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The corpus-driven revolution in Polish Sign Language: the interview with Dr. Paweł Rutkowski
Authors: Kosem Iztok , Nyst Victoria
Published: March 2018

Dr. Paweł Rutkowski is head of the Section for Sign Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. He is a general linguist and a specialist in the field of syntax of natural languages, carrying out research on Polish Sign Language (polski język migowy — PJM). He has been awarded a number of prizes, grants and scholarships by such institutions as the Foundation for Polish Science, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre, Poland, Polish–U.S. Fulbright Commission, Kosciuszko Foundation and DAAD.Dr. Rutkowski leads the team developing the Corpus of Polish Sign Language and the Corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language, the first dictionary of this language prepared in compliance with modern lexicographical standards. The dictionary is an open-access publication, available freely at the following address: www.slownikpjm.uw.edu.pl/en/.This interview took place at eLex 2017, a biennial conference on electronic lexicography, where Dr. Rutkowski was awarded the Adam Kilgarriff Prize and gave a keynote address entitled Sign language as a challenge to electronic lexicography: The Corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language and beyond. The interview was conducted by Dr. Victoria Nyst from Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, and Dr. Iztok Kosem from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.
Control Basado en Pasividad para una Clase de Sistemas no Lineales y su Aplicación a la Regulación de Nivel de un Estanque Cónico
Authors: Travieso-Torres Juan Carlos , Duarte-Mermoud Manuel A. , Gutiérrez-Osorio Antonio , Beytía Orlando
Published: March 2018

En este artículo científico se proponen dos estrategias de control basado en pasividad, una adaptable y la otra no adaptable para cierta clase de sistemas no lineales. A diferencia de la estrategia de control no adaptable, la adaptable no hace uso del conocimiento de los valores de los parámetros de la planta. Ambas estrategias son luego diseñadas y aplicadas para la regulación de nivel de un estanque cónico discutiéndose los resultados experimentalmente obtenidos luego de realizar un estudio comparativo experimental para verificar el comportamiento del sistema bajo control y evidenciar las ventajas y desventajas de los controladores. Los resultados muestran que el diseño del APBC es más simple que el diseño de los controladores PBC al no requerir el conocimiento de los parámetros de la planta controlada, también es más robusto frente a variaciones de un parámetro de la planta.
Outcomes of in-hospital treatment of cardiac patients who survived cardiac arrest and experienced coronary angiography
Authors: Barauskas Mindaugas , Unikas Ramūnas , Žiubrytė Greta
Published: March 2018

Introduction: As coronary artery disease is the most frequent cause of cardiac arrest, early invasive strategies may be beneficial for such patients. This study analyses the impact of in-hospital treatment on short-term outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors.

Material and methods: Patients admitted to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of our hospital within 2-year period were prospectively included in the study.

Results: One-hundred-thirty-one patients were included in the study, which showed that in-hospital mortality increases uniformly with the severity of the coronary artery lesion (p = 0.044), but an effect of revascularization on number of deaths was not observed (p = 0.64). The presence of coma (p = 0.005) and the combination of male sex and age above 60-year as 2.2-fold (p = 0.048) increasing in-hospital mortality were found. The highest mortality rate occurred during the first 3 days and the death rate of the patients who survived this period is low. We found reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (OR = 6.54; 95% CI: 1.98–21.63; p = 0.002), non-ventricular fibrillation initial rhythm (OR = 2.94; 95% CI: 1.25–6.90; p = 0.014), unconscious at admission (OR = 6.46; 95% CI: 1.96–21.24; p = 0.002) and post-resuscitation coma (OR = 6.00; 95% CI: 2.63–13.66; p < 0.001) or encephalopathy (OR = 2.71; 95% CI: 1.9–6.72; p = 0.031) to be significant prognostic factors for higher in-hospital mortality rate.

Conclusions: We recommend immediate coronary interventions for all survivors of OHCA regardless of their state of consciousness and absence of ischaemic changes on ECG. Early intensive treatment for OHCA patients is indispensable, as the highest mortality rate is within the first 3 days after an event.
Many face(t)s of young people’s risk-taking: Individual and situational determinants
Authors: Czernecka Karolina , Fryt Joanna , Szczygieł Monika , Torre Amelia La , Smolen Tomasz
Published: March 2018

Background

Adolescence and young adulthood are frequently characterised by a strong propensity to take risks. Yet, empirical data shows that personality traits, type and features of risk measures, or presence of additional incentives can significantly influence one’s risk-taking tendency. Our aim was to investigate young people’s risk-taking and point out when and how individual and situational factors may increase or decrease their risk-taking propensity.

Participants and procedure

Participants were adolescents and emerging adults (N = 173, age range: 13-30). Each completed two behavioural risk measures (“hot” and “cold” decision tasks) in two conditions, with or without financial incentives. Questionnaires assessing self-declared risk-taking, sensation seeking, and impulsivity were also used. Statistical analyses were conducted with gender and age as additional factors.

Results

In “hot” risk tasks all participants risked the same, while the tendency to take risks in “cold” tasks was higher for older participants, especially in the presence of incentives. Males risked more than females, apart from “hot” incentivised tasks where no gender differences were found. Sensation seeking and impulsivity were significant predictors of risk-taking in “hot” incentivised tasks, while performance in “cold” non-incentivised tasks depended on sensation seeking only.

Conclusions

Our results show that risk-taking is not a unitary phenomenon, and young people are not universal risk-takers. Certain personality traits seem to predispose this group to taking risks, but only in some circumstances (e.g. “hot” decisions). Factors such as task context or additional incentives can not only increase but also decrease risk-taking in young people, resulting in more caution on their behalf.
The impact of acute pain self-efficacy on pain intensity and the accurate recall of pain
Authors: Ruben Mollie A. , Jodoin Adriana N. , Hall Judith A. , Blanch-Hartigan Danielle
Published: March 2018

Background

Pain self-efficacy is one’s belief in the ability to control and persist through pain. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between pain self-efficacy, immediate and delayed pain ratings, and accurate pain recall two weeks after an acute pain procedure.

Participants and procedure

Two hundred three participants completed a tourniquet pain procedure. Pain self-efficacy was measured. An immediate pain rating was collected immediately following the procedure. A delayed pain rating was assessed in a two-week follow-up survey. Accurate pain recall was assessed by examining the difference between participants’ immediate pain rating and their delayed pain rating.

Results

Higher levels of pain self-efficacy were related to lower delayed pain rating two weeks later but not related to immediate pain ratings. Participants with higher pain self-efficacy were significantly more likely to underestimate their pain two weeks later than participants with lower pain self-efficacy, who tended to overestimate their previous pain.

Conclusions

This research highlights the important role of pain self-efficacy on the recall of pain. Those with higher pain self-efficacy were more likely to underestimate their pain two weeks later, while those with lower pain self-efficacy tended to overestimate their previous pain. Healthcare providers and caregivers should consider patients’ pain self-efficacy in interpreting reports of pain, especially when these reports recall past pain.
Performative research: A Baradian framework
Authors: Wagensveld Koos , Jolink Jasper
Published: March 2018

This paper stresses the importance of materiality in accounting and organization studies. Accounting and organization studies have overlooked the ways in which accounting and organizing is bound up with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact. To incorporate the materiality concept in accounting and organization research, an agential realism research approach is proposed in this paper (Barad 2007). The paper concludes that agential realism can at least make three contributions to the literature. First, Baradian studies can contribute by illustrating the importance of material relations in the constitution of accounting and management practices. By interrogating the rich variety of materialities involved in the practices of measurement or making of innovation, Baradian studies expand the methodological choices available to practice-theoretic accounts of accounting or innovation work. It is the entanglement of many types of matter that perform and affect (sometimes in a disruptive way) the making of accounting measures or innovation. Second, Baradian studies can contribute by reframing the causal relations from which accounting measurements and innovations are made. Baradian studies can illustrate the intra-dependencies that exist between the things represented and constituted, and the representations made. Finally, Baradian studies can contribute by illustrating the ways in which properties of abstract concepts and ideals (e.g. liabilities, innovation) are the consequence, not of human-based practice, but of socio-material re-configurings.
Toward critical accounting research: the role of performativity
Authors: De Loo Ivo , Vosselman Ed
Published: March 2018

What does it mean to say that accounting research is critical? And why could critical accounting research be of relevance to practitioners? Is such research not mainly about (unnecessarily) criticizing accounting practice, without offering viable solutions of its own?
Comparison and evaluation of anthropogenic emissions of SO2 and NOx over China
Authors: Li Meng , Klimont Zbigniew , Zhang Qiang , Martin Randall V. , Zheng Bo , Heyes Chris , Cofala Janusz , Zhang Yuxuan , He Kebin
Published: March 2018

Abstract. Bottom-up emission inventories provide primary understanding of sources of air pollution and essential input of chemical transport models. Focusing on SO2 and NOx, we conducted a comprehensive evaluation of two widely used anthropogenic emission inventories over China, ECLIPSE and MIX, to explore the potential sources of uncertainties and find clues to improve emission inventories. We first compared the activity rates and emission factors used in two inventories and investigated the reasons of differences and the impacts on emission estimates. We found that SO2 emission estimates are consistent between two inventories (with 1 % differences), while NOx emissions in ECLIPSE's estimates are 16 % lower than those of MIX. The FGD (flue-gas desulfurization) device penetration rate and removal efficiency, LNB (low-NOx burner) application rate and abatement efficiency in power plants, emission factors of industrial boilers and various vehicle types, and vehicle fleet need further verification. Diesel consumptions are quite uncertain in current inventories. Discrepancies at the sectorial and provincial levels are much higher than those of the national total. We then examined the impacts of different inventories on model performance by using the nested GEOS-Chem model. We finally derived top-down emissions by using the retrieved columns from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) compared with the bottom-up estimates. High correlations were observed for SO2 between model results and OMI columns. For NOx, negative biases in bottom-up gridded emission inventories (−21 % for MIX, −39 % for ECLIPSE) were found compared to the satellite-based emissions. The emission trends from 2005 to 2010 estimated by two inventories were both consistent with satellite observations. The inventories appear to be fit for evaluation of the policies at an aggregated or national level; more work is needed in specific areas in order to improve the accuracy and robustness of outcomes at finer spatial and also technological levels. To our knowledge, this is the first work in which source comparisons detailed to technology-level parameters are made along with the remote sensing retrievals and chemical transport modeling. Through the comparison between bottom-up emission inventories and evaluation with top-down information, we identified potential directions for further improvement in inventory development.
Effect of temperature rise and ocean acidification on growth of calcifying tubeworm shells (Spirorbis spirorbis): an in situ benthocosm approach
Authors: Ni Sha , Taubner Isabelle , Böhm Florian , Winde Vera , Böttcher Michael E.
Published: March 2018

Abstract. The calcareous tubeworm Spirorbis spirorbis is a widespread serpulid species in the Baltic Sea, where it commonly grows as an epibiont on brown macroalgae (genus Fucus). It lives within a Mg-calcite shell and could be affected by ocean acidification and temperature rise induced by the predicted future atmospheric CO2 increase. However, Spirorbis tubes grow in a chemically modified boundary layer around the algae, which may mitigate acidification. In order to investigate how increasing temperature and rising pCO2 may influence S. spirorbis shell growth we carried out four seasonal experiments in the Kiel Outdoor Benthocosms at elevated pCO2 and temperature conditions. Compared to laboratory batch culture experiments the benthocosm approach provides a better representation of natural conditions for physical and biological ecosystem parameters, including seasonal variations. We find that growth rates of S. spirorbis are significantly controlled by ontogenetic and seasonal effects. The length of the newly grown tube is inversely related to the initial diameter of the shell. Our study showed no significant difference of the growth rates between ambient atmospheric and elevated (1100 ppm) pCO2 conditions. No influence of daily average CaCO3 saturation state on the growth rates of S. spirorbis was observed. We found, however, net growth of the shells even in temporarily undersaturated bulk solutions, under conditions that concurrently favoured selective shell surface dissolution. The results suggest an overall resistance of S. spirorbis growth to acidification levels predicted for the year 2100 in the Baltic Sea. In contrast, S. spirorbis did not survive at mean seasonal temperatures exceeding 24 °C during the summer experiments. In the autumn experiments at ambient pCO2, the growth rates of juvenile S. spirorbis were higher under elevated temperature conditions. The results reveal that S. spirorbis may prefer moderately warmer conditions during their early life stages but will suffer from an excessive temperature increase and from increasing shell corrosion as a consequence of progressing ocean acidification.
δ11B as monitor of calcification site pH in divergent marine calcifying organisms
Authors: Sutton Jill N. , Liu Yi-Wei , Ries Justin B. , Guillermic Maxence , Ponzevera Emmanuel , Eagle Robert A.
Published: March 2018

Abstract. The boron isotope composition (δ11B) of marine biogenic carbonates has been predominantly studied as a proxy for monitoring past changes in seawater pH and carbonate chemistry. However, a number of assumptions regarding chemical kinetics and thermodynamic isotope exchange reactions are required to derive seawater pH from δ11B biogenic carbonates. It is also probable that δ11B of biogenic carbonate reflects seawater pH at the organism's site of calcification, which may or may not reflect seawater pH. Here, we report the development of methodology for measuring the δ11B of biogenic carbonate samples at the multi-collector inductively coupled mass spectrometry facility at Ifremer (Plouzané, France) and the evaluation of δ11BCaCO3 in a diverse range of marine calcifying organisms reared for 60 days in isothermal seawater (25 °C) equilibrated with an atmospheric pCO2 of ca. 409 µatm. Average δ11BCaCO3 composition for all species evaluated in this study range from 16.27 to 35.09 ‰, including, in decreasing order, coralline red alga Neogoniolithion sp. (35.89 ± 3.71 ‰), temperate coral Oculina arbuscula (24.12 ± 0.19 ‰), serpulid worm Hydroides crucigera (19.26 ± 0.16 ‰), tropical urchin Eucidaris tribuloides (18.71 ± 0.26 ‰), temperate urchin Arbacia punctulata (16.28 ± 0.86 ‰), and temperate oyster Crassostrea virginica (16.03 ‰). These results are discussed in the context of each species' proposed mechanism of biocalcification and other factors that could influence skeletal and shell δ11B, including calcifying site pH, the proposed direct incorporation of isotopically enriched boric acid (instead of borate) into biogenic calcium carbonate, and differences in shell/skeleton polymorph mineralogy. We conclude that the large inter-species variability in δ11BCaCO3 (ca. 20 ‰) and significant discrepancies between measured δ11BCaCO3 and δ11BCaCO3 expected from established relationships between abiogenic δ11BCaCO3 and seawater pH arise primarily from fundamental differences in calcifying site pH amongst the different species. These results highlight the potential utility of δ11B as a proxy of calcifying site pH for a wide range of calcifying taxa and underscore the importance of using species-specific seawater-pH–δ11BCaCO3 calibrations when reconstructing seawater pH from δ11B of biogenic carbonates.
Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for generalized convex functions on fractal sets style
Authors: Tomar Muharrem , Agarwal Praveen , Choi Junesang
Published: March 2018

We aim to  establish certain generalized Hermite-Hadamard's inequalities for generalized convex functions via local fractional integral. As special cases of some of the results presented here, certain interesting inequalities involving generalized arithmetic and logarithmic means are obtained.
Generalized contraction mappings of rational type and applications to nonlinear integral equations
Authors: Morales José R. , Rojas Edixon M. , Bisht Ravindra K.
Published: March 2018

The aim of the present paper is to introduce a new class of pair of contraction mappings, called ψ − (α, β, m)-contraction pairs, and obtain common fixed point theorems for a pair of mappings in this class, satisfying a minimal commutativity condition. Afterwards, we will use mappings in this class to analyze the existence of solutions for a class of nonlinear integral equations on the space of con- tinuous functions and in some of its subspaces. Concrete examples are also provided in order to illustrate the applicability of the results.
Lacunary statistical and lacunary strongly convergence of generalized difference sequences in intuitionistic fuzzy normed linear spaces
Authors: Sen Mausumi , Et Mikail
Published: March 2018

In this article we introduce the concepts of lacunary statistical convergence and lacunary strongly convergence of generalized difference sequences in intuitionistic fuzzy normed linear spaces and give their characterization. We obtain some inclusion relation relating to these concepts. Further some necessary and sufficient conditions for equality of the sets of statistical convergence and lacunary statistical convergence of generalized difference sequences have been established. The notion of strong Cesaro summability in intuitionistic fuzzy normed linear spaces has been introduced and studied. Also the concept of lacunary generalized difference statistically Cauchy sequence has been introduced and some results are established.
Cauchy representation of fractional Fourier transform for Boehmians
Authors: Singh Abhishek , Banerji P. K.
Published: March 2018

Results relating to fractional Fourier transform and their properties in the Lizorkin space are employed in this paper to investigate the Cauchy representation of fractional Fourier transform for integrable Boehmians. An inversion formula for the fractional Fourier transform is addressed. The conclusion remark of the paper spells the initiation for the present investigation.
On Bäcklund and Ribaucour transformations for hyperbolic linear Weingarten surfaces
Authors: Goulart Claudiano
Published: March 2018

We consider Bäcklund transformations for hyperbolic linear Weingarten surfaces in Euclidean 3-space. The composition of these transformations is obtained in the Permutability Theorem that generates a 4-parameter family of surfaces of the same type. Since a Ribaucour transformation of a hyperbolic linear Weingarten surface also gives a 4-parameter family of such surfaces, one has the following natural question. Are these two methods equivalent, as it occurs with surfaces of constant positive Gaussian curvature or constant mean curvature? By obtaining necessary and sucient conditions for the surfaces given by the two procedures to be congruent.The analytic interpretation of the geometric results is given in terms of solutions of the sine-Gordon equation.
ON PRIMITIVE Zp-ALGEBRA
Authors: Jaber Ameer
Published: March 2018

Our main purpose is to provide for primitive associative Zp-algebras a structure theory analogous to that for algebras and superalgebras [1, 7, 8, 9, 10] and to classify primitive Zp-rings having a minimal one sided Zp-ideal.
Variational analysis to fourth-order impulsive differential equations
Authors: Shokooh Saeid
Published: March 2018

Applying two critical point theorems, we prove the existence of atleast three solutions for a one-dimensional fourth-order impulsive differential equation with two real parameters.
Cost Efficiency of Indian Life Insurance Service Providers using Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Dash Mihir , Muthyala Arpana
Published: March 2018

This study examines the cost efficiency of Indian life insurance service providers using Data Envelopment Analysis. The study was performed for a sample of fifteen of the major life insurance companies in India, accounting for 94.77% of the total market for life insurance in India, over the period of 2010-17. The study extends the scope of cost efficiency by disaggregating the premium collection into components. Also, to provide more detailed insights, the efficiency of the life insurance companies is also analysed with respect to each input and output individually.The results of the study show that the most efficient Indian life insurance companies are Life Insurance Corporation, which has been consistently 100% efficient throughout the research period, followed by SBI Life and ICICI Prudential Life, which have also shown consistently high efficiency over the research period. On the other hand, the least efficient life insurance companies are Max New York Life, followed by PNB Met Life, Reliance Life, and Bharati AXA Life. The results of the study also indicate the strengths and weaknesses of the Indian life insurance providers.
Writing Life in the Twenty-First Century: The Body and the Self in Paul Auster's Winter Journal and Juan José Millás's El Mundo
Authors: Brady Jennifer
Published: March 2018

In Winter Journal (2012) and El mundo (2007), Auster and Millás revert to the primacy of the physical body as they record memories of the past. The discursive representation of the physical body in these two works emphasizes the complex nature of language. In these life narratives, written language is the best tool in the search for subjectivity, yet it also impedes getting closer to knowing the self. This current study analyzes experiences of the physical body in written language and the complex relationship between physicality and unintelligibility.
Another Pluralism: Reading Dostoevsky Across the Sea of Marmara
Authors: Kebranian Nanor
Published: March 2018

Reading Fyodor Dostoevsky across the Sea of Marmara, Ottoman-Armenian author, Hagop Oshagan (1883–1948), discovered an unprecedented possibility for conceptualizing and representing non-Muslim Ottoman reality. The following discussion presents this possibility as a case of metacommunal pluralism; a pluralism not based on communally differentiated orthodoxies of ethno-national, linguistic, or confessional singularity, but rather, consisting of heterodoxical pluralities. Oshagan deviates from conventional interpretations, both positive and negative, of Ottoman pluralism as a system of communal differentiation comprised of discrete ethno-confessional units. The Dostoevskyan aspects of Oshagan's writing suggest, instead, an “underground” of extensive intersectionality that casts the truth of such conventional interpretations of Ottoman communality into doubt, showing the porousness, tensions, limits, and contradictions endemic to Ottoman minority existence.
Control-Oriented Inventory Production and Sales Activities in Chinese Manufacturing Firms
Authors: He Haihong
Published: March 2018

This study uses a sample of Chinese manufacturing firms to examine the association between current period inventory production costs and sales changes in adjacent past and future periods. The results find an overall significant association between inventory production and the past period sales changes, but no association between inventory production and the future period sales changes. Further, we find that in firms with high return on assets, inventory production is only associated with the past period sales changes, but not with the future period sales changes; in contrast, in firms with low return on assets, inventory production is only associated with the future period sales changes, but not with the past period sales changes. The results, on one hand confirm our perception of control oriented management accounting practices in China, on the other hand suggest that firm performance is associated with such management emphasis in China.
The development of a nurse-driven protocol for the safe administration of vasopressors through peripheral intravenous catheters
Authors: Padrone Laura , Galiczewski Janet , Amitrano Bernadette , Koenig Seth , Narasimhan Mangala , Mayo Paul H.
Published: March 2018

Aim: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to develop a nurse-driven protocol to provide a safer, quicker, and less complication-prone alternative for the administration of vasopressors.Background: The use of vasopressor medication is a common life saving intervention used to achieve hemodynamic stability in critically ill patients. Vasopressor infusions are routinely administered through central venous catheters (CVC) for fear that extravasation into subcutaneous tissue will result in ischemic injury. There are many potential complications of obtaining central venous access for vasopressor use, including pneumothoraces, arterial punctures and hematomas.Design: Quality improvement project.Methods: An interdisciplinary team developed a written protocol for the administration of vasopressors through peripheral intravenous (PIV) catheters based on the available scientific evidence. Key components of this quality improvement project were patient safety, a team approach and skilled monitoring of the infusion site. Critical care nurses were responsible for the line insertion, maintenance and identification of possible extravasation. All catheters placed were confirmed by ultrasonography and if extravasation of medication was suspected, the extravasation protocol was followed without delay.Results: The protocol developed was utilized in a study by Cardenas-Garcia et al. (2015). Extravasation occurred in 19 of 734 patients (2%) without any tissue injury following the use of the extravasation protocol. This evidence-based protocol for peripherally administered vasopressors decreased central line use and the potential complications from the placement of CVCs. Strict adherence to this evidence-based nurse-driven protocol was essential for the safe administration of vasopressors via PIV access.Conclusion/Clinical relevance: Peripheral administration of vasopressors has many beneficial implications for nursing practice. A nurse-driven protocol for peripheral vasopressors can eliminate the need for CVCs, which will reduce the incidence of central line-associated blood stream infections and decrease the number of central line days. This also may eliminate potential complications from CVC placement. Lastly, peripherally administered vasopressors may prevent a delay in treatment often experienced with placement of a central line.
Organizational change readiness and manager' behavior in managing change
Authors: Diab Gehan Mohammed , Safan Sanaa M. , Bakeer Huda M.
Published: March 2018

Background and objective: Organizational readiness refers to organizational members’ change commitment and change efficacy to implement organizational change and confidence in their accumulative abilities to do so. The aim of the study was to assess the nurse managers’ behavior in managing change, and the level of the organizational change readiness at selected hospitals at Menofia Governorate.Methods: Design: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at two hospitals, namely University Hospital and Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital, in Menofia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: It consisted of two groups, Group 1: A convenience sample of 136 staff nurses (67 staff nurses from Menofia University Hospital, and 69 from Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital), Group 2: All nurse manager available on the time of the study (31 from Menofia University Hospitals, and 30 from Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital). Tools: a) Tool one: Change management process Questionnaire, b) Tool two: Change Readiness Assessment Scale.Results: More than half of the nurse managers reported that they have a good behavior in managing change in the organization, while the staff nurses reported that their managers had a bad behavior during the change process. Organizational readiness level was higher in University hospitals than in Teaching hospital as perceived by the study subjects.Conclusions: The nurse managers and staff nurses reported that the organization had a bad readiness level to change. Additionally there was a positive correlation between organizational readiness and manager behavior in managing change. Recommendations: Organization should have a readiness for change to support the change process by possessing the right resources and conditions, a clear insights and goals for the intended change and have the inventiveness, behavior to participate with the change and develop work. Also, agents of change chiefs and management must need to drive a strong reaction for change from the stakeholders that leads to highest performance improvement.
Ultrasonography as a Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Research Tool in Orthopaedic Surgery
Authors: Li Xinning , Yi Paul H. , Curry Emily J. , Murakami Akira M.
Published: March 2018

Ultrasonography is an imaging modality that facilitates the diagnosis of pathology and injection therapy without exposing the patient to radiation. In addition, ultrasonography has become popular because of its portability, low cost, and production of real-time tomographic images that provide a cross-sectional view of anatomic structures. Despite its benefits and widespread adoption in general medicine and other specialties, however, ultrasonography is not as well adapted as a diagnostic and research tool in orthopaedic surgery. An understanding of the basic principles of ultrasonography and the evidence supporting its use can aid the orthopaedic surgeon in applying this modality appropriately in clinical practice.
The Modern Rehabilitation Medicine Enigma: Treating People with Disabilities, but Sometimes without a Clear Diagnosis
Authors: Ohry Avi
Published: March 2018

Background. The process of a comprehensive rehabilitation of the disabled person may be more complicated when the diagnosis becomes vague and uncertain. Unknown data about the patient’s past, mental, physical or vocational background, may cast a different light on the process. The patient’s diagnosis sometimes becomes an enigma. Using the model of Venn, the patient’s situation shifts from one circle to another. The only logical solution in these cases is to use the Occam’s Razor.
Purpose. To draw the attention of rehabilitation medicine professionals to the problem of clients whose diagnoses are vague and uncertain and to share with the readers my personal thoughts on this topic.
Methods. Reviewing literature and sharing with the readers the author’s 43 years of clinical experience in the field of rehabilitation medicine.
Results and Conclusions. A PubMed query revealed 1479 articles with the words „diagnostic enigma”. The search term „diagnostic enigma in rehabilitation medicine” resulted only in four articles. In the long process of rehabilitation of disabled patients, some patients’ diagnoses change during the hospitalization phase and some diagnoses become unclear. The rehabilitation process becomes complicated and sometimes incomplete.
Implications for Rehabilitation Medicine: 
1. In most instances, patients are referred to rehabilitation medicine facilities with definite diagnoses.
2. The long process of a comprehensive rehabilitation of the disabled person may be more complicated when, prior to the discharge, the final diagnosis becomes vague and uncertain.
3. Facts about the patient’s past mental, physical or vocational background may cast a different light on the process. The patient’s diagnosis sometimes becomes an enigma.
Pseudotumour and Metallosis after Revision Total Hip Replacement. Case Study
Authors: Hawranek Marek , Stolarz Mateusz , Dutka Julian , Wrzask Grzegorz , Hawranek Jakub
Published: March 2018

Metallosis is a complication of hip arthroplasty. This pathological process contributes to the loosening and dislocation of the prosthesis.
This article discusses the case of a 61-year-old patient who reported pressure and pain as well as a palpable subcutaneous lump in the left lower abdomen and groin area. Medical history included total arthroplasty and repeat arthroplasty of the left hip joint, hysterectomy, appendectomy and a laparoscopic fundoplasty. A CT scan and ultrasound showed an unrecognised heterogeneous fluid area raising suspicions of a rumour mass or an old haematoma. After exclusion of gastrointestinal pathology, the patient was referred to the department of trauma and orthopaedic surgery, where a new x-ray of the hip, ultrasound and CT scan were performed and loosening of the prosthesis was ruled out. The pathological tissue was removed surgically through an incision in the groin area. On the basis of intraoperative changes, the pseudotumour was diagnosed as metallosis based. In con­clusion, any suspicion of a pseudotumour requires extensive and accurate evaluation, excluding general surgical causes. Complete surgical removal of the tumour is the only effective method of treatment.
Results of Ilizarov External Fixation in Rigid Equinus Deformity: An Experience of 30 Patients
Authors: Ahmad Khurshid , Ahmad Bhat Suhail , Avtar Agrawal Ram , Agrawal Rajat
Published: March 2018

Background. Equinus deformity is associated with congenital disorders, trauma, infections, burns and neuromuscular diseases. Tip-toe gait resulting from equinus deformity often makes ambulation difficult. Many modalities of treatment are available but most of them are challenging due to high risk of skin and soft tissue complications. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of Ilizarov external fixator with or without minimal soft tissue release in patients with rigid equinus deformity.
Materials and methods. 30 patients, with 21 (70%) males and 9 (30%) females, were included in this study. 17 (56.66%) patients had right foot, 10 (33.33%) had left foot and 3 (10%) had bilateral feet involvement. 17 (56.66%) had polio, 8 (26.66%) had cerebral palsy, 3 (10%) had posttraumatic and 2 (6.66%) had post-burn equinus deformities. Mean duration of equinus deformity was 5.1 years (range 1 to 11). The ankle range of mo­tion and radiographic lateral tibiotalar angle were assessed preoperatively and at last final follow-up. Kling et al. criteria were used to assess the morphological and functional outcome.
Results. The mean preoperative rigid equinus deformity was -32° (range -40 to -20). The mean duration of Ilizarov external fixation required to correct the equinus deformity was 3.6 months (range 2-5.5 months). The mean preoperative tibiotalar angle was 150.2° (range 113° to 169°), which reduced to a mean angle of 102.8° (range 87° to 117°) at final follow-up. Mean dorsiflexion and plantar flexion at final follow-up was 15° (range -5° to 10°) and 31° (15° to 40°), respectively. 4 (13.33%) patients had superficial pin tract infection which was treated by serial dressings and oral antibiotics. 2 (6.66%) patients had a recurrence of 10° of equinus deformity. Excellent to good results were seen in 93.33% of patients whereas 6.66% had poor results.
Conclusion. Ilizarov external fixation being a minimal invasive procedure allows a greater degree of equinus deformity correction.
Personalized medicine: biomarkers and companion diagnostics
Authors: Bernardini Renato , Gancitano Giovanni , Balice Angela , Di Mauro Rosaria , Cantarella Giuseppina , Dionisi Matteo
Published: March 2018

Great expectations are bound to the current evolution of medicine to personalized medicine. Thanks to rapid advances in genomics and molecular biology, new markers can be revealed for the presence of or susceptibility to a disease, or response to treatment. On such markers, diagnostic tests can be based; companion diagnostics (CDx, often called In Vitro devices) are diagnostic tests “coupled” with a therapeutic drug, aimed at assessing its applicability to a specific class of patients. As well as exemplifying some already implemented CDx applications, the purpose of this article is to highlight potentials and problems of personalized medicine today. In particular, the opportunity is analyzed for the co-development of a new drug and its CDx, through a parallel base research. This approach is promoted by the regulatory agencies but, due to scientific and economic factors implicit in the process, it is taking-off slowly. Personalized medicine deserves to grow and to expand, first of all because it simultaneously promises to substantially improve patient care and to make big costs savings for healthcare systems. From this point of view, all stakeholders (diagnostics manufacturers, clinical testing laboratories, pharmaceutical firms, the Department of health, and other bodies) should talk to each other in order to support the advancement of personalized medicine.
ПОСТУПАК УТВРЂИВАЊА ДИСЦИПЛИНСКЕ ОДГОВОРНОСТИ ДРЖАВНИХ СЛУЖБЕНИКА У ИНСТИТУЦИЈАМА БОСНЕ И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНЕ
Authors: Лале Радислав
Published: March 2018

У раду се на цјеловит и систематичан начин расправља о поступкуутврђивања дисциплинске одговорности државних службеника у инсти-туцијама Босне и Херцеговине, као дијелу дисциплинског радног права, којипредставља систем правних норми које регулишу остварење дисциплин-ске санкције против радника/службеника као учинилаца дисциплинскогдјела, обезбјеђујући истовремено законитост и објективност поступкаи заштиту њихових права у овом поступку. Дисциплински поступак, имациљ да пружи неопходне гаранције, односно заштиту запосленом од не-законитог поступања послодавца, односно злоупотребе дисциплинскиховлашћења дисциплинског органа. Аутор даје објашњење појма дисци-плинског поступка, приказ основних фаза у развоју његовог нормативно-правног рјешења, а посебна пажња је посвећена дисциплинском поступкуу државној служби БиХ. Аутор закључује да Закон о државној служби уинституцијама БиХ и Правилник о дисциплинској одговорности држав-них службеника у институцијама БиХ не садрже одредбе о томе каквоће дејство на покренути дисциплински поступак имати чињеница да једржавном службенику престао радни однос у државној служби након по-кретања поступка, што је њихов велики недостатак који је потребнокроз будућу реформу регулативе у овој области, отклонити по узору нарадно законодавство Републике Српске, односно Уредбу о дисциплинскоји материјалној одговорности у републичким органима управе РепубликеСрпске која регулише то питање.
ПРАВО НА ЛИЧНУ СЛОБОДУ И СИГУРНОСТ
Authors: Симовић Марина
Published: March 2018

Не постоји повреда права из члана II/3д) Устава Босне и Херцего-вине и члана 5 став 1 тачка ц) и став 3. Европске конвенције за зашти-ту људских права и основних слобода када су у околностима конкрет-ног случаја редовни судови, при одређивању мјере притвора апелантудали релевантне и довољне разлоге за закључак о постојању основанесумње да је апелант починио кривична дјела која му се стављају натерет, односно да постоје конкретни разлози у вези с постојањем по-себног притворског основа из члана 146 став 1 тач. б) и ц) Закона окривичном поступку Федерације Босне и Херцеговине у оспоренимрјешењима о одређивању и рјешењу о продужењу притвора.
ПРАВНИ ФАКУЛТЕТ ОБИЉЕЖИО 70 ГОДИНА ПОСТОЈАЊА
Authors: Антић Оливер
Published: March 2018

Правни факултет Универзитета у Источном Сарајеву обиљежио је31. октобра 2018. године велики јубилеј – 70. годишњицу постојања ирада и своју крсну славу – Св. Петра Цетињског. Тим поводом, предсјед-ник Републике, г. Милорад Додик одликовао је Правни факултет Орде-ном Његоша првог реда. Орден је декану Правног факултета, проф. дрРадомиру В. Лукићу, уручио изасланик предсједника Републике, проф.др Рајко Kузмановић, предсједник Академије наука и умјетности Репу-блике Српске и кум Kрсне славе Правног факултета. Орден је урученза признати седамдесетогодишњи рад на пољу високошколског обра-зовања, јавне дјелатности и активности којом се доприноси општемнапретку и афирмацији Републике Српске.
Impact of Tipping on Workers’ Motivation: Comparison between the Hospitality and Gaming Industries in Slovenia
Authors: Raspor Andrej , Rozman Tomislav
Published: March 2018

The main goal of the article is to explore the impact of various typesof tipping on the motivation of workers in the Slovenian hospitalityand gaming industry, and to develop a model – on the basis of thefindings – for distributing tips among workers in order to increasetheir motivation.The main finding of the reseach is that employees in the Sloveniancompanies with a regulated system of tip distribution tend to be bettermotivated and treat their guests better than their colleagues in unregulatedenvironments. On the other hand, employees in the hospitalityindustry are less motivated by tips than their colleagues in the gamingindustry, despite receiving individual tips directly.The underlying reason for this difference is that companies in the hospitalityindustry generally do not apply distribution methods for tips,and employees are directly entitled to each tip. Tips are received insmall (daily) amounts. Meanwhile, employees in the gaming industryreceive their tips together with their monthly salaries. Therefore, westate that the model and the process of tips distribution greatly influencethe motivation of the employees.
Education as a mechanism of social inclusion - The role of education in reducing the risks of social exclusion -
Authors: Slijepčević Dušanka
Published: March 2018

The author is addressing the social inclusion, as a prerequisite forthe optimal satisfaction of human needs (from biological to social),respectively the mechanisms by which individuals and social groupsare involved in the wider community, and that are giving them therights and the opportunities to achieve integration in one or moresocial systems (democratic - legal, labor - market, social welfare system,family system and the local community system). The dimensionof social inclusion (education, employment, health, etc.) to which theauthor’s analysis will be oriented is education, because the inclusionin the education system (either as a teacher or professor, either asa student) is to partake in the ‘sociopolitical context’. So it will bedrawn the attention to the link between the education with the economic(employment) and the socio-cultural (social inclusion) space,in order to emphasize the importance of including in the all threementioned areas, with aim of reducing the risk of social exclusionand its overcoming. Therefore, the inclusive education and lifelonglearning, as mechanisms of social inclusion and reducing the risks ofsocial exclusion, are the main assumptions that this work proceeds.
Uticaj porodične socijalizacije na razvoj ekološke svijesti kod djece i omladine - primjer Crne Gore -
Authors: Barjaktarović Violeta
Published: March 2018

Ovaj rad donosi analizu rezultata istraživanja uticaja porodice naekološku svijest djece i mladih u Crnoj Gori. Istraživanje je sprovedenona uzorku od 454 ispitanika starijih od 25 godina. Ispitanici suiznosili svoje stavove o vlastitioj percepciji ekoloških problema, ekološkesvijesti i ekološkog ponašanja u svojoj sredini, o potrebi usvajanjaekoloških vrijednosti, o potrebi, mogućnostima i značaju ekološkogobrazovanja. U prvom dijelu rada daje se pregled stavova oekološkim problemima u savremenom svijetu, koje zastupaju različitiautori, naučnici i istraživači u oblasti ekologije, sociologije, ekonomijei antropologije.
Kapitalizam i destrukcija (od države blagostanja do neoliberalne države)
Authors: Kovačević Irina
Published: March 2018

Kako onaj liberalni i države blagostanja, tako i ovaj savremeni, neolioberalnikapitalizam su u svom odnosu prema prirodi i čovjekudestruktivni. Favorizujući interese privatne svojine i profita, kapitalizamnegira autentične ljudske potrebe, razara i devastira prirodu.Degradacija prirode, ekološki problemi i ekološka kriza, razvijaju rizikekoji dovode u pitanje ne samo održivost i održivi razvoj, nego isam Život.Kapitalizam države blagostanja i kapitalizam neoliberalnedržave su destruktivni.
Thanatopolitics and thanatosociology
Authors: Kuljić Todor
Published: March 2018

Th e aim of the appendix is to show the directions of sociological researchof political use of death. Th ere are two related Social Sciencediscourses on death: (1) thanatos sociological, which deals with socialinequalities in mortality, and (2) thanatopolitical, in which center isthe political instrumentalization of death. It is shown the historicalevolution of these relations to death and are considered diff erent theoreticaland methodological starting points that explain the politicalside of death and its symbolic capital. Th e vision of death has changed,as well as political use of the death. Th e most attention was devotedto a class-tier thanatological diff erences. Classes do not show only economicinequality, but also the symbolic and cultural inequality, andso they also diff er in relation to the death. It is presented a draft forthe sociological framework for the study of historical class interests thatdetermine the ideological use of death.
The society of anxiety
Authors: Đukić Nemanja
Published: March 2018

Starting from the analysis of the meaning of health and illness, the workfi nds the social role of medicine as a transposition of the medicalization fromclinical to the the social realm of existence. Discovering the medicalizationof social life as one of the indicators of postmodern rationality entropy, theanalysis focuses on the diff usion and fl uid fear as a basic epochal experience ofhuman existence in contemporary constellation world whose social shaping isnamed as the anxiety society.
Methodological issues in contemporary sociology of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Kukić Slavo
Published: March 2018

Contemporary sociological science is increasingly being characterized by apositivist, therefore, the orientation on the empirical research of social problems.If there is, however, about the Bosnian-Herzegovinian sociology, thereare many unexplored issues in the fi eld of empirical sociological research - andthe greater is the number of causes of it. Methodological problems, of course,are one of the major manifestations of those causes- the problems in the areaof quantitative as well as those in the fi eld of qualitative sociological research.Some of the other dimensions of the problem should not be ignored - the issueof ethics in sociological research, the problem of a single database in the fi eldof sociology, as well as the research in the fi eld of social sciences in general, andthe like. And all of that is analyzed in the context of this paper.