listening to music enhances modulation in the mesolimbic pathway and affecting accumbens nucleus (NAc), ventral tegmental area (VTA), hypothalamus, and insula. Evidence support that music could enhance neuroplasticity and stimulate cognitive function. Laksmidewi et al. have already investigated that listening to western classical music and instrumental Balinese flute music therapy improved cognitive function in the elderly. Cognitive improvement by listening to music has been linked to the relationship between the orbitofrontal cortex and the dopaminergic mesocorticolimbic circuit. Besides, musical intervention in severely ill patients showed its advantages in alleviating anxiety and distress symptoms. Patients with mechanical ventilation are prone to high anxiety and stress levels triggered by many factors such as endotracheal tube placement, critical care environment, frequent suctioning, and fear. Non-pharmacological intervention with music therapy is expected to help patients manage their anxiety and distract patients from stressful environments to assist their ventilator weaning effort.
A Traditional and Pharmacological Approach of Medicinal Plants in Mizoram, India
Authors: Deep Soren Amar , Bawitlung Lalthanpuii Pawi
Published: July 2021

Traditional medicine is the sole method of treatment in rural India even today. Several communities practice their traditional method of treatment and are not affected by the advances in modern medicine. The tribal communities prefer to use and consult their own traditional practitioners since these are easily available, accessible and cheap. It is also believed that these are free of side effects and very effective. The Mizos of the north-eastern state of India (Mizoram), use several plants to treat various ailments. Their practices are unique and are usually carried out by elderly persons of the community or traditional healers. Several plants used in their traditional medicine have been scientifically validated for their efficacy and toxicity studies. However, a large number still awaits identification and efficacy validations. This manuscript describes both the studied and untouched medicinal plants used in the traditional medicine system of the Mizos of Mizoram. Although, several other remedies are yet to be discovered, this study has described most of them in current use.
The Perfect Daughter
Authors: Sylla Fryderyk ,   After Dinner Conversation
Published: July 2021

If you have the ability to do good, does failing to do so mean you are allowing evil to exist? Do we have a moral obligation to improve our offspring? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Jane goes to visit her parents over the Christmas holiday. She has recently learned that her parents, under a program that favors the rich and elite, had had her genetically modified before she was born to be the best possible version of herself. Jane is crushed at learning that her life success has nothing to do with her hard work and is angry at her parents for having genetically modified her. Her father argues the problem of evil; that it was in his means to do good, and had he failed to do so, he would have been a god that allowed evil to exist. Jane is unhappy with his responses, but now must move forward with the choice of what she will do, when it is her time to have children.
Blackorwhite
Authors: Allisan Jay ,   After Dinner Conversation
Published: July 2021

What is the purpose of the criminal legal system? What factors should we take into account when punishing criminals? In this work of philosophical short story of fiction, the prison medical doctor is called in the middle of the night to take care of Fuzzy, an uneducated, mostly toothless, prisoner who has spent the majority of his life behind bars. Fuzzy, it seems, has gotten into eating cheese, something that strongly disagrees with his stomach and causes severe diarrhea. While the doctor waits for Fuzzy on the toilet and treats him for dehydration he learns Fuzzy’s story. Fuzzy was a young child from a poor family when his brother got him into a small-time gang robbing homes. Fuzzy and his brother wanted to get out of their life and move to Houston to look for legitimate work, but need enough money from a big heist to cover their travel fees. Their final heist goes wrong and the police show up. Fuzzy watches his brother get wrongly gunned down and, in a panic, hops in the van to try to get away. In the process he hits and kills a police officer with the van. The remaining members of the gang are captured and found guilty. Fuzzy, it seems, was able to eat so much cheese as it was his “last meal” on death row and assumed he wouldn’t be around for the results. However, there was a last-minute error with the electric chair so he was forced to face the retribution of his culinary choices. Hearing Fuzzy’s story, the doctor feels greater sympathy for Fuzzy and his life.
The Fortune Teller
Authors: Burgess Harman ,   After Dinner Conversation
Published: July 2021

Does believing in determinism mean no acts are immoral? Is the appearance of choice enough? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Jon and Michael decide, after a drunken night on the town, to visit a fortune teller. She takes their money and hands them each pre-written envelopes to open the next day. Jon opens his and finds an exact transcript of the television from the exact moment he opens the letter. Additionally, there is a warning, that Michael is going to kill him. A moment later, Jon’s phone rings and it is Michael, acting strange. Jon goes to Michael’s house, is stabbed, and nearly dies. While unconscious he can feel the fortune teller feeding off of him. He wakes up before death. Jon and Michael decide to head to the fortune tellers house to “rough her up.” When they arrive, they find that she is, indeed, something beyond the normal world. Michael runs out of the house in fear and Jon attempts to confront her. She disappears. Moments later, the entire house disappears.
Para leer la espiritualidad de Agustín. Elementos antropológicos
Authors: Grossi Vittorino ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

The article offers a synthesis of Augustine’s anthropological thought, pointing out the change he makes in the way of researching after his election to the episcopate, as well as the importance of Platonism in the building of the “Augustinian man”. Thirdly, the article presents his understanding of the God-man relationship, which is made clear from the couple “freedom-grace”. The article affirms that there is a reciprocal interference between these three elements, so that, taken together, they can provide the essential lines of Augustine’s anthropological thought.
El pensamiento de Agustín sobre la vida conyugal y la sexualidad: influencias y equívocos
Authors: Grossi Vittorino ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

The article addresses Augustine’s understanding of human sexuality and the spirituality of the married couple, and has two parts. In the first part, some orientations are given for reading the ancient Christian texts; in the second part, the thought of Saint Augustine on the subject of human sexuality and spirituality of the married couple is exposed. On the other hand, some of the mistakes derived from the Augustinian thought are discussed. The article also presents a current application of the Augustinian thought on sexuality and the spirituality of the married couples in the Contemporary World.
La dimensión agustiniana del obispo
Authors: Grossi Vittorino ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

The article presents those elements that were required of a bishop in Late Antiquity, both the cultural elements, as well as the spiritual ones, that he must have as the father of the Christian community. The article reviews some sermons of Augustine of Hippo, particularly those preached on the anniversary of his episcopal consecration (ss. 23; 46; 47; 49; 101; 270; 339; 340A; 355; 356). Such sermons have a particular interest, since they express Augustine’s point of view when interpreting his episcopal ministry in the context of the late Antiquity society, particularly in the Latin area.
'Familia Christi': La eclesiología en el libro XII del 'Contra Faustum' de Agustín de Hipona
Authors: Eguiarte Enrique A. ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

The first part of this article, presents a bibliographic review of the works that in the last hundred years have addressed in a direct and central way Augustine’s Contra Faustum, making a more extensive description of the most important of them. Later the ecclesiological ideas of Book XII of Augustine’s Contra Faustum are approached, to discuss, Saint Augustine’s exegetical justification to make an spiritual interpretation of the Old Testament. Subsequently, the central ecclesiological figure of Book XII of Augustine’s Contra Faustum is addressed, namely, Noah’s ark, highlighting the symbolic meaning of the pure and impure animals, of the square and imperishable timbers with which the ark was built, of the ark’s side door and its relationship with the side of Christ, of the three levels of Noah’s ark and its ecclesial interpretation, of the greasy glue that joined the timbers as a symbol of unity and peace within the Church. The importance of the expression familia Christi as a name for the Church is highlighted, making an exposition of other augustinan works in which this expression is used. The theme of the Church as the body of Christ and the prosopological exegesis in Augustine’s Book XII of Contra Faustum is also addressed, as well as Saint Augustine’s interpretation of some characters of the Old Testament as figures of the Chruch in book XII of Contra Faustum. The article addresses indirectly to other contemporary Works of Contra Faustum, such as De Baptismo, Ad catholicos fratres and some sermons and enarrationes in Psalmos.
San Agustín y las migraciones
Authors: Eguiarte Enrique A. ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

The article presents, in the first part, some socio-political phenomena from Saint Augustine’s time, which caused migrations, to discuss which was the reaction of the Bishop of Hippo to these events. The topic of migrations and refugees are dealt taking as point of departure the Favencio’s dossier (epp. 113-116), as well as the case of Fascio, as it is described in Saint Augustine’s ep. 268. As an example of economic migrants, the case of the family of Antonino of Fusala is analyzed, as described in ep. 20*. Starting from the migratory movements of Saint Augustine’s time, as well as the decline of the great institutions and the internal corruption of the Roman Empire itself, the article presents Saint Augustine’s spiritual idea of peregrinus and peregrinatio, highlighting the characteristics of this essential augustinian spiritual anthropological condition, making a diachronic research in the Works of the Bishop of Hippo to identify the presence and meaning of the word peregrinus. Finally, the article presents some practical conclusions to face the reality of migration in our days, taking inspiration from the ideas and the life of Saint Augustine.
Agustín habla sobre Alipio y Nebridio
Authors: Neer Joost van ,   Order of Augustinian Recollects
Published: July 2021

In conf. VI, the younger Augustine – as described by his older self – is well on his way to conversion, even though he is not yet aware of this himself. His spell as a Manichaean had not given him what he had hoped to find, and he feared that the Catholics would prove equally disappointing. Confronted with this situation, he decided to consult his friends. After an evocation of the influence of Ambrose (conf. VI,1,1–6,10), to which he proved susceptible, and before dealing with the problems to which the resulting choice gave rise (conf. VI, 11,18–16,26): to continue to work or not, to marry or not, Augustine describes his encounters with Alypius and Nebridius in conf. VI, 7,11–10,17. In this section, which is very carefully composed with regard not only to form (structure), but also, and primarily, to content (argument), he summons up the impasse in which he finds himself, and describes it with the aid of two images: that of illness, and that of danger at sea. The argument that he develops is that of a crisis: when a person is ill, it sometimes happens that the patient’s condition must first deteriorate before it improves, just as someone in danger at sea must sometimes face even greater peril before he is able to escape. This is what Augustine describes in conf. VI, 7,11–10,17, and this ensures that conf. VI is not a book in which he comes to a standstill, but one in which a therapeutic delay is created that gives him the strength and courage to accept humility instead of pride, and to persevere on his journey towards conversion, described in conf. VIII. This article analyses and interprets the strategy that Augustine employs to achieve this.
Situating Situatedness through Æffect and the Architectural Body of Arakawa and Gins
Authors: Keane Jondi ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: July 2021

This paper explores the situated body by briefly surveying the historical studies of effect and of affect which converge in current work on attention. This common approach to the situated body through attention prompted the coining of a more inclusive term, Effect, to indicate the situated body's mode of observation. Examples from the work of artist-turned-architects, Arakawa and Gins, will be discussed to show how architectural environments can act as heuristic tools that allow the situated body to research its own conditions. Rather than isolating effect from affect, observer from subject, organism from environment, Arakawa and Gins' work optimises the use of situated complexity in the study of the site of person. By constructing surrounding in which to observe and learn about the shape of awareness, their procedural architecture suggests ways in which the interaction of top-down conceptual knowledge and bottom-up perceptual learning may construct possibilities in emergent rather than programmatic ways.
Disembodied Consciousness and the Transcendence of the Limitations of the Biological Body
Authors: Harle Rob ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: July 2021

This paper looks at embodiment from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The notion that embodiment is an essential requirement for conscious awareness is explored using both a scientific and religious approach. Artificial intelligence, transhumanism and cybernetics are discussed as they force a pragmatic approach to defining and understanding situated embodiment. The concept of human immortality or extended longevity is also investigated as this further exposes the myths of transcending corporeality and also helps to explain the mission of transhumanism.
To Perform the Layered Body
Authors: De Preester Helena ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: July 2021

The aim of this article is to focus on the body as instrument or means in performance-art. Since the body is no monolithic given, the body is approached in terms of its constitutive layers, and this may enable us to conceive of the mechanisms that make performances possible and operational, i.e. those bodily mechanisms that are implicitly or explicitly controlled or manipulated in performance. Of course, the exploitation of these bodily layers is not solely responsible for the generation of meaning in performance. Yet, it is that what fundamentally /enables/ the generation of sense and signification in performance-art. To approach the body in terms of its layers, from body image and body schema to in-depth body, may partly answer the complexity at work in art performances, since these concepts enable us to consider, on a theoretical level, the body as represented object, as subject, as motor means for being-in-the-world, as origin of subjectivity and emotions, as hidden but most intimate place of impersonal life processes, as possibly distant image, as sensitive, fragile and plastic entity, as something we own and are owned by, as our most personal and yet extremely strange body.
Situated Cognition, Dynamic Systems, and Art
Authors: Brinck Ingar ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: July 2021

It is argued that the theory of situated cognition together with dynamic systems theory can explain the core of artistic practice and aesthetic experience, and furthermore paves the way for an account of how artist and audience can meet via the artist's work. The production and consumption of art is an embodied practice, firmly based in perception and action, and supported by features of the local, agent-centered and global socio-cultural contexts. Artistic creativity and aesthetic experience equally result from the dynamic interplay between agent and context, allowing for artist and viewer to relate to the artist's work in similar ways.
Technologies—Musics—Embodiments
Authors: Ihde Don ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: July 2021

Today recorded music probably accounts for the single largest category of music listening. This essay seeks to re-frame the usual understanding of the role of that type of music. Here the history and phenomenology of instrumentally mediated musics examines pre-historic instruments and their relationship to skilled, embodied performance, to innovations in technologies which produce multistable trajectories which result in different musics. The ancient relationship between the technologies of archery and that of stringed instruments is both historically and phenomenologically examined. This narrative is then paralleled by a similar examination of the history and variations upon recorded and then electronically produced music. The interrelation of music-technologies and embodiment underlies this interpretation of musical production.
The Noise of the World
Authors: Filimowicz Michael ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: July 2021

This essay traverses a heterogeneous terrain, finding important links in the ideas of Jacques Derrida and John Cage, and relating these to diverse cultural topics such as film soundtrack design, audio art, Saussurian linguistics, the sound and light shows at the Egyptian pyramids, the analogic nature of digital information, and cybernetics. Furthermore, the essay attempts to create some bridges- through the concept of "perceptual differance"- between the divergent world pictures (to use Heidegger's term) of cognitive psychology (with its quantitative frame of analysis) and the more slippery domain of hermeneutics.