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John N. Deely: A Thomistic Voice for Semiotics
Authors: Lanigan Richard L. 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
The article presents John Deely’s philosophical critique of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time from the perspective of Catholic theology defined by the work of Thomas Aquinas, John Poinsot, and Jacques Maritain. Deely’s analysis centers on the philosophical definition of esse intentionale. A biographical context for the critique stems from the life-long friendship of John Deely and the author. The moral force of Deely’s critique is now confirmed by the recent publication of Heidegger’s personal diaries, the Black Notebooks.
Awakening to “Reality”
Authors: Favareau Don 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
The volume under review brings together three of John Deely’s most profound and original works: (1) a one hundred and thirteen page self-described “abstract” of Deely’s masterful Four Ages project that serves as an excellent overview of, and introduction to, that work; (2) his brilliant encomium on the genius of Thomas Sebeok and the necessity of a truly post-modern semiotic realism; and (3) his tour de force version of a Socratic dialogue between a semiotician and a “would-be realist” concerning how the “sign” relation is properly, and improperly, understood. A must-have volume for any serious student of semiotics, intellectual history, or philosophy, The Impact on Philosophy of Semiotics is one of John Deely’s richest, and yet often touchingly accessible, works.
A Prelude to Wholophilia
Authors: Seif Farouk Y. 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
This is a review of John Deely’s Defining the Semiotic Animal published in 2004. Deely uses the way of signs, which is called semiotics, not only to establish the contact and dependencies between human thought and action and the surrounding physical universe, but also to account for a social construction of reality as part of human experience. When Deely states that all animals signify, but only human animals are capable of developing semiotics, he opens a whole way of understanding for us to move beyond the definition of human being as a rational animal into a “semiotic animal” that is also capable of love.
The Holy Grail of Semiotics
Authors: Morrissey Christopher S. 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
This article reviews the first volume of Deely’s Poinsot trilogy. It argues that what comes across with unique force in Augustine and Poinsot is Deely’s use of the technical notion of signum formale to explain how “only through the absence of formal signs (species expressae)” is it possible for there to be any “grounding in the real”: i.e., that holy grail sought for by the proponents of “realism” in philosophy. Only thanks to species impressae, rather, which ground the existence of mind-independent reality, can critically controlled objectivity be possible for human knowledge and communication.
On the Path of the Sign
Authors: Baker Baranna 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
With Medieval Philosophy Redefined as the Latin Age, John Deely has written a truly revolutionary book. Both medieval historians and semioticians alike will gain a new perspective on their subject matter upon reading Medieval Philosophy Redefined. In it, Deely traces the history of the sign by going to its roots in the writings of Augustine, and following it through to the time of John Poinsot. John Poinsot, a previously marginalized philosopher from the late medieval period, factors greatly in Deely’s book. Poinsot makes it possible to get through the “thicket” of nominalism and see beyond Renaissance Humanism. Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that, by using the sign as the point of departure, Deely has found a constant thread that runs through the Medieval Ages, making it, the sign, a key to understanding medieval philosophy from its start to its finish.
Synchronicity and Responsibility in Semiotics
Authors: Petrilli Susan 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
The synchronic vision is the expression of conscious awareness of the present situation, a totalizing vision capable of gazing at all of life responsibly, at all semiosis over the planet. John Deely’s vision of synchrony’s inevitable seepage into diachrony is connected with the fact that we are members of the societies of human animals who first engendered a “community of inquirers focused on the action of signs”. Deely reconstructs the pathway that from Saussurean semiology leads through Charles Peirce, Charles Morris, and Thomas Sebeok to the new “science of signs” conceived, recovering Locke, as the “doctrine of signs”. Insofar as the human animal is a “semiotic animal” he or she is capable of metasemiosis and therefore of knowledge and control. Consequently, the human animal, a semiotic animal, is also susceptible of responsibility: responsibility that concerns not only the human world and the possibility of the future of anthroposemiosis, but rather all of semiosis, all of terrestrial life, “Gaia”. Insisting on the interdependency, in semiotics, between synchronicity and responsibility, Deely evidences the specific task of semiotics, which is a task that is reserved to the semiotician as such.
Pragmaticism, science and theology
Authors: Brier Søren 
Published: August 2016

AbstractThis review assesses Ashley and Deely’s claims regarding the relation of science and religion, taking Einstein’s famous statement that “science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind” as its starting point. It argues that Ashley and Deely’s bookHow Science Enriches Theologydemonstrates that the actual problem in the contemporary dialogue between the two seem to be whether the link between science and religion shall be based on an impersonal process spirituality arising from a void or on a personalism with a personal god at the source.
Development of State-Owned Enterprises of Transport Industry in Latvia
Authors: Plūmiņš Māris , Ščeulovs Deniss 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
The transport infrastructure and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have a significant effect on competitiveness of transport industry, and indirectly determine the business environment in related sectors. In Latvia, all transport related state strategies and policies are developed, controlled and overviewed by the Ministry of Transport. Eleven companies are engaged in commercial/non-commercial activities, and evaluated whether the liberalization of certain activities would provide efficiency among SOEs in the transport industry of Latvia, given the sectoral weight and share of State involvement and control of the industry.
There is limited and contradictory debate to what extent the Latvian state should involve in business activities of transport industry, and how to balance the multiple interests and targets of business, society and politics.
The present research is based on the scientific papers, official documents of the World Bank and OECD (Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development), company websites and annual reports.
Elevated neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in patients with euthyroid chronic autoimmune thyreotidis
Authors: Keskin Havva , Kaya Y. , Cadirci K. , Kucur C. , Ziypak E. , Simsek E. , Gozcu H. , Arikan S. , Carlioglu A. 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Objective. The neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), determined from peripheral blood, is accepted as an available and practical indicator of the systemic inflammation. In this study, we aimed to determine whether the NLR was higher in euthyroid chronic autoimmune thyreotidis (CAT) patients compared to a healthy control group.
Methods. A total of 112 patients were enrolled in this study, including 59 patients with euthyroid CAT on any form of therapy and 53 healthy controls. Th e CAT patients were similar in age to the healthy control group (mean 33.9±12.8 years versus 30.2±12.4 years, p=0.10). Measurements were available for the white blood cells (WBC), neutrophils, lymphocytes, platelets, C-reactive protein (CRP), thyroid peroxidase immune antibody (anti-TPO), and anti-thyroglobulin immune antibody (anti-TG). The NLR and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) were calculated. Differences between the CAT and control groups were tested using the student’s t-test and the correlations were determined using Pearson’s correlation coefficients.
Results. There were no differences between the CAT and control groups for WBCs (7.9±0.3 and 7.4±0.2, respectively; p=0.1) or neutrophils (5.5±0.3 and 5.4±1.1; p=0.9), but lymphocytes were higher in the CAT group (3.1±0.5 vs. 2.04±0.1; p=0.05) as was the NLR (4.0±0.7 vs. 2.0±0.1; p=0.01). Th e NLR was positively correlated with CRP (r=0.6, p<0.001), anti-TPO (r=0.3, p<0.001), anti-TG (r=0.3, p=0.006), WBCs (r=0.4, p<0.001), and the PLR (r=0.73, p<0.001). The PLR was also higher in the CAT than the control group (p=0.02).
Conclusions. In this study, we found that NLR values were higher in euthyroid CAT patients than in a healthy control group and that NLR correlated with autoantibodies used to diagnose the disease.
Circumcenter, Circumcircle and Centroid of a Triangle
Authors: Coghetto Roland 
Published: August 2016

Summary
We introduce, using the Mizar system [1], some basic concepts of Euclidean geometry: the half length and the midpoint of a segment, the perpendicular bisector of a segment, the medians (the cevians that join the vertices of a triangle to the midpoints of the opposite sides) of a triangle.
We prove the existence and uniqueness of the circumcenter of a triangle (the intersection of the three perpendicular bisectors of the sides of the triangle). The extended law of sines and the formula of the radius of the Morley’s trisector triangle are formalized [3].
Using the generalized Ceva’s Theorem, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the centroid (the common point of the medians [4]) of a triangle.
Divisible ℤ-modules
Authors: Futa Yuichi , Shidama Yasunari 
Published: August 2016

Summary
In this article, we formalize the definition of divisible ℤ-module and its properties in the Mizar system [3]. We formally prove that any non-trivial divisible ℤ-modules are not finitely-generated.We introduce a divisible ℤ-module, equivalent to a vector space of a torsion-free ℤ-module with a coefficient ring ℚ. ℤ-modules are important for lattice problems, LLL (Lenstra, Lenstra and Lovász) base reduction algorithm [15], cryptographic systems with lattices [16] and coding theory [8].
Product Pre-Measure
Authors: Endou Noboru 
Published: August 2016

Summary
In this article we formalize in Mizar [5] product pre-measure on product sets of measurable sets. Although there are some approaches to construct product measure [22], [6], [9], [21], [25], we start it from σ-measure because existence of σ-measure on any semialgebras has been proved in [15]. In this approach, we use some theorems for integrals.
Metrical universality for groups
Authors: Doucha Michal 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
We prove that for any constant

K
>
0

{K>0}

,
there exists a separable group equipped with a complete bi-invariant metric bounded by K,
which is isometric to the Urysohn sphere of diameter K and of ‘almost-universal disposition’.
It is thus an object in the category of separable groups with bi-invariant metric, analogous in its properties to the Gurarij space from the category of separable Banach spaces.
We show that this group contains an isometric copy of any separable group equipped with a bi-invariant metric bounded by K.
As a consequence, we get that it is a universal Polish group admitting a compatible bi-invariant metric
or a universal second countable SIN group.
Moreover, the almost-universal disposition shows that the automorphism group of this group is rich and it characterizes the group uniquely up to isometric isomorphism.
We also show that this group is in a certain sense generic in the class of separable groups with bi-invariant metric (bounded by K).
On the other hand, we prove that there is no metrically universal separable group with bi-invariant metric when there is no restriction on the diameter.
The same is true for separable locally compact groups with bi-invariant metric.
Assuming the generalized continuum hypothesis (GCH), we prove that there exists a metrically universal (unbounded) group of density κ with bi-invariant metric for any uncountable cardinal κ.
Moreover, under GCH, we deduce that there exists a universal SIN group of weight κ for any infinite cardinal κ.
A spectral representation of the linear multivelocity transport problem
Authors: Avalishvili Mariam , Shulaia Dazmir 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
The transformation of the original characteristic equation of the multivelocity linear transport theory was carried out by expanding the scattering function for the problem to be solved as a spectral integral over a complete set of eigenfunctions for the previously solved transport problem. The obtained equation represents a singular integral equation containing a spectral integral over the spectrum of the solved problem, whose kernel depends on the difference between the scattering of the problem to be solved and that of the already solved problem. We consider also the examples illustrating the validity of such a transformation. M. Kanal and J. Davies made a similar transformation of the characteristic equation of the one-velocity transport theory.
Effects of Biogenic Supplementation on Xenobiotic Degradation
Authors: Truong Van-Hieu , Nguyen Lan Huong 
Published: August 2016

Summary
Activated sludge acclimated to 2,4-D was used to degrade 2,4-D in batch reactions. Biogenic substrates of sucrose and peptone, in varying concentrations, separately and combined, were supplemented to the degradation reactions to find if, how and why biogenic supplementations were beneficial to the degradation of the xenobiotic. With the biogenic supplement as a variable and other reaction conditions, optimal constant supplementation schemes were found which suit as feasible ways for enhancing the degradation rate of 2,4-D. Among the number of supplementation combinations, the ones having optimal advantage were 50 mg/L of sucrose, 80 mg/L of peptone, each separately, and 20 mg/L sucrose and 40 mg/L peptone combined.
Water Quality Assessment Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Saigon River and Its Tributaries, Vietnam
Authors: Duc Pham Anh , Dung Dang Quoc 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
This study to enhance the discussion about the usefulness of benthic macroinvertebrates for water quality assessment in Saigon River and its tributaries. Data from 16 sites were used as a representative example for Saigon River and its tributaries in the area of basin over 4,500 km2, the length through provinces of Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong, and Ho Chi Minh City of about 280 km. The data covered the period of dry and rainy seasons in 2015, the survey sampled 16 sites (32 events) of the Saigon River and its tributaries selected. To implement this evaluation, the analyses were based on MRC methods and classifications these improved by the scientific group.
The analysis of general characteristics of benthic macroinvertebrates and bio-indices were used to examine the spatial patterns of water quality and biological groups. The value of good water quality was recorded in the sites far from industrial parks, crowded citizen areas, big cities (SG1 and SG2) while the sites in near urban Ho Chi Minh City and Thu Dau Mot Town or industrial areas (the section of Saigon River from SG6 to SG13) where had the value of worse water quality because of the more human activities. Especially, there was not any animal that was collected in the site SG7 because of too heavy pollution. The results demonstrated that these organisms could be applied to describe the ecological health in the Saigon River and its tributaries.
A Framework for the Evaluation of Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures – Accompanied by International Case-Studies
Authors: Seip Christian , Bill Ralf 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Germany is currently developing a marine data infrastructure addressing different topics such as coastal engineering, hydrography and surveying, protection of the marine environment, maritime conservation, regional planning, and coastal research. This undertaking is embedded in a series of regulations and developments at many administrative levels, from which specifications and courses of action are derived. To set up a conceptual framework for the marine data infrastructure of Germany (MDI-DE), scientists at the Chair for Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Rostock University are building a reference model, evaluating meta-information systems and developing models to support common workflows in marine applications.
Evaluating how other countries built their marine spatial infrastructures is important to learn where obstacles and errors are likely to occur. To be able to look at other initiatives from a neutral point of view, it is necessary to construct a framework for evaluating marine spatial data infrastructures (MSDI). This framework is then used to analyse and evaluate the efforts of Canada, Australia, and Ireland with respect to marine data infrastructures.
Transmitting the energy: interdomain cross-talk in Pdr5
Authors: Wagner Manuel , Doehl Katja , Schmitt Lutz 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporters are ubiquitous integral membrane proteins catalyzing the active export or import of structurally and functionally unrelated compounds. In humans, these proteins are clinically and economically important, as their dysfunction is responsible for a number of diseases. In the case of multidrug resistance (MDR) ABC exporters, they particularly confer resistance to a broad spectrum of toxic compounds, placing them in the focus of clinical research. However, ABC-mediated drug resistance is not only restricted to humans. In yeast for example, MDR is called pleiotropic drug resistance (PDR). Important and well-studied members of the PDR subfamily of ABC transporters are Pdr5 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its homolog Cdr1 from Candida albicans. Mutational studies of these two transporters provided many insights into the complexity and conceivable mechanism of the interdomain cross-talk that transmits the energy gained from ATP hydrolysis to the substrate translocation process across the membrane. In this review, we summarize and discuss our current knowledge of the interdomain cross-talk as well as new results obtained for asymmetric ABC transporters and derive possible structural and functional implications for Pdr5.
A germline mutation of HRPT2/CDC73 (70 G>T) in an adolescent female with parathyroid carcinoma: first case report and a review of the literature
Authors: Serrano-Gonzalez Monica , Shay Sophie , Austin Juliana , Maceri Dennis R. , Pitukcheewanont Pisit 
Published: August 2016

AbstractParathyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism amongst children, with only nine previously reported cases. The objective of the study was to present the first pediatric case with a germline
Crystal structure of N-(5-((3,5-dimethylisoxazol-4-yl)sulfonyl)quinolin-8-yl)benzamide, C21H17N3O4S
Authors: Yu Wen-Bo , Xu Jun , Zhang Peng-fei 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
C21H17N3O4S, triclinic, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 10.0424(5) Å, b = 10.4142(4) Å, c = 18.7420(10) Å, α = 91.746(4)°, β = 90.169(4)°, γ = 100.878(4), V = 1923.92(16) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0487, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1036, T = 293(2) K.
Stability of Reconstituted and Diluted Mitomycin C Solutions in Polypropylene Syringes and Glass Vials
Authors: Briot Thomas , Truffaut Christine , Le Quay Luc , Lebreton Anne , Lagarce Frederic 
Published: August 2016

Abstract: Mitomycin C (MMC) is widely used in treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer at a 1 mg/mL concentration, by intravesical instillation. MMC is also used as an ophthalmic procedure in glaucoma care mostly with 0.2 mg/mL concentration. To accelerate syringes provision, it could be interesting to demonstrate the stability of the drug, in order to be able to prepare the chemotherapeutic drug several hours before the chemotherapy administration.: A stability indicating HPLC-UV method was developed and validated according to the ICH guidelines. Concentrations of the MMC stored at 25 °C and 60 % of relative humidity and protected from light in polypropylene syringes (1 mg/mL and 0.2 mg/mL) or glass vials (1 mg/mL) were evaluated for 96 h and compared to the initial observed concentrations.: MMC stability was demonstrated in syringes and glass vials at 1 mg/mL only for 8 h in water for injections and for 10 h at 0.2 mg/mL in 0.9 % sodium chloride solutions, because relative concentrations (95 % confidence interval of the mean of 3 samples) were systematically over 90 % of the initial concentrations. After 96 h the relative concentrations were found below 80 % as compared to initial concentrations, thus indicating instability of these solutions. Degradation products were observed and remained below 3 %.: This study confirms that MMC solutions for ophthalmic application at 0.2 mg/mL or vesical instillation at 1 mg/mL have to be formulated extemporaneously to maintain the desired concentration.
Non-contrast computed tomography in the diagnosis of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
Authors: Avsenik Jernej , Oblak Janja Pretnar , Popovic Katarina Surlan 
Published: August 2016

Abstract

Background
The aim of the study was to investigate the sensitivity and specificity of non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) in the diagnosis of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST).
Methods. Screening our neurological department database, we identified 53 patients who were admitted to neurological emergency department with clinical signs of CVST. Two independent observers assessed the NCCT scans for the presence of CVST. CT venography and/or MR venography were used as a reference standard. Interobserver agreement between the two readers was assessed using Kappa statistic. Attenuation inside the cerebral venous sinuses was measured and compared between the patient and the control group.

Results
CVST was confirmed in 13 patients. Sensitivity and specificity of NCCT for overall presence of CVST were 100% and 83%, respectively, with Kappa value of 0.72 (a good agreement between observers). The attenuation values between CVST patients and control group were significantly different (73.4 ± 14.12 HU vs. 58.1 ± 7.58 HU; p = 0.000). The ROC analysis showed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.916 (95% CI, 0.827 – 1.00) and an optimal cutoff value of 64 HU, leading to a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 87%.

Conclusions
NCCT as a first-line investigation has a high value for diagnosis of CVST in the emergency setting. The additional measurement of the sinus attenuation may improve the diagnostic value of the examination.
Islamic Banking and Financial Development
Authors: Lebdaoui Hind , Wild Joerg 
Published: August 2016

AbstractAbstract With the growing number of Islamic banks worldwide, much ink has been spilled on heated debate about its merits and ability to improve the financial sector. In order to buttress the subject matter of this debate, this paper investigate the link between Islamic banking assets share and the financial development. Using five different proxies of financial development from 22 countries for the period between 2000 and 2013, this research employs the generalized method of moments to cope with the endogeneity problem, and concludes that the share of Islamic banking is positively associated with the banking sector activity as measured by private credit. The competition of banking sector intensifies in countries with higher Islamic bank shares resulting in smaller net interest margin, whereas the structure of the financial sector does not change. A financial sector index composite regression showed that in general, financial development is positively linked to the Islamic banking presence. These findings provide empirical evidence that Islamic banking presence benefits financial development in Muslim countries.