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Efficiency of remote blood pressure monitoring in outpatients with hypertension: a pilot project in a city ambulatory care clinic
Authors: Sharapova Yu. A. , Starodubtseva I. A. , Villevalde S. V. 
Published: January 2021

Aim. In a pilot project, to evaluate the effectiveness of remote blood pressure (BP) monitoring in outpatients followed up for hypertension (HTN).Material and methods. A total of 1,121 patients (707 women and 414 men) with hypertension were included in the pilot project (mean age, 52,0±12,0 years; BP, 151,4±9,1/96,9±10,3 mm Hg). Patients independently measured BP and entered the values into self-management paper diaries (n=886), in digital form to their personal account (n=200), or transmitted data from BP monitor using installed mobile application (n=35). Each of the three groups was assessed at baseline and after 6 months. We assessed achievement of BP targets, medication adherence using the Morisky Green scale, the prevalence of patients with fixed-dose antihypertensive therapy, and the ambulance call rate.Results. Prior to the study, 15,2% (n=171) of hypertensive patients regularly monitored their BP. After 6 months, the mean systolic BP decreased from 151,4±9,1 to 135,5±10,1 mm Hg (p<0,01), diastolic BP — from 96,9±10,3 to 85,8±6,3 mm Hg (p<0,01). The proportion of patients adhering to treatment (Morisky Green score of 4) increased from 17,9 to 55,4%, the frequency of prescribing dual antihypertensive therapy — from 25,8 to 43,3%, triple therapy — from 11,5 to 22,9%, fixed-dose combinations — from 25,4 to 51,6%. At the same time, the proportion of patients who achieved the target BP values increased from 14,5 to 43,1%, while the ambulance call rate decreased from 19,3 to 16,9%.Conclusion. The use of remote BP monitoring methods, including BP monitors with automated data transmission, increases the prescription rate of combined antihypertensive therapy and proportion of patients who achieved the target BP, as well as decreases the ambulance call rate.
The Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale
Authors: Mead William E. 
Published: January 2021

Chaucer's prologues and connecting links in the Canterbury Tales deserve special study, for they are by far the most characteristic and original part of his writings. When telling his tales he seems to feel himself in a measure bound to reproduce the stories as he finds them. In the general Prologue, ll. 731–736, he says:“Who-so shal telle a tale after a man,He moot reherce, as nv as ever he can,Everich a word, if it be in his charge,Al speke he never so rudeliche and large;Or elles he moot telle his tale untrewe,Or feyne thing, or finde wordes newe.”
Good Taste and Conscience
Authors: Howard William Guild 
Published: January 2021

Matthew Arnold's essay on the Literary Influence of Academies (1865) contains this characteristic passage:—“‘In France,’ says M. Sainte-Beuve, ‘the first consideration for us is not whether we are amused and pleased by a work of art or mind, nor is it whether we are touched by it. What we seek above all to learn is, whether we were right in being amused with it, and in applauding it, and in being moved by it.’ Those are very remarkable words, and they are, I believe, in the main quite true. A Frenchman has, to a considerable degree, what one may call a conscience in intellectual matters; he has an active belief that there is a right and a wrong in them, that he is bound to honour and obey the right, that he is disgraced by cleaving to the wrong. All the world has, or professes to have, this conscience in moral matters. The word conscience has become almost confined, in popular use, to the moral sphere, because this lively susceptibility of feeling is, in the moral sphere, so far more common than in the intellectual sphere; the livelier, in the moral sphere, this susceptibility is, the greater becomes a man's readiness to admit a high standard of action, an ideal authoritatively correcting his everyday moral habits; here, such willing admission of authority is due to sensitiveness of conscience. And a like deference to a standard higher than one's own habitual standard in intellectual matters, a like respectful recognition of a superior ideal, is caused, in the intellectual sphere, by sensitiveness of intelligence. Those whose intelligence is quickest, openest, most sensitive, are readiest with this deference; those whose intelligence is less delicate and sensitive are less disposed to it.”
V.—An English Feiend of Charles of Orléans
Authors: MacCracken Henry Noble 
Published: January 2021

In 1907 M. Pierre Champion announced his discovery that the manuscript fr. 25248 in the Bibliothèque Nationale, consisting chiefly of poems by Charles d'Orléans, was to a great extent autograph, and where not autograph, was revised under the personal care of the poet. Important as is this discovery for the knowledge of fifteenth century French literature, there is one feature of the manuscript which may lead us, if the slender clues are followed, to an identification of a new English poet of the courtly school.On page 346 of the ms . M. Champion finds, in the Duke's autograph, two roundels in English On pages 310–313, in an interpolated quire not originally part of the volume, are six roundels and a ballade in English. This quire contains no piece in the Duke's hand; but two pieces at the beginning of the quire are by him, and written in the hand of the earliest scribe of the volume.
XXII.—The Theme of Death in Paradise Lost
Authors: Erskine John 
Published: January 2021

The theme of Milton's epic, we are told at the beginning of the poem, is man's disobedience, which brought death into the world. If there is a central doctrine in Paradise Lost, it would seem to be that death is the inevitable result of sin. The voice of God declares with severe emphasis that man, once become sinful,To expiate his treason hath naught left,But to destruction sacred and devote,He with his whole posterity must die.
XXIII.—The Development of Brief Narrative in Modern French Literature: A Statement of the Problem
Authors: Smith Horatio E. 
Published: January 2021

Brief narrative, at first thought, connotes the abridged fiction of low grade with which American magazines are now saturated; but as soon as the term is used to cover the whole field in modern literature, it calls to mind a genre which, under various names, has risen to a position of dignity in many places in the world and has worthily engaged the attention of literary historians, particularly in America and in Germany.The chief features in the development of the form in the United States and England have been discussed at length, and there is now a definitive record, with abundant bibliographical apparatus, of its evolution. Poe is looked upon as the pioneer, and his perpetually quoted definition (1842) has set a standard for the majority of the practitioners of the art in the English language. The form suggests, for America, such experts as Hawthorne, Bret Harte, and Henry James; in England it does not gain the attention of writers of the first magnitude until near the end of the century, in the persons of Stevenson and Kipling.
XXIV.—The Early “Royal-Entry”
Authors: Withington Robert 
Published: January 2021

Many, if not most, of the writers on early pageantry state that the first pageantic “royal-entry” at London took place in 1236, when Queen Eleanor of Provence arrived at her new capital. It is the purpose of this paper to show that there had been elaborate “royal-entries” before that date, and that the first pageantic “royal-entry” did not occur until sixty-two years after this ceremony. The best way to do this, is to make a survey of the “royal-entries” of the thirteenth century.It was in connection with this method of honoring their rulers that the English people developed pageantry most notably between the early years of the thirteenth century and the reign of Queen Elizabeth; therefore the beginnings of pageantry in connection with the “royal-entry” are not only interesting in themselves, but historically important. The splendor which surrounded all ceremonies involving the king was great, long before 1200; Wendover's account of the coronation of Richard I in 1189 is a clear picture of the kind of thing that took place.
The Death Wish of John Donne
Authors: Roberts Donald Ramsay 
Published: January 2021

In the darkest time of the long period of poverty, illness, and dependence that followed his imprudent elopement, John Donne wrote in a letter to Sir Henry Goodyer in September, 1608:Two of the most precious things which God hath afforded us here, for the agony and exercise of our sense and spirit, which are a thirst and inhiation after the next life, and a frequency of prayer and meditation in this, are often envenomed and putrified, and stray into a corrupt disease…. With the first of these I have often suspected myself to be overtaken, which is with a desire of the next life; which though I know it is not merely out of a weariness of this, because I had the same desires when I went with the tide, and enjoyed fairer hopes than now; yet I doubt wordly encumbrances have increased it. I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me and overcome me.When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. Therefore I would fain do something, but that I cannot tell what is no wonder. For to choose is to do; but to be no part of any body is to be nothing. At most, the greatest persons are but great wens and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation but as moles for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.1
Hartley, Pistorius, and Coleridge
Authors: Fairchild Hoxie N. 
Published: January 2021

This paper announces no great discovery, but it contains fresh material of interest to students of Coleridge, of David Hartley and the philosophical tradition which he represents, and of Anglo-German literary relations. Our starting-point is lines 35-45 of Religious Musings, where Coleridge declares that the life and death of Christ freed the human soul from the bonds of idolatrous fear:Till of its nobler nature it 'gan feelDim recollections; and thence soared to Hope,Strong to believe whate'er of mystic goodThe Eternal dooms for His immortal sons.From Hope and firmer Faith to perfect LoveAttracted and absorbed: and centered thereGod only to behold, and know, and feel,Till by exclusive consciousness of GodAll self-annihilated it shall makeGod its Identity: God all in all!We and our Father one!1
The Solution for the Enigmatic Concluding Lines of the Munich Codex Germanicus 6353
Authors: Ellis Frances H. 
Published: January 2021

The Munich codex germanicus 6353 ends with the following words:Das gesilbent par / ist durch Hannsen Foltznvonn Wormbs Barbierern zu Nurmberggemacht vnnd gedichtet Jacoben BernhaubtSchwennter benant / jme jn grosser gunstvnnd liebe zugestellt / doch vmb sein darbe-zalunng vnnd ist jm 1496 Jarnngesunngen durch angezaigtennSchwentern auff der singeschulvmb ein klainoth / Es ist jmvnbekanten thon vndsaget von den sibenfryen kunst-en jtlich-erIr erfinder / Planeth / farb / methall (fol. Zr)To a casual reader these lines might seem to belong to the preceding poem in the MS., but a closer look proves this to be impossible. Indeed a seven-staved par such as described in the above lines is not to be found anywhere within the entire codex. In vain does one look in Mayer's edition of the MS. for some explanation. There the impression is added as if the lines were taken from the bottom of folio 168v, whereas actually they begin at the top of folio Zr and cover two-thirds of it, Apparently Mayer attached no significance to this fact, nor to the fact that blank folios follow the lines cited above (possibly because there are other blank folios scattered throughout the MS.), nor to the fact that the Schwennter referred to in the above “conclusion” is also mentioned in the Preface to the codex. He does, however, call attention to the very artistic handwriting of folios F, O, and Z, the folios which contain the prefatory material and the lines under consideration. Since the Preface states that Folz composed, wrote down, and then left behind him the poems in the MS. many years ago and that Jacob Bernhaubt Schwennter, named the Elder, likewise many years ago, spent much of his time singing and reading these same poems, and since the hand that made those statements also set down the final lines in Munich 6353, we may deduce that they were added after the death of Hans Folz. Even this small item has not been noted before, except for A. v. Keller's remark in his brief description of the Munich MS. that the closing lines, like the Preface, were von späterer hand. Rufold Henß, one of the investigators of Folz's style, appears to be the only scholar who saw something odd in the close of the Munich MS. Finding the words perplexing, he thought that they probably did not belong in that particular place and that they had been copied there by mistake. To date, therefore, no solution has been offered for this enigmatic ending.
Rhetorical Word-Play in Chaucer
Authors: Kökeritz Helge 
Published: January 2021

In the opinion of the late Thomas R. Lounsbury, Chaucer was virtually “free from these verbal quibbles which characterize to so marked a degree the language of the Elizabethan dramatists.” “The single instance,” he went on to say, “in which he furnishes any noticeable example of this sort is the play upon the word ‘style’ in the Squire's tale; though there is possibly one of the same character in a line in ‘Troilus and Cressida,‘ where it is said that‘This Calkas knew by calkulynge,‘ i., 71that Troy was to be taken. Still, from conceits of all kinds and of all grades Chaucer's language, at every period of his literary career, was in general wholly free.“
How Smart was Robinson Crusoe?
Authors: Robins Harry F. 
Published: January 2021

The continuous and almost unprecedented popularity of Robinson Crusoe, Part i, has been variously explained. In accounting for the book's superiority to the imitations which it has inspired, several critics have praised Defoe for allowing his island adventurer barely enough in the way of tools and equipment to keep himself alive and gradually to improve his condition. It is often held, too, that Crusoe manifests unusual mechanical ability. But the facts do not support either of these assumptions, and I believe that the reader who makes them has failed to recognize a perennial source of the book's charm.James Sutherland, Defoe's biographer, commends the author for restricting his hero to “only a few things saved from the wreck,” with which he “proceeds to build up a new life.” In his introduction to the Modern Library edition of Robinson Crusoe, Louis Kronenberger agrees with others who, he says, have pointed out that “Defoe allowed Crusoe just enough in the way of equipment and fodder and tools for him at the outset to stay alive, and in the course of time to be made comfortable.” Paul Dottin remarks that Defoe has simplified his task by allowing the castaway “tout ce qui peut etre utile.”
“A Solempne and a Greet Fraternitee”
Authors: McCutchan J. Wilson 
Published: January 2021

That the “solempne” and “greet fraternitee” in whose livery Chaucer dressed the five Burgesses in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales was probably a craft fraternity and that the Drapers' Fraternity (or Brotherhood of St. Mary of Bethlehem) provides a clear-cut example of the kind of organization he had in mind are conclusions to which this paper will attempt to lead the reader through the ensuing pages. Eighteen lines introduce and describe these worthy citizens:An Haberdasshere and a Carpenter,A Webbe, a Dyere, and a Tapycer,—And they were clothed alle in o lyvereeOf a solempne and a greet fraternitee.Ful fressh and newe hir geere apiked was;Hir knyves were chaped noght with brasBut al with silver; wroght ful clene and weelHire girdles and hir pouches everydeel.Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeysTo sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys.Everich, for the wisdom that he kan,Was shaply for to been an alderman.For catel hadde they ynogh and rente,And eek hir wyves wolde it wel assente;And elles certeyn were they to blame.It is ful fair to been ycleped “madame,”And goon to vigilies al bifore,And have a mantel roialliche ybore.(Gen. Prol., ll. 361-378)
The Equilibrium of Opposites in the White Devil: A Reinterpretation
Authors: Layman B. J. 
Published: January 2021

At one point in Webster's The While Devil the Cardinal Monticelso addresses a shocking invitation to the Duke of Florence, the arch-revenger of the play:Come, come my Lord, untie your foulded thoughts, And let them dangle loose as a bride's haire.(iv.i.1-2)As a scene-opener the speech deserves to be thought of as one of Webster's coups de théâtre, for the whole play is of a kind to make the words hyperbolically preposterous. We are, of course, in the chosen realm of Jacobean imagining, that lurid Italy where every thought “Imitates / The suttle fouldings of a Winters snake” (i.ii.345-346) and where brides epitomize hypocrisy:O the Art,The modest forme of greatnesse! that do sit Like Brides at wedding dinners, with their looks turn'dFrom the least wanton jests, their puling stomacke Sicke of the modesty, when their thoughts are loose …Even acting of those hot and lustfull sportsAre to ensue about midnight … (iv.iii.145-151)
The Symbolism of the Marble Muse in Stifter's Nachsommer
Authors: Hallamore G. Joyce 
Published: January 2021

Das stück hat eine tiefe Anlage und sein Kern dürfte nicht gleich anfänglich vorspringen.“ Thus Stifter writes in reference to Der Nachsommer to his publisher and friend Heckenast on 28 January 1855. A year and nine months later, Stifter, who was then engaged in correcting proof, made the following confession in a letter to Heckenast of 20 October 1856:Nur Ihnen getraue ich mir zu sagen, was ich jezt sage: ich glaube, dass das gegenwärtige Buch eine Tiefe haben soll, die in neuer Zeit nur von Göthe übertroffen ist. Wenn dieser Saz unter die Litteraten käme, sie steinigten mich. Ich kann mich irren; aber die lezten Correcturbögen haben mich selber, wie ernste Ruhe und Tiefe ergriffen, was mir noch bei keiner Correctur geschah. (xviii, 336)Self-adulation was not one of Stifter's failings as an artist, nor was ambition, in its usual sense. He does confess, however, to a “Thatenergeiz” which he defines in a letter to Heckenast of 6 March 1849 as the impulse “die menschliche Bildung wesentlich zu fördern.” How intense is this impulse is revealed in his statement: “Mein Gott, ich gäbe gerne mein Blut her, wenn ich die Menschheit mit einem Ruke auf die Stufe sittlicher Schönheit heben könnte, auf der ich sie wünschte” (xvii, 323). This ambition, “ein tiefer heiliger Drang” (xviii, 224), social rather than selfish, is indeed so strong, even compelling, that one may recognize in it the force which led to Stifter's achievements as artist and man of practical affairs as well as the cause of his frustrations, disappointments, and miseries. For Stifter, satisfaction with any of his writings could spring only from a realization that artistic form and ethical content were in perfect partnership: “Der höchste Ruhm die höchste Freude wäre mir die, zu wissen, dass ich auch nur einige Steinchen zu dem Baue dieses Reiches auf der Erde gelegt habe, dass ich die Zahl der Herzen vermehren geholfen habe, welche das lieben, was ich liebe, und mit reinerem Sinne nach Oben schauen.”
La pandemia del Covid-19 como experiencia límite del sentido de la existencia del ser humano posmoderno
Authors: Ortega Guizado Remberto 
Published: January 2021

Después que el Director General de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declarara la situación de pandemia el 11 de marzo de 2020, el mundo cambió pues, el Covid-19 provocó que, la sociedad posmoderna se pregunte sobre la existencia, sobre su sentido, sobre su fin. Sin embargo, una vez más, lo que vuelve a inquietar no es la búsqueda de una respuesta conceptual, sino una en cuanto experiencia existencial humana. Este artículo, basado en una investigación bibliográfica, presenta una aproximación filosófica de la pandemia del Covid-19 como experiencia límite del sentido de la existencia del ser humano posmoderno, que desvela la gran crisis ética y humana que caracteriza a la posmodernidad, y que por medio de la hegemonía de marcos conceptuales ha colocado a miles de seres humanos en la indigencia existencial. Por ello, dicho trabajo se delimita a la experiencia humana en este contexto; lo cual se hace desde lo ontológico existencial, sin que ello implique necesariamente estructuras intrínsecas al ser, como una búsqueda categorial sino más bien que lo ontológico se enraíza en la existencia; de tal manera que, se hace alusión a la obra de Butler (2006b) para tratar de evitar que la elucubración filosófica se quede en lo conceptual nominal, desvirtuando el enfoque existencial.
ENSURING PERSONNEL INVOLVEMENT IN COMPANIES’ SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Kolobov A. V. , Igumnov E. M. , Naumov D. N. 
Published: January 2021

At the present stage of development of society and economy, there is a reassessment of values and guidelines in the field of management. The main resource for the life and development of the company is a person. Every company leader dreams of engaged employees, working harder and better, taking initiative, and high productivity. Engagement is a behavior in which the employee is fully emotionally and intellectually involved in a certain activity, wants to make additional effort. One of the key topics that a modern company leader is interested in is creating a special organizational environment in which people work consciously, look for ways to improve, put their knowledge at the service of the business and take on more responsibility. Therefore, it is very important to focus on the internal environment in which employees interact with each other.The article examines the relationship between staff involvement and sustainable development of the company. Highly engaged companies have the best financial performance in their industry. The main sources of engagement at the moment are research by consulting companies and, to a lesser extent, practice-oriented publications. The paper analyzes the proposed approaches to increase employee engagement and proposes a comprehensive method for managing employee engagement. The purpose of the study is to determine the optimal approach to personnel engagement management.The objectives of the research are reduced to the description of the method (PDCA), which includes a description of the approach for taking measurements, filling in the incoming questionnaire blocks, taking into account the current situation and the company's strategy, an algorithm for working with the results obtained and examples of practices to increase engagement.The results of the study are the content of key blocks of assessment, analytical tools for assessing involvement, an algorithm for working with assessment results to make a decision to increase involvement.