bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Long-term Patterns of Patient Portal Use for Pediatric Patients at an Academic Medical Center
Authors: Cronin Robert M. , Davis Sharon E. , Yan Ellen , Jackson Gretchen P. , Steitz Bryan D.
Published: August 2017

Background: Patient portal adoption has increased over the last two decades. Most research about patient portals has focused on adult populations in the primary care and medical specialty settings.

Objective: We describe initial and long-term portal use by pediatric patients and their caregivers in a broadly deployed patient portal at an academic medical center.

Methods: We analyzed portal usage for pediatric patients and their caregivers from 2008 to 2014. We recorded usage events with time stamps; user role defined as self, surrogate (i.e., parent or guardian), or delegate; and functions accessed. Usage events were grouped into sessions to calculate descriptive statistics by patient age, user role, and active use over time.

Results: From 2008 to 2014, the number of portal accounts increased from 633 to 17,128. 15.9% of pediatric patients had their own account; 93.6%, a surrogate account; and 2.2% a delegate account. During the study period, 15,711 unique users initiated 493,753 sessions and accessed 1,491,237 functions. Most commonly used functions were secure messaging (accessed in 309,204 sessions; 62.6%); test results (174,239; 35.3%) and appointments (104,830; 21.2%). Function usage was greatest for patients ages 0-2 years (136,245 functions accessed; 23.1%) and 15-17 years (109,241;18.5%). Surrogate users conducted 83.2% of logins for adolescent patients. Portal accounts were actively used for < 1 year for 9,551 patients (55.8%), 1-2 years for 2,826 patients (16.5%), 2–3 years for 1,968 patients (11.5%) and over 3 years for 2,783 patients (16.3%).

Conclusion: Pediatric patients and caregivers have avidly used messaging, test result, and appointment functions. The majority of access was done by surrogates. Adolescent portal usage increased with age. Most accounts for pediatric patients were only used actively for a few years, with peak usage for patients in early childhood and late adolescence.

Citation: Steitz BD, Cronin RM, Davis SE, Yan Z, Jackson GP. Long-term Patterns of Patient Portal Use for Pediatric Patients at an Academic Medical Center. Appl Clin Inform 2017; 8: 779–793 https://doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2017-01-RA-0005
Comparison of BiliCare Transcutaneous Bilirubinometer with Standard Laboratory Assay
Authors: Warade Jayesh
Published: August 2017

Introduction

Jaundice is the visible manifestation of chemical bilirubinemia and is characterized by yellow discoloration of skin. In a pediatric emergency department, evaluation of jaundice includes a precise medical history, physical examination, and estimation of bilirubin by laboratory tests. Measurement of total serum bilirubin (TSB) by transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) is interpreted according to the age (in hours) of the newborn infant. Studies have also indicated that the TcB determination is more accurate than visual estimation methods.

Aim

To compare BiliCare System against standard laboratory testing for bilirubin estimation.

Results

The coefficient of correlation was r = 0.7245, and the standard deviation between the mean values of TcB and TSB is ±0.55.

Conclusion

It is concluded from the study that there is good correlation between TcB measurement and laboratory estimation of total bilirubin levels. It is recommended that transcutaneous measurement can be used for initial screening of jaundice as well as monitoring of phototherapy in neonates.

How to cite this article

Warade J. Comparison of BiliCare Transcutaneous Bilirubinometer with Standard Laboratory Assay. Indian J Med Biochem 2017;21(1):1-4.
Immune Response Profiling of Patients with Anogenital Warts
Authors: Singh Manjula , Thakral Deepshi , Kar Hemanta K , Rishi Narayan , Mitra Dipendra K
Published: August 2017

The incidence of anogenital warts, commonly caused by human papillomavirus (HPV-6 and HPV-11), is increasing worldwide. These infections are frequently associated with relapse, possibly due to weak host immunity. However, the role of cell-mediated immune players in combating infection is not clearly understood till date. Here, we attempted to understand the immune profile among patients with anogenital warts. In this study, we compared the T-helper cell (Th1 and Th2) response in patients with venereal warts due to HPV-6 and HPV-11 infection relative to healthy controls (HCs)in vitro. In thein vitromodel, the peripheral blood mononuclear cells were stimulated with HPV peptide 6 or 11, stained for T-cell surface marker and intracellular cytokines (interferon [IFN]-□ and interleukin [IL]-4), and were analyzed by flow cytometry. In the present study, significant decrease was observed in the frequency of IFN-□ T cells as compared with HCs. On the contrary, frequency of T cells expressing IL-4 was significantly increased in the patients. The observed functional skewing of HPV-specific T cells from Th1 to Th2 response in patients indicated suppressed immunity against the HPVs. Findings of our study have potential in the near future for strategizing adjunct immunomodulation approaches with the standard treatment for early remission and prevention of recurrence.

How to cite this article

Singh M, Thakral D, Kar HK, Rishi N, Mitra DK. Immune Response Profiling of Patients with Anogenital Warts. Indian J Med Biochem 2017;21(1):11-16.
Establishment of Reference Intervals of Serum Hepatic Enzymes in Tertiary Care Hospital: A Pilot Study
Authors: Rai P Shruthi , Shetty Sukanya , Patil Priya , Bhandary Roopa
Published: August 2017

Introduction

Reference intervals are the most common decision-making tools for the interpretation of various biochemical reports. Age, sex, ethnicity, diet, physical, and socioeconomic conditions affect the physiology of population. Hence, it is necessary to set up the reference values that are applicable to a specific population rather than using the reference values established for other population-based studies or from the literature provided by the reagent kit manufacturers.

Aims and objectives

To establish the reference intervals of serum hepatic enzymes in tertiary care hospital.

Materials and methods

Hospital-based cross-sectional study was done involving 200 subjects. The subjects were randomly selected from the population, which included medical students, health professionals, and those attending different outpatient departments and health camps organized by the hospital for general checkups under health plan scheme. Serum alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate transaminase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) were estimated by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry-recommended kinetic method and GGT by enzymatic colorimetric method. To obtain reference interval, 97.5th percentile and 2.5th percentile were used.

Results

The results for serum AST and GGT were found to be statistically significant. Hence separate reference intervals for both male and female were set up. Generalized reference intervals were established for serum ALT and ALP levels.

Conclusion

The present study revealed a significant difference in the reference intervals between males and females.

How to cite this article

Rai PS, Shetty S, Patil P, Bhandary R. Establishment of Reference Intervals of Serum Hepatic Enzymes in Tertiary Care Hospital: A Pilot Study. Indian J Med Biochem 2017;21(1):22-24.
Does Prolonged Storage of Serum Samples alter the Lab Results?
Authors: Tayal Devika , Gupta Mrinal
Published: August 2017

Background

Sample storage for prolonged periods can lead to alterations in routine biochemical parameters.

Aim

This study was undertaken to observe the biochemical changes on serum samples when they are stored for prolonged periods at –20°C on different routine biochemical parameters.

Results

Significant changes were observed in serum glucose, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), creatinine, and potassium levels after 72 hours of storage, which further deteriorate in 3 months. Rest of the parameters did not show any significant alteration.

Conclusion

Prolonged storage of samples lead to alterations in the analyte concentration in serum. Serum glucose, AST, ALT, creatinine, and potassium levels should be estimated within 72 hours if prolonged storage is unavoidable. In conclusion, all the parameters should be assayed within 24 hours to avoid misinterpretation of results and better patient care.

How to cite this article

Tayal D, Gupta M, Goswami B. Does Prolonged Storage of Serum Samples alter the Lab Results? Indian J Med Biochem 2017;21(1):30-33.
Status and Effect of Vitamin D on Microvascular Complication in Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients
Authors: Kishore P Krushna , Choudhary Ipsita
Published: August 2017

Introduction

Vitamin D has a great impact on human health and disease. Recent studies proved that hypovitaminosis D is a possible risk factor for the pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications. In the present study, we evaluated vitamin D levels and its correlation with the duration of diabetes, sex, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C), and microvascular complications in type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with and without microvascular complications.

Objectives

To study and correlate vitamin D levels and its relation with duration of diabetes, sex, glycemic control, and microvascular complication in T2DM patients with and without microvascular complications.

Materials and methods

Cross-sectional case–control study of 200 patients (35–70 years) suffering from T2DM was included. The T2DM patients without microvascular complications served as control group. Enrolled subjects underwent complete physical examination to detect the presence of microvascular complications, which includes microfilament tests, detailed fundus examination, urinary microalbumin/creatinine ratio. Fasting blood sugar, HbA1C, and serum vitamin D were also measured by using serum sample.

Results

Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency was found to be significantly higher in T2DM patients with microvascular complications (19.54 ± 2.56 vs 28.57 ± 2.93) as compared with T2DM patients without microvascular complications (p < 0.001). Hypovitaminosis D was found to be significantly more in females (60.75%) compared with males (39.96%) in both the study groups (p < 0.0001). Hypovitaminosis D was correlated with glycemic control and prevalence of microvascular complications.

Conclusion

Vitamin D is correlated with glycemic status and sex difference and has a role in pathogenesis of T2DM and its complications.

How to cite this article

Kishore PK, Choudhary I. Status and Effect of Vitamin D on Microvascular Complication in Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients. Indian J Med Biochem 2017;21(1):34-37.
Novel Lipid Indices as a Better Marker of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Authors: Sirigere Muruga , Meera S
Published: August 2017

Introduction

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the major leading cause of mortality in men and women around the globe. The incidence of CVD increases with age in both the sexes, whereas it has been noted that there is a marked increase in risk among women after menopause. The hormonal changes associated with the menopause like low level of plasma estrogen and marked increase in follicle stimulating hormone levels exert a significant effect on metabolism of plasma lipids and lipoproteins leading to atherosclerosis, thereby increasing the risk of CVD in postmenopausal women.

Objectives

To study the lipid profile parameters and to calculate and compare the lipid indices with lipid profile parameters in pre- and postmenopausal women.

Materials and methods

The study group included 90 women comprising 45 postmenopausal (cases) and 45 premenopausal (control) women. To estimate lipid profile, enzymatic method was used and for calculation of lipid indices appropriate formula was used.

Results

Altered lipid profile was observed in postmenopausal women, but it was not statistically significant. Atherogenic Index of Plasma, Castelli's risk index-I, atherogenic coefficient, and nonhigh-density lipoprotein cholesterol were significantly increased in postmenopausal women compared with premenopausal women, but there was no significant increase in Castelli's risk index-II.

Conclusion

Lipid indices may be considered as a better and cost-effective tool in assessing the risk of CVD in postmenopausal women.

How to cite this article

Sirigere M, Meera S. Novel Lipid Indices as a Better Marker of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women. Indian J Med Biochem 2017;21(1):38-41.
Case-based Learning in Biochemistry: An Innovative Criterion-based Assessment Module for Effective Learning among MBBS Phase 1 Students in India
Authors: Axita Vani C , Mudaraddi Rakesh T , Shetty Praveenkumar , Shilpasree AS
Published: August 2017

Introduction

The main focus of case-based learning (CBL) is to integrate basic science material with clinical science. Case-based learning may be designed and introduced along with traditional didactic lectures in a way that it creates interest, promotes better understanding, active participation, and self-directed learning. The student should be motivated to become a life-long learner.

Intervention

We have formulated an innovative criterion-based module for implementation and evaluation of MBBS phase 1 students. This includes framing of a time schedule for distribution of teaching hours based on multiple teaching tools and module for conducting CBL sessions. This will be assessed by evaluation of student performance using a newly developed valid assessment tool.

Materials and methods

For the CBL sessions, 100 students of phase 1 MBBS course were included. They were divided into 10 groups of 10 students each. Ten clinical cases were selected for CBL sessions. Each student was given two cases for discussion. Pretest was conducted before and posttest after the CBL session. The session was conducted as planned in the module. The performance of the students was analyzed. Feedback from the students and teachers were taken and analyzed for its utility and effectiveness.

Results

The performance of the students showed drastic improvement after the CBL sessions (p < 0.0001); 85% of the students and 80% of the teachers agreed that CBL helps in deep learning and critical thinking; 84% of students and 73% teachers felt that CBL makes subject interesting with good retention of contents and reasoning ability for their future medical practice.

Conclusion

Our newly formulated assessment tool stands appropriate, which can be included in the present curriculum. Both the teachers and the students were satisfied with this kind of teaching method. This innovative teaching module and our newly formulated assessment tool proved to be very effective for learning biochemistry.

How to cite this article

Patil VP, Patil VS, Kulkarni SP, Trivedi DJ, Axita VC, Mudaraddi RT, Shetty P, Bargale AB, Kamble PS, Ingleshwar DG, Shilpasree AS. Case-based Learning in Biochemistry: An Innovative Criterion-based Assessment Module for Effective Learning among MBBS Phase 1 Students in India. Indian J Med Biochem 2017;21(1):62-68.
Materialidades do texto: um percurso histórico
Authors: Barbosa Aline Leal
Published: August 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2015v11n1p263Este artigo focalizará a questão da materialidade do texto e dos seus suportes, indissociável das suas condições de produção, transmissão e recepção. Para abordá-la, colocaremos em diálogo o pensamento de Jacques Rancière e de Roger Chartier. O primeiro parte do mito platônico do Fedro para fixar a dupla crítica que é feita à escrita: ser ao mesmo tempo muda e falante demais, e trata de uma nostalgia da presença, da letra órfã à procura de um pai, de um corpo em que encarnar. Chartier, por sua vez, confere ênfase às transformações das práticas de leitura no percurso do rolo ao códice e na mais recente revolução que consistiria no novo suporte representado pelas telas.
Reading hypermedia narrative stars, 88 Constellations For Wittgenstein by David Clark. Analytical approach to Constellation 18 Cassiopeia
Authors: Meza Nohelia
Published: August 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2015v11n1p287Este artigo apresenta uma abordagem para analisar elementos de hipermídia encontrados no discurso de "Cassiopeia", uma das constelações que compõem 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (To Be Played with the Left Hand) (2011), pelo artista [ ] David Clark. Embora existam muitas abordagens para o tema da literatura eletrônica, ainda há muitas obras inexploradas esperando para serem estudadas, o que, indubitavelmente, levantará questões sobre a literalidade da literatura eletrônica. Este artigo descreve brevemente as questões de representação, temporalidade, semióticas, interação e manipulação nesta constelação específica do trabalho acima mencionado. O artigo utiliza teorias literárias específicas do meio digital (possibilidades temporais em textos programados, níveis temporais para cibertextos com conteúdo narrativo, acoplamento pluricode, instabilidade de obras digitais) a fim de examinar as nuances e gradações da textualidade eletrônica e da recepção literária. A análise mostra que a manipulação e a interação do usuário com a obra afetam certos elementos do discurso narrativo hipermídial e sugere novas possibilidades de interpretação temporal e semiótica.
Glitch Art e suas relações com o passado da arte visual
Authors: Gazana Cleber , Bertomeu Virgínia Pereira Cegato , Bertomeu João Vicente Cegato
Published: August 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2015v11n1p315Este artigo discute a arte Glitch digital e suas relações com a arte visual do passado, com ênfase na arte moderna, com o intuito de entendermos o porquê e como este recente gênero artístico e sua estética são apreciados atualmente. Começamos definindo a arte Glitch e suas duas classificações mais difundidas: Pure glitch e Glitch-alike, assim como descrevemos suas características visuais e apresentamos artistas que utilizam a estética do erro. Seguimos para uma breve e relevante apresentação da música Glitch e de alguns artistas no campo da arte sonora do ruído e do som danificado, a fim de constatar semelhanças entre as práticas sonoras e visuais. Avançamos na investigação das diversas características das artes do passado, em suas diferentes manifestações visuais, e suas relações com a arte Glitch, para assim entendermos que muito do que se aprecia hoje neste gênero artístico são elementos que já vem sendo considerados e debatidos como arte há séculos atrás.
Estácio, "Aquileida", I.318-337, Apresentação e tradução
Authors: Estácio Públio Papínio , Moreira Daniel Da Silva
Published: August 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-4237.2014n16p184Este texto apresenta e contextualiza uma tradução versificada de uma importante passagem do primeiro livro da Aquileida (Achilleis), de Públio Papínio Estácio, poeta romano do século I d.C.ABSTRACTThis text presents and contextualizes a versified translation of an important passage from the first book of the Achilleid, by Publius Papinius Statius, a Roman poet from the first century a.D.Keywords: Statius; Achilleid; epic poetry; translation.
Translation of Cecília Meireles’ Elegia with Commentary
Authors: Meireles Cecília , Holloway Patrick
Published: August 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-4237.2014n16p195"Elegia" é um poema de Cecília Meireles carregado de sentimento. Já em sua dedicatória (À memória de Jacinta Garcia Benevides, Minha avó) fica claro que o leitor está a ponto de entrar uma terra de nostalgia e ‘saudades’ (palavra intraduzível). No poema, Meireles alia a tristeza e a dor pela perda de sua avó a sentimentos relacionados à natureza e à beleza, derivados das memórias com ela a partir das quais aprendeu a contemplar e amar todas as coisas. Esta tradução comentada espera revelar como o tradutor da "Elegia" conseguiu vertê-la para a língua inglesa e criar uma versão que, por um lado, se mantém de pé por si mesma na língua e cultura alvo, e, por outro, permite ao leitor ter o mesmo tato e sentimento em inglês pela poesia de Meireles como os têm os leitores em português.ABSTRACT"Elegia" is a poem written by Cecília Meireles laden with sentiment. From its dedication (In memory of Jacinta Garcia Benevides, my grandmother) it is clear that the reader is entering into a land of nostalgia and ‘saudades’ (an untranslatable word). In this poem Meireles allies the sadness and pain over the loss of her grandmother to feelings of nature and beauty derived from the memories with her grandmother in which she was taught to contemplate and love all things. This translation with commentary hopes to show how the translator of the poem was able to render Cecília Meirele’s "Elegia" into the English language and to create a translation that on one hand stands alone in the target language and culture and on the other allows the reader to get the same feel for Meirele’s poetry in English as they do in Portuguese.Keywords: Cecília Meireles; Elegy; poetry translation; translation with commentary.
Translating Homer / Traduzindo Homero
Authors: Johnson Samuel , Althoff Gustavo , Furlan Mauri
Published: August 2017

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), crítico, ensaísta, jornalista, poeta, educador e lexicógrafo, é considerado uma das personalidades mais proeminentes no mundo intelectual da Bretanha do século XVIII. Em 1777, ele recebeu a proposta de um grupo de livreiros para escreveruma série de vidas de poetas ingleses, e entre 1779-81 foi publicada a obra TheLives of the English Poets, a qual contém a vida de Alexander Pope (1688-1744),de onde extraímos o excerto abaixo. (Robinson, 2002). Samuel Johnson elogia o trabalho de Pope na tradução de Homero e a sua contribuição para a versificação em inglês. E observa que a tradução de Pope não é fiel e não tem a simplicidade do original. Johnson, contudo, justifica as variações apresentadas por Pope em sua tradução em razão da distância existente entre aslínguas, as épocas, os lugares.
Entre babel e babilônia: formas de discursivização e políticas linguísticas
Authors: Arnhold de Azevedo Liliam Keide
Published: August 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2015v16n2p162A vinda de imigrantes alemães para o Sul do Brasil se insere em um contexto de tensões e confrontos derivado de um quadro de instabilidades econômicas e políticas que marcaram a Europa do início do século XIX. Diante desse cenário fragmentado e plurilíngue, procuramos traçar um panorama que possa favorecer a compreensão sobre a dinâmica linguística que fundamentou a imigração para o Rio Grande do Sul, e no caso desta pesquisa em particular, para Salvador do Sul (RS). Entende-se que a oficialização de uma língua como pretexto para a proteção de uma dada cultura “germânica” implica não apenas tematizar aspectos históricos, culturais e identitários, mas considerar as rela­ções de poder que perpassam esse processo.
Língua portuguesa como invenção histórica:brasilidade, africanidade e poder em tela
Authors: Severo Cristine Gorski
Published: August 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2015v16n2p35Trata-se de rastrear o percurso histórico-político de construção de uma dada noção de língua portuguesa atrelada aos conceitos de brasilidade e de africanidade. Para tanto, o artigo enfoca dois momentos diferentes: (i) o período 1920-1945, que compre­ende os trabalhos de modernistas e outros intelectuais, bem como as políticas estatais da Era Vargas; (ii) e o período contemporâneo pós-2000, que envolve as políticas nacionais em defesa da diversidade. Busca-se analisar alguns conceitos – como regionalismo, mis­cigenação, nacionalismo e brasilidade – à luz de regimes de saber específicos que instau­raram diferentes chaves teóricas de discursivização da língua portuguesa na sua relação com as africanidades. O texto se filia a uma abordagem de políticas linguísticas críticas que visa problematizar os sentidos históricos de língua, evidenciando as relações de po­der que inscrevem esses sentidos.
Possibilidades e limites da formação continuada na escola sob a orientação de política educativa performática
Authors: Finholdt Ângelo Leite Vania , Spolidoro Freund Cristina
Published: August 2017

O artigo analisa as estratégias didáticas da formação continuada utilizada por uma coordenadora pedagógica de escola municipal de primeiro segmento do Rio de Janeiro em parceria com outros educadores. A partir do diálogo com os referenciais teóricos (Ball, Libâneo, Tardif e Freire), pretende-se refletir sobre limites e possibilidades de uma formação continuada na escola que mantenha preocupação com a função social da Educação e da formação do cidadão em tempos de políticas educacionais performáticas. Os dados foram coletados em observações de reuniões, análise de documentos e entrevistas. Conclui-se que a coordenadora pedagógica buscou desenvolver uma formação continuada com ajustes secundários à política educacional performática, por já existir um trabalho coletivo, entre docentes e famílias, em torno do projeto da escola. Isso possibilitou que ela buscasse um consenso em relação aos conteúdos e como mobilizar os alunos para aprendê-los. Apresentam-se como limitações do processo de formação: o tempo previsto pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação para formação continuada, as diferentes perspectivas sobre o papel da escola e a dificuldade para estabelecer parcerias com outras instituições e/ou profissionais. Sem parcerias, a formação continuada fica restrita à realidade e aos saberes locais, perdendo os benefícios de novos e outros saberes de outros profissionais. Uma das possibilidades de superação dos limites apontados seria a busca de parceria com grupos de pesquisa de universidades.
Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí, de uitvinding van ‘de vrouw’ en de grenzen van de (feministische) filosofie
Authors: Coetzee Azille
Published: August 2017

Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí, the Invention of Women and the Limits of (Feminist) Philosophy

In this paper I argue that the work of Nigerian feminist scholar Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí reveals the limitations of the attempts by Western feminist philosophers to subvert philosophy’s occupation with the universal. By paying close attention to the particularities of Yorùbá society, Oyĕwùmí creates a knowledge framework or epistemology that poses a profound challenge to Western feminist thought by undermining and disputing the universality of its foundational concepts. She illustrates how the concepts central to Western feminist thought, such as ‘woman’ and ‘gender’ are constructed on the basis of Western cultural particulars which are universalized at the expense of societies with alternative cultural and social configurations. Her work therefore reveals the way in which Western feminist thought, despite its attempts to produce knowledge that is situated and rooted in the particular, remains permeated with and reliant on Western concepts that it uncritically assumes to be universal. I place Oyĕwùmí in dialogue with Belgian feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray to illustrate this point in more concrete terms. I show that although Irigaray identifies and explains how philosophy works to silence and erase Others, and what must be done to overcome this, her focus on sexual difference leads her to step into the same trap as the philosophers she criticizes.
Kunnen moslims denken?
Authors: Leezenberg Michiel
Published: August 2017

Can Muslims Think? The Invisibility of the Islamic Philosophical Tradition

This paper discusses some authors and genres of the classcial Islamic tradition not generally recognized as philosophical, but relevant both for the understanding of today’s confrontation between the Islamic world and the liberal West, and for academic philosophical discussions of Islam. I focus on the theologian Ibn Taymiyya, who has been hijacked by modern salafi-jihadi activists, but who gives a critique of Aristotelian syllogistic that is philosophically serious and substantial, and on the classical Persian poetic tradition, which turns out to embody an ethical tradition of practical humanist wisdom. An awareness of the very existence of such traditions can help to combat the reductionist and ahistorical views of the Islamic world that pervade the contemporary public debate.
Werkzame principes
Authors: Rol Menno
Published: August 2017

Working principles: Building scientific memories in social research

Internal and external validity of experimental and quasi-experimental research are both essential in the evaluation of interventions; this is true in such diverse practices as social policy and pharmacology. However, they may trade-off if the quest for internal validity brings about the treatment of contextual variables – that helped to make or fail the intervention – as competing with the intervention instead of necessary for its success. Investment in internal validity takes the form of many types of correction for bias, often obscuring the role of contextual factors.

As helping factors make or break the intervention, they should rather be treated as causal factors of interest no less than the intervention. I claim that, only then, the conclusions of the (quasi)experiment can serve to gain knowledge of working principles in a variety of contexts.

Correction for bias is useful, but only if the evaluation of the success of an intervention is theory driven. Ex ante explanatory hypotheses must be the starting point of evaluation research and testing them the object of it. Thus, the empirical cycle is covered entirely. If no theoretical hypotheses guide the questions of evaluation research, all we will learn is that ‘most interventions sometimes work’, to speak with Pawson and Tilley (1997). What we are left with is little more than meaningless intervention-impact couples that cover half the empirical cycle lacking any cognitive value.
De eenheid van een gedachte
Authors: Mulder Jesse M.
Published: August 2017

The Unity of a Thought. On the Relation Between Logic and Metaphysics, and the Nature of Thought

What does the unity of a thought consist in? The analytic tradition typically accepts the Fregean answer to this question: a thought is, in the fundamental case, the result of applying a concept to an appropriate range of objects. Yet upon reflection this turns out to be insufficient. I follow Rödl’s exploration of the unity of temporal thoughts, which shows this unity to be differentiated in such a way as to give rise to the basic metaphysical categories of time, causality, essence, and power. These considerations seem to warrant three conclusions: first, reality is conceptual in nature; second, metaphysics and logic are one and the same subject; and third, these two conclusions are to be taken in an absolute metaphysical sense.
A Lagrangian perspective of the hydrological cycle in the Congo River basin
Authors: Sorí Rogert , Nieto Raquel , Vicente-Serrano Sergio M. , Drumond Anita , Gimeno Luis
Published: August 2017

Abstract. The Lagrangian model FLEXPART is used to identify the moisture sources of the Congo River basin (CRB) and investigate their role in the hydrological cycle. This model allows us to track atmospheric parcels while calculating changes in the specific humidity through the budget of evaporation minus precipitation. This method permits the annual-scale identification of five continental and four oceanic principal regions that provide moisture to the CRB from both hemispheres over the course of the year. The most important is the CRB, which provides more than 50 % of the total atmospheric moisture contribution to precipitation over itself. Additionally, both the land that extends to the east of the CRB and the eastern equatorial South Atlantic Ocean are very important sources, while the Red Sea source is merely important in the (E − P) budget over the CRB despite its high evaporation rate. The moisture-sink patterns over the CRB in air masses that were tracked forward in time from all the sources follow the latitudinal rainfall migration and are mostly highly correlated with the pattern of the precipitation rate, ensuring a link between them. In wet (dry) years, the contribution of moisture to precipitation from the CRB over itself increases (decreases). Despite the enhanced evaporative conditions over the basin during dry years, the vertically integrated moisture flux (VIMF) divergence inhibits precipitation and suggests the transport of moisture from the CRB to remote regions.
'Arrepentirse' en el Nuevo Testamento en griego y en latín: el empleo de las construcciones con verbo soporte en la Vulgata
Authors: Miguel Baños José , Jiménez López Mª Dolores
Published: August 2017

En este trabajo nos proponemos analizar las razones lingüísticas por las que los verbos griegos μετανοέω y μεταμέλομαι (‘arrepentirse’) del Nuevo Testamento se traducen en la Vulgata, bien mediante un verbo simple (paenitere), bien, lo más frecuente, mediante distintas colocaciones: paenitentiam agere, paenitentiam habere, paenitentiā ductus y paenitentiā motus. Para profundizar en los criterios que guían la traducción latina, analizaremos, por un lado, las diferencias entre μετανοέω y μεταμέλομαι en griego clásico y neotestamentario, y, por otro, los criterios de empleo de la doble construcción sintáctica de paenitere (impersonal y personal) y de las distintas colocaciones con paenitentia en el Nuevo Testamento y a lo largo de la historia del latín.
De las gnomologías griegas a los dicta sapientum: estudio de fuentes para el capítulo de Sócrates en el Liber philosophorum
Authors: Madrid Medrano Sonia
Published: August 2017

El Mokhtâr al-Hikam wa-mahāsim al-kalim (Selección de sentencias y las más bellas palabras), escrito por el emir sirio-egipcio Abu’l Wafa al-Mubassir ben Fatik en torno a los años 1048-49, es una colección de sentencias morales atribuidas a filósofos y sabios de la Antigüedad. Este texto fue traducido al castellano y al latín, probablemente de forma simultánea y oral. El texto español recibió el nombre de los Bocados de oro. La versión latina, titulada Liber philosophorum moralium antiquorum, sirvió para que la obra de al-Mubassir se difundiera rápidamente por toda Europa a través de la ruta del saber que unía la Península Ibérica con el resto del continente. Tanto la obra de al-Mubassir como su traslación al castellano (los Bocados) y al latín (el Liber) denotan que el texto se vale de ciertas fuentes de la Antigüedad grecorromana, pero tamizadas a través de un filtro de pensamiento monoteísta (percibido como cristiano en las traducciones occidentales). Para ilustrar este fenómeno, el presente artículo identifica y analiza las fuentes —tanto pertenecientes a la tradición clásica grecorromana como contemporáneas al autor— que al-Mubassir utilizó para componer el capítulo dedicado a Sócrates. El artículo presta especial atención a las variaciones que han sufrido las fuentes grecorromanas al pasar al texto de al-Mubassir, debido al uso de tradiciones medievales (ya sean de origen árabe, siríaco o cristiano) que utilizó el autor para completar su texto.
El ejemplar salmantino de los Aphthonii clarissimi rhetoris Progymnasmata Ioanne Maria Catanaeo interprete, de Juan Lorenzo Palmireno (BG/221825): la recuperación de una obra perdida
Authors: Arcos Pereira Trinidad
Published: August 2017

Juan Lorenzo Palmireno publica en 1552 en Valencia su Aphthonii Clarissimi Rhetoris Progymnasmata, con la versión de Joannes Maria Cataneo, obra de la que hasta ahora no conservábamos ejemplares. El trabajo presenta el ejemplar de esta obra que se conserva en la Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca con la signatura BG/221825 (8) y que he hallado en 2014 durante el transcurso de un trabajo sobre los Progymnasmata. Está encuadernado con ocho obras más y procede del Colegio Mayor de Cuenca. La obra se inicia con una epístola dedicatoria a Jerónima Ribot y Ribelles, señora de Alcudia y Rassalany (1v-2v), fechada en Valencia, el 23 de septiembre de 1522. A continuación, aparece la traducción de Giovanni Maria Catanaeo de los Progymnasmata de Aftonio (3r-22v), que ocupa la mayor parte del libro (Aphtonii Rhetoris Progymnasmata, Ioanne Maria Catanaeo interprete) y que el humanista alcañizano ha preferido a las de Agrícola, Bonfini y Prisciano (sic). Le siguen los Ioannis Laurentii Palmyreni Scholia in Aphthonium (23r-26v), a los que precede una carta al lector en la que Palmireno explica la naturaleza de su comentario y las diferencias con otros. El volumen se cierra con una carta del librero Antoni Sanahuja (Antonius Sanahuia Bibliopola studioso, 28r-28v).
Homo Sacer, Homo Magus, and the Ethics of Philosophical Archaeology
Authors: Leib Robert S.
Published: August 2017

Philosophical archaeology, which was first developed into a workable formulation by Michel Foucault (1966), is a method of modern historiography that engages the production of its own origin (and destiny). For this reason, however, the manner in which the figure of “man” is inscribed by a thinker upon its episteme is never ethically neutral. Giorgio Agamben's production of a figure without speech, homo sacer, delivers the Western political subject into a powerless political destiny, leaving thinkers who accept this paradigm to grope blindly after a rarified concept of “whatever” community. We must give an alternative archaeology of political speech to avoid this fate. Thus, I propose an archaeological account of a figure that is in essential possession of its own speech. This paradigmatic figure is what I call the magician, or homo magus.
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Phenomenology of the Body
Authors: Haile James B.
Published: August 2017

The publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me (2015) has been met with mixed and widespread reviews and reactions. Responses have ranged from a critique of his “pessimism” to a grand celebratory remark announcing him as the next great intellectual and social critic in the mold of James Baldwin. Yet there are few reviews that have acknowledged Coates's project as a materialist cosmology of the body, meaning that while Coates embraces terrestriality over transcendence, he nevertheless sees great possibilities in the body, the greatest of which is the creation and destruction of “galaxies of reality.” More than just examining race and race relations in the midst of one of the highest incidences of black death, Coates's book examines the meaning of this lived reality at the level of the body and its capacities to both open up and close down material possibilities of life and death. This article will investigate the meaning of the body in Coates's book, its relationship to “race,” and will argue that while Coates does not offer us a solution to the problem of racial embodiment, he does offer the idea that one can and must make peace within the chaos of existence.
EpLearning: ferramenta de ensino-aprendizagem a distância para auxiliar a tarefa da análise da reatividade epitópica no processo de transplante de órgãos
Authors: De Sousa Joana Darc Carvalho , Aita Keylla Maria De Sá Urtiga , Dos Santos Airon Wellington Lima , Do Monte Semiramis Jamil Hadad , Da Silva Adalberto Socorro , Sousa Luiz Cláudio Demes da Mata
Published: August 2017

Este artigo transcorre sobre os métodos de criação e aplicabilidade de uma ferramenta de aprendizagem eletrônica (e-learning), desenvolvida para viabilizar a disseminação do conhecimento sobre a tarefa da Análise de Reatividade Epitópica no processo de transplantes de órgãos e tecidos, bem como capacitar recursos humanos para desempenhar esta tarefa. A ferramenta em questão foi denominada EpLearning e é resultante de um projeto acadêmico desenvolvido no Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação Tecnológica e Inovação da Universidade Federal do Piauí (PIBITI-UFPI).
CLIMAP – APLICATIVO PARA ANÁLISE DE DADOS CLIMÁTICOS - VERSÃO 3.0
Authors: Salvador Mozar De Araújo
Published: August 2017

O CLIMAP é uma ferramenta computacional para análise de dados meteorológicos diários. As variáveis meteorológicas analisadas são três fixas, chuva, temperatura máxima e temperatura mínima, e uma quarta variável escolhida pelo usuário. Nesse aplicativo são utilizadas técnicas estatísticas para análise de variação e tendência nas séries de chuva e temperatura. Diversos índices de extremos também são disponibilizados. A ferramenta disponibiliza recursos para análise de correlação entre índices climáticos e as séries de chuva e temperatura. O aplicativo é de fácil instalação e uso, com uma interface gráfica simples e objetiva. O CLIMAP foi desenvolvido em linguagem Python 2.7.6. Nesta nota técnica foi feito um estudo de caso para estação meteorológica de Brasília com o objetivo de mostrar um exemplo prático do uso da ferramenta e a análise de seus resultados
EFEITOS GLOBAIS DA TEMPERATURA E DA PRECIPITAÇÃO EM TELHADOS VERDES
Authors: Ohnuma Junior Alfredo Akira , Gomes Marcia Marques , Da Silva Luciene Pimentel
Published: August 2017

O efeito direto da temperatura, da radiação solar e da precipitação nas cidades pode provocar impactos como as ilhas de calor e as inundações urbanas. O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar a influência de fatores e elementos meteorológicos no comportamento de telhados verdes instalados em mais de 100 países a partir da classificação climática de Köppen-Geiger. Foram mapeados mais de 170 artigos científicos publicados em periódicos nacionais e internacionais com estudos experimentais e de modelagem aplicados em telhados verdes. Os resultados indicam predominância de 70% de estudos com telhados verdes em áreas de clima temperado, sendo 65% das pesquisas relacionadas ao conforto térmico e à quantidade e qualidade da retenção do escoamento superficial. As pesquisas revelam relativa influência de fatores geográficos que condicionam os elementos climáticos de temperatura e precipitação na capacidade de retenção do escoamento superficial em telhados verdes, entretanto são capazes de condicionar sistemas de arrefecimento à medida que delimitam efeitos térmicos provocados por variações de temperatura presentes nas superfícies de telhados verdes.
SELEÇÃO DE ANOS-PADRÃO PARA ANÁLISE RÍTMICA EM ESTUDOS DE CONFORTO TÉRMICO: UMA PROPOSTA DE “CONFORTOGRAMAS” A PARTIR DE ÍNDICES
Authors: Guimarães da Silva Liliane Flávia , E Souza Lucas Barbosa
Published: August 2017

A técnica de análise rítmica aplica-se a diversos estudos climáticos, incluindo estudos em conforto térmico. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo propor um método de seleção dos anos-padrão para análise rítmica, voltado a estudos em conforto térmico, a partir de um índice e priorizando a característica absoluta do dado, por meio de análise de frequências. A proposta resulta em “Confortogramas”, instrumentos utilizados pelo pesquisador para classificar os anos-padrão em habitual, confortável, desconfortável para o frio e desconfortável para o calor. O procedimento proposto é exemplificado numa aplicação prática, na cidade de Palmas, Tocantins. A metodologia apresentou-se eficiente, possibilitando realizar um recorte temporal para análise rítmica que considere o ritmo do comportamento do conforto térmico.
Editorial
Authors: Climatologia Revista Brasileira de
Published: August 2017

Editorial da Revista Brasileira de Climatologia Edição 20
Role of Intellectual Capital and Work Behavior in Supporting Lecturer’s Performance
Authors: Rahim Abd. Rahman , Jusriadi Edi , - Ruliaty
Published: August 2017

Muhammadiyah Universities in South Sulawesi face the challenges of competitiveness, quality of human resources and lecturer’s on Tridharma performance in the field of education and teaching, research and scientific publications, and dedication to the community and other support activities.This research aims at reconstructing the development of intellectual capital through Al-Islam Kemuhammadiyaan values approach. So as to create good work behavior in order to support the university’s performance on Tridharma.This research is a quantitative research with positivist approach. The research design used in quantitative research is an explanatory research using survey methods at 10 Muhammadiyah universities in South Sulawesi by distributing questionnaires to 154 lecturers, but that can be processed only 146 questionnaires. Primary data were then analyzed using Structural Equations Models (SEM) techniques and the program is Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS).The research findings are: (1) intellectual capital contribute significantly in supporting the lecturer’s work behavior of Muhammadiyah Universities in South Sulawesi. (2) intellectual capital does not contribute significantly in supporting the lecturer’s Tridharma performance of Muhammadiyah Universities in South Sulawesi. (3) work behavior contribute significantly in supporting lecturer’s performance of Muhammadiyah Universities in South Sulawesi.
Neoliberalism and Elite Democracy in Ecuador (1981-2007)
Authors: Echavarría Ricardo Restrepo
Published: August 2017

This paper synthesizes the political economy of neoliberal elite democracy as a general trend and marks out its concrete historical manifestation in one of its more committed followers, Ecuador, from 1981 to 2007. As the American continent turned toward democracy, it also turned to neoliberal reforms. The neoliberal reforms espoused were performed under the theory of the primacy of personal security and property rights, the securement of which would lead to economic growth, leading to the benefit of society as a whole. The actual policies implemented, however, violated the personal security and property rights of many, while increasing inequality and promoting slow growth. A democracy that rules by formal elections to accumulate capital in elites without regard to truth and justice is an elite democracy. Elite democracy was the chosen politics of neoliberalism and neoliberalism was the chose economics of elite democracy. This paper provides a synthetic panoramic view of the history of the rise and life of neoliberalism and elite democracy in Ecuador, starting with the death of Ecuador’s first president of its current democratic era, continuing with the measures that lead to the steep accumulation of public debt for the gain of a few in the 1980’s, and the deregulation of the banking sector and transfer of its losses to the public in the 1990’s and the beginning of the Century, while growth lagged but inequality and political instability accentuated.
Research-Embedded Health Librarians as Facilitators of a Multidisciplinary Scoping Review
Authors: Brander Gina , Pawliuk Colleen
Published: August 2017

Program  objective:  To  advance  the  methodology  and  improve  the  data  management  of  the  scoping  review through  the  integration  of  two  health  librarians  onto  the  clinical  research  team.  Participants  and  setting:  Two  librarians were  embedded  on  a  multidisciplinary,  geographically  dispersed  pediatric  palliative  and  end-of-life  research  team  conducting a  scoping  review  headquartered  at  the  British  Columbia  Children’s  Hospital  Research  Institute.  Program:  The  team’s embedded  librarians  guided  and  facilitated  all  stages  of  a  scoping  review  of  180  Q3  conditions  and  10  symptoms.  Outcomes: The  scoping  review  was  enhanced  in  quality  and  efficiency  through  the  integration  of  librarians  onto  the  team.  Conclusions: Health  librarians  embedded  on  clinical  research  teams  can  help  guide  and  facilitate  the  scoping  review  process  to  improve workflow  management  and  overall  methodology.  Librarians  are  particularly  well  equipped  to  solve  challenges  arising  from large  data  sets,  broad  research  questions  with  a  high  level  of  specificity,  and  geographically  dispersed  team  members. Knowledge  of  emerging  and  established  citation-screening  and  bibliographic  software  and  review  tools  can  help  librarians  to address  these  challenges  and  provide  efficient  workflow  management.