bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Endoscopic myringoplasty: outcome and hearing gain in inactive mucosal chronic otitis media
Authors: Subramanya B. T. , Lohith S. , Sphoorthi B.
Published: December 2018

Background: Chronic otitis media is an inflammatory process in the middle ear cleft that poses serious health problem in developing countries. Myringoplasty is a common otological procedure to reconstruct the tympanic membrane to prevent recurrent otorrhea, and restore sound-conducting mechanism. The use of rigid endoscope in transcanal myringoplasty has significant advantage as it provides magnified, close up as well as wide angle view, less morbidity and early postoperative wound healing with better cosmetic results without compromising success rate and postoperative hearing gain. The aims and objectives of the study were to analyze the results of endoscopic transcanal interlay myringoplasty, in terms of graft uptake and hearing improvement in cases of chronic suppurative otitis media with inactive mucosal disease with central perforation.

Methods: This is a prospective study conducted from January 2016 to August 2018 in 30 patients of inactive mucosal chronic otitis media (COM). All patients underwent transcanal endoscopic interlay myringoplasty and patients were called for regular follow up for 12 weeks and results were statistically analysed.  

Results: The graft uptake rate in the present study was found to be 93.33%. Pre operatively mean air bone gap (ABG) was 27.33 dB and post operatively after 12 weeks mean air bone gap improved to 10.5 dB. Mean ABG gain was 16.33%.

Conclusions: Endoscopic transcanal interlay myringoplasty with superiorly based TM flap is an effective technique over conventional microscopic technique in terms of graft uptake, hearing improvement, better postoperative scar and less morbidity in cases of inactive mucosal COM.
Image processing and analysis based on the use of phase information
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Pavelyeva E.
Published: December 2018

The paper provides a review of main approaches to the use of phase information in image analysis, processing and reconstruction. The description of phase algorithms and examples of their use are given. A technique of the use of phase information based on the Hermite projection method is proposed.
Processing of triangulation scanner data for measurements of rail profiles
Authors:   Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics, Vasin N. , Diyazitdinov R. ,   Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics
Published: December 2018

In this article, we describe algorithms for superposition of a profile of the rail under measurement and that of an unused rail. The algorithms calculate parameters of the superposition, which links the two profiles, with one of them being described by a set of points and the other - by line equations. The algorithms are intended for evaluating the rail wear based on the data from triangulation scanners, which are installed on a track measuring car.
Realization of a recursive digital filter based on penalized splines
Authors:   Tomsk Polytechnic University, Kochegurova E. , Wu D. ,   Tomsk Polytechnic University
Published: December 2018

In this paper the possibility of development of the recursive digital filter using a P-spline is considered. The frequency and time response of the spline filter for real-time data are analytically obtained and investigated. The influence of the P-spline parameters on effectiveness of interpretation is explored with input metrical data. The patterns obtained during spline filter frequency analysis are confirmed by an example of Doppler function restoration.
An X-ray diamond focuser based on an array of three-component elements
Authors:   Samara National Research University, Nalimov A. ,   IPSI RAS – Branch of the FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS, Kotlyar V. ,   Samara National Research University,   IPSI RAS – Branch of the FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS, Kononenko T. ,   Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences,   National Research Nuclear University „MEPhI“, Konov V. ,   Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences,   National Research Nuclear University „MEPhI“
Published: December 2018

The use of a compound refractive lens fabricated of a thin diamond plate is considered for focusing hard 9.25 keV X-rays. Each element of the diamond lens consists of a central cavity and two side cavities in the diamond plate. It is shown numerically that an array of 20 such elements is able to produce a focal spot of width FWHM = 57 nm. The lens aperture size is 30 µm and the diamond plate thickness is 2 mkm. The simulation shows that by proportionally increasing the dimensions of the lenses on all three axes, bringing the input pupil size to 1 µm, the X-ray focal spot width can be increased to 1 µm using the same lens array.
Description of images using a configuration equivalence relation
Authors:   Samara National Research University, Myasnikov V. ,   IPSI RAS – Branch of the FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS
Published: December 2018

An approach to constructing a description of data and images based on the search for an optimal configuration (permutation) of their components (pixels, regions, feature vectors, etc.) is proposed. The quality criterion of the configuration, which may be selected in accordance with the application, determines the concept of optimal configuration. With specific configurations, the whole set of analyzed data / images is broken down into equivalent subclasses characterized by identical descriptors. Issues of invariant description, robustness of the proposed presentation, and the relationship of the proposed approach with the existing ones (Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and image representation by sign data) are considered. By way of illustration, an applied problem is solved using the proposed approach.
BAZAROV AND HIS PARENTS: CAUSES OF ALEXITHYMIA OF A HERO (FROM THE NOVEL BY I. S. TURGENEV «FATHERS AND SONS»)
Authors: Karpenko G. Yu. , Karpenko L. B.
Published: December 2018

In the article, devoted to the study of the novel of I.S. Turgenev Fathers and sons, the issue of family circle of the Bazarovs is viewed, the relationship of parents with their son in his infant-childhood is reconstructed, the influence of the Spartan ethics of the father, and of love, lullaby of overfeeding of the mother on the formation of psychomental structure of the personality of the hero is traced. In the light of psychoanalysis and the practical theory of alexithymia, the reasons for Bazarovs restrained attitude to parents are revealed; the son returns to them that they unwittingly, without suspecting it, in love to him and in cares of him in him generated: meager empathy, stereotype of thinkng and language enslavement, actions on archaic algorithm, idiosyncrasy, painful reaction to all poetically sublime. Childhood thus left in the life of the hero almost no creative memory trace. Unlike the heroes of F. M. Dostoevsky at Bazarov was not sacred and precious memories, carried by him in life from childhood and grace echoed in his heart. Between fathers house and Bazarov lies the psychological abyss, dug by the parents. Therefore, it is clear that he does not hurry to return home: he circles near the mothers hearth, but does not go home for a long time, does not come even on his angels day, when his mother and father are especially waiting for him. For Bazarov parental home associated with a sense of boredom. Alexithymic Bazarov, who performs mechanical actions, does not find a place where there was a reunion with the soul, the body begins to take revenge and talk with him about symptoms of the disease. Parental home is for Bazarov phobic place that awakens in the consciousness of the hero images and states of boredom, emptiness, darkness, symbolically fixed in his last perception of the outgoing life death: Now... darkness...
ON THE WRITER’S CROSSROADS: E.N. CHIRIKOV, A.L. TOLSTAYA, A.N. TOLSTOY
Authors: Perepelkin M. A.
Published: December 2018

The article attempts to consider the biographical and creative relations and mutual influence of three masters of the pen E.N. Chirikov, on the one hand, and A.N. Tolstoy and his mother A.L. Tolstaya, on the other hand. Introduced in Samara in the 1890-ies, E. Chirikov and Tolstoy maintained relationships and maintained interest in each others work for many decades, as evidenced by correspondence, memoirs and works of art containing direct and indirect traces their mutual influence on each other. The latter is proved by the example of comparative analysis of the collected book by A.L. Tolstoy Backwater with the early stories of E.N. Chirikov The Invalids and Strangers, as well as the Mermaid Tales by A.N. Tolstoy with the Volga Tales by E.N.Chirikov. There are similarities and differences between the Samara works of A. Tolstoy and the works of E. Chirikov written under the impression of life in Samara; similarities relate to the function of urban landscape in the works of two writers, the character of the image of the urban society, as well as the image of the main characters attempts (heroes) to break the cycle of everyday life and break out of the provincial reality, or to prove its inconsistency. The study of E. Chirikov and A. Tolstoys mutual influence was carried out on the material of the Volga Fairy Tales of the first and Shredded Tales of the second, analysis of which revealed the following: in both cases the fairytale allowed the writers to stop biographical experience, reality to enter with it into new value relations, or, in other words, fabulousness ensured the achievement of that very aesthetic distance, without which the artistic development of reality was impossible, which in the case of Tolstoy was still unfamiliar to him as a young writer, and in the case of Chirikov too famous. The result of this consideration is the reconstruction of historical-literary plot, which was still outside the limits of literary scholarly attention.
CHURCH POLICY OF PRINCE MIKHAIL ALEXANDROVICH OF TVER
Authors: Tarabrin S. Yu.
Published: December 2018

The article considers the Church policy of Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich of Tver. Tver Prince managed to defend the independence of his Principality in the fight against the strengthened Moscow Principality, which claimed the role of the unifier of Russia. The Church had an important place in his affeirs. At the beginning of the XIV century the alliance of Moscow and Russian metropolitans formed. Metropolitan Alexius most actively used the opportunities of the Church to strengthen the positions of Moscow. Being the enemy of the Prince Dmitry Ivanovich of Moscow, Mikhail turned out to be an opponent of the Metropolitan Alexius. Based on the chronicle material and correspondence of the Patriarchate of Constantinople with the warring parties, the conflict between the Metropolitan and the Prince of Tver is traced. The opposite sides appealed to the Patriarch Philotheus to support their position. Initially, the Patriarch of Constantinople expressed support for Alexius, but under the influence of Mikhail Alexandrovich and his ally, the Lithuanian prince Olgerd, he took a neutral conciliatory position. As a result, under the influence of Philotheus, the prince of Tver reconciled with Alexius. Mikhail developed excellent relations with the next Metropolitan Cyprian, who was hiding in Tver from the troops of Tokhtamysh. The position of Bishop of Tver had also great importance. Bishop Basil suffered from the Metropolitan for supporting Mikhail. However, in 1390 there was a conflict between the prince and the new Tver bishop Euthymius. Metropolitan Cyprian reconciled them by ordaining a new bishop Arsenius to Tver. Mikhail carried out active church construction, maintained contacts with Constantinople and Athos. The author attempted to analyze the relations of Mikhail of Tver with the Church and their influence on the political situation in North-Eastern Russia in the second half of the 14th century.
VERBAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT «TERRORISM» IN THE NEWS DISCOURSE OF THE GERMAN MEDIA (ON THE MATERIAL OF INTERNET PORTALS)
Authors: Kukhareva M. Yu.
Published: December 2018

The article deals with the semantic load of the concept of Terrorism, identifies the main schemes that reveal its meaning. Terrorism is understood as illegitimate, targeted violence used to spread fear and terror among civilians in order to achieve political goals by certain forces. Terrorist activities are a kind of dialogue between terrorist groups and the authorities. The communicative component of terrorist activities determines the important role of media in presenting the image of an event.During the analysis of the corpus of factual material in German, the hypothesis of possibility of creating a universal cognitive model of the concept Terrorism, built on the principle of the nominative field, was tested. The obligatory and secondary components of the scenario of the event characteristic for the investigated concept were revealed. The mandatory components include direct participants, namely the opposing subjects (terrorists authorities) and the object (victims) of terrorist activity, their actions, the result and spatial and temporal localization of the event. Secondary elements include indirect participants in the event and their actions, purpose, means, circumstances and assessment of terrorist activities.As a result of the analysis of nominative units of various lexical and semantic groups, verbalizing the mandatory structural components of the concept of Terrorism in the Internet portals of Germany, the following conclusions were made. Lexical and semantic means of expression of the concept Terrorism can be grouped by similar semantic features and arranged hierarchically. Their system is open and dynamic. Lexical and syntactic units of different levels (from words to sentences) serve to create an image of the event in news reports about terrorist attacks.
CODE-SWITCHING UND ANDERE FORMEN MULTILINGUALEN SPRECHENS IN GESPRÄCHEN DER FERNHEIMER MENNONITEN IN PARAGUAY
Authors: Tirza Mühlan-Meyer
Published: December 2018

This paper is about the multilingualism and different types of multilingual speech in conversations of a group of Mennonites who live in the colony Fernheim in Paraguay (South America). These Mennonites are in contact with different languages and its varieties: They speak standard German in public domains, for example at church or at school, Mennonite Low German in private situations, for example with friends or at home, and Spanish with the Paraguayan population. The focus of this study lies on analyzing the distribution of the languages and varieties based on Joshua Fishmans (1967) concept of Diglossia. In a second step, the author examine code-switching, borrowings and transfers as a result of several languages and varieties being in contact. The phenomena are described on the base of a big corpus of spoken language which has been took during a field research stay in Paraguay.
Key words: multilingualism, code-switching, transfer, borrowing, Mennonites, conversational analysis, Diglossia, Mennonite Low German, spoken language
ELECTRIFICATION OF THE RAILWAY TRANSPORT IN THE VOLGA REGION AND ON THE URALS IN 1956–1991
Authors: Konov A. A.
Published: December 2018

The main aim of the article is the investigation of the process of fundamental technical reconstruction of transport on the basis of electrification. In 1956 the Council of the Ministers confirmed the Railway Transport Electrification Master Plan. The railway transport of the Urals and of the Volga Region entered in the new period of progress connected with radical reorganization of the railway transport system. Electrification of the Ural railway transport had been predetermined by the great volumes of transportations, highlands and hard climatic conditions of the Urals. The analysis of great amount of documents proved that the railways of the Urals and of the Volga Region had been electrified as the local cuts of great railways of the USSR Great Siberian railway, Southern Siberian railway and main lines Moscow Sverdlovsk and Moscow Kazan. Electrification made deep changes in the material and technical basis of the railway transport: the heavy solid rails had been laid in the track on the metal ballast, radio communication had been spread on the railroads for the short time, the great impulse had been given to scientific investigations in the sphere of power system of railroads. But the most significant achievement of modernization became the foundation on the transport of the new institutes and technical schools where the large majority of engineers and technicians had been trained for exploitation of the electrified railroads.
The author determined the main aims of electrification in the Volga Region and in the Urals. The electrified railways of the Volga Region increased the carrying capacity of communications of the central regions with the Bashkir Republic and Kazakhstan. The electrified lines of the Urals provided the modernization of the Great Siberian railway and improved the communications between the European regions of the USSR and the Western Siberian region. The author proved that modernization of the Ural and the Volga Region railways on the basis of diesel traction had small economic and technical effects. Electrification became the main and decisive way of modernization of the Ural and Volga Region railway transport.
TRAJECTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF SAMARA STATE UNIVERSITY IN 2009–2015
Authors: Leonov M. M. , Kabytov P. S.
Published: December 2018

The article analyzes the final stage of activity of the staff of the Samara State University (20092015), during which the transition to a multi-level education system began, as well as searching for ways out of the university from a crisis state. The factors that negatively influenced the development of the university were identified. The analysis of activities aimed at expanding the educational space of the university, increasing the areas of training for undergraduate and graduate programs, modernization of scientific and educational environment and infrastructure of Samara State University is presented. The development programs of faculties and the strategic development program of the university for 20152025 were developed. It was adopted by the Academic Council of Samara University in October 2013. The program envisaged the participation of scientific schools of the university in the implementation of a number of economic and socio-cultural projects included in the strategic program of the Samara region.
The main methods of research were comparative historical and statistical methods used in the analysis of the corpus of documentary sources. Methods of retrospective and perspective analysis were also used. Sources of study include materials of the current archive of the Samara State University, minutes of meetings of the Academic Council of the Samara State University, reports on scientific activities, materials of the periodical press, personal archives of the authors.
The authors concluded that despite the efforts being made by the administration, the Academic Council and the scientific and pedagogical team in 20092015 Samara State University did not manage to get out of crisis state and start implementing the strategic program of university development for 20152025. The main problem of the university was the lack of financial and political support from the federal ministry and regional authorities.
TEACHERS’ VERBAL AGGRESSION: ITS CORE, REASONS, TYPES, WAYS TO COUNTERACT
Authors: Sysoeva E. Yu.
Published: December 2018

The increase in acts of verbal aggression in pedagogical environment is one of the main issues of pedagogical communication. Teachers verbal aggression (conscious or nonconscious) leads to communicative instability and becomes a destructive speech model for students to emulate, so that has a negative impact on educational process, teachers psychic health and causes students neurotization. The article analyzes the core of teachers verbal aggression, its reasons and mechanisms; organizes its types and effects in pedagogical communication. Methodology: analysis and synthesis of specific scientific knowledge; generalization and systematization of facts and statements; pedagogical observation on teachers verbal aggression in practice. The study identifies the main types of teachers verbal aggression: imperative request, intention to punish, interdiction, mockery as a way of assessment, ironic comments, clear or hidden thread, censure, hostile comments. The author proves the necessity to implement a practical-oriented system of teachers communicative competence development aimed to harmonize pedagogical communication through certain ways and methods to counteract verbal aggression. The article defines the means to develop teachers communicative potential: to improve the knowledge how to reach communicative balance in pedagogical communication with the suitable partnership strategies; to investigate the understanding of linguistic manipulation and its impact; to update teachers reflective abilities in situations of heated conflict; to develop skills in useful criticism.
LEGAL COMPETENCE OF COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC RELATIONS SPECIALISTS
Authors: Kuznetsova N. O.
Published: December 2018

The problem of forming the students legal competence in different areas of training is due to modern economic conditions, in which industrial relations, relations with consumers, financial relations, etc., are the main areas of activity of advertising and public relations specialists, which requires a revision of methodological and didactic principles of professional training with legal competence. A sample of the research is presented by advertising and public relations specialists, who regulate the procedure for preparing materials for publication in the mass media. Advertising and public relations specialists need to know relevant legal documents regulating the basics of advertising activity. These specialists are legally responsible for the violation of the rights of others, the use of false information in advertising, the disclosure of confidential information and trade secrets. However, it is this specialty that is associated with such professions in which information and intellectual property are often used in the framework of competitive relations. This means that advertising and public relations specialists may abuse their position, using the information they have received improperly, disclosing trade secrets, or holding back some data, hiding the negative aspects of products, services, entrepreneurs. The article presents the structure of legal competence based on the identification of the scope and types of activities; found indicators for each component. The rationale is the identified specifics and features of activities of these specialists. On the basis of theoretical development of the problem and norms of the requirements for the types of activity of an advertising and public relations specialist, the need to develop a system for forming their legal competence, the level of which affects the reputation of these specialists, is proved. At the same time, legal regulation of professional activity of advertising and public relations specialists has a decisive role for communication interaction and information security in general and for each individual representative.
FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL READINESS OF TEACHERS TO THE WORK WITH JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Authors: Shestakova L. A.
Published: December 2018

The problem of forming a teachers professional readiness to work with juvenile offenders is discussed in the article. The author made an attempt to confirm the relevance of the research topic with empirical data, to determine the ways of forming the teachers professional readiness to work with difficult teenagers. Methods of theoretical analysis and synthesis (comparative-comparative, systemic, logical, modeling), a method of sociological research-questioning were used in the article. We have revealed the peculiarities of the professional training of teachers in the university; substantiated the need for the future teachers to develop professional readiness to work with juvenile offenders; determined the structure of professional readiness of the future teacher to work with juvenile offenders; identified means of training future educators to work with juvenile offenders; have developed methodical recommendations on the order of participation of the teacher in the criminal trial during the conducted research. The results of scientific research given the new idea of professional training of the teachers. The results of scientific research contribute to improving the training of teachers to work with juvenile offenders.
LEGAL AND LANGUAGE ASPECTS OF STUDENTS’ TRAINING BY MEANS OF DEVELOPING EDUCATION
Authors: Rudneva T. I. , Khramtcova A. B.
Published: December 2018

Urgency of the developing education issue is caused by: changes in the social environment which have affected the social and psychological sphere of the person and negative factors in the changing world have caused a new paradigm of personality formation as the creator and the carrier of social; priority of personally focused developing education pursuing the aim from the subject of social life to the subject of own development; existence of a contradiction between a tradition of obtaining information through visual channels, through visual communication and need of personality self-realization in free verbal communication that is caused by abilities to communication and assumes creation of optimum conditions of future expert new level consciousness formation. In the article attention is focused on the process of developing foreign-language education which is based on regularity of level-by-level personal development by means of a foreign language that promotes expansion of communicative range. Skilled and experimental work consisted in the development of the language personality model able to integration into world professional environment, in selection and approbation of future lawyers vocational training means. For teaching practice was developed an algorithm of subject matters integration with a foreign language that allows to create conditions for formation of university graduate readiness for the solution of professional tasks in multicultural environment. It is proved that specially organized training sets personal sense of activity that is confirmed by the created professional consciousness of future lawyers.
SYSTEM OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED PATRIOTISM OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS OF THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY
Authors: Ustinova N. P.
Published: December 2018

The main objective of the development of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of the country is to ensure its effective functioning as a high-tech sector of the economy, able to meet the needs of the Armed Forces in modern weapons, which leads to a social order for the training of specialists in the defense industry, possessing not only professionalism, but also high civil-Patriotic qualities.
The article describes the system of formation of future specialists of the defense complex of professionally oriented patriotism, taking into account the specifics and features of professional activity and containing interrelated elements: target, methodological, meaningful, procedural and effective, developed on the basis of system-structural, complex-adaptive, personality-oriented and competence-based approaches. The purpose of the system is to form a professionally oriented patriotism of future specialists of the defense industry, the implementation of which is possible in solving the problem of development of indicators in its structure by means of pedagogical events. The methodological element is based on the principle of identification of structures of socio-cultural function of activities to strengthen the countrys defense and value function of Patriotic culture. The content element of the system is designed on the principles of continuity and consistency, which determines the appropriateness of the allocation of successive stages in the process of formation of professionally oriented patriotism of students of defense specialties. The procedural element of the system of formation of professionally oriented patriotism is based on the principles of complex adaptive and personality-oriented approaches. The effective element of the system is based on the competence approach and focuses on the results of activities in accordance with the goals and objectives.
The approved system of formation of professionally oriented patriotism of future specialists of the defense industry has given a positive dynamics of all indicators in the structure of components, which indicates the effectiveness of its application.
MULTIMEDIA AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Sukhinin V. P. , Sukhinina V. V. , Spassky S. M.
Published: December 2018

The introduction of multimedia learning tools has become possible because of the influence of environmental factors: sociological, technological, economic, and political. The recent changes in the external environment have contributed to the widespread introduction of multimedia in the organization of education: in the social environment there is an interest in communicating through a computer in social networks, the creation of powerful computers, interactive tools provide the teacher with a new tool, changes in the legal framework in the field of education also accelerates the introduction of multimedia, including the use of electronic library system.
However, along with the positive factors of the use of multimedia, there are additional problems. This is because additional training is required of teachers and students of very significant acquisition costs of technical training, content and maintenance of software and technical training. The article proposes a method of cost-effective increase of multimedia use by creating a special educational environment in the study group.
E. Matthews theory of human relations states that people work more productively if they feel attention from the management. Curators of training groups should contribute to the creation of an educational environment in the group. To do this, it is necessary to study the features of each student, create conditions for the implementation of features, identify informal leaders, create small groups that will organize mutual assistance in the use of multimedia tools by leveling the level of training in computer science, and reduce the fear of large amounts of information.
INQUIRY AS AN UNNECESSARY LINK IN THE DOMESTIC CRIMINAL PROCESS
Authors: Savelev K. A. , Treshcheva Е. A.
Published: December 2018

The article deals with the problems of current situation of preliminary investigation. The redundancy of inquiry as an unnecessary link of domestic criminal process, copying the preliminary investigation, is substantiated. It is indicated that there is no advantage in the procedural form of inquiry justifying its continued existence. The attempt to introduce a simpliﬁed inquiry into the criminal process as a method of procedural economy was also not justiﬁed due to the problems of proof. The proposal to transfer the domestic model of preliminary investigation to the unspoken police inquiry with the full refusal of the preliminary investigation, as the defense and the injured were removed from the evidence in pre-trial proceedings was critisized. It was proposed to base a preliminary investigation on the combination of a non-procedural police inquiry with a preliminary investigation. At the same time, in cases of obvious crimes, with the consent of the participants in the case, it is possible to resolve the issue of transferring the case to court bypassing the investigation. In complex cases, upon the will of the victim or the defense, a preliminary investigation should be made based on the independence of an investigator.
ON THE ISSUE ABOUT THE TYPES OF CIVIL LIABILITY OF SELF-REGULATING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
Authors: Seraya N. A.
Published: December 2018

In the article the problem of civil responsibility of self-regulatory organizations in the construction sphere in the context of relevant improvement of standard and legal regulation and innovations of the Russian legislation is analyzed. With the use of descriptive, comparative and legal, technical legal methods of a research, content analysis of juridical documentation the author carries out the analysis of existing norms concerning joint and subsidiary liability of self-regulatory construction organizations according to obligations of its members. The most problematic issues of legal regulation of activity of self-regulatory organizations in the fi eld of construction on ensuring responsibility of the members to the third parties are revealed. The analysis of legal practice in the fi eld of formation of indemnifi cation funds and ensuring civil (property) responsibility of self-regulatory organizations in the sphere of construction according to obligations of its members is also carried out. On the basis of systematization and the final analysis of a problem of the research the author makes a conclusion about need of further continuous monitoring and the detailed analysis of realization of standards of civil responsibility of self-regulatory organizations in the sphere of construction in practice as basis for assessment of effi ciency of the carried-out legislative innovations and improvement of the process of standard and legal regulation in the explored sphere.
LEGAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE USA (HISTORICAL ASPECT)
Authors: Polyanskii D. V.
Published: December 2018

The article offers the brief historical excursion of legal institutionalization of civil society in USA. The article concludes that existent organizational forms and practices of activity of noncommercial sector are the result of combination between embedded traditions of philanthropy and civil engagement in American society and the state policy to support some directions of activity of non-proﬁt sector. The American government made use of different tools to turn voluntary activity and philanthropy funds to major public spheres in various ages. Now the American society is in the process of permanent experimentation with the legal form and status of non-proﬁt sectors organizations which would able to absorb advantages of all three major sectors: the state, the business and the society.
Patients Preference of Diquafosol or Rebamipide Eye Drops for the Treatment of Mild Dry Eye: A Pilot Study
Authors: Yamamoto Maria , Horie Yukihiro , Tagawa Yoshiaki , Ishida Susumu , Kitaichi Nobuyoshi
Published: December 2018

Purpose: To investigate the preference rates of recently developed eye drops, 3% diquafosol ophthalmic solution and 2% rebamipide ophthalmic suspension, as a randomized clinical trial in patients with dry eye.Methods: Eighteen patients (mean age: 59.7 years old, females: 77.8%) with reduced tear film break-up time (TBUT ? 5 sec) were enrolled in this study. They were treated with either diquafosol or rebamipide for 1 week, and treated for an additional week after switching to the other eye drop. This treatment was repeated one more time. Then, the patients were treated with one of either eye drop for an additional 4 weeks. Patients’ preferences for eye drops were investigated using a questionnaire at the end of 4-week treatment. To confirm the effectiveness of the treatments, objective and subjective assessments including superficial punctate keratopathy (SPK) score, TBUT measurement, and Dry Eye-Related Quality-of-Life Score (DEQS) were performed at baseline, and 4 and 8 weeks.Results: SPK score was improved after treatment (P < 0.05). Patients tended to prefer diquafosol (64.7%) torebamipide (35.4%), however there was no significant difference in two eye drops (P = 0.23). Bitterness was reported significantly more frequently after rebamipide administration (66.7%) than diquafosol administration (5.6%, P < 0.001). The diquafosol bottle was considered “ease to use” by a larger percentage of users (94.1%) as compared to the rebamipide bottle (58.8%, P < 0.05). The effectiveness of the signs and symptoms were similar for both groups at 8 weeks.Conclusions: Diquafosol and Rebamipide were both effective in treating dry eye and 65% of the patients choose Diquafosol. Bitterness after administration and ease to use of the bottles seemed to affect the patients’ preferences for these two eye drops.
Ocular Phenotype of Mice with Impaired Fibrillin-1 Function on Hypercholesterolemic Apolipoprotein E-Deficient Background
Authors: Kokki Emmi , Karttunen Tommi , Kettunen Sanna , Kinnunen Kati , De Meyer Guido R.Y. , Yla-Herttuala Seppo
Published: December 2018

Aim: Transgenic mice with an elastic fiber mutation (C1039G+/-) in the fibrillin-1 gene and apolipoprotein E deficiency express vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque formation in the aorta and coronary and carotid arteries. The fibrillin-1 gene mutation alone leads to impaired fibrillin-1 function common to Marfan syndrome. The aim was to study for the first time the potential effects of atherosclerosis and vulnerable plaques in mouse eye and spontaneous retinal vessel occlusions in these mice.Methods: Apolipoprotein E-deficient and fibrillin-1 mutated mice (ApoE-/-/Fbn1C1039G+/-) were used for the study. ApoE-/- littermates served as controls. Optical coherence tomography and fluorescein angiography were used to study the retina and retinal vessels before and after the 12-week high-fat diet. Series of staining were performed to study morphology, apoptosis, glial fibrillary acidic protein activation, collagen formation, inflammatory cell infiltration and drusen formation.Results: No pathological changes were found in hypercholesterolemic ApoE-/-/Fbn1C1039G+/- mice in imaging studies nor in the histological stainings. There was neither abnormality in the retinal morphology nor any detectable biomarkers.Conclusion: ApoE-/-/Fbn1C1039G+/- mice did not present the ocular signs of Marfan syndrome.12-week high-fat diet is not sufficient to induce retinal vessel occlusion on 20 to 23 weeks old mice. This indicates that the mechanistic background of retinal vessel occlusion is more complex.
Syringe Mouth-Guard for Oesophagogastroscopy (OGD) with Restricted Oral Access
Authors: Banerjee Anjan K , Goggin Patrick S
Published: December 2018

Endoscopy mouth-guards are available in a range of sizes to protect the patient’s mouth and teeth, as well as the endoscope, in Oesophagogastroscopy (OGD). Although they are available in a range of sizes which cover the vast majority of procedures, they are too large in a small number of patients with restricted oral access. This short technical note describes the use of a cut flange end of a 10 ml syringe which can be adapted as a safe mouth guard for adult oesophogastroscopy.
Investigate the Fluctuation Size in Thrust Force and Chip Morphology in Drilling
Authors: Demir Zülküf
Published: December 2018

Drilling is a widely used production method, having a broad range of applications
taking part in machining operations. The length of the cutting edge of the
drill causes variations in cutting speed, resulting in undesired outputs. In
order to decrease this adverse impact in drilling, selecting higher point
angles is an obligation, associated with three different kinds of feed rates
and spindle speeds. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of feed
rate, spindle speed, and point angle on the fluctuation size in thrust force
besides the effect of the fluctuation size in thrust force on the surface
roughness, tool wear and chip morphology. In conclusion, while higher point
angles provided optimum outputs such as lower fluctuation size in thrust force,
less tool wear, better surface quality and continuous chip form, the effect of
feed rate and spindle speed on these outputs varied depending on each other.
With the stability in fluctuation size in thrust force, less tool wear took
place, and better surface quality and continuous chip form were achieved. However,
due to the effect of vibrations, higher fluctuation size in thrust force caused
undesired outputs, such as poor surface quality, more tool wear, removal chip
in short and brittle form during the drilling operations.
Exogenous Polyamine Treatment Prevents UV-A Induced Cellular Damage and Photoinhibition of Photosystem II in Lichen Physcia semipinnata (J. F. Gmel.) Moberg
Authors: ÜNAL Dilek , TÜNEY KIZILKAYA İnci
Published: December 2018

In this study the protection ability of polyamines on
Photosystem II (PSII), the proline content of the cells and necrosis formation
induced by Ultraviolet-A irradiation were studied. Although 24 h Ultraviolet-A
exposure decreased the photosynthetic quantum yield (Fv/Fm) ratio in Physcia semipinnata (J. F. Gmel.) Moberg,
thalli that treated with 1 mM polyamine, especially spermidine and spermine,
were slightly influenced by the UV-A exposure. It was also found that spd and
spm treated samples had lower proline content than putrescine (put)-treated samples.
Moreover, It was found that the samples that were treated with spd and spm had
lower percentage of DNA damage than put-treated samples and non-treated groups.
In this study, Ultraviolet-A induced DNA damage detected by acridine
orange/ethidium bromide staining assay. The DNA damage in thalli of P. semipinnata
was detected in situ in phycobiont layer after 24 h of Ultraviolet-A exposure,
in contrast, polyamine-treated samples had a lower rate of necrotic cells.
Seiberg-Witten-Like Equations on 8-Manifolds without Self-Duality
Authors: EKER Serhan
Published: December 2018

In this paper, SeibergWittenlike equations without selfduality are defined on dimensional manifolds. Then, nontrivial and flat solutions are given to them on . Finally, on realdimensional Kähler manifolds a global solution to these equation is
obtained for a given negative and constant scalar curvature.
Regression Analysis of Soil Compaction Parameters Using Support Vector Method
Authors: GÜNAYDIN Osman , ÖZBEYAZ Abdurrahman , SÖYLEMEZ Mehmet
Published: December 2018

Some challenging studies are experimentally applied for characterizing parameters in Proctor compaction tests. Compression of a fill is mechanically done in Compaction process. Compaction is a physical process which gets the soil into a dense state. Improving the shear strength and decreasing the compressibility and permeability of the soil can be done with this physical process. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a popular method due to its performance today. This method is commonly employed in the regression analysis as well as being used in the classification process. In this study, SVM was employed to predict of compaction parameters (maximum dry unit weight and optimum moisture content) without making any experiments in a soil laboratory. In the study, more than a hundred compaction data collected from the small dams in central Anatolia region was employed. In the study, R errors are satisfied (0.92 and 0.89) for SVM models. Consequently, the proposed regression analysis with SVM is useful for model design of the projects in where there are limitations as financial and temporal.
Pragmatic Features of Tag Questions in Turkish
Authors: Yildizli Arif , Doyuran Zeynep
Published: December 2018

Tag
Questions are considerably multifunctional in terms of their pragmatic
meanings. This study, adopting a descriptive framework, aims to identify and
categorize the pragmatic functions of tag questions in Turkish, based on
naturally occuring data. It is a corpus based study and draws upon a
comprehensive data, driven from spontaneous speech. METU spoken corpus and 20
hours of natural conversation are used as data. Kappa is used for data analysis
in order to find out inter-rater agreement for the taxonomy of Turkish tag
questions. The resulting typology for Turkish tag questions is mainly similar
to those suggested by Holmes’ (1995) and Tottie and Hoffmann’s (2006) typology.
However, there are also different pragmatic functions of Turkish tag questions other
than those proposed in the literature. Whereas
mocking and justification tags are observed in Turkish, these functions have
not been proposed in languages such as English and Italian.
Sesli Betimleme Araştırmalarında Güncel Yönelimler
Authors: GÜVEN Mine
Published: December 2018

Bu tanıtım yazısının amacı, dünyada sesli betimleme konusunda yürütülen araştırmalardaki güncel yönelimlerden yola çıkarak Türkiye’de sesli betimleme konusunda dilbilim bağlamında gerçekleştirilebilecek bilimsel araştırma ve etkinlikler için genel bir çerçeve çizmektir. Uluslararası alanyazınındaki araştırmalar, sesli betimlemenin üretim, iletim ve tüketim aşamalarına yoğunlaşmaktadır. Üretim aşamasıyla ilgili görsel-işitsel ürün/ortam, sesli betimleme türevleri, metnin nitelikleri ve dili, betimlemeci yetkinlikleri ve eğitimi, metin üretim zamanı, metin üretim yöntemi ve metnin seslendirilmesi konularına değinilmiştir. İletim aşamasıyla ilgili, analog ve sayısal televizyon bağlamında iletim teknolojileriyle çeşitli ortamlardaki alıcı aygıtı olanakları tartışılmıştır. Tüketim aşamasıyla ilgili olaraksa metnin kullanıcı tarafından alımlanması, deneysel çalışmalar bağlamında algısal ve bilişsel yönleriyle ele alınmıştır. Sesli betimleme araştırmalarındaki bu yönelimlerin dikkate alınması, Türkiye’deki dilbilimsel sesli betimleme çalışmaları açısından yol gösterici olabileceği gibi Türkçeye özgü en iyi uygulamaların oluşmasına da katkıda bulunabilir.
Book Review - Contemporary Morphological Theories: A User's Guide. Thomas W. Stewart, 2015. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 192 pages. ISBN 978 07 486 9268 2
Authors: VURGUN Ugurcan
Published: December 2018

Review of Contemporary Morphological Theories: A User's Guide. Thomas W. Stewart, 2015.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 192 pages. ISBN 978 07 486 9268 2
Removal of Dye and COD from Textile Wastewater Using AOP (UV/O3, UV/H2O2, O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2/O3)
Authors: Pourgholi Mehrangiz , Masoomi Jahandizi Reza , Miranzadeh Mohammadbagher , Hassan Beigi Ommolbanin , Dehghan Samaneh
Published: December 2018

Introduction: Textile industry effluent is a complex sewage with chemical and color materials that is discharged into the environment and can cause serious problems. In this way using advanced oxidation methods and finding the best methods for removing color materials is necessary. An experimental method was done on Kashan textile industry effluent in laboratory scale and batch system.
Material and Methods: Initially, optimal condition was obtained for O3 and H2O2 and followed by advanced oxidation methods (UV/O3, UV/H2O2, O3/H2O2 and UV/H2O2/O3) in different reaction times and pH on dye removal and COD (chemical oxygen demand) were determined. The results were compared with complex repetition method.
Results: The results of this research showed that dye removal impact and COD based on the type of process and reaction time in UV/H2O2/O3 by 30 minute time duration, was the most effective method. UV/H2O2 in 10 minute time duration was the least effective method. COD and color removal, based on the process in UV/H2O2/O3 and pH = 6 was the most effective. The effect of UV/H2O2 and pH = 4 was the least efficient method on dye material removing. Results showed that the treatment time was effective on color removing (P < 0/001) statistically.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that UV/H2O2/O3 was the most efficient on color removing process, compared to the others, due to co-incidence presence of strongly numerous oxidants and their aggravating effect through producing active hydroxyl radicals (OH˚).