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Protective and curative effects of Beta vulgaris on pesticide dimethyl 2,2-dichlorovinyl phosphate-exposed albino rats
Authors: Nwaichi Eucharia O. , Essien Eka B. , Ibe Uzoamaka Chinonso 
Published: December 2019

Background: This study evaluated the effect of Beta vulgaris (beetroot) smoothie on some biochemical parameters on dimethyl 2,2-dichlorovinyl phosphate (DDVP, known as dichlorvos)-exposed albino Wistar rats. Methods: A total of 30 rats of both sexes were grouped into five groups of six animals each. Group I served as the negative control and were not exposed to dichlorvos. Group II served as the positive control and were exposed to dichlorvos but received no smoothie. Group III received 500 mg/kg body weight beetroot smoothie and was not exposed to dichlorvos. Groups IV and V were exposed to dichlorvos but received beetroot before and after exposure, respectively. At the end of the 6-week experiment, the animals were euthanized, the blood samples collected for some biochemical assays while the organs (kidney and liver) were harvested and subjected to histopathological examination. Results: From the biochemical assay, it was observed that the beetroot smoothies regulated and significantly reduced the elevated levels of AST, ALT, urea and creatinine observed in the animals that were exposed to dichlorvos. Additionally, the beetroot was able to regenerate the liver and kidney organs that were damaged on exposure to dichlorvos. Conclusion: This study concluded that beetroot smoothie possesses hepato-protective, hepato-curative as well as nephro-curative properties.
Facebook Powered Measurement and Evaluation for Iron Folic Acid Health Intervention in India
Authors: Bernard Drew , McCullough Chris , Francis Sarah , Holton Avery , Diamond-Smith Nadia 
Published: December 2019

As the media landscape changes and billions of people around the world turn to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other social media platforms for information and social interactions, the need to develop effective methods of leveraging social media for social behavior change communication (SBCC) becomes increasingly important. Yet, in order for the public health sector to embrace social media for SBCC, we must have methods for measuring the impact of social media-based SBCC. In this letter, we share a new approach for measurement and evaluation of social media-based SBCC campaigns. The approach was developed as part of an iron-folic acid health intervention targeting young women in two states in northern India; Uttar Pradesh and Maydar Pradesh.
Is diabetes associated with malaria and malaria severity? A systematic review of observational studies
Authors: Carrillo-Larco Rodrigo M. , Altez-Fernandez Carlos , Ugarte-Gil Cesar 
Published: December 2019

Background: We conducted a systematic review to study the association between diabetes and malaria as well as malaria severity. Methods: The search was conducted in Embase, Global Health, MEDLINE, Scopus and Web of Science. Titles and abstracts were screened, full-text studied and information extracted for qualitative synthesis. Risk of bias was assessed with ROBINS-I criteria. The exposure was diabetes and the outcome malaria or malaria severity. Results: Of 1992 results, three studies were included (n=7,226). Two studies found strong associations: people with diabetes had higher odds of malaria (adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 1.46 (95% CI: 1.06-2.03)) and severe malaria (aOR: 2.98 (95% CI: 1.25-7.09)). One study did not find conclusive evidence: aOR for severe malaria was 0.95 (95% CI: 0.71-1.28). Risk of bias was high in all the studies. Conclusions: Although the available evidence on the association between diabetes and malaria is limited, the results may suggest there is a non-trivial positive relationship between these conditions.
O racismo no caso brasileiro e as raízes da superexploração do proletariado negro
Authors: Fagundes Gustavo Gonçalves 
Published: December 2019

O presente trabalho expõe os acontecimentos do período de transição do trabalho escravo para o trabalho assalariado como fundamentais para a compulsória localização do negro no exército industrial de reserva e consequente inserção subalterna no mercado de trabalho na sociedade capitalista brasileira. Com ênfase em fatores que contribuíram para dinamizar esse processo, no âmbito jurídico-político, econômicos e de natureza ideológica, tem por objetivo propiciar a produção de uma constante alienação do povo negro. Esse conjunto de determinações deu origem ao pressuposto necessário para a existência do regime de superexploração da força de trabalho no Brasil, com enquadramento mais agudo na parcela negra do proletariado brasileiro. Palavras-Chave: racismo; exército industrial de reserva; superexploração; proletariado negro.
Serviço Social, educação e racismo: uma articulação necessária
Authors: Paula Aline Batista de 
Published: December 2019

O presente artigo resulta da primeira etapa de uma pesquisa de doutorado, cujo objetivo geral se constitui em refletir sobre o trabalho dos assistentes sociais nas políticas educacionais, e sua coadunação com as recentes legislações de combate ao racismo na área, que tiveram como lastro a Constituição Federal de 1988 e a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação - LDB (1996). Essa primeira fase trata-se de um mapeamento das produções dos programas de pós-graduação em serviço social sobre racismo na educação, na base de dados da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES. Considera-se no texto a importância da Educação, e das políticas educacionais, enquanto instrumentos no combate ao racismo e a discriminação racial no Brasil buscando apreciar a relação dialética destas políticas com a sociedade, assim como sua dimensão política no interior dos processos de socialização. Palavras-Chave: Serviço Social; educação; racismo; políticas educacionais.
Política de cotas raciais: instrumento de promoção de equidade e justiça social
Authors: Mendonça Erica Da Silva , Aranha Maria Lúcia Machado 
Published: December 2019

Este artigo aborda a política de ações afirmativas, mais especificamente, a relativa à de cotas raciais nas universidades públicas brasileiras. Resulta de uma pesquisa realizada em uma universidade pública da região Nordeste, com o objetivo de analisar a visão de discentes de diferentes cursos e centros da instituição a respeito do assunto. Fundamentada no método materialista histórico-dialético, adotou como procedimentos metodológicos as pesquisas empírica e documental, tendo como instrumentos o formulário semiestruturado para a primeira e ficha resumo, para a segunda. Os principais resultados mostraram que a posição predominante na pesquisa foi a favorável, representando 84% dos alunos pesquisados; e que há uma maior rejeição à política de cotas pelos cursos pertencentes aos centros de Ciências Biológica e da Saúde, e Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia, quando comparados aos cursos dos Centros de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas e Educação e Ciências Humanas, porém, no geral, se mostraram majoritariamente favoráveis à política em exame. Palavras-Chave: cotas raciais; negro; ensino superior; ações afirmativas.
O papel protagonista do Pré-Vestibular para Negros e Carentes (PVNC) nas políticas afirmativas – a experiência da educação superior brasileira
Authors: Salvador Andréia Clapp 
Published: December 2019

O presente artigo é resultado de uma pesquisa que tem como objetivo principal analisar o papel e atuação dos movimentos sociais, do movimento negro e, mais especificamente, dos pré-vestibulares para negros e carentes (PVNC) no processo de elaboração, implementação e consolidação das políticas de ação afirmativa na educação superior brasileira. O segundo ponto do presente texto apresenta resultados da pesquisa realizada sobre a gênese do PVNC, o seu papel protagonista no campo afirmativo e a perspectiva política de uma de suas principais lideranças, Frei Davi. Palavras-Chave: política de ação afirmativa; pré-vestibular para negros e carentes; ensino superior.
Formação profissional e debate sobre a questão racial no curso de Serviço Social da UnB: percepção das/os formandas/os e egressas/os do curso
Authors: Souza Dyana Helena de , Pereira Lucélia Luiz 
Published: December 2019

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar em que medida a questão racial está presente na formação das/os estudantes no curso de Serviço Social da Universidade de Brasília a partir da percepção de 55 estudantes, analisada por meio de entrevista estruturada com 49 estudantes e de grupo focal realizado com 6 egressas/os do curso. A pesquisa é de natureza qualitativa realizada com base na perspectiva do pensamento decolonial e do pensamento negro contemporâneo. As/os participantes da pesquisa consideram que a questão racial ocupa lugar marginal na formação do curso, muitas vezes invisibilizada no currículo. Assim, recomenda-se que o eixo da questão racial seja contemplado na formação de maneira transversal em todas as disciplinas. Palavras-Chave: questão racial; Serviço Social; formação profissional.
Columela y el poder fertilizante del altramuz (nueva lectura de RR 3,11,4)
Authors: García Armendáriz José-Ignacio 
Published: December 2019

Defendemos la necesidad de enmendar el texto en RR 3,11,4 –sustituyendo sicco fimo por succiso lupino- basándonos en la gran importancia que Columela otorga al altramuz en verde como abono, en particular para el suelo de viñas empobrecidas. Complementariamente, consideramos la conveniencia de completar el texto con propuestas como quam recentissimo <fimo> stercorari o, preferiblemente, quam recentissimo stercore <spargi>. En nuestra pretensión de dar coherencia y sentido al conjunto del pasaje, valoramos los usos sintácticos y léxicos de Columela, así como los testimonios de autores como Varrón, Plinio o Paladio, entre otros.
Sertorio en la España del siglo XIX
Authors: García-Conde María Silas , Castillo Pascual Pepa 
Published: December 2019

En el siglo xix España está consolidando su identidad nacional y para ello se sirve de personalidades que desempeñaron un importante papel en su pasado más remoto. Así ocurre con Quinto Sertorio, un brillante general romano que se opuso a la dictadura de Sila. En este artículo se analiza la figura de Sertorio en el siglo XIX. Comenzamos revisando su imagen en las fuentes clásicas, después en las Historias de España más leídas esta centuria, para terminar con Sertorio como exemplum retórico en la oratoria parlamentaria y como héroe en los libros de escuela.
Testing Epistemic Injustice
Authors: McCready Elin , Winterstein Grégoire 
Published: December 2019

This work builds on the trivial observation that everyone is not trusted equally. One’s gender, ethnic group, occupation etc. will affect how one’s information is believed and interpreted by others. We begin by reviewing past approaches to reliability and epistemic injustice, and the factors which affect how one’s reliability is evaluated by others in discourse. We then discuss recent experimental results which show that the linguistic manipulation of gender seems to affect the strategies with which the source’s reliability is evaluated. We argue that masculine sources benefit from more charitable assumptions than feminine ones. To support this claim, we present the results of a fine-grained categorization task. The results of this task seem to support our claim about charity, i.e. that a masculine source can more easily claim competence about a topic categorized as feminine, whereas the converse appears less true.
Pneumatologia w eklezjologii Konstytucji Lumen gentium Soboru Watykańskiego II z perspektywy teologii Yves’a Congara
Authors: Kasprzak Artur Antoni 
Published: December 2019

For all readers of the text of the Lumen Gentium constitution of the Second Vatican Council during this event, and also immediately afterwards, it seemed that the document focused solely on the explanation of the Church from the perspective of Christ. Some of the conciliar observers, espe- cially the Orthodox theologians, brought up criticism that the reflection of the Council was marked by a Christomonism. This study presents the question of the pneumatological implications of the ecclesiology contained in the Lumen Gentium constitution from the perspective of Yves Congar’s theological thought. As the analysis of the undertaken research will show, the answer of the French theologian not only provides an essential response to the objection of Christomonism based on a direct commitment of this theologian to the co-writing of Lumen Gentium as early as March 1963, but it also gives a thorough insight into the subject-matter referring to his theological achievements already before and mainly after the Council. The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church has a dis- tinct pneumatological dimension. The theology contained therein is related to all the theses on the subject as they were formulated by Yves Congar in 1973.
Wiarygodność Kościoła w dzisiejszej Polsce
Authors: Kaucha Krzysztof 
Published: December 2019

There are two purposes of this article: the first one — to clarify the meaning of the term ‘credibility of the Church in contemporary Poland’ from a theological perspective, and the second one — to describe the basic signs of such credibility and the difficulties they are facing. The article consists of three parts and a conclusion. The first part deals with the theological understanding of the Church’s credibility in contemporary Poland in the light of new researches and inspirations offered by Joseph Ratzinger’s ecclesiology and by the book Oblicza Kościoła katolickiego w Polsce. 1050. rocznicaChrztu [Features of the Catholic Church in Poland. The 1050th Anniversary of the Christening] (ed. by J. Mastej, K. Kaucha, P. Borto, Lublin 2016). The second part is focused on the signs of the Church’s credibility in Poland (sign of Peter, of the Apostolic Collegium, of unity, of holiness, of universality, of apostolicity, agapetological, praxeological, martyriological, and culture-creative), which started to be described about 25 years ago by Rev. Marian Rusecki, who was co-founder and the most excellent representative of the Lublin School of Fundamental Theology. The third part presents some new signs of the Church’s credibility in Poland according to the author of the article (charitable, staurological, resurrectional, paschal, anthropological-vocational, of freedom, of the priority of the Spirit and spiritual life, of peace and reconciliation, of protest, of the faith’s pure- ness). In the conclusion the author underlines the values of the semeiological method in describing and testing the credibility of the Church in contemporary Poland.
Zagadnienie „ojczyzny w niebie” w Liście św. Pawła do Filipian i w pismach św. Elżbiety od Trójcy Świętej
Authors: Wilk Janusz 
Published: December 2019

The article is a study of the theme of ‘heavenly homeland’ in St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians3:20 and in the writings of the French Carmelite St. Elisabeth of the Holy Trinity (1880–1906). The first part is an exegesis of Phil 3:20. It consists of a description of the community in Philippi at the time when the Letter to the Philippians was written; suggestion of a translation of Phil 3:17–21 into Polish; general presentation of the context Phil 3:20 and discussion of the meaning of the lexeme politeuma.The second part presents eight writings of Elizabeth of the Holy Trinity (Letters 237; 241; 246; 249; 252; 258; 339; Spiritual Notes [originally Notes intimes] 16), in which she made reference to the thought included in Phil 3:20.The mystic from Dijon, a faithful and eager pupil of Paul the Apostle drew profusely from his inspired thoughts not only for herself but also shared them with others, as evidenced by several references to Phil 3:20 in her writings. Her aim was to strengthen those closest to her (and herself) in following here on Earth the way which would be their common way in eternity.
Świętość dla świeckich. Błogosławieni Archidiecezji Poznańskiej
Authors: Zjawin Jacek 
Published: December 2019

The article shows the profiles of the seven blessed of the Archdiocese of Poznań, and passages from their memoirs. The author tries to discover the timeless features of the secular model of sanctity in the hagiographies of Edmund Bojanowski, Czesław Jóźwiak, Franciszek Kęsy, Edward Kaźmier- ski, Jarogniew Wojciechowski, Edward Klinik and Natalia Tułasiewiczówna. The article shows in each of the seven biographies the path of gradual maturation in faith embedded in the historical context of events crucial for Poland. A common feature of all the characters is their strong com- mitment to the cause of education and patriotism based on a solid religious and moral foundation.
Battery Monitoring and Control System for Photovoltaic based DC Microgrid
Authors: Chauhan Rajeev Kumar , Chauhan Kalpana 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This paper presents a battery control and monitoring strategy for a DC microgrid feed by a public utility (PU) photovoltaic (PV) including with multi-battery bank (BB). The BBs respond to the changes in a power imbalance between generation and demand within a DC micro-grid, to maintain the micro-grid voltage and reliability enhancement. The fuzzy model reference learning control (FMRLC) controller has been designed to power control of the battery bank. The proposed battery control and monitoring system (BCMS) strategy keep the battery charging and discharging power as per standard charging/discharging characteristics of the battery. The BCMS allows continuous monitoring and intelligent control of distribution system operations such as battery bank energy storage (BBES), the PV system and the electric load of the consumer. A power sharing between the sources has been controlled for smooth supply. A graphical user interface (GUI) in the MATLAB environment has been configured to demonstrate the control and monitoring of the DC micro-grid and the operation performance of the BCMS algorithm for various scenarios (i. e modes). The proposed BCMS shows better operational performance for various operating conditions in terms of monitoring and control of the batteries power in the grid-connected DC micro-grid.
Becoming BELF users: the learning process of business users of English and its conceptualization
Authors: Takino Miyuki 
Published: December 2019

AbstractThis paper examines the learning process of users of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) from the users’ own perspective and proposes a working model as a framework to understand this process. The discussion is based on a qualitative analysis of interviews of Japanese business people who have been raised and educated in Japan and have used BELF for professional purposes. The interviews explore the linguistic challenges that they have faced in performing their work in English and how they have dealt with these challenges. The prime focus of the discussion in this paper is how BELF users transformed themselves from “learners of English in the classroom” into “BELF users” during the early stage of their professional career. With this focus, I develop a working model of BELF users’ learning process by taking inspiration from the “Experiential Learning Theory” (Kolb 1984.Experiential learning: experience as the source of learning and development. New Jersey: Prentice Hall).Experiential Learning: Experience as The Source of Learning and Development. New Jersey: Prentice Hall), a widely used theoretical model of the learning process of adults, along with other theories in the field of management. The proposed model of BELF users places “learning from experience” of using English at the centre of the development of their English competence, supplemented by “learning from others” and “learning from studying.” This article concludes with pedagogical implications for professional training and higher education and beyond, as well as theoretical contributions to the understanding of English as a lingua franca (ELF)/BELF. By drawing on the detailed stories of Japanese BELF users, I present a dynamic view of the competence of (B)ELF users by considering the significant changes of their competence over time and space throughout their careers rather than a snapshot of their competence at a particular time.
An introduction to Nanosyntax
Authors: Taraldsen Knut Tarald 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This article provides an introduction to Nanosyntax – an approach to the syntax/lexicon interaction originating from work by Michal Starke. I present some of the motivation for allowing lexical items to replace whole phrases rather than only terminal elements, present the basic principles taken to govern the lexicalization procedure and show how syncretism patterns are handled in Nanosyntax.
Computational construction grammar for visual question answering
Authors: Nevens Jens , Van Eecke Paul , Beuls Katrien 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
In order to be able to answer a natural language question, a computational system needs three main capabilities. First, the system needs to be able to analyze the question into a structured query, revealing its component parts and how these are combined. Second, it needs to have access to relevant knowledge sources, such as databases, texts or images. Third, it needs to be able to execute the query on these knowledge sources. This paper focuses on the first capability, presenting a novel approach to semantically parsing questions expressed in natural language. The method makes use of a computational construction grammar model for mapping questions onto their executable semantic representations. We demonstrate and evaluate the methodology on the CLEVR visual question answering benchmark task. Our system achieves a 100% accuracy, effectively solving the language understanding part of the benchmark task. Additionally, we demonstrate how this solution can be embedded in a full visual question answering system, in which a question is answered by executing its semantic representation on an image. The main advantages of the approach include (i) its transparent and interpretable properties, (ii) its extensibility, and (iii) the fact that the method does not rely on any annotated training data.
On minimum algebraic connectivity of graphs whose complements are bicyclic
Authors: Liu Jia-Bao , Javaid Muhammad , Raza Mohsin , Saleem Naeem 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of a graph (network) is called its algebraic connectivity which is used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, distinguish the group differences, measure the robustness, construct multiplex model, synchronize the stability, analyze the diffusion processes and find the connectivity of the graphs (networks). A connected graph containing two or three cycles is called a bicyclic graph if its number of edges is equal to its number of vertices plus one. In this paper, firstly the unique graph with a minimum algebraic connectivity is characterized in the class of connected graphs whose complements are bicyclic with exactly three cycles. Then, we find the unique graph of minimum algebraic connectivity in the class of connected graphs
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