bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Art of Perspective: Strzemiński and Leśmian
Authors: Nabiałek Magda
Published: January 2020

The article highlights fundamental correspondences between the work of Władysław
Strzemiński and of Bolesław Leśmian. The category of perspective provides a starting
point for the analysis. The key problem of article is the philosophy of art and the question
of cultural and philosophical heritage, which helps connect the models of thinking about
art in Leśmian and Strzemiński. The examination of Strzemiński’s and Leśmian’s writings
demonstrates their analogous ways of organizing a game that engages a viewer’s
or spectator’s perception and a work of art.
The comparative method in Adam Mickiewicz’s so-called etymological ideas
Authors: Krysowski Olaf
Published: January 2020

In his Parisian lectures Mickiewicz defi ned the comparative method on three different levels:
1. cultural (the comparison of civilizations), 2. literary (the comparison of literatures) and 3. linguistic
(the comparison of languages). However, it was language that turned out to be the principium
comparationis, serving as the poet’s point of departure in all his major comparisons. He studied
it much more thoroughly than it was necessary for the preparation of the lectures at the Collège
de France. In the early 1840s he became interested in the etymology of words. He expected it to
enable him to discover the secrets of the Slavs’ history and culture. As he claimed, this was impossible
to achieve on the basis of architecture and art, as they hardly existed, except for oral poetry:
fables, hymns and legends. Similarly to other Slav enthusiasts, Mickiewicz failed to build a myth
of this people’s former greatness, fame and historic destiny based on its system of beliefs, as this
very system could not be reconstructed. Accordingly, he tried to derive the myth from the language.
He treated it as the main means of comparing the roles that Slavs and other peoples played or were
supposed to play in the history.
The Early Polish Theatre Productions of Beckett’s Works
Authors: Brzeska Ewa
Published: January 2020

The article shows that Beckett’s works were initially linked by the critics with the contemporary social and political background. His plays were interpreted through the lens of the drabness and absurdity of daily life in communist Poland. Sometimes Beckett’s works would be set side by side with the romantic canon, whereas in other cases they were discredited as expressing trivial existential pain through a philosophical circus. Stefan Treugutt went so far as to predict that „Godot will not open new roads for drama”, although his opinion on Beckett evolved with time. Wisława Szymborska and Andrzej Kijowski saw truth in Beckett, as did Czesław Miłosz, who appreciated his humility and honesty in talking about the fall of Western European culture from the perspective of its inhabitant, and not of someone who points it out with a sense of superiority. With time, as the recognition of the Irishman’s work in Poland grew, the Polish discussion of his works began to focus on an important issue dividing the critics and the thespians, that is how to approach the spreading practice of departing from the play’s text and stage directions? Should it be treated as a reprehensible transgression against the will of the author, or rather as Beckett-inspired artists’ autonomy of expression? Over the recent decades we have witnessed that the phenomenon of experimenting with his plays, combining his works with those of other writers, or modernizing them, has intensifi ed. Beckett’s directions for stage productions have never been treated in Poland as having paramount signifi cance, and Beckett’s presence in Polish theatres now confi rms this.
Indocile Bodies: Beckett in the Polish Theatre of Learning Disability
Authors: Ojrzyńska Katarzyna
Published: January 2020

The article examines two plays inspired by Samuel Beckett’s works and staged by two Polish companies of actors with intellectual disability: Bógot by Mimo To Pan Tego Nima and Bez słów by Teatr Trochę Inny. Examined through the lens of cultural disability studies, these performances offer new interpretations of Beckett’s texts which go beyond the metaphorical commentary on the human existential predicament. The article also argues that Bógot and Bez słów underscore the aesthetic value of disability, understood as a form of human variety, and the importance of questioning and challenging the imposed, normalized patterns of behaviour.
The Polish Pocahontas Story: The Life of „the First Pole among the American Indians” According to Bolesław Zieliński
Authors: Paryż Marek
Published: January 2020

The Polish Pocahontas Story: The Life of „the First Pole among the American Indians” According to Bolesław Zieliński In the inter-war years, so-called „Indian novels” enjoyed immense popularity with the younger Polish reading audience. The article analyzes a representative novel in this genre, Orli Szpon (Eagle Talon) by Bolesław Zieliński, as an example of a literary construction of Polishness based on a specifi c idea of racial difference. Its plot revolves around a love relationship between a Polish man and an Indian woman, therefore it brings to mind the story of Pocahontas as an important analogue. Reading Orli Szpon in the light of the colonialist implications of the story of Pocahontas shows the extent to which Zieliński’s novel relies on the schematic and biased imaginings about American Indians that dated back the colonial era and dominated American depictions of the Natives in the course of the nineteenth century.
Transculturation in the Chicana Women Writers Prose: Gloria Anzaldúa and Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
Authors: Kasperska Iwona , Skonecka Anna
Published: January 2020

The aim of this paper is to discuss the concept of transculturation on the basis of Chicana literature created in the American Southwest. First, the historical, social and cultural context of the Chicana culture formation in the Mexican-American border space is explained. Secondly, transculturation is presented as a European and a genuine Latin American concept of local cultural hybridity, with the emphasis put on the contributions by Wolfgang Welsch and Fernando Ortiz. Thirdly, a general characteristic of Chicana literature is provided, with a special attention paid to linguistic and cultural identity issues. In the analysis of the discursive strategies used by Chicana women writers, two fundamental hybrid Chicana texts are taken into consideration: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/ La Frontera and Margarita Cota-Cárdenas’s Puppet. The analysis reveals that code-switching and interlinguistic translations are the basic forms of character construction and explain the complex situation of the Mexican minority in the USA. Finally, both texts seem to require a hybrid bilingual reader due to their heterogeneous bilingual form and subjects treated.
Joseph Conrad as a bilingual writer? On A Personal Record (1912)
Authors: Samsel Karol
Published: January 2020

The article is an attempt at comprehensive research on the diffi cult issue of the Joseph Conrad’s
bilingualism. However, formulating the thesis is preluded by a detailed description of the analysed phenomenon – in the view of the interdisciplinary studies: linguistic or, to be precise: contactological. Intentionally the image of Conrad has been constructed here specifi cally, although not
idiomatically: the patterns to consider his works will be provided by the most signifi cant Polish elaborations of the literary bilingualism’s experience, Edward Balcerzan and Ewa Kraskowska. Basing
on the portrait of Joseph Conrad as the comparatist and the commentator of his own translations
(notes on the Polish translation of Il Conde and the interview with Marian Dąbrowski in 1914),
the creator of letters-language hybrids (English, Polish and French) or the founder of the style
constructed of language norm’s, system’s and usage’s infringements (the subject of analysis is in
article Conrad’s prose Some Reminiscences [A Personal Record]), we are able to drive only to the
very one – as it seems – generalization: the ambiguity of Joseph Conrad had been caused by the
writer’s suspension between systems of creative and defi cient bilingualism and passive bilingualism
(Balcerzan’s terms). Accretion of that ambiguity could we observe specially explicitly about 1914.
It provokes more careful (than it occurred previously) statement concerning Conrad’s knowledge
of language systems, Conrad’s experience and surviving them, and also Conrad’s usage of them.
It encourages us to use ‘middle-terms’ such as interlingualism, rather than monolingualism, bilingualism, trilingualism and so on.
Language, Poetry and Scotland: A Theory of Bi, Tri, Mono, Multi
and Trans-language Literature
Authors: Riach Alan
Published: January 2020

Scottish literature is not characterized by having been written in a single, evolving language
such as is familiar in a lineage of English literature, English being the common language, notwithstanding the writer’s nationality. Rather, Scottish literature is informed by the understanding that literary expression arises in more than one language and, in Scotland, is created by writers most often
working in at least two languages, with new work being published in Gaelic, Scots and English.
This essay concerns the issue of multilingualism in Scottish literature, particularly poetry, offering a reading of Scotland’s work which sees this as a distinctive cultural characteristic, as well as
a rehearsing of Scotland’s history of multilingual literature. It focuses on a small number of modern
Scottish poets, such as George Campbell and Hay Aonghas MacNeacail, whose bilingual (sometimes trilingual) work shows this, challenging assumptions of unitary defi nition.
Between languages. On bilingual issues in modern British and Irish drama
Authors: Wiśniewski Tomasz
Published: January 2020

The article concentrates on tensions between centres and peripheries in modern British
and Irish drama. The research material encompases plays by GB Shaw, WB Yeats, JM Synge,
Peter Shaffer and works by immigrant contemporary playwrights (e.g. H. Khalil, H. Abdulrazzak,
and T. Štivičic), whose work introduces new perspectives to British stage. Among the topics that
are scrutinised, the following seem important: London-based model of theatre as opposed to the
models emerging from other cultural centres; British and Irish theatre traditions and their interrelations with artistic innovations arriving from the continent; literary and theatre conventions; relations
between playwrights, directors, actors, and other theatre makers. The overall argument is presented
from the perspective based on Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics.
“A harper went here and there with his songs”: Modern Reworking of Northern Narrative Tradition in Vinland by George Mackay Brown
Authors: Leleń Halszka
Published: January 2020

Vinland, George Mackay Brown’s fourth novel, is critically categorised as very traditional historic fiction and it is often overlooked, with more attention granted to his other novels Magnus and Greenvoe, which are perceived as more innovative. While the discussed text does reveal the influence of older narrative motifs and techniques (such as the saga or epic traditions), they are there not for their own sake. They are combined with some experimental techniques of rendering perception and activating cognition which are used to comment on and to illustrate the role of storytelling in constituting and disseminating identity. Brown achieves this through experimenting with the experiential and intersubjective patterns of narration that engage the reader in the process of textual discovery. This projects a different reading style compared to the one provoked by the novel’s surface focus on juvenile adventure.
Ellipsis, Narrative Gaps, and Their Functions in Contemporary British Poetry: A Narratological Approach
Authors: Malcolm David
Published: January 2020

The narratological understanding of ellipsis is defined as a gap in the presentation of a narrative’s histoire. The absence of extensive consideration of verse in narratological studies is argued. It is suggested that such an absence is surprising, as narrative and verse constantly intersect. The work of several contemporary British poets is discussed in terms of their employment of narrative ellipsis. A provisional typology of ellipsis in verse and functions for such ellipsis are put forward. It is hypothesised that this device is widespread in verse, and that examination of poetry using this and other narratological terms will prove fruitful.
Play It Again, Stanley: Mise en Abyme
and Playing with Convention and Narrative
in The Stanley Parable
Authors: Kubiński Piotr
Published: January 2020

Humanistic reﬂection on video games seems like a necessity nowadays, due to the enormous popularity of digital entertainment and the inﬂ uence it exerts over modern culture. This need for a deeper reﬂ ection also stems from the fact that, increasingly, video games give their players various pleasures – created by spectacular visual effects, exciting plot or an opportunity to solve logical puzzles. Electronic games are progressively becoming a tool of artistic pursuits and intellectual experiments that would be impossible in analogue media. An example of such phenomenon, and a game especially worthy of reﬂ ection, is The Stanley Parable [Galactic Cafe, 2013]. The author of the article focuses on it.
On an Enigmatic Poem by Daniił Charms
Authors: Fleishman Lazar , Dubyk Hałyna
Published: January 2020

The article offers a reading of a singular nonsensical poem by Danił Charms in its historical context. The poem describes a mysterious destruction of the week, and in this way alludes to the calendar reform in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 30s. It also exemplifi es a key literary strategy of one of a leading member of the OBERIU group.
Komiks w służbie historii. Zagłada ucieleśniona na kartach komiksu
Epizody z Auschwitz: Nosiciele tajemnicy
Authors: Janik Gaweł
Published: January 2020

The article is an attempt to critically read the Polish comic book "Episodes from
Auschwitz: The Carriers of a Mystery" by Michał Gałek and Michał Pyteraf. The author
draws attention to the risks associated with the choice of the comic as a medium talking
about the trauma of the Holocaust. Placing a comic book within publications that fit the
current of historical politics, the author of the article pointed to the elements that testify to
his polonocentrism. The image of the body was analyzed, with particular emphasis on
differences in the presentation of prisoners of the camp, men selected to work in the
Sonderkommando branches and its members. Attention was paid to the fetishization and
eroticization of the Jewish body, which is dangerously close to the Nazi body.
Our gods don't wear spandex
Authors: Funek Angelika
Published: January 2020

The Comparison between the comic books’ superheroes and gods often appears in the
scientific discourse. This phenomenon is linked to the human need for creating new idols. In
their comic book titled The Wicked and the Divine, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are
going one step further and decide to create a whole new pantheon, designed to fit our century.
Creators did not design new gods, they used various pantheons and reincarnated them in new,
different bodies. In this article, I will be considering the role of divinity and its place in the
modern world. In order to achieve this, I will use comparative analysis between the main
series of The Wicked and the Divine and two special one-shots — first set in the twenties of
the twentieth century, second in the beginning of the nineteenth century — to highlight the

differences in the role of gods and divinity in different period of time. The article will also
concentrate on the form of the bodies that the gods gain due to the reincarnation, and the
impact of this phenomenon on the place that they take in society.
SHŌJO. GIRLS, CULTURE AND COMICS
Authors: Kućma Natalia
Published: January 2020

This article analyzes shōjo culture and shōjo girls as a participants and creators of this
culture. The first part of the article presents the history of girls' schools from the
beginning of the 20th century and the ideal of a good wife and wise mother (ryōsai
kenbo). The second part focuses on the issue of the "privileged body" of shōjo (girl),
which is on the edge between the body of a child and a woman, a boy and a girl. Shōjo
manga, as comics addressed to girls, have evolved since the 70s, when women began to
create them. At the end I examine aesthetic traits and „the aesthetics of sameness” as
tools to create emotional involvement of readers. Shōjo culture is the Japanese version of
girl power.
The comics as an example of fan culture
Authors: Zdenkowska Marcelina
Published: January 2020

In this article I analyze the chosen examples of fan comics. In the first part of the article I
describe the history of comics, how and by whom they were created. Then I show the
comic’s role as part of Transmedia Storytelling. In the second part I introduce the term
fan fiction and I describe the circumstances of the creation of this specific form of fan art.
Moreover I write about the most important fan fiction theories. In the last part of the
article I analyze 3 selected authors of comics who publish their works on social media
platform Deviant Art. Also I describe their style, inspirations and references to original
works. Fan comics are a very specific phenomenon. However the many possibilities
given by this art is not used by the fans. There are no experiments with a form contrary
to the fan fiction literature. On the other hand the selected comics are an exception.
Maybe the authors are not very innovative. But the interesting thing is that they use
humor and autobiographical themes in an unusual way.
Comics in museums. Paradoxes of the presence and absence of
comics in museum exhibition practices
Authors: Syska Rafał
Published: January 2020

The article analyzes the phenomenon of exhibitions dedicated to comic books, which are
displayed in museum and gallery spaces. It presents the theory of contemporary
narrative exhibitions. Using some tools of the latest research on the art of exhibition, the
author analyzes the status of a comic book in a museum landscape. He reflects on the
diversity of the comic book’s presence in everyday practices, the other nature of comic's
experience by a visitor, and a link between comic books and other media, especially film.
He describes the role of the viewer, who becomes the object in relations with a comic
book transformed into a subject as a museum artifact.
DEATH DUE TO RARE RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS INFECTION: A CASE REPORT
Authors: Baral Tejaswini
Published: January 2020

Abstract
The Role of Public Spaces in Small Municipality
Authors: Moravcová Jana , Pecenka Jiri , Pekna Denisa , Moravcova Vendula , Novakova Nikola
Published: January 2020

Public spaces are a subspace of municipality space: they are its physical type, closely linked to permanent settlements, especially to cities. There are both social communication and movement of people, things and goods. These are classic, usually architecturally designed spaces between buildings: squares, agora, streets and parks. Public spaces in small municipalities have been crucial to the functioning of the community, their social, historically, and also economic life. In various types of rural municipalities, the function and formation of public spaces have changed over the course of history, often in relation to the geographical location of the municipality in terms of location or local conditions and customs. Nowadays, the tourist attraction of the place is also an important driving element in the form of public spaces. This chapter should show how public spaces have changed over time using examples of different types of municipalities and show examples of good and somewhat worse care for them.
Child Trafficking: The Construction of a Social Problem
Authors: Cristina Martins Paula
Published: January 2020

Child trafficking is a public health problem and a serious violation of human rights. However, it is not a product of modern times; rather, it is a phenomenon observed across history. Nevertheless, it is not viewed as a social problem because it only affects a limited number of individuals, and these individuals are children. In fact, the social status of children and the importance attached to their difficulties, the social exclusion of problem children (the children of others), and the double negativity attributed to child victims might explain why this crime is not generally recognized as a problem that must be addressed. As a topic of high consensus and low intensity, its increasing presence in the political discourse and in child protection practices is not accompanied by the active involvement of the general population in its prevention or combat. In this chapter, we discuss the ambivalent presence of child trafficking in Portugal and within Europe, considering the official data on the phenomenon with regard to the aspects of crime and victimization.
Computing the Global Irradiation over the Plane of Photovoltaic Arrays: A Step-by-Step Methodology
Authors: A. Arraez-Cancelliere Oswaldo , Muñoz-Galeano Nicolás , M. López-Lezama Jesús
Published: January 2020

The quality of solar resource data is critical for the economic and technical assessment of solar photovoltaic (PV) installations. Understanding uncertainty and managing weather-related risk are essential for successful planning and operating of solar electricity assets. The input information available for PV designers is usually restricted to 12 monthly mean values of global horizontal irradiation (GHI) and average temperature, which characterize solar climate of locations. However, for calculating the energy production of a photovoltaic system, the global irradiation over the plane of the PV array is necessary. For this reason, this book chapter presents a methodology to appropriately determine the global irradiation over the plane of photovoltaic arrays. The methodology describes step by step the necessary equations for processing the data. Examples with numerical results are included to better show the data processing.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatoblastoma: An Update
Authors: Zhu Chengzhan , Dong Bingzi , Chen Xin , Dong Qian
Published: January 2020

Hepatoblastoma is a rare but the most common solid tumor in children. The incidence is gradually increasing. The international collaboration among four centers in the world has greatly improved the prognosis of hepatoblastoma. They formed the Children’s Hepatic Tumor International Collaboration (CHIC) to standardize the staging system (2017 PRETEXT system) and the risk factors for tumor stratification. Multimodal therapy has become the standard for the management of hepatoblastoma, including surgical resection, liver transplantation, chemotherapy, and so on. Surgery is the primary treatment of early stage hepatoblastoma. Three-dimensional reconstruction is helpful for preoperative evaluation of large tumors, assisting extended hepatectomy for patients in PRETEXT III or IV. Neoadjuvant therapy is useful for reducing the tumor volume and increasing the resectability. Primary liver transplantation is recommended for advanced hepatoblastoma. The lungs are the most common metastatic organ, the treatment of which is critical for the patient’s long-term survival. We reviewed the recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatoblastoma.
Oxidative Stress and Vanadium
Authors: Rojas-Lemus Marcela , Bizarro-Nevares Patricia , López-Valdez Nelly , González-Villalva Adriana , Guerrero-Palomo Gabriela , Eugenia Cervantes-Valencia María , Tavera-Cabrera Otto , Rivera-Fernández Norma , Casarrubias-Tabarez Brenda , Ustarroz-Cano Martha , Rodríguez-Zepeda Armando , Pasos-Nájera Francisco , Fortoul-van der Goes Teresa
Published: January 2020

Air pollution is a worldwide health problem, and metals are one of the various air pollutants to which living creatures are exposed. The pollution by metals such as: lead, cadmium, manganese, and vanadium have a common mechanism of action: the production of oxidative stress in the cell. Oxidative stress favors the production of free radicals, which damage biomolecules such as: DNA, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates; these free radicals produce changes that are observed in different organs and systems. Vanadium is a transition element delivered into the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels as oxides and adhered to the PM enters into the respiratory system, then crosses the alveolar wall and enters into the systemic circulation. In this chapter, we will review the oxidative stress induced by vanadium—as a common mechanism of metal pollutants—; in addition, we will review the protective effect of the antioxidants (carnosine and ascorbate).
Escritório modelo de engenharia civil: relato de experiência na Amazônia oriental
Authors: Oliveira Antonio Carlos Santos do Nascimento Passos de
Published: January 2020

Este artigo sintetiza o relato de experiência da implantação de um Escritório Modelo de Engenharia Civil em uma universidade no interior da Amazônia. Os fluxos migratórios incentivados por políticas públicas, como também, os espontâneos, dentre várias consequências positivas e negativas para as urbes amazônidas, acarretaram em um uso e ocupação do solo desordenado e com elevados índices de autoconstruções e habitações precárias na região. Nesse sentido, os Escritório Modelos de Engenharia se apresentam como uma possibilidade de fornecer serviços técnicos especializados, para populações com hipossuficiência econômica, por meio dos recursos técnicos e científicos disponíveis nas Universidades. Além disso, a prática desenvolvida pelos discentes participantes de um Escritório Modelo, pode configurar o exercício de aprendizagem com método ativo, conforme solicita as Diretrizes para os cursos de Engenharia, aprovadas em 2019. Com base no relato de experiência, esse artigo apresenta a possibilidade de o Escritório Modelo figurar como uma ferramenta que permita institucionalizar a aprendizagem baseada em projetos, que é um método ativo de aprendizagem, em um curso de Engenharia Civil. Através da técnica de grupo focal de análise, sintetizando as informações por meio de método etnográfico, é possível confirmar a hipótese de o Escritório Modelo figurar como meio condutor para a implantação de metodologias ativas de aprendizagem, sendo um recurso adicional para o ensino de temas transversais no curso de Engenharia Civil, como Educação Ambiental, Cidadania, Gênero e Diversidade, Acessibilidade e Direitos Humanos.
Diagnóstico técnico da infraestrutura pós-ocupação de regiões periféricas de marabá e proposta da criação de habitações de interesse social (HIS) nessas regiões
Authors: Silva Bruna Vieira , Ferreira Lygia Maria Policarpio , Gallardo Nuria Pérez , Silva Denilson Costa da
Published: January 2020

A existência de áreas de ocupação indevida, geralmente instituídas nas periferias das grandes cidades, tem se tornado cada vez mais frequentes. O crescimento desordenado de municípios geralmente leva ao surgimento de aglomerados habitacionais com pouco controle por parte dos órgãos competentes. Segundo o 'Plano Diretor Participativo', Marabá está oficialmente subdividida em dezessete distritos. Destes, seis são urbanos pois se encontram na sede do município; os outros onze se encontram na zona rural, sendo, portanto, distritos rurais. O número de bairros dentro do perímetro urbano chega a 96, segundo dados da Prefeitura Municipal de Marabá. Em sua grande maioria, os bairros mais recentes se encontram em regiões periféricas, e são oriundos de invasões territoriais. Esses bairros geralmente não dispõem de infraestrutura apropriada e tampouco dispõe de habitações minimamente necessárias à subsistência humana. É objetivo deste trabalho o desenvolvimento de um diagnóstico técnico da infraestrutura pós-ocupação de regiões periféricas de Marabá, objetivando a elaboração de uma proposta da criação de habitações de interesse social (HIS) nessas regiões. Serão trabalhados os dados referentes aos seguintes pontos: perfil sociodemográfico e econômico dos moradores; pesquisa de satisfação em relação à unidade habitacional atual; levantamento de modificações necessárias nas unidades habitacionais; e levantamento de principais defeitos (patologias das construções) de partes externas das casas. Por conseguinte, será elaborada uma proposta de criação de HIS nessas regiões, como forma de substituir habitações inadequadas, que deverá ser encaminhada ao poder público responsável.
Estudo preliminar da síntese de geopolímeros baseados em metacaulim, cinzas volantes e filito da Região Sudeste do Pará
Authors: Cardoso Gilciene Guevara Duarte , Fagury Renata Lilian Ribeiro Portugal , Rabelo Adriano Alves , Fagury Neto Elias
Published: January 2020

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo preliminar da síntese de geopolímeros com matérias primas e coprodutos provenientes da região Sul e Sudeste do Pará, no qual foram definidas 4 formulações para avaliação da resistência mecânica através de ensaios de resistência à compressão. Os insumos inicialmente escolhidos foram:  metacaulim, filito, cinza volante e escória de aciaria; estes dois últimos sendo coprodutos industriais. Na confecção das formulações preliminares foi utilizado como ativador alcalino a solução de NaOH 12M, bem como o silicato de sódio (Na2SiO3) como solução aditivadora. Entre as amostras ensaiadas, duas formulações obtiveram resistência à compressão da ordem de 20,5 e 21 MPa, com respectivamente 15 e 28 dias de cura, com adição do silicato de sódio.
Efecto de un programa de paciente experto en insuficiencia cardiaca
Authors: AChury Diana Marcela , Restrepo Laura , Munar Kamila , Rodriguez Indira , Cely Maria Camila , Abril Natalia , Toledo Lina
Published: January 2020

Introducción: Una estrategia que ha mostrado ser efectiva para promover el autocuidado en los pacientes con falla cardiaca es la formación de diadas y grupos que brinden apoyo de pares para favorecer el logro de metas individuales.Objetivo general: Determinar el efecto de un programa de paciente experto en falla cardiaca en los conocimientos relacionados con la adherencia al tratamiento y en la satisfacción. Método: Se realizó un estudio piloto descriptivo de corte transversal en pacientes con diagnósticos de falla cardiaca en una institución de cuarto nivel. El tamaño de la muestra correspondió a toda la población con los criterios de restricción (N: 20 sujetos). Se implementó un programa de paciente experto durante 6 meses y se midieron los desenlaces de nivel de conocimientos y satisfacción. Para la recolección de la información se utilizó un test de conocimientos sobre adherencia al tratamiento y una encuesta de satisfacción. La información se procesó a través del programa IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0, y se realizó un análisis descriptivo con distribución de frecuencias absolutas y relativas. Resultados: Más del 95% de los pacientes mostró mejoría significativa en el nivel de conocimientos y el 85% refirió el nivel de satisfacción global más alto (muy satisfechos), reflejado en la dimensión de fidelización y efectividad. Conclusiones: El programa del paciente experto en insuficiencia cardiaca se constituye en una intervención costo-efectiva que proporciona capacidades para ayudar a otros pacientes a adquirir autoconfianza y habilidades en el manejo de su condición de salud. 

Introduction: One of the strategies that has shown improvement in self-care for patients with heart failure is the formation of dyads and groups to provide peer support and achieve individual goals. General objective: To determine the effect of an expert patient program on heart failure related to the knowledge about adherence to treatment and satisfaction.Method: A sectional-descriptive pilot study was conducted in patients with heart failure diagnoses in a fourth-level institution. The sample size represents the entire population with the restriction criteria (N: 20 subjects). An expert patient program was implemented for 6 months and the measured outcomes were level of knowledge and satisfaction. Data was gathered from a knowledge test on adherence to treatment and a satisfaction poll. Information was processed with IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0. The distribution of absolute and relative frequencies was performed by descriptive analysis. Results: More than 95% of patients showed improvement in the level of knowledge and 85% reported a high global level of satisfaction (very satisfied), reflected in the dimension of loyalty and effectiveness. Conclusions: The expert patient in heart failure program is a cost-effective intervention, which provides capabilities to help other patients gain self-confidence and skills to manage their health condition.
Iatrogenic Tension Pneumothorax after Surgical Tracheostomy in a Child with Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis: case report
Authors: Park Sang Yoong , Yim Woo jae , Jeong Joon Ho , Kim Jeongho , Lee Seung-Cheol , Choi So Ron , Lee Jong-Hwan , Chung Chan Jong
Published: January 2020

Tracheostomy is increasingly performed in children for upper airway anomalies. Here, an 18-month-old child (height 84.1 cm, weight 12.5 kg) presented to the emergency department with dyspnea, stridor, and chest retraction. However, exploration of the airways using a bronchoscope failed due to subglottic stenosis. Therefore, a surgical tracheostomy was successfully performed with manual mask ventilation. However, pneumomediastinum was found in the postoperative chest radiograph. Although an oxygen saturation of 99% was initially maintained, oxygen saturation levels dropped, due to sudden dyspnea, after 3 hours. A chest radiograph taken at this time revealed a left tension pneumothorax and small right pneumothorax. Despite a needle thoracostomy, the pneumothorax was aggravated, and cardiac arrest occurred. Cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation was performed, but the patient was declared dead 30 minutes later. This study highlights the fatal complications that can occur in children during tracheostomy. Therefore, close monitoring, immediate suspicion, recognition, and aggressive management may avoid fatal outcomes.
Analysis of Demographic Changes in the Rural Areas of the Republic of Srpska
Authors: Rokvić Gordana , Drinić Ljiljana
Published: January 2020

The rural areas of Republic of Srpska occupy about 95% of its territory and about 83% of its population. The aim of the research was to determine the differences of demographic indicators, focusing on rural areas, between the two Population Censuses, and confirm the hypothesis that human capital in the rural areas of the Republic of Srpska is a critical factor in the development of rural areas which tends to further threaten economic and social development. The paper analyzes the results of the 2013 Population Census and the 1991 Census, comparing the basic demographic indicators. The results of the analysis show loss of population, number of household members and accelerated population ageing, and decline in the number of active population. Demographic problems are equally expressed in all parts of the rural area irrespective of the population density.
The Effect of Breeding Region on Differences in Persistency of Heat Stress Effect in First Parity Simmentals
Authors: Gantner Vesna , Gavran Mirna , Dokić Dragan , Važić Božo , Gregić Maja , Bobić Tina
Published: January 2020

In order to determine the effect of breeding region on differences in persistency of heat stress effect in first parity Simmentals test-day records provided by the Croatian Agricultural Agency were analysed. Only cows with detected statistically significant decrease in daily milk yield at set temperature-humidity index (THI) threshold value (65, 70 and 75) were included in the further analyses. The persistency of heat stress effect regarding the daily milk traits was determined as a drop in the subsequent milk recordings (1st and 2nd). The research results indicate significant difference in animals’ response to heat stress effect due to breeding region and individual’s susceptibility to heat stress. The most pronounced and persistent negative effect of heat stress was determined in cows reared in Eastern region. Also, the negative effect of heat stress was more pronounced and more persistent in Simmentals that were heat stressed at the lower THI threshold values (cows that are more susceptible to heat stress).
Comparison of Aeroponics and Conventional Production System of Virus-free Potato Mini Tubers in Serbia
Authors: Broćić Zoran , Milinković Mirko , Momčilović Ivana , Oljača Jasmina , Veljković Biljana , Milošević Drago , Poštić Dobrivoj
Published: January 2020

Virus free mini tubers are starting materials for the production of seed potatoes without the diseases. Conventionally, mini-tubers are produced from in vitro plants in various solid media. The aeroponics system refers to the process of growing plants in the air or in the fog environment without the use of soil or any other substrate. The aim of this study is to assess the application of aeroponics and conventional production system of virus-free potato mini tubers in Serbia. The experiment included three varieties of potatoes: Cleopatra, Kennebec and Agria. All three varieties were cultivated within two systems: aeroponics and conventional rooting in the substrate. In the aeroponics system, with all three varieties, an average of 17.87 mini tubers was obtained, which is 5.39 times more than in the conventional substrate. This ratio was the highest in the variety Kenebec (6.46), followed by Agria (5.71) and the lowest in Cleopatra (4.01). The average weight of mini tubers produced in the conventional substrate was higher by 3.49 g compared to the aeroponics system. The aeroponics system offers a potential opportunity to improve the production of mini potato tubers in Serbia.
PhEMaterialist encounters with glitter: the materialisation of ethics, politics and care in arts-based research
Authors: Coleman Rebecca , Osgood Jayne
Published: January 2020

This paper re-turns to a workshop we co-organised in London in 2018 as part of a series called ‘how to do sociology with…’ (Methods Lab, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London). The series aims to consider what happens when the materials, media, objects, devices and atmospheres of social research central to our practices are brought into focus. The specific material that we worked with and thought through in this workshop was glitter – a thing that is ubiquitous in early childhood and in wider feminine, gay, and queer cultures. We draw on new materialist theories, methods and practice research to consider how preparing and dismantling this workshop might be understood as a means of enacting feminist new materialism. We do this not to propose a blueprint for how new materialisms should be done so much as to offer a series of questions, reflections, and diffractions on what unfolded and the affective and embodied traces that were left. In this sense, the paper understands arts-based practice to hold unanticipated pedagogical capacities which we attend to throughout the paper in terms of ethics, politics and care. We dwell upon ethics politics and care by drawing on long-standing feminist arguments regarding what is often neglected in written accounts of doing research and by focusing on the affective work involved in designing, choreographing, and managing a workshop that asked participants to seriousplay (Haraway, 2016) with glitter and explore its material and affective properties. We discuss our own discomfort with, and uncertainty about, organising such a workshop, and go on to outline what we see as the productive aspects and implications of orchestrating a glitter workshop for how we might conceive and do new materialist work. This includes a discussion about the response-ability of seriousplay with plastic in the contemporary climate, and more broadly about what new materialist methods and practice research might contribute to an understanding of educational and social research, and pedagogical and political practice. Throughout, photographs taken by us before, during, and after the workshop are included, to not only illustrate the points we make and give readers/viewers a different sense of the workshop, but also extend what might count as academic knowledge production and circulation.
Becoming Method(ologist): A feminist posthuman autoethnography of the becoming of a posthuman methodology
Authors: Warfield Katie
Published: January 2020

This paper contributes to the intersections of post qualitative methods, digital methods, and internet studies, by describing the becoming of a digital posthuman visual method.  I use posthuman autoethnography to argue that in the production of this method, the “auto” or my academic selfhood is decentered and entangled amidst an assemblage of material, discursive, and affective forces such as neoliberalism, Trump era terror, and dataism.  I introduce a multitude of data points typically not made to matter but through which these material, discursive and affective forces importantly flowed in this production of this method: emails, personal correspondences, restaurant conversations, self-reflection, conferences talks and responses to conference talks.  I focus specifically on the moments where the values and principles of feminist posthumanism were jarred and destabilized or where I was made to choose between foregoing my values or redesign my method and myself as methodologist. I argue academics have a response-ability to show both the forces at play behind the becoming of qualitative methods and knowledge in academia.
Cellphilm production as posthuman research method to explore injustice with queer youth in New Brunswick, Canada
Authors: Burkholder Casey , Thorpe Amelia
Published: January 2020

Posthuman research methodologies center nonhuman actors and spaces. In this paper, we argue that technological mediation is a key component in a move toward the exploration of posthuman subjectivity in research and the restructuring of dominant understandings of gender and sexualized difference. Drawing on a cellphilm (cellphone + film production) based project with queer, trans, and non-binary youth in New Brunswick, Canada, we seek to center queer stories and experiences to speak back to their erasures in school spaces and landscapes. We argue that in researching with queer, trans, and non-binary youth in the Anthropocene, cellphilm method offers us the opportunity to think critically and creatively about environments, inclusions, and queering environmental futures (Lebel, 2019) within schooling structures.
Affective (An)Archive as Method
Authors: Colmenares Erica Eva , Morvay Jenna Kamrass
Published: January 2020

The purpose of this article is to explore affective (an)archives in educational research. Unlike archives, which act more like a repository, the (an)archive is a technique for research-creation; it is a process-making engine that triggers new, creative events. The affective (an)archives studied in this paper encompass the affective intensities that arise for teacher-activists participating in public political activism, as well as the affects that animate the moments of emotional crisis (or “stuck moments”) of student teachers in a social justice-oriented teacher education program. We ruminate on the possibilities, intensities, conversations, and materialities that our (an)archives might open. Specifically, we wonder what new events can these (an)archives feed-forward and what pedagogical and emotional thresholds might the traces from our (an)archives do for both our own studies and the field of educational research.
Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of NADPH oxidase genes in response to ABA and abiotic stresses, and in fibre formation in Gossypium
Authors: Zhang Gaofeng , Yue Caimeng , Lu Tingting , Sun Lirong , Hao Fushun
Published: January 2020

Plasma membrane NADPH oxidases, also named respiratory burst oxidase homologues (Rbohs), play pivotal roles in many aspects of growth and development, as well as in responses to hormone signalings and various biotic and abiotic stresses. Although Rbohs family members have been identified in several plants, little is known about Rbohs in Gossypium. In this report, we characterized 13, 13, 26 and 19 Rbohs in G. arboretum, G. raimondii, G. hirsutum and G. barbadense, respectively. These Rbohs were conservative in physical properties, structures of genes and motifs. The expansion and evolution of the Rbohs dominantly depended on segmental duplication, and were under the purifying selection. Transcription analyses showed that GhRbohs were expressed in various tissues, and most GhRbohs were highly expressed in flowers. Moreover, different GhRbohs had very diverse expression patterns in response to ABA, high salinity, osmotic stress and heat stress. Some GhRbohs were preferentially and specifically expressed during ovule growth and fiber formation. These results suggest that GhRbohs may serve highly differential roles in mediating ABA signaling, in acclimation to environmental stimuli, and in fiber growth and development. Our findings are valuable for further elucidating the functions and regulation mechanisms of the Rbohs in adaptation to diverse stresses, and in growth and development in Gossypium.
Effect of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Inter Row Spacing on Herbage Yield and Some Yield Components (Number of Leaves and Number of Tillers per Plant) of Rhodes Grass (Chloris gayana Tan) in the Dry Sub Humid Zone of Sokoto Nigeria
Authors: Isa M. Mabu , Ibrahim J. , Bah Sani Usman
Published: January 2020

A field experiment was conducted during the 2016 and 2017 rainy seasons at Centre for Agriculture and Pastoral Research (CAPAR) of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria to study the effect of nitrogen fertilizer and inter-row spacing on herbage yield and some yield parameters of Rhodes grass. A factorial combination of five fertilizer levels (0, 100, 120, 140 and 160 kgNha-1) and three inter row spacing (30, 50 and 70 cm) were used, making fifteen treatments combinations, which were laid out in a RCBD replicated four times. Determination of herbage dry matter yield at the end of 12 weeks post planting was carried out using a 0.25 m2 (0.5 m x 0.5 m) area metallic frame (Quadrat). The herbage was harvested at 5 cm above ground level using hand Sickle from the four plots for each treatment. The samples collected ware oven dried for the determination of dry matter yield, while determination of number of leaves and number of tillers per plant was done by counting the numbers of individual leave and tillers of each of the representative plant sample. The result revealed that, Application of 160 KgNha-1 generally produced higher (P < 0.05) dry matter yield, number of leaves and number of tillers compared to the rest of the treatment, There was no significant (P > 0.05) effect of inter row spacing in both 2016, 2017 and the years combined on herbage dry matter yield, however significant (P < 0.05) effect of spacing was observed in 2016, 2017 and the years combine on the numbers of leaves and numbers of tiller. Inter-row spacing of 70cm showed superiority among the treatments in the herbage yield compositions investigated compared to 50 and 30cm spacings.