bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
USE OF FINANCIAL AND NON-FINANCIAL INDICATORS IN EVALUATION OF COMPANY’S PERFORMANCE
Authors: Kotane Inta
Published: October 2015

Dimensions for the measurement of the company’s performance include financial and non-financial indicators. Many authors have carried out researches on financial and non-financial indicators, though the problems of their practical application exist, since there is no single united approach for measurement and assessment of both financial and non-financial indicators. This research is based on the former theoretical and practical researches by the author on the application of the financial and non-financial indicators to measure the company’s performance.The aim of this research was to develop a model for the small companies’ performance evaluation, based on the opinions of the owners, managers, and top executives of the small companies in Latvia. The Internet survey was used as a research method, applying a simple random sampling. The results of the research indicated that there are 17 indicators, including 10 financial and 7 non-financial indicators, which could be used for the evaluation of the small companies’ performance and for modelling the company’s net turnover.
QUALITY OF LIFE COMPARISON OF PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT DIABETES MELLITUS
Authors: Živčicová Eva , Gullerová Monika
Published: October 2015

Quality of life is distinctly conceived as a construct, and, therefore, is distinctly defined and measured. The main purpose of this article was to compare the quality of life assessment in respondents with and without diabetes mellitus by using World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire. Then, quality of life in several major domains, such as physical health, psychological domain, social relationships, and environment is assessed and compared. Finally, a quality of life profile in respondents with and without diabetes mellitus in the Czech and Slovak Republic is produced and compared.
BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES AS ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY ENHANCEMENT INSTRUMENTS
Authors: Begak Michael , Guseva Tatiana , Molchanova Yana , Malkov Alexander
Published: October 2015

Environmental safety enhancement is an important objective for any state. It is vital for the Russian Federation, where economic activities resulted in environmental deterioration. Current development has to provide both for the growth of the national economy and for the minimization of negative environmental impacts. These issues could be addressed via development and implementation of the National Environmental Strategies, which have to become a basis for setting national targets and implementing modern instruments of environmental safety. European experience proves that the Best Available Techniques (BAT) are considered as instruments applicable to improve environmental performance and resource efficiency for major enterprises. Main components of the national environmental strategy are discussed, and prerequisites for its implementation (such as ratification of Espoo and Aarhus conventions and practical application of BAT principles in environmental regulation) are suggested as a result of the analysis of new legislative and managerial approaches emerging in Russia.
CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND LOCAL IDENTITIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EASTERN SIBERIAN CITIES (FROM LATE 18TH TO EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
Authors: Plotnikova Maria Mihailovna
Published: October 2015

This article considers the interaction of geographical and cultural landscape in identity formation of the East-Siberian cities of Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Kirensk in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The comparative analysis of the European city of Valga with the East-Siberian city of Kirensk revealed that, while most of the citizens of the European city were artisans, the military personnel played a significant role in the outskirts of the Russian Empire. At the end of 18th century and during the early 19th century, the Eastern Siberian cities collected taxes as revenue for the city, using the advantage of their geographical position. The author concludes that the study into the essence of the "genius loci" of a city gives insight into the origins of the local identity formation.
THE PROTECTION OF INVESTORS’ RIGHTS IN KAZAKHSTAN
Authors: Shegirbayeva Madina , Shegirbayev Ozhet
Published: October 2015

Since obtaining independence, the Republic of Kazakhstan has developed an ‘open-door’ policy for foreign investors ready to invest in the country's economy. Over time, approaches and mechanisms that have created favorable conditions for investors have changed, along with appropriate amendments to the legislation. Currently, Kazakhstan is a rapidly developing country with great potential. According to the World Bank, out of 189 countries, Kazakhstan rated 50th in 2014 for ‘Doing Business’. Nonetheless, many foreign investors may rightly query about the guarantees for protecting investors' rights in this country, under the conditions they find here. This article aims to cover the  mechanisms for protecting the investors' rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan, taking into account the recent changes in investment law, and based on a several case reviews.
NATIONAL ISSUES IN V. G. KOROLENKO’S ESSAYS
Authors: Krylov Viacheslav Nikolaevich
Published: October 2015

The article is devoted to the analysis of various documentary and journalistic works by V. G. Korolenko on the theme of the U.S. The material consists of both published and unpublished works during the lifetime of the writer (travel notes, articles, correspondence, etc.). The analysis allows us to see in the works of Korolenko not just ethnographic travel essays but profound reflections on the two images of the world, Russian and American, that include the assessment of the pace of technological progress, ideals of freedom, respect for the individual, attitude toward pragmatism, and individualism. The theme of national awareness on the background of European and American realities is considered to be essential in the work of Korolenko.
MOVING BEYOND LANGUAGE: AWARENESS OF EFL LEARNERS IN TARGET LANGUAGE CULTURE
Authors: Hol Devrim , Erarslan Ali
Published: October 2015

What students in EFL classes think and feel about the target language culture has always been in a great domain for all teachers and other stakeholders. It is always a great concern, whether or not learners accept and absorb the target language. They may find it useless or unnecessary, even though the course books or classroom activities exposed them to it. This study reports on the measures on the perceptions of Turkish EFL Learners toward the target language culture. It examines the meaning of culture; whether it is important to have knowledge and information on the target language culture; and the advantages and drawbacks of learning the target language culture to make the questions in the minds clear. The study involved 20 EFL learners at a university in Turkey. It used in-depth interviews with the participants, and attempted to identify the learner’s perceptions concerning the target culture. The research results show that the participants’ perceptions on the target culture vary greatly.
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHERN KAZAKHSTAN
Authors: Semenyuk Olga , Chekaeva Rakhima , Chekaev Farid
Published: October 2015

At the present stage, questions of social infrastructure development in connection with history of settling and shaping of Kazakhstan, national traditions, and characteristics have not been answered. The need for a full-fledged social infrastructure in tandem with the requirements of efficiency increase associated with the utilization of territories, with regard to rational environmental management and load reduction on natural economic activity, is not supported by any standard or methodical basis. The change in geopolitical situation causes the need for a radical modernization in social infrastructure of urban spaces by taking into account the scale of the international relations of sovereign Kazakhstan.
WAYS OF OVERCOMING SOCIAL INEQUALITY BY THE KAZAKH NOMADS IN THE BOOK OF ABAI KUNANBAEV “THE WORDS OF EDIFICATION”
Authors: Kenzhegaliev Kulush
Published: October 2015

This article considers the role of Russian and other languages toward the wealth of Kazakh nomads in the book of Kazakh educator, region ruler, and sultan Abai Kunanbaev. It reveals the progressiveness of his ideas of studying Russian in overcoming socio-economic inequalities in comparison with the Kazakhs, the Russians, the Uzbeks, and the Tatars. Comparative analysis of Abai’s economic ideas with economic theories of Adam Smith and Karl Marx shows the limitations of Abai’s ideas. The lack of goods production has left a definite imprint on Abai’s ideas.In modern Kazakhstan, Abai’s ideas received new qualitative development in overcoming socio-economic inequalities of the people of Kazakhstan in the world.
OPTIMIZATION OF WHEAT BRAN MEDIUM PROCESSING CONDITIONS, ASSESSMENT OF BIOLOGICAL VALUE FOR SACCHAROMYCES
Authors: Panfilov Victor , Karetkin Boris , Gordienko Mariya , Shakir Irina
Published: October 2015

Biotechnological methods have perhaps the greatest potential in deep processing of renewable raw materials. Bioconversion of lignocelluloses materials substantially increases its bioavailability and effectiveness of consumption by microorganisms. The enzymatic and chemical hydrolysis of wheat bran under mild conditions are compared in this study.The purpose of this study was to define microbiological and biochemical criteria for the bioconversion. Enzymatic hydrolysis of extruded bran was held with three enzyme preparations usually used in the conversion of vegetable raw materials: “Viscoferm,” “Cellic HTec2,” and “Celloviridin G20x.” The central composite design was used for parameter optimization. Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast was used for assessment of biological value of the slurry obtained. The content of crude protein of the product obtained was 1.9 times higher than the initial.
UTILIZATION OF INDUCTION HEATING TECHNOLOGY IN GALVANIZING LINES
Authors: Demidovich Victor
Published: October 2015

Continuous Hot-Dip Galvanizing lines are widely used for the production of coated steel sheets. Quality improvement measures are of great importance for this type of line. A significant proportion of production and quality losses when operating these types of lines occurs when production is transitioning from one strip gauge/thermal cycle to another. Utilizing induction heating technology, in combination with a sophisticated control system, can dramically decrease yield losses during transitions. Dynamic Transition and Production Planning Models have recently been developed for the simulation and control of the continuous hot-dip galvanizing line. The results of this work have been implemented in some galvanizing lines with production rate up to 350,000-ton annual capacity.
CASE STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS AUTOMATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS FROM ROMANIA
Authors: Greavu-Șerban Valerică
Published: October 2015

Romanian Universities and those from the entire East-European Region are undergoing a long and arduous transition. Significant amount of money, coming from their own funds, the Government or from European funds, are being invested in order to increase the quality of the education and research. Considering that the changing processes require giving and receiving feedback from all the institutional actors, we have observed in the course of time that students’ interaction with the administrative departments has declined in what concerns both the popularity and the satisfaction.The aim of this article was to introduce to the academic community an analysis, layout, and implementation of an, apparently simple, administrative workflow. This, in turn, will be emulated in an electronic environment, thus permitting to highlight the main functional and organizational problems of the social infrastructure present in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania.The research methods used include the functional analysis of the existing administrative process, designing the most appropriate implementation using content management tools including digital certificates, and an adequate method to manage the entire process. The efficiency of the solution is derived from the fact that the development is quite rapid; it implies the exploitation of common applications (for all the actors), such as e-mail services of web browsers and, last but not least, the fast adaptability of the workflow specific to the implementation used without using compiled code.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN ROMANIA
Authors: Apostol Ciprian
Published: October 2015

The objective of the research was focused on measuring the performance level of corporate governance in Romania. This is carried out by evaluating the importance level given to the principles of corporate governance in the Romanian economy, while the practices of transparency and dissemination of companies’ information in the selected sample were monitored. To achieve the objectives of the study, we need to examine the Corporate Governance Code of the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Sample companies were selected and their information from the “Comply or Explain” Statements was analyzed.The research method is a non-participating observation—based on the information from the “Comply or Explain” Statement to determine whether companies are applying corporate governance and transparency elements. The research results highlight the progress of Romanian companies in the process of exercising to the principles of corporate governance, becoming internationally recognized, and integrating into the Corporate Governance Code of the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
BALANCED SCORECARD AS A STRATEGIC TOOL FOR MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Authors: Skotnický Peter
Published: October 2015

Balanced Scorecard is one of the modern methods of management, which is currently applied mainly by progressive organizations of the private sector. The subjected method was recently implemented into financial management, which is the key to the process of management of the organization in relation to the achievement of business goals. This suggests that the Balanced Scorecard could help improve managing process in public administration, which should lead to its improved efficiency. The aim of this article is to highlight the possibility of using the Balanced Scorecard in the management of public administration. The article defines and describes the Balanced Scorecard method, observation of its application in public administration in the Slovak Republic.
A basic guide to orthodontics
Authors: Henderson Kelly
Published: October 2015

This article aims to advise dental nurses of the basic orthodontic terms, how the NHS provides and identifies patients requiring treatment, and when it is appropriate to refer. It assumes that the dental nurse in general practice or other specialist practice has limited knowledge
How to communicate effectively with patients
Authors: Talati Shilla
Published: October 2015

This article provides guidance on how to talk to your patients in an effective way. This will build trust and create a good rapport so that patients will feel comfortable talking to you
Dry socket—an update
Authors: McKernon Sarah
Published: October 2015

Veale B (2015) Alveolar osteitis: a critical review of the aetiology and management. Oral Surgery 8: 68–77. doi: 10.1111/ors.12130
Achieving a holistic perspective in stroke rehabilitation: An overview of the use of the ICF by Danish physiotherapists and occupational therapists
Authors: Kristensen Hanne K , Lund Hans , Jones Dorrie L , Ytterberg Charlotte
Published: October 2015

Background/Aims:

Holistic, multidisciplinary rehabilitation is often the most appropriate for stroke patients. The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and systematic terminology used by health professionals worldwide. The purpose of this study was to explore how the components of the ICF were addressed by physiotherapists and occupational therapists in stroke rehabilitation.

Methods:

A prospective cohort study, including all service levels within Danish stroke rehabilitation, was carried out. Consecutive patients with a diagnosis of stroke (n=131; 70 males and 61 females; mean age: 72 years) admitted to a university hospital between May and December 2012 were enrolled by 13 physiotherapists and occupational therapists. Physiotherapist and occupational therapist documentation was collected from participants' medical records and analysed using deductive content analysis until saturation was reached. Data were generated in four settings that encompass the general Danish health care service to adult stroke patients in hospitals and community-based settings.

Results:

Patient data were documented according to three of the ICF components, i.e. body functions and structures, activity and participation, and environmental factors. No distinct pattern emerged that would enable a differentiation between therapists' notes in the four settings.

Conclusions:

The ICF framework may contribute to a holistic approach in stroke rehabilitation, including an understanding of functioning and the ability to participate in everyday life. Using this approach to rehabilitation, disability is not only perceived as a consequence of stroke but also in the context of the individual person, where interactions between the biological, psychological, social and environmental aspects must be taken into account in order to provide an adequate rehabilitation service. Nevertheless, more attention seems to be paid to health components at the expense of the contextual factors; this needs to be addressed to augment the holistic approach.
Dark Arts and Diaspora
Authors: Khan Aisha
Published: October 2015

Exploring the relationship between diaspora and creolization, this article analyzes their shared theoretical foundation in the concept of community. With the premise that empirical evidence of social behavior is both a problematic and a necessity in understanding processes of diaspora and creolization, the article takes as its case in point a cultural phenomenon commonly known in the Atlantic World as obeah : magical practices using supernatural powers. Deriving largely from West and Central African religious traditions, but also from European and South Asian sources, obeah is consummately creole. It is found in various forms in virtually all Caribbean diasporas in North America and in other diaspora destinations such as the United Kingdom. Obeah’s fraught and complex four centuries of colonial history has rendered it as bane and succor at the same time, both embraced and denied by dominant as well as subaltern peoples. These qualities of ambivalence and ambiguity raise probing questions about the creation and role of “community” in producing diasporic identities and the transformational, creolized cultures they carry. The article will discuss obeah’s Caribbean slave plantation past and its diasporic present, asking how obeah, a creole/ized, simultaneously inclusive and divisive phenomenon, figures in the formation of community and thus in defining and interpreting diaspora.
Martial on Sportula and the Saturnalia
Authors: Harrison George W. M.
Published: October 2015

Une étude basée sur une trentaine d’épigrammes de Martial portant sur les distributions de cadeaux — dont celles qui avaient lieu à l’occasion des Saturnales, des jeux et de la salutatio matinale — permet de démontrer, exemples à l’appui, les différents changements survenus au fil du temps dans la perception que cet auteur avait de la sportule. Ces changements d’opinion vont de pair avec son ascension sociale et économique alors qu’il devient lui-même un donateur éventuel.
The End of Winter: Belatucadrus as a Spring Deity
Authors: Mann Michelle L. , Vanderspoel John
Published: October 2015

De nombreuses inscriptions romaines provenant du Nord-Ouest de l’Angleterre attestent de l’existence d’une divinité celte nommée Belatucadrus. Une étude attentive de la distribution géographique montre que les différences orthographiques sont plus importantes qu’on ne l’a cru. Ensuite, la comparaison des lieux de découvertes des inscriptions avec ceux d’une divinité cornue indique à coup sûr que cette divinité n’était autre que Belatucadrus. De plus, une analyse détaillée des éléments linguistiques et iconographiques indique que Belatucadrus était une divinité solaire dont le principal festival se déroulait au printemps.
Itala Nam Tellus Graecia Maior Erat : “Poetic Syncretism” and the Divinities of Ovid, Fasti 4
Authors: Boyd Barbara Weiden
Published: October 2015

En incluant dans Les Fastes l’arrivée de dieux à Rome et l’origine de nombreux cultes romains. Ovide met à profit les tendances et modes de pensée profondément enracinés dans les mythologies et religions de l’Antiquité. Ce faisant, il crée une tradition du récit religieux bien propre aux Romains puisqu’en plus d’exprimer et de donner forme au mouvement de syncrétisme caractéristique de l’érudition littéraire et religieuse du l er s. av. J.-C., il parvient aussi à unir la tradition mythique grecque et l’innovation religieuse romaine. Le poème Fastes 4 permet de voir comment Ovide utilise son « syncrétisme poétique » pour envoyer un message subtil mais surtout idéologiquement percutant à propos du calendrier romain et de ses divinités.
Winter Sailing
Authors: Simonsen Kathryn
Published: October 2015

On prétend, en général, qu’il n’y avait pas de navigation hivernale en Méditerranée. Plusieurs auteurs anciens répètent après Hésiode qu’il y avait un temps bien déterminé pour les voyages en mer. Cependant il appert que des traversées avaient bel et bien lieu en dehors de cette période: les textes de Thucydide et d’Aratus, parmi tant d’autres, démontrent que les voyages d’hiver n’étaient pas exceptionnels, surtout en temps de guerre. Les navires de guerre et les bateaux de commerce ne suivaient pas les mêmes itinéraires. Comme les navires militaries suivaient le littoral, et qu’ils étaient chaque nuit tirés à sec, il était possible de les utiliser tout au long de l’année, au gré des besoins.
Excavations in the Settlement of Belozerskoe, 1997–1999
Authors: Bylkova V. P.
Published: October 2015

Les fouilles de Belozerskoe (vers 400–375 av. J.-C.) nous permettent de mieux comprendre la population du Bas-Dniepr et d’expliquer la position dominante d’Olbia située dans le sud-est de la région. Le site a révélé trois périodes d’occupation dont la première — la plus importante — présente des maison de pierre et de briques crues au ras du sol dont les toits étaient couverts de tuiles, de grandes structures de maisons à fondations souterraines et une grande variété d’objets de facture locale ou importés. L’agriculture, la pêche, l’artisanat et le commerce locaux y assuraient de bonnes conditions d’existence. Le secteur, détruit par le feu à la fin du IV e siècle, fut reconstruit, puis abandonné au début du III e siècle avant J.-C.
Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas
Authors: Hijmans Steven
Published: October 2015

Ce n’est qu’au IV e siècle que s’est instaurée la tradition de célébrer l’anniversaire du Christ le 25 décembre, le jour exact de sa naissance étant de fait inconnu. Aujourd’hui, les spécialistes se rangent à la théorie de Hermann Usener (fin du XIX e siècle) selon laquelle l’église primitive aurait choisi cette date dans le but de supplanter une importante fête païenne en l’honneur de Sol Invictus. Mais l’importance de cette fête a été exagérée, et les témoignages indiquent que la raison de ce choix réside plutôt dans la valeur symbolique attribuée au solstice d’hiver (traditionnellement le 25 décembre).
The Fortifications of Stymphalos
Authors: Williams Hector , Gourley Ben
Published: October 2015

Deux surveys, de surface et géophysique, ainsi que des fouilles, ont révélé beaucoup sur les fortifications de l’ancienne cite arcadienne de Stymphale. Construits dans la première moitie du IV c s. av. J.-C, en toute vraisemblance, les murs, portes et tours ressemblent de bien des façons à ceux de Mantinée toute proche. Différence notable cependant, la présence de grandes tours d’artillerie élevées au début du III c s. av. J.-C. au moment où les catapultes devenaient un élément important dans la stratégie d’attaque et de défense. L’article aborde tous les points importants de la défense de la cité et tente de les mettre en contexte.
La Mission canadienne a Tell ‘Acharneh (Syrie): À la recherche de l’ancienne Tunip
Authors: Fortin Michel , Cooper Lisa
Published: October 2015

A Canadian archaeological project has endeavoured to excavate Tunip. an ancient city which should probably be identified with the site of Tell ‘Acharneh in the Middle Orontes Valley of inland Syria. After a very preliminary campaign in 1998, the project carried out two seasons of excavations and one study season of the excavated materials. Besides the excavations of Tell ‘Acharneh, the Canadian team initiated in 2004 an archaeological survey of the valley in which ‘Acharneh is located, with the aim of better understanding the site’s role among the various types of occupation in the region during the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 3000–700 BC).
Flower Power in Medicine and Magic: Theophrastus’ Response to the Rootcutters’
Authors: Irwin M. Eleanor
Published: October 2015

Dans sa discussion sur les plantes médicinales. Théophraste inclut les précautions prises par les cueilleurs et les dangers que courent ceux qui les négligent ou en font fi. Si dans certains cas, il en reconnaît la justesse, il les désapprouve dans d’autres. Nous proposons pour certaines de ces précautions de possibles explications scientifiques et pour d’autres l’origine de leur pouvoir magique. Nous nous penchons sur les motifs des cueilleurs de plantes pour perpétuer ces fables à leur sujet. Parmi ces raisons, nous comptons un désir de protéger leur gagne-pain. Nous nous demandons quelles raisons avait Théophraste de les reprendre dans ses œuvres.
Claudian, de Raptu Proserpinae 1.12–19, 55–208
Authors: Giardina Giancarlo
Published: October 2015

Étude de deux passages problématiques du De raptu Proserpinae de Claudien (I. 12–19 et 55-208). Nous proposons une série des corrections dans l’espoir d’éclairer le texte de ce poème.
(Un)natural Accounts in Herodotos and Thucydides
Authors: Keyser Paul T.
Published: October 2015

En considérant les abondants témoignages sur la manière par laquelle Hérodote et Thucydide analysaient les questions de science naturelle et les chiffres, nous jetons une nouvelle lumière sur la question entourant la pensée rationnelle de ces auteurs et la crédibilité que l’on doit leur accorder. Même si Thucydide emploie une rhétorique de la crédibilité, son examen des nombres et des phénomènes s’avère très traditionnel. Hérodote, en revanche, expose souvent l’état de la question des débats contemporains sur la philosophie de la nature. Il lui arrive d’accepter certains points de vue et de s’engager personnellement dans les débats. Hérodote désire que son lectorat s’instruise en même temps que lui, tandis que Thucydide veut que son lecteur se fie entièrement aux résultats qu’il a obtenus et présentés. Les exposés d’Hérodote ne sont pas moins rationnels que ceux de Thucydide. Il arrive même qu’ils le soient davantage.
Rationalization as a Moral Tool: Ephorus and the Foundation of the Delphic Oracle
Authors: Pownall Frances
Published: October 2015

Malgré ses déclarations d’éviter l’époque mythique. Éphore de Cymè insère dans son histoire universelle un récit rationnel de l’établissement d’Apollon à Delphes. Il y inclut un nombre de rationalisations, — celle de Thémis, Tityus et Python par exemple — dont le but est de souligner la mission morale et civilisatrice du dieu. La façon avec laquelle Éphore rationalise le mythe de la fondation de l’oracle de Delphes s’inscrit dans le contexte intellectuel du IV e s. où l’historiographie était de plus en plus utilisée pour énoncer les idéaux culturels et moraux de l’élite cultivée.
New Light on the Cult Centre at Gorsium (Pannonia Inferior)
Authors: Fishwick Duncan
Published: October 2015

Dans une étude révisée de RIU 1533, G. Alföldy réaffirme que les premières lettres du texte correspondent aux Di Magni—une interprétation approuvée par d'autres épigraphistes éminents—mais propose que ces dieux puissent avoir été vénérés dans le curieux temple aux nefs multiples récemment mis au jour par J. Fisk. Il interprète alors les templenses comme étant les disciples du culte, et non le personnel du temple. En plus de son commentaire à cette inscription, Alföldy présente une analyse de la famille de Mercator dont il reconstitue les noms et le stemma familial. Dans sa réédition de CIL III 3342 (RIU 1537), il indique que plusieurs lignes du texte pourraient avoir été perdues au-dessous des mots préservés et il réitère que le site de Tác ne peut pas avoir été le foyer du culte provincial de la Pannonie inférieure, étant donné que D. Fishwick a montré que ce culte se déroulait sûrement, non pas dans un temple, mais sur un autel, peut-être celui à Aquincum. Finalement, Alföldy propose que le temple des Di Magni ait été le temple excentrique récemment découvert (voir ci-dessus) plutôt que l' area sancta en entier, comme l'avait supposé Fishwick.
Allusion and Ambiguity in ps-Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus
Authors: Littlewood Cedric
Published: October 2015

Like her Sophoclean predecessor, ps-Seneca’s Deianira kills her husband by mistake, sending him a robe that poisons him rather than restores his affections. Allusions to the words of vengeful protagonists—particularly Medea and Juno in Seneca’s Medea and Hercules Furens —complicate Deianira’s character with the models of deliberate killers. Deianira’s choice, to pursue anger or desire, is also a choice between the genres of tragedy and elegy, and in this respect ps-Seneca revisits the ironic mode distinctive of Ovid’s Heroides and of the Senecan tragedies that reappropriate their tragic material.

Comme l’héroïne sophocléenne avant elle, la Déjanire du pseudo-Sénèque tue son mari par erreur, en lui envoyant une robe qui l’empoisonne au lieu de lui rendre son amour. Des allusions aux discours de protagonistes vengeurs – particulièrement Médée et Junon dans la Médée et l’ Hercule furieux de Sénèque – étoffent le personnage de Déjanire en l’associant à des modèles de tueurs volontaires. Le choix de Déjanire, de poursuivre sa colère ou son désir, est aussi un choix entre les genres tragique et élégiaque et, à cet égard, le pseudo-Sénèque revisite le mode ironique distinctif des Héroïdes d’Ovide et celui des tragédies de Sénèque qui se réapproprient leur matériel tragique.
Saints and sinners: Lessons about work from daytime TV
Authors: Huws Ursula
Published: October 2015

This article looks at the messages given by factual TV programmes to audiences about work, and, in particular, the models of working behaviour that have been presented to them during the period following the 2007–2008 financial crisis. It focuses particularly, but not exclusively, on daytime TV, which has an audience made up disproportionately of people who have low incomes and are poorly educated: an audience that, it can be argued, is not only more likely than average to be dependent on welfare benefits and vulnerable to their withdrawal but also more likely to be coerced into entering low-paid insecure and casual employment.

It argues that the messages cumulatively given by ‘factual’ TV, including reality TV programmes ostensibly produced for entertainment, as well as documentaries, combine to produce a particular neo-liberal model of the deserving worker (counterposed to the undeserving ‘scrounger’ or ‘slacker’) highly suited to the atomized and precarious labour markets of a globalized economy. This is, however, a model in which there are considerable tensions between different forms of desired behaviour: on the one hand, a requirement for intense, individualized and ruthless competitiveness and, on the other, a requirement for unquestioning and self-sacrificing loyalty and commitment to the employer and the customer. These apparently contradictory values are, however, synthesized in a rejection, often amounting to demonization, of collective values of fairness, entitlement and solidarity.
A bridge too far? Analysis of the European Commission’s new developments on media policy and media freedoms through the concept of soft regulation
Authors: Costache Andreea M. , Llorens Carles
Published: October 2015

This article tries to examine the latest European Commission (EC) policy developments in the media sector through the new concept of soft regulation. Much criticized for its media policy approaches, the EC seems to try to rebuild media freedom and media pluralism protection foundations at the EU level with several new initiatives based on soft regulation. This article analyses these soft-regulatory media policy actions to answer the following questions: Have soft-regulatory measures been a good option to improve media pluralism policy at the EU level? Are there better mechanisms that EU can employ to assist Member States in promoting media pluralism? The aim of the research is to see whether these new EC debates and softregulatory initiatives have made a real change in the traditional way that EC has been dealing with audio-visual matters or whether it is only repeating old answers to old questions.
Book Reviews
Authors: Violi Patrizia , Goodmann Emily , Dines Mike
Published: October 2015

The Labour of Memory: Memorial Cult ure and 7/7, Matthew Allen (2014) 1st ed., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 176 pp., ISBN: 9781137341631, h/bk, $95.00

The Undersea Network, Nicole Starosielski (2015) 1st ed., Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 312 pp., ISBN: 9780822357551, p/bk, $25.95

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Pulchritudo and ornamentum, naked beauty and ornamental beauty: the legacy of Leon Battista Alberti
Authors: Loewen Andrea Buchidid
Published: October 2015

In his treatises dedicated to the Arts, Alberti develops a notion of beauty that distinguishes an innate beauty, pulchritudo, and a form of auxiliary light and a complement to beauty, the ornamentum. The former, intrinsic to the conformation of the buildings, receives the addition of ornaments as garments that clothe the naked body. The notion is guided by the principle of decorum, a parameter which is the foundation of beauty and that regulates the ornaments. Considering the implication of such principles, Alberti prescribes the appropriate ornaments to each genre of building, but he also suggests that the work ought to be constructed naked and only later clothed. Although the author´s asseverations indicate that the state of nudity should be temporary, the appreciation of a kind of beauty inherent to the structure of edifices find peculiar resonances still during the Renaissance, as seen in the buildings projected by Francesco di Giorgio during his stay at the court of Urbino. In the treatises of the Cinquecento, too, one may find notions that lead to Alberti as undoubtedly albertian is the idea of order as adherent ornament which Serlio and Vignola share with their contemporaries and around which much of the architectural debate since the fifteenth century is focused. This work aims to examine such fundamental questions concerning the notions of beauty indebted to Alberti´s precepts.
Computational modelling and digital materialization of Alberti’s column system: a reflection on results obtained
Authors: Castro e Costa Eduardo
Published: October 2015

We hereby focus the study of the Albertian column system, as part of the Digital Alberti project, a research initiative that aims to shed some light on the influence of Alberti on Portuguese architecture. Starting from Alberti’s treatise on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, and its translation into Portuguese, Da Arte Edificatória, a generative computational model was developed that encodes Alberti’s prescriptions about the elements of the column system, as well as their proportions and shapes.  This research complements the elaboration of the corresponding shape grammar on Alberti’s column system. This project is a paradigmatic example of the use of digital technology for understanding architectural tradition. The development of the referred models implied deepening the understanding of Alberti’s rules about the column elements. This in-depth analysis revealed a very coherent hierarchical structure ruling the relationships among the several elements. It also revealed that information was insufficient to inform a formal model of all them, especially the ones showing more complex geometry, such as the corinthian and composite capitals. Therefore, it can be considered that the application of digital technologies allowed to more accurately understand and reproduce Alberti’s guidelines for the art of building. Foca-se o estudo do sistema de coluna Albertiano, no âmbito do projecto Alberti Digital, cuja investigação pretende elucidar sobre a influência de Alberti na arquitetura portuguesa. Partindo do tratado de Alberti sobre arquitetura, De re aedificatoria, e da sua tradução para português, Da Arte Edificatória, foi desenvolvido um modelo computacional generativo que codifica as instruções de Alberti respeitantes aos elementos do sistema de coluna, bem como as suas proporções e formas. A investigação complementa a elaboração da gramática da forma correspondente ao sistema de coluna Albertiano. O projecto é um exemplo paradigmático do uso de tecnologias digitais na compreensão da tradição arquitetónica. O desenvolvimento dos modelos referidos implicou um entendimento aprofundado das regras de Alberti sobre os elementos da coluna. Esta análise revelou uma estrutura hierárquica consistente que rege as relações entre os diversos elementos. Revelou também que, para uma modelação exacta de todos esses elementos, a informação fornecida por Alberti não é suficiente, nomeadamente nos casos mais complexos dos capitéis coríntio e compósito. Considera-se assim que a aplicação de tecnologias digitais permitiram compreender e reproduzir mais exactamente as orientações de Alberti para a arte da construção.
Computational modelling and digital materialization of Alberti’s column system: a reflection on results obtained
Authors: Castro e Costa Eduardo , Duarte José P. , Kruger Mário
Published: October 2015

We hereby focus the study of the Albertian column system, as part of the Digital Alberti project, a research initiative that aims to shed some light on the influence of Alberti on Portuguese architecture. Starting from Alberti’s treatise on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, and its translation into Portuguese, Da Arte Edificatória, a generative computational model was developed that encodes Alberti’s prescriptions about the elements of the column system, as well as their proportions and shapes.  This research complements the elaboration of the corresponding shape grammar on Alberti’s column system. This project is a paradigmatic example of the use of digital technology for understanding architectural tradition. The development of the referred models implied deepening the understanding of Alberti’s rules about the column elements. This in-depth analysis revealed a very coherent hierarchical structure ruling the relationships among the several elements. It also revealed that information was insufficient to inform a formal model of all them, especially the ones showing more complex geometry, such as the corinthian and composite capitals. Therefore, it can be considered that the application of digital technologies allowed to more accurately understand and reproduce Alberti’s guidelines for the art of building.Foca-se o estudo do sistema de coluna Albertiano, no âmbito do projecto Alberti Digital, cuja investigação pretende elucidar sobre a influência de Alberti na arquitetura portuguesa. Partindo do tratado de Alberti sobre arquitetura, De re aedificatoria, e da sua tradução para português, Da Arte Edificatória, foi desenvolvido um modelo computacional generativo que codifica as instruções de Alberti respeitantes aos elementos do sistema de coluna, bem como as suas proporções e formas. A investigação complementa a elaboração da gramática da forma correspondente ao sistema de coluna Albertiano. O projecto é um exemplo paradigmático do uso de tecnologias digitais na compreensão da tradição arquitetónica. O desenvolvimento dos modelos referidos implicou um entendimento aprofundado das regras de Alberti sobre os elementos da coluna. Esta análise revelou uma estrutura hierárquica consistente que rege as relações entre os diversos elementos. Revelou também que, para uma modelação exacta de todos esses elementos, a informação fornecida por Alberti não é suficiente, nomeadamente nos casos mais complexos dos capitéis coríntio e compósito. Considera-se assim que a aplicação de tecnologias digitais permitiram compreender e reproduzir mais exactamente as orientações de Alberti para a arte da construção.
Learning from Alberti
Authors: Oliveira Marta Maria
Published: October 2015

The text reflects on what to learn and ways of knowing, reaching out for answers in Leon Battista Alberti’s works.
Designing by narrative. An inquiry into architecture after 'De re aedificatoria'
Authors: Manalvo Jose
Published: October 2015

Alberti´s treatise 'De re aedificatoria' (1443-1452) is considered the source of an anthropogenesis of architecture (Choay 2004). The reflexion on this narrative hasn’t yet explained the connection of narrative and architecture disciplines, although frequent allusions to architecture/rhetorical features (Choay 2004) and to the architecture narrativity (Ricoeur 1998), focused on structural semantics approach (Greimas 1995). Recently, 'narrative inquiry' (Clandinin, Connelly 2004) and philosophy of stories (Currie 2010) started an approach centered in structures of knowledge, created an insight to 'narrative ways of knowledge' elevating narrative study’s to an entry tool to grasp reality (Herman 2003). Our focus is that 'narrative thinking' is encoded in Alberti’s 'lineamentum', allowing the translation from non verbal to verbal, and our practice as actants, operating from spatial to experience. In this paper we address the interactions of the disciplines, explain what we know by designing architecture through narrative, grasping fictions as a storyworld inhabited by actants, in order to create inferences and to fill the gap between opposite narrated domains, and to explain how does narrative thinking addresses cognition of 'what isn’t but has been', with examples from written, drawn and built narratives.
Apropos Digital Alberti and Palladio Virtuel. The preponderance of tools for research in history of architecture
Authors: Gil Bruno
Published: October 2015

[EN]

Engaging architecture with research continues to be an issue of concern among most schools of architecture, mainly when addressing the way in how design can be translated into and be considered research. Innovative tools imported from the computational universe to the realm of design have caused diverse transformations within the methodologies and ultimately continue to transform aesthetical conceptions, while investigate form and search for disruptive solutions.

Likewise it is also crucial to study how these tools are changing the actual processes of research within the investigation of history of architecture, and to assess the preponderance of these instruments for the production of theory. Hence, this paper will focus on two current research projects – Digital Alberti and Palladio Virtuel – which share the return to the Renaissance and also the use of computational tools to enhance research, even if with different objectives, methods and ends.

 

[PT]

Relacionar arquitectura e investigação continua a ser uma preocupação latente em grande parte das escolas de arquitectura, principalmente, em como o projecto pode ser considerado e ser traduzido em investigação. Novas ferramentas trazidas do mundo computacional para o projecto causaram diversas transformações nas metodologias e em última instância continuam a transformar as concepções estéticas, enquanto investigam a forma e procuram soluções disruptivas.

O presente artigo procura reconhecer como estas ferramentas estão a mudar os processos actuais de investigação no âmbito da história da arquitectura e avaliar a preponderância dos instrumentos para a produção de teoria. Assim, incidir-se-á em dois projectos de investigação em desenvolvimento – Alberti Digital e Palladio Virtuel – que partilham o regresso ao Renascimento e também o uso de ferramentas da computação para potenciar a investigação, se bem que com diferentes objectivos, métodos e fins.
New concepts of glucose-induced insulin secretion in the development of type 2 diabetes: clinical implications
Authors: Dedov Ivan Ivanovich , Smirnova Olga Michailovna , Irina Kononenko Vladimirovna
Published: October 2015

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing dramatically, and the pathogenesis of the disease has been studied extensively in recent years. Of particular interest, incretins are reported to cause changes in insulin secretion that affect the natural development of the disease. The emergence of new drugs that act via the incretin axis have led many clinicians to consider their place in clinical practice.
Polymorphism of gene UBE2E2 and the risk of developing diabetes type 2
Authors: Kazakova Elena Vladimirovna , Wu Yanhui , Chen Meijun , Wang Tongtong , Sun Lulu , Qiao Hong
Published: October 2015

Recently, the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway has emerged as a crucial pathway for protein turnover, and it has also been identified as an important factor for insulin synthesis. This pathway plays a critical role inside β cells; therefore, it has naturally been linked with various insulin-related diseases, most notably type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but also other metabolic diseases and symptoms such as obesity and atherosclerotic plaques. The UBE2E2 gene encodes ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 E2 (UBE2E2), which plays an important role in the synthesis and secretion of insulin. UBE2E2  is a protein expressed in the pancreas, liver, and adipose tissue, as well as in an insulin-secreting cell line . The results of some studies have indicated that single nucleotide polymorphisms on UBE2E2 (rs6780569, rs7612463, rs9812056) are associated with T2DM risk in Japanese, Korean and Chinese populations. Therefore, the UBE2E2 gene has started to draw interest from researchers because of its newly discovered relationships with various diseases.
Qualitätsmanagement in Öffentlichen Bibliotheken
Authors: Sprung Norbert
Published: October 2015

Bibliotheken stehen vor vielen Herausforderungen, denen eine stetig wachsende Zahl von Bibliotheken mit einem strategischen Management und einer kundenorientierten Verbesserung ihrer Dienstleistungen entgegenwirken wollen. In diesem Zusammenhang beschäftigt man sich im deutschen Bibliothekswesen seit 20 Jahren mit dem Thema Qualitätsmanagement. Inzwischen sind viele Projekte entstanden, in denen unterschiedliche Qualitätsmanagement-Modelle zur Anwendung kommen. Die Betrachtung dieser Modelle und der Projekte soll Aufschluss darüber geben, welches Modell sich für die Bibliotheken als zukunftsweisend gezeigt hat und sich besonders für eine bestimmte Bibliotheksart und -größe eignet.
Von der Bibliothek zum Lernort – Ganzheitliche Konzepte für studentische Lernräume
Authors: Wittenauer Volker , Neumann Marlene
Published: October 2015

Bibliotheken als intensiv genutzte Lernorte stehen heutzutage vor besonderen Herausforderungen. Um Studierende ganzheitlich in ihrem Lernen und Arbeiten zu unterstützen, sind Konzepte notwendig, die traditionelle bibliothekarische Kernkompetenzen mit innovativen Services verknüpfen. Die Badische Landesbibliothek richtet ihr Service-Portfolio seit einigen Jahren gezielt an den Bedürfnissen studentischer Nutzer aus. Sie bietet ein breit gefächertes Angebot, das sowohl räumliche als auch soziale Komponenten der Lernortgestaltung berücksichtigt.