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Assessing Perception of Floods within the Framework of VULMIN Project: Methodological Remarks
Authors: Costache Andra , Comănescu Laura , Nedelea Alexandru 
Published: April 2017

AbstractThe paper emphasizes the methodological steps undertaken in the assessment of floods perception, which was conducted in tree study areas from Romania (Banat Plain, Bend Subcarpathians and Siret river basin). The reasons behind the design of the questionnaire and interview guide are explained, in relation with the research objectives. The research endeavor allows not only to better understand the local context of vulnerability to floods and flash floods, but also to incorporate the results in a broader framework of vulnerability assessment, enhancing the quality of scientific services provided to stakeholders.
A new in vitro spine test rig to track multiple vertebral motions under physiological conditions
Authors: Beckmann Agnes , Herren Christian , Mundt Marion , Siewe Jan , Kobbe Philipp , Sobottke Rolf , Pape Hans-Christoph , Stoffel Marcus , Markert Bernd 
Published: April 2017

Abstract

In vitro pure moment spine tests are commonly used to analyse surgical implants in cadaveric models. Most of the tests are performed at room temperature. However, some new dynamic instrumentation devices and soft tissues show temperature-dependent material properties. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a new test rig, which allows applying pure moments on lumbar spine specimens in a vapour-filled chamber at body temperature. As no direct sight is given in the vapour-filled closed chamber, a magnetic tracking (MT) system with implantable receivers was used. Four human cadaveric lumbar spines (L2–L5) were tested in a vapour atmosphere at body temperature with a native and rigid instrumented group. In conclusion, the experimental set-up allows vertebral motion tracking of multiple functional spinal units (FSUs) in a moisture environment at body temperature.
The Role of Deposit Financial Institutions in the Development of Real Sector in the Republic of Srpska
Authors: Starčević Vitomir , Subotić Slobodan , Đalić Irena 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
Deposit financial institutions are known for a wide range of providing traditional financial services, from current accounts and systems of planning of savings, to granting loans to companies, clients and countries. At the present time, deposit financial institutions do not limit their services only to those traditional, but quickly begin providing general financial services, such as: securities trading, protection insurance, financial planning, management of pension systems, the provision of advisory services to companies that are in the process of fusion, and other new services. The objective of the paper is to present the deposit financial institutions which operate in the Republic of Srpska and determine their role in the development of the real sector. Research work should show whether the deposit financial institutions, such as financing sources, are the development drivers of the real sector in the Republic of Srpska or limiting factor in the development of this sector.
Platform Business: From Resources to Relationships
Authors: Van Alstyne Marshall , Parker Geoffrey 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
The driving force behind our internet economy is demand-side economies of scale, also known as network effects. These arise when users create value for other users and are enhanced by technologies that create efficiencies in social networking. While resource control and supply side efficiency used to be key success factors in the past, building platforms, orchestrating networks and managing relationships determine success in an increasingly digital world.
Successful platforms seek to maximize the overall value of the whole system in a circular, revolving and feedback-driven process. By attracting more platform participants they are able to offer a higher value. The larger the network, the better the matches between supply and demand and the richer the data that can be used to find matches.
Successful platforms put companies that use traditional business models at risk. Many companies are still highly competitive, but when platforms enter the same marketplace, the platforms usually win. Companies that fail to create platforms on their own or to integrate their business into existing platforms will be unable to compete for long.
Structures of Turbulent Vortices in Floodplains of Compound Channels
Authors: Rimkus Alfonsas 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
In turbulent flows, several kinds of vortices and their structures are developed. After physical summation al velocities created by them, they intertwine, and the picture obtained from their measurement chronograms is mostly chaotic. Consequently, these structures become masked. It is therefore very difficult to investigate them and despite many studies performed so far, they have not been sufficiently explored. Favorable conditions for investigations of velocity measurement chronograms occurred when sufficient long intervals were observed, in which the above mentioned masking is minimal. In such intervals, the investigation of turbulent vortices and their structures becomes possible, and it has been performed to some degree. The results of these investigations of the compound channel were already discussed in two previously published articles. The first describes all vortices and their structures in the whole water flow of the compound channel. The second contains a detailed analysis of vortices and their structures in the central vertical of the main channel. This article, discuss investigations of coherent structures formed in the floodplain.
Colour, Texture, Microstructure and Nutrient Retention of Kiwifruit Slices Subjected to Combined Air-Impingement Jet Drying and Freeze Drying
Authors: Huang Di , Li Wenfeng , Shao Hongjun , Gao Anning , Yang Xingbin 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
The aim of this study was to select an appropriate drying technique from air-impingement jet drying (AIJD), hot air drying (HAD) and microwave drying (MWD) which can be combined with freeze drying (FD). Results showed that AIJD with relatively high efficiency, low energy consumption and good drying quality was suitable to be combined with FD. To further improve the drying technology of kiwifruits, the energy consumption and quality of dried kiwifruit with different conversion point during combined FD and AIJD were also tested. The energy consumption obtained for AIJD+FD and FD+AIJD was lower than that obtained for FD alone. Among the products, the kiwifruit processed by AIJD+FD not only showed better attractive green colour and higher sweetness perception, but also revealed higher rehydration ratio than FD and FD+AIJD kiwifruits, which was positively related to microstructure changes. The best AIJD+FD process, from nutrient retention and antioxidant activity considerations, was the combination of 65 min AIJD pre-drying and FD finish drying. Therefore, AIJD pre-drying and FD finish drying as a promising way with short drying time and strong nutrient retention capacity may be applied to the drying processing of agricultural products.
Detection of Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus in apparently healthy sheep by real-time TaqMan PCR in comparison with histopathological findings
Authors: Bahari Aliasghar , Ghannad Masoud Sabouri , Dezfoulian Omid , Rezazadeh Fereydon , Sadeghi-Nasab Ali 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
Introduction: The aim of this study was to use TaqMan real-time PCR technique to investigate Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) proviral DNA in whole blood samples of sheep, and compare the results to those of histopathological examinations. Material and Methods: Eighty blood samples from clinically healthy sheep were randomly collected before the animals were slaughtered. Ten tissue samples from each lung and associated caudal mediastinal lymph node were taken. Results: Fifteen (18.75%) blood samples were found to contain proviral DNA, and 11 (13.75%) corresponding lung samples showed microscopic changes consistent with ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma. None of the samples displayed metastases to the caudal mediastinal lymph nodes. The prominent pattern of neoplastic nodules consisted of acinar (alveolar) form. Conclusion: The results indicated the higher sensitivity of real-time PCR compared to histopathological examinations in detection of ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
Chinese herbal Jin-Ying-Tang attenuates the inflammatory response by inhibiting the activation of TLR4/MyD88/TRAF-6/NIK pathway at the mRNA level in LPS-stimulated mouse mammary epithelial cells
Authors: Yi Qiong , Li Xin , Li Yuan-Fang , Yang Hang , Zhang Xiao-Yi , Ma Zhe , Wang Lu 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
Introduction: The effects of Jin-Ying-Tang (JYT) on Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4) signalling transduction of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated mouse mammary epithelial cells (MECs) in vitro were examined. Material and Methods: The cytotoxicity of JYT (0.06-62.50 mg/mL) on mouse MECs was determined by MTT assay. The MECs were co-cultured with LPS in the presence or absence of JYT (39.10 μg/mL, 391 μg/mL, 3910 μg/mL). The concentrations of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in the culture supernatants were detected by ELISA. The mRNA expression of TLR4 and downstream TLR4 signalling molecules such as myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88), tumour necrosis factor receptor associated factor 6 (TRAF-6), inhibitor κB (IκB), and nuclear factor κB inducing kinase (NIK) were determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Results: The results showed that the IC50 of JYT on MECs was 12.25 mg/mL and JYT could significantly decrease the concentrations of IL-6 and TNF-α in LPS-stimulated MECs (P < 0.05). The mRNA expression of TLR4, MyD88, TRAF-6, IκB, and NIK was also significantly decreased when the LPS-stimulated MECs were cocultured at appropriate concentrations of JYT (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). Conclusion: These observations indicate a potential mechanism through which JYT attenuates the systemic inflammatory response to LPS-stimulated mouse mammary epithelial cells by inhibiting the activation of TLR4/MyD88/ TRAF-6/NIK pathway at the mRNA level.
Using Small Parallel Corpora to Develop Collocation-Centred Activities in Specialized Translation Classes
Authors: Postolea Sorina , Ghivirigă Teodora 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
The research devoted to special languages as well as the activities carried out in specialized translation classes tend to focus primarily on one-word or multi-word terminological units. However, a very important part in the making of specialist registers and texts is played by specialised collocations, i.e. relatively stable word combinations that do not designate concepts but are nevertheless of frequent use in a given field of activity. This is why helping students acquire competences relative to the identification and processing of collocations should become an important objective in specialised translation classes. An easily accessible and dependable resource that may be successfully used to this purpose is represented by corpora and corpus analysis tools, whose usefulness in translator training has been highlighted by numerous studies. This article proposes a series of practical, task-based activities-developed with the help of a small-size parallel corpus of specialised texts-that aim to raise the translation trainees′ awareness of the collocations present in specialised texts and to provide suggestions about their processing in translation.
Resting sites of opossums (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) in Atlantic Forest fragments
Authors: Koeler Lira Paula , dos Santos Pires Alexandra , Santiago Alberto Carlos Henrique , de Lima Curzio Patrícia , dos Santos Fernandez Fernando Antonio 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
We report the type and pattern of use of resting sites used by 14 radio-tracked opossums. Philander frenatus rested in natural structures but also on spherical structures of dry leaves, probably built by them. Caluromys philander and Marmosa paraguayana rested at forest canopy preventing nest type identification. More than half of the resting site locations of each radio-tracked individual were in a single resting site. The repeated use of resting sites in the study area might be a strategy to stay close to resources and a protection against adverse weather conditions, predators and/or competitors.
The Application for a Prediction of the Coal Spontaneous Ignition – Predisam
Authors: Moni Vlastimil , Klouda Petr , Blata Jan , Helebrant František 
Published: April 2017

AbstractThe article follows the research of the project number TA01020351 called “The research of possibilities when predicting steam origin and consequent spontaneous ignition of brown coal fuels” which was researched with the support of the Technological Agency in the Czech Republic in 2011-2014 in the connection with a realized technical research. Therefore, it gives a summary information about the evaluation of the risk degree for the origin of spontaneous ignitions of the brown coal. The presented way of evaluation is based on a numeric expression of a value for MHU criteria - the point load of particular indicators is added together with other results gained from this research project. Then, more information is taken from companies running the dumps of brown coal products - both for suppliers (mining companies) and big consumers (power engineering). The complex knowledge about prediction of the origin of the spontaneous ignition enables to make an early response to eliminate a threat of mining fire in open pit mines or on the dumps of coal products. Consequently, it reduces the risk of fire and breakdowns of transportation means DPD, heavy machines and preparation plants. The working injuries are reduced as well - burns by coal in fire or inhalation of gas products from imperfect combustion.
Prediction of the Main Engine Power of a New Container Ship at the Preliminary Design Stage
Authors: Cepowski Tomasz 
Published: April 2017

AbstractThe paper presents mathematical relationships that allow us to forecast the estimated main engine power of new container ships, based on data concerning vessels built in 2005-2015. The presented approximations allow us to estimate the engine power based on the length between perpendiculars and the number of containers the ship will carry. The approximations were developed using simple linear regression and multivariate linear regression analysis. The presented relations have practical application for estimation of container ship engine power needed in preliminary parametric design of the ship. It follows from the above that the use of multiple linear regression to predict the main engine power of a container ship brings more accurate solutions than simple linear regression.
Rational Increasing of Energy Efficiency of Sacral Buildings
Authors: Repelewicz Aleksandra 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
The paper presents the possibilities of increasing energy efficiency of sacral buildings. Churches in the Zawiercie pastoral district of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa have been used as examples of typical sacral buildings of low energy efficiency. Such structures need to be thermally insulated during their use. Certain possibilities of raising the energy efficiency of churches have been presented. The paper describes different systems: increasing of wall and roof insulation, installation of new windows, and modern heating systems. Installation of a new heating system has been considered the most effective and the easiest to be implemented one.
Modeling of Surface Geometric Structure State After Integratedformed Milling and Finish Burnishing
Authors: Berczyński Stefan , Grochała Daniel , Grządziel Zenon 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
The article deals with computer-based modeling of burnishing a surface previously milled with a spherical cutter. This method of milling leaves traces, mainly asperities caused by the cutting crossfeed and cutter diameter. The burnishing process - surface plastic treatment - is accompanied by phenomena that take place right in the burnishing ball-milled surface contact zone. The authors present the method for preparing a finite element model and the methodology of tests for the assessment of height parameters of a surface geometrical structure (SGS). In the physical model the workpieces had a cuboidal shape and these dimensions: (width × height × length) 2×1×4.5 mm. As in the process of burnishing a cuboidal workpiece is affected by plastic deformations, the nonlinearities of the milled item were taken into account. The physical model of the process assumed that the burnishing ball would be rolled perpendicularly to milling cutter linear traces. The model tests included the application of three different burnishing forces: 250 N, 500 N and 1000 N. The process modeling featured the contact and pressing of a ball into the workpiece surface till the desired force was attained, then the burnishing ball was rolled along the surface section of 2 mm, and the burnishing force was gradually reduced till the ball left the contact zone. While rolling, the burnishing ball turned by a 23° angle. The cumulative diagrams depict plastic deformations of the modeled surfaces after milling and burnishing with defined force values. The roughness of idealized milled surface was calculated for the physical model under consideration, i.e. in an elementary section between profile peaks spaced at intervals of crossfeed passes, where the milling feed fwm = 0.5 mm. Also, asperities after burnishing were calculated for the same section. The differences of the obtained values fall below 20% of mean values recorded during empirical experiments. The adopted simplification in after-milling SGS modeling enables substantial acceleration of the computing process. There is a visible reduction of the Ra parameter value for milled and burnished surfaces as the burnishing force rises. The tests determined an optimal burnishing force at a level of 500 N (lowest Ra = 0.24 μm). Further increase in the value of burnishing force turned out not to affect the surface roughness, which is consistent with the results obtained from experimental studies.
Highly electrically conducting poly(L-lactic acid)/graphite composites prepared via in situ expansion and subsequent reduction of graphite
Authors: Xue Bai , Ji Lanxiang , Deng Jianguo , Zhang Junhua 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
In this paper, highly electrically conductive polymeric composites were obtained by low-temperature expandable graphite (LTEG) filling poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) in the presence of ascorbic acid via an in situ exfoliation and subsequent reduction process during the melt blending. The electrical conductivity of the PLLA/reduced and expanded graphite (R-EG) composites was determined by a four-point probe resistivity determiner and compared with that of the PLLA/expanded graphite (EG) composites. The percolation threshold of PLLA/R-EG blends decreased from 11.2 wt% to 7.1 wt%, which illustrated the superiority of R-EG to the electrically conducting ability of PLLA composites. At the graphite concentration near the percolation threshold, the electrical conductivity of PLLA/R-EG composites was much higher than that of PLLA/EG composites. The effective in situ expansion and reduction of LTEG were crucial to the overall electrical conductivity of the blends, which was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Dynamic rheology analysis confirmed that the connected networks that were the major cause of the rapid increase in electrical conductivity were much more easily formed for PLLA/R-EG blends than those of PLLA/EG blends. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was applied to determine the decomposition and thermal stability of the PLLA/R-EG composites.
Zwischen Dissimulation und Disziplinierung
Authors: Badea Andreea 
Published: April 2017

Riassunto
La storia della censura libraria continua a costituire più dell’analisi di processi di censura libraria e di singoli casi. Da sempre, essa si inserisce nel contesto della storia sociale, culturale e delle idee. In Italia, in particolare, viene spesso praticata in un’ottica di storia politica. La ricerca degli ultimi anni ha collegato in maniera crescente la storia della stampa e del controllo dei libri a concetti come quelli della libertas philosophandi o della libertà di coscienza. Ha apportato importanti risultati ai fini della comprensione del processo - lungo e socialmente complesso - che si snoda fra la raccolta e l’organizzazione del sapere fino alla formazione di un’opinione individuale. Un tale processo ha richiesto, da parte delle autorità, un passaggio da pratiche di disciplinamento a pratiche di controllo del pubblico.
Die Capitanata in byzantinischer Zeit
Authors: Falkenhausen Vera von 
Published: April 2017

Riassunto
Nel periodo dalla fine del IX secolo fino alla conquista normanna nella seconda metà dell’XI la Puglia faceva parte dell’Impero bizantino. L’articolo analizza la presenza bizantina in Capitanata durante questo periodo, una presenza molto meno radicata ed evidente che nella Puglia centro-meridionale. Vengono esaminati i modi di datare i documenti nelle varie città (secondo gli anni di regno degli imperatori bizantini o dei principi lombardi), le strutture amministrative e difensive con i funzionari e i militari effettivamente in servizio sul territorio, nonché l’influenza bizantina sulle istituzioni ecclesiastiche.
Giorgio del Giglio Pannilini und die Seeschlacht von Lepanto. Rekonversionen, Selbstzeugnisse und Mehrfachzugehörigkeiten im 16. Jahrhundert
Authors: Hanß Stefan 
Published: April 2017

Riassunto
Nel contributo si esamina l’autorappresentazione di un convertito, vissuto nel XVI secolo, il quale per diverse volte pass. dalla religione cattolica a quella musulmana e viceversa. Nei suoi scritti Giorgio del Giglio Pannilini affrontava le sue diverse appartenenze in maniera innovativa. Dopo un’analisi approfondita della sua autobiografia e del modo in cui raccont. la battaglia di Lepanto, si studiano le lettere che sped. a Firenze, Genova, in Savoia e nell’Impero ottomano. Dall’insieme di queste fonti straordinarie - e in parte sconosciute - emerge che Giorgio nella narrazione della sua vita si indirizzava a due categorie di pubblico. Rivolgendosi sia a musulmani che a cattolici, Giorgio ricorreva sempre in modo consapevole a un linguaggio ornamentale e a simboli estetici di natura interculturale per autocollocarsi strategicamente all’interno di uno spazio mediterraneo plurireligioso. Pertanto l’assoggettamento di Giorgio non fu solo una vicenda di costrizione e soggiogamento, ma apr. al contempo vie nuove e creative di autorappresentazione. In questa maniera Giorgio reclamava per sè il dominio interpretativo sulla sua vita, tracciando al contempo le forme in cui ci si poteva comportare da ex musulmano nella Roma cattolica.
Poetisch erschlossene Geschichte. Ferdinand Gregorovius’ „Wanderjahre in Italien“ und seine Dichtung über den Garten von Ninfa
Authors: Miller Norbert 
Published: April 2017

Riassunto
„Non senza meriti“: così qualificò Theodor Mommsen la principale opera storica di Ferdinand Gregorovius, la „Storia della città di Roma nel medioevo“, aggiungendo però criticamente: „Ma egli ha troppa fantasia“. Le presenti riflessioni indagano proprio questo rapporto dichiarato dello storico Gregorovius con la fantasia, con l’intima affinità tra storia e poesia. Esse tematizzano il ruolo particolare, forse anche di outsider, di un autore che era costretto a scrivere le sue opere da studioso privato, finanziandole in gran parte con i suoi lavori giornalistici. Sulla base di come Gregorovius ha vissuto l’esperienza del giardino incantato di Ninfa, il quale lo attraeva come lirico e come esploratore del paesaggio storico, si esamina in alcuni esempi la genesi della forma narrativa da lui sviluppata e la si discute come sfida nei confronti dello storicismo.