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The Phenomenal Aspects of Irony according to Søren Kierkegaard
Authors: Gołębiewska Maria 
Published: November 2020

AbstractThe aim of the text is to characterise some phenomenal aspects of irony (particularly, of the ironic speech acts), which may be found in the Kierkegaardian reflection concerning diverse ironic attitudes of individuals, mainly of Christians. The constant assumptions in Søren Kierkegaard’s various output – in pseudonymous works, those signed with his own name, in “edifying discourses” and other religious texts –include the teleological conception of the sense of human being and existence. According to the philosopher, this sense is determined by the individually chosen and subjectively accepted goal of existence, related to the indicated three stages of life. This is the goal of a person who lives their mortal existence between joke and despair, at an ironic and sceptical distance from rash judgements and generalisations, and at the same time in fear of mundane threats and in fear of God. With the ambiguity of the category of existence, researchers combine an ironic attitude which, according to Kierkegaard, would characterise our way of existence together with its cognition and which would be connected with the conception of subjective truth as based on paradox. Kierkegaard wrote about ironic engagement and at the same time distance, about a positive ironic attitude towards the world of the here and now – a mundane immanent reality. According to Kierkegaard, the ironic attitude is closely related to dialectics, which he understood in a specific way – the structures of repetition and doubling are dialectic, and this dialectics may be found, among other things, in communication and in irony as a specific relation between thought and language. One must highlight that Kierkegaard considered two general types of irony: verbal (logical, rhetorical and poetic) and situational (existential), ultimately pointing out their religious aspects. The final part of the article describes different interconnections between the logical plus rhetorical aspects of irony and the issue of religious engagement of individuals (Christians) – their ironic entanglement in the relations between faith and knowledge, faith and doubt, mundane immanent world and transcendent universe.
Rethinking Disaster Theology: Combining Protestant Theology with Local Knowledge and Modern Science in Disaster Response
Authors: Rumahuru Yance Zadrak , Kakiay Agusthina Ch. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractThe interpretation of disaster through a religious lens has produced diverse theological perspectives regarding disaster. This article seeks to analyze the theology of disaster from a Protestant perspective, which may be combined with local knowledge and modern science to create disaster response strategies. This study is based on field studies and related literature analysis with qualitative method using an ethno science approach to see disaster phenomena in the context of Indonesian society, using primary data and secondary data. This study finds out that within Christian theology and among its followers disasters can be seen as the means through which God glorifies His creation while punishing those who have sinned and abandoned His teachings. It concludes, first, that God – the Creator – shows His love and mercy even through disaster. In the Protestant perspective, God seeks to honor His creation by mercifully creating balance. Second, disaster, as part of a natural cycle, should also be understood through local knowledge and modern science; as such, a holistic approach is necessary to understand and respond to disaster.
Circularly symmetric algorithm for UWB RF signal receiving channel based on noise cancellation
Authors: Huo Dongquan , Mao Luhong 
Published: November 2020

AbstractDue to the high redundancy of ultra-wideband (UWB) radio frequency (RF) signal receiving channel and the channel’s non-rotation invariance, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of signal transmission is increased. In order to solve this problem, a circularly symmetric algorithm for the UWB RF signal receiving channel based on spectrum compression cannot effectively reduce the redundancy of UWB RF signal receiving channel; the channel does not have rotation invariance; and the effect of noise reduction is poor. A circularly symmetric algorithm for the UWB RF signal receiving channel based on noise cancellation is proposed, and a noise cancellation structure at the input stage of the receiving channel is constructed to ensure channel noise cancellation and reduce noise in the channel. On this basis, five power zones are used to reasonably select RF devices, receive and downconvert UWB RF signal receiving channel, and convert the received UWB RF signal channel into circular symmetric Gabor transform to reduce redundancy and ensure the strict rotation invariance of the channel. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm guarantees the quality of the signal and the stable transmission of the signal information. The SNR is 3.8672, and the root mean square error is 0.4078. The third-order cross-modulation coefficient of the signal receiving channel controlled by the algorithm meets the requirements of the index and the mirror frequency rejection requirement of the index.
New optical solitons of conformable resonant nonlinear Schrödinger’s equation
Authors: Rezazadeh Hadi , Abazari Reza , Khater Mostafa M. A. , Inc Mustafa , Baleanu Dumitru 
Published: November 2020

AbstractSardar subequation approach, which is one of the strong methods for solving nonlinear evolution equations, is applied to conformable resonant Schrödinger’s equation. In this technique, if we choose the special values of parameters, then we can acquire the travelling wave solutions. We conclude that these solutions are the solutions obtained by the first integral method, the trial equation method, and the functional variable method. Several new traveling wave solutions are obtained including generalized hyperbolic and trigonometric functions. The new derivation is of conformable derivation introduced by Atangana recently. Solutions are illustrated with some figures.
A probabilistic evaluation of human activity space for proactive approach behavior of a social robot
Authors: Sirithunge Chapa , T. Bandara H. M. Ravindu , P. Jayasekara A. G. Buddhika , Chandima D. P. 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
Intelligent robot companions contribute significantly to improve the living standards of people in the modern society. Therefore, humanlike decision-making skills are sought after during the design of such robots. On the one hand, such features enable the robot to be easily handled by its human user. On the other hand, the robot will have the capability of dealing with humans without disturbing them by its behavior. Perception of Behavioral Ontology prior to an interaction is an important aspect in this regard. Furthermore, humans make an instant evaluation of task-related movements of others before approaching them. In this article, we present a mechanism to monitor how the activity space is utilized by a particular user on a temporal basis as an ontological assessment of the situation and then determine an appropriate approach behavior for a proactive robot to initiate an interaction with its user. This evaluation was then used to determine appropriate proxemic behavior to approach that person. The usage of activity space varies depending on the task of an individual. We used a probabilistic approach to find the areas that are the most and least likely to be occupied within the activity space of a particular individual during various tasks. As the robot approaches its subject after analyzing the spatial behavior of the subject within his/her activity space, spatial constraints occurred as a result of which robot’s movement could be demolished. Hence, a more socially acceptable spatial behavior could be observed from the robot. In other words, an etiquette based on approach behavior is derived considering the user’s activity space. Experiment results used to validate the system are presented, and critical observations during the study and implications are discussed.
How context and design shape human-robot trust and attributions
Authors: Biermann Hannah , Brauner Philipp , Ziefle Martina 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
In increasingly digitized working and living environments, human-robot collaboration is growing fast with human trust toward robotic collaboration as a key factor for the innovative teamwork to succeed. This article explores the impact of design factors of the robotic interface (anthropomorphic vs functional) and usage context (production vs care) on human–robot trust and attributions. The results of a scenario-based survey with

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participants showed a higher willingness to collaborate with production robots compared to care. Context and design influenced the trust attributed to the robots: robots with a technical appearance in production were trusted more than anthropomorphic robots or robots in the care context. The evaluation of attributions by means of a semantic differential showed that differences in robot design were less pronounced for the production context in comparison to the care context. In the latter, anthropomorphic robots were associated with positive attributes. The results contribute to a better understanding of the complex nature of trust in automation and can be used to identify and shape use case-specific risk perceptions as well as perceived opportunities to interacting with collaborative robots. Findings of this study are pertinent to research (e.g., experts in human–robot interaction) and industry, with special regard given to the technical development and design.
Über die scheinbare Paradoxie von Weltablehnung und Erwerbsvirtuosität
Authors: Kurz Heinz D. 
Published: November 2020

Zusammenfassung
In diesem Aufsatz würdigt Heinz Kurz den Beitrag Max Webers zu den Sozial- und insbesondere Wirtschaftswissenschaften aus Anlass seines 100. Todestages. Nach einem Überblick über Leben, Werk und Wirken geht er kurz auf Webers methodologische Betrachtungen und seine Rolle im „Werturteilsstreit“ im Verein für Socialpolitik ein. Es folgt eine Auseinandersetzung mit Webers Aussagen zur Werttheorie und Grenznutzenlehre. Der Hauptteil der Arbeit gilt Webers Beiträgen zur Religionsökonomik. Nach einer Zusammenfassung des Werks „Die protestantische Ethik und der ‚Geist‘ des Kapitalismus“ und der darin exemplarisch behandelten historischen Macht von Ideen beleuchtet der Autor einige Aussagen Webers vor dem Hintergrund der neueren Theorie und macht auf Grenzen des Arguments aufmerksam. Es folgt ein Überblick über die Aufnahme des Werks damals und heute und die große Bedeutung der „Weber-These“ in der modernen Religions- und Kulturökonomik. Nach einer kurzen Erörterung des Verhältnisses von Weber zu Marx wirft Kurz ein Streiflicht auf Webers Beitrag zum Verständnis von Macht und Herrschaft. Webers Werk erweist sich als gewaltige Schatzkammer von Ideen, von denen mehrere noch darauf warten, aufgegriffen zu werden.
Interdependences of Products in Market Baskets: Comparing the Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machine to the Multivariate Logit Model
Authors: Hruschka Harald 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
We analyze market baskets of individual households in two consumer durables categories (music, computer related products) by the multivariate logit (MVL) model, its finite mixture extension (FM-MVL) and the conditional restricted Boltzmann machine (CRBM). The CRBM attains a vastly better out-of-sample performance than MVL and FM-MVL models. Based on simulation-based likelihood ratio tests we prefer the CRBM to the FM-MVL model. To interpret hidden variables of conditional Boltzmann machines we look at their average probability differences between purchase and non-purchases of any sub-category across all baskets. To measure interdependences we compute cross effects between sub-categories for the best performing FM-MVL model and CRBM. In both product categories the CRBM indicates more or higher positive cross effects than the FM-MVL model. Finally, we suggest appropriate future research based on larger and more detailed data sets.
Conventional and unconventional materials used in the production of brake pads – review
Authors: Borawski Andrzej 
Published: November 2020

AbstractBrakes are one of the most important components of vehicle. The brake system must be reliable and display unchanging action throughout its use, as it guards the health and life of many people. Properly matched friction pair, a disc and brake pad (in disc brakes), have a great impact on these factors. In most cases, the disc is made of grey cast iron. The brake pads are far more complex components. New technologies make it possible to develop materials with various compositions and different proportions, and connect them permanently in fully controllable processes. This elaboration shows that all these factors have a greater or lesser impact on the coefficient of friction, resistance to friction wear and high temperature, and brake pad’s operating life. This review collects the most important, the most interesting, and the most unconventional materials used in production of brake pads, and characterizes their impact on the tribological properties of pads.
Auf der Suche nach politischer Rationalität nuklearer Abschreckung
Authors: Nerlich Uwe 
Published: November 2020

Zusammenfassung
Derzeit endet eine Ära, in der nukleare Waffen ihre politische Wirkung verloren haben. Das Management nuklearer Risiken muss daher neu gedacht werden. Ausgangspunkt sind die diesbezüglichen Erfahrungen der beiden großen nuklearen Mächte. Dass es keinen Kernwaffenkrieg zwischen 1949 und 1990 gab, war ein Erfolg erlangter Stabilität, verstärkt durch Gewöhnung und Generationswechsel. Jede Seite nahm die Kompetenz der anderen wahr und respektierte diese. Nukleare Arsenale werden unter den heutigen Bedingungen auf längere Sicht weiterbestehen. Damit können sich neue Formen der Stabilisierung ergeben, aber auch das Risiko von Katastrophen. Es ist denkbar, dass zwischen den USA und China eine lang dauernde politisch-strategische Konkurrenz ansteht, in der nukleare Waffen eine politische Funktion bekommen. Dennoch ist diese geopolitische Situation grundlegend verschieden im Vergleich zum europäischen Kontext zwischen 1945 und 1990. Das neue Nuklearzeitalter ist zudem durch eine höhere Zahl von Akteuren geprägt. Sie sind zum großen Teil Nachbarn, bei denen sich Vorwarnzeiten in Minuten bemessen, und die nicht über Fähigkeiten verfügen, die jene gegenseitige Verständigung und Respektierung ermöglichen, die in zurückliegenden Zeiten zur Verhinderung von Nuklearkriegen beigetragen haben.
University language policy in Estonia and Catalonia. Is there a north-south divide in European higher education?
Authors: Soler Josep 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
Within the context of the internationalisation of higher education, language matters have become increasingly prominent for universities across a wide variety of contexts. This has made the higher education domain an attractive site for applied linguists and sociolinguists to investigate in close detail. One relatively consolidated idea is that contexts in which English has made further incursions in universities are more internationalised than those settings where English has penetrated to a lesser extent. In line with that, a supposed north-south divide in European higher education has been conceived of, with universities in the north leading in terms of internationalisation efforts, while those in the south lag behind. In this article, I problematise this idea and suggest instead that a narrower and more focused contrastive analysis between language ecologies across different countries and contexts might be more useful. In doing that, we can thus avoid the dangers of binarism and lumping that can come associated to holding preconceived geographical borders. In particular, the comparative analysis proposed here allows us to highlight two key issues that seem to be highly pressing in present-day higher education domains: the language-ideological and the socio-economic. I build the argument in the paper by utilising empirical material from Estonia and Catalonia, two contexts that have been at the centre of my own work in recent years.
Language policy in higher education in Flanders: Legislation and actual practice
Authors: Vandenbussche Wim 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
This article discusses a number of linguistic aspects of the internationalisation and anglicisation of higher education in Flanders. We aim to combine an overview of the applicable legal measures with the most detailed and complete information to date on the actual linguistic practices in universities and university colleges. To this end, we collected the most recent available data from a variety of official reports and databases on parameters including the number of English bachelor and master programmes currently on offer, the relative share of students involved in these international programmes, as well as the extent to which students and professors meet official language requirements. Next to these English-focused aspects, we also supply new figures on the required mother tongue proficiency to enrol in the regular Dutch-based curriculum (theory versus practice). The situation in the Dutch-speaking community of Belgium is then compared to that of the French-speaking Community, once again based on figures and data that were collated from a variety of official sources. All data indicate that the actual impact of anglicisation in Flemish universities and university colleges remains limited and unproblematic, compared to the situation in many other medium-sized language communities. The closing discussion advocates a language policy for higher education in Flanders that combines a strong focus on mother tongue proficiency with a solid training in English for academic purposes.
Psych predicates in European languages
Authors: Becker Laura , Guzmán Naranjo Matías 
Published: November 2020

AbstractPrevious work on psych predicates has so far mostly focused on verbs and their non-canonical argument structures within and across languages. In this study, we propose a usage-based account using parallel subtitles in seven European languages in order to examine the intralinguistic and crosslinguistic variation of psychological expressions. We start out from 12 semantically defined psychological concepts rather than concrete constructions; this allows us to include verbal and non-verbal expressions and thus to assess the variation and distribution of construction types of psychological expressions found in language use. We show that while there is a high degree of variation in terms of constructions used within languages, psychological expressions are relatively stable across languages. On the other hand, we find systematic, crosslinguistic concept-specific preferences for psychological expressions.
The Alternative Futures of the Lyric Characters:
Time Imagined and Time Sung in the Bucolic Corpus
Authors: Sistakou Evina 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
The aim of the present study is to explore the pattern of the alternative future in the example of three love stories in the bucolic corpus involving three characters, namely the anonymous goatherd of Idyll 3, the Cyclops and Daphnis. The alternative future is expressed through the rhetorical means of the future tense, the optative or imperative mood, and the conditional sentences, and may be described as imagined, performed or narrated. The test cases from the bucolic corpus are analyzed according to three criteria: the subjective viewpoint of the lyric mind, the distanced perspective of the bucolic singer and the words uttered by the dramatized characters and/or the narrator.
Reticulocyte hemoglobin equivalent in differential diagnosis of iron deficiency, iron deficiency anemia and β thalassemia trait in children.
Authors: Düzenli Kar Yeter , Altınkaynak Konca 
Published: November 2020

Abstract

Objectives
This study investigated the diagnostic power of reticulocyte hemoglobin equivalent (Ret-He) in the differential diagnosis of hypochromic microcytic anemia to differentiate iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and thalassemia trait (TT) based on the traditionally used erythrocyte index and formulas.

Methods
Twenty-six children with iron deficiency (ID), 26 with IDA, 33 with β-TT, 41 healthy children were assessed. Complete blood count parameters, Ret-He, immature reticulocyte fraction (IRF), low-fluorescence ratio (LFR), Mentzer’s indexes (MI) were evaluated. The diagnostic power of Ret-He in distinguishing between IDA and β-TT was investigated using ROC analysis.

Results
Ret-He levels were (median(Q1-Q3)) 20.6(19.7–21.5) pg in β-TT, 16.1(13.1–20) pg in IDA, 29.7(27.2–30.7) pg in ID, 30.5(29.8–31.7) pg in healthy controls. Based on ROC analysis, diagnostic power for distinguishing between IDA and β-TT was determined as RBC>MI>Ret-He>RDW>LFR>IRF. The highest sensitivity and specificity for differential diagnosis was obtained when the Ret-He cut-off value was 18.2pg. The AUC (95%CI) value was calculated as 0.765(0.637–0.866), and a statistically significant difference was found between groups (p<0.0006).

Conclusions
In patients with hypochromic microcytic anemia, Ret-He≤18.2pg combined with RBC≤5.3x106/L and MI>10.42 can be safely used to distinguish IDA from β-TT. In particular, patients with low Ret-He who don’t respond to iron therapy should be examined for β-TT.
Therapeutic agents currently employed against Covid-19: an effort to control the pandemic
Authors: Matías-Pérez Diana , Pérez-Santiago Alma Dolores , Sánchez-Medina Marco Antonio , García-Montalvo Iván Antonio 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
The disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is characterized by fever and cough, in addition to affecting the lower respiratory tract and being associated with age, comorbidities and a weakened immune system. Lymphopenias occur in severe cases and an excessive production of inflammatory cytokines, which would explain the role of the hyperinflammatory response in the pathogenesis of COVID-19. In the absence of treatment for this virus, there is an urgent need to find alternative methods to control the spread of the disease, so we have conducted an online search for all treatment options related to coronavirus infections, as well as some infections due to viruses, general treatments, specific coronavirus treatments and antiviral treatments should be useful in the fight against COVID-19, the therapeutic agents evaluated included chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir, tocilizumab, ribavirin, interferons, nelfinavir, ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma.
Modeling and mode transition simulation of over-under turbine based combined cycle (TBCC) propulsion system based on inlet/engine matching
Authors: Gao Yuan , Xi Zhihua , Hu Chenxu , Zhang Haibo 
Published: November 2020

Abstract
The over-under turbine based combined cycle (TBCC) propulsion system dynamic model is established, including the engine model and inlet model. A dual-channel inlet is designed to match the engine and the inlet performance parameters are obtained by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation, which provides original data for the integrated Inlet/Engine matching model. Control plan is designed to ensure that the engine is not over-temperature, over-rotation or surging based on correlation analysis. The simulation results show that the designed control plan can keep the TBCC propulsion system continuous in thrust during the mode transition, and the thrust fluctuation is about 10%.