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Overt Hypothyroidism and Severe Growth Retardation in a Preschool Girl with Poorly Controlled Nephrotic Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review
Authors: Mikulevič Joana , Tumelienė Karolina , Kemežys Robertas , Jankauskienė Augustina 
Published: October 2023

Background. Nephrotic children may develop thyroid hormone dysfunction due to urinary excretion of thyroid hormones. In contrast to the subclinical hypothyroidism that affects around 30% of children with nephrotic syndrome (NS), the patient in this case had overt hypothyroidism and severe growth retardation.Clinical case. A 5 years and 8 months old girl with steroid-dependent NS was referred from another center due to persistent edema and decreased diuresis, being treated with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) 250 mg once a day and L-thyroxine 50 mcg daily since 4 months of NS onset because of hypothyroidism. Her albumin was 12.64 g/l, cholesterol 25.64 mmol/l and proteinuria 5 g/l. Severe growth retardation was observed: patient’s height was 93.5 cm (–13 cm <3 percentile), weighted 17.2 kg (15–25 percentile). Her disease vintage was over 3 years. Girl’s growth velocity has slowed down from 3.5 months. The patient received a high cumulative dose of prednisolone (approx. 7800 mg in 1 year and 8 months). Thyroid-stimulating hormone was higher (18.04 mU/L) with reduced FT4 11.43 pmol/l and IGF-1 < 15 µg/L. Kidney biopsy revealed minimal change disease, and genetic testing was negative. Intensive NS treatment with methylprednisolone pulse therapy, enlarged doses of MMF and albumin infusion were started and L-thyroxine dose was increased to 75 mcg. TPOAb was in normal range (12.65 IU/ml). After 3 weeks she was discharged with no edema and after stopping methylprednisolone treatment thyroid function normalized and L-thyroxin was discontinued. Two weeks later standard growth hormone stimulation test with clonidine showed partially insufficient growth hormone secretion. During NS remission with normalization of thyroid function (TSH 6.680 mU/l, FT4 13.85 pmol/l) and normalization of IGF-1 level (132 mcg/l) partial catch-up growth was observed (height velocity increased from 3.5 cm/year to 7.3 cm/year, based on 4-month calculation period).Conclusions. Clinicians should be aware of a risk of developing hypothyroidism and consider thyroid function testing during the treatment of children with NS, as well as actively treat hypothyroidism and evaluate growth.
Reapprendre à voir: Images, Symptoms and the Media of Appearance
Authors: Vachninas Benediktas 
Published: October 2023

Emmanuel Alloa interviewed by Benediktas Vachninas
Emmanuel Alloa, Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Fribourg, is one of the most active contemporary thinkers in the field of new visual studies. His areas of research include aesthetics, phenomenology, theories of image, theories of media, and the French philosophy. Professor Alloa has authored and (co)edited numerous books, of which, the most important ones are Looking through Images. A Phenomenology of Visual Media (Columbia University Press, 2021), Dynamis of the Image. Moving Images in a Global World (De Gruyter, 2020), Partages de la perspective (Fayard, 2020), Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (Fordham University Press, 2017). He is the recipient of the Latsis Prize 2016 and the Aby Warburg Prize 2019 and currently serves as President of the German Society of Aesthetics.In 2021, Professor Alloa gave an online cycle of lectures titled Orbis Pictus. A Media Phenomenology in an Image World at Vilnius University. This year, I had the pleasure to hold an online conversation with Professor Alloa as he kindly agreed to discuss the topic of images and his project of symptomatology. The interview encompassed questions about the relation of an image with the image theories, the differences between the symptomatological approach to images and the visual semiotics, Derrida’s contribution to the problem of mediality, and the role of images in the philosophy today.This interview was taken on the 20th of June, 2023
Abicht and Śniadecki: about a Turbulent Philosophical Dispute at the Imperial University of Vilnius in 19th century
Authors: Kupś Tomasz 
Published: October 2023

The article presents the results of source research conducted on the scholarly and teaching activities of the German philosopher and educator Johann Heinrich Abicht (1762–1816) who in 1804 was employed at the Imperial University of Vilnius. Research in Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian, and German archives has revealed many facts about Abicht’s scholarly and teaching activities in Vilnius, most of which fall during the period when Jan Śniadecki (1756–1830) was Rector at the Imperial University of Vilnius. In this paper I argue that it was Abicht and his Vilnius-based scholarly and teaching activities that were the direct cause of Śniadecki’s publication of the essay On Metaphysics in 1814, and indirectly also the trigger for all of Śniadecki’s later philosophical writings.
Perspectives on Heidegger’s Overcoming Nihilism in Dialogue with East Asian Thought Traditions
Authors: Vėželis Tautvydas 
Published: October 2023

The article analyzes the perspectives of overcoming nihilism (Verwindung) by discussing Heidegger’s relationship with East Asian traditions of thought (first of all, chan/zen and daoism). We can consider the emergence of Enframing (Gestell or Ge-stell) of the essence of modern technology defined by the philosopher as a diagnosis of the fulfillment of nihilism and the end of the Western tradition of thought. By revealing the problem of the end of the Western metaphysical tradition and its overcoming, the aim is to understand the possibilities of the emergence of a different way of thinking by looking at the horizon of post-metaphysical thinking. Heidegger’s dialogue with the sources of Eastern thought is a search for perspectives on overcoming nihilism (Verwindung), which is inseparable from the deepening of self, other and mutual understanding.
The Best Constitution for the Flourishing Lives: Aristotle’s Political Theory and Its Implications for Emancipatory Purposes
Authors: Bielskis Andrius 
Published: October 2023

The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of the best constitution given Aristotle’s account of human flourishing articulated in the Nicomachean Ethics. There, Aristotle claims that monarchy is the supreme form of constitution. A similar claim is repeated in Politics. The paper argues that these claims sit uneasily with Aristotle’s teleological accounts of the polis, the citizen, and his discussion of the virtues of the citizen and the good man in Politics. Given Aristotle’s philosophical definition of the state as “an association of equals for the sake of the best possible life” and his notion that “the best is happiness, and that consists in excellence and its perfect actualization and its employment”, and Aristotle’s argument on the relationship between the good man and the good citizen, this paper concludes that the best constitution is politeia. Yet, simply to argue so is not enough if we are to rescue Aristotle from his inconsistencies and his claims on “natural inequalities”. Finally, a more radical interpretation of Aristotle is outlined, which rejects Aristotle’s separation between the oikos and the polis and argues that the verticality of the former is philosophically arbitrary and contradicts the revolutionary implications of Aristotle’s normative teleology.
Implementation Chatbot for SMEs Using Artificial Intelligence Markup Language to Improve Customer Integration and Business Performance
Authors: Magdalena Lena 
Published: October 2023

Chatbots have been extensively adopted to produce more positive customer experiences as customers now spend more time in digital surroundings. Despite the technological advancement and benefits of chatbots for client service, exploration of chatbot operations for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is limited. The absence of exploration explaining the struggles faced by SMEs contributes to the gap in SMEs’ chatbot adoption. This exploration determines the features and rudiments that fit with SMEs’ characteristics and their guests' interactions with chatbots. A mixed-methods approach is used to understand SMEs’ needs. The first study uses interviews with SME business owners and their customers in order to explore the features that chatbots should offer for SME by identifying combinations between chatbots' generic features and SMEs' customer characteristics. The second study tests features identified in SMEs customers to empirically test featured chatbots’ influence on anthropomorphism, perceived enjoyment, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and how they affect SMEs’ customer intentions to use chatbots and their shopping intentions. This paper contributes to the emerging service literature on the use of chatbots for service interactions, particularly for SMEs using Artificial Intelligence Markup Language. The data that has been obtained was analyzed using a Likert scale. As a result, the accuracy of using Artificial Intelligence Markup Language is 84.8%.
Analysis of the Effect of Liquidity, Profitability, and Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) on Firm Value in Mining Companies Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange
Authors: Marjohan Masno , Supratikta Hadi , Hasanah Hilya 
Published: October 2023

Firm value is the view of investors when measuring the success rate of a company. ROE is the variable most strongly associated with firm value to calculate the profit level of a company. Liquidity is a ratio to measure the company's ability to meet its short-term obligations. DER is a ratio used to assess debt against equity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of liquidity (CR) on company value, profitability (ROE), and debt-to-equity ratio (DER) on company value and simultaneously in mining companies in the metal and mineral sub-sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2012–2021. This type of research is quantitative. The population in this study are mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Samples were taken from 4 companies that met the criteria, with 10 years of observation totaling 40 sample units. The sampling technique used is the purposive sampling method. Data is downloaded via the website www.idx.co.id and the company's website. Data analysis uses descriptive analysis, the classical assumption test, regression analysis, hypothesis testing, and the determination coefficient test. The results of the study based on statistical calculations obtained simultaneous results that financial performance has no effect on the value of the company, while partial liquidity (CR) debt on equity (DER) has no effect on the value of the company, and profitability (ROE) significantly affects the value of the company.
Unlocking the key dimensions of organizational agility: A systematic literature review on leadership, structural and cultural antecedents
Authors: Vaszkun Balázs , Sziráki Éva 
Published: October 2023

AbstractThis paper presents the first comprehensive systematic literature review of articles from the last five years published on enterprise-scaled agility and offers practical insights for organisations looking to become more agile. The management literature on agile structures is still relatively scarce and fragmented, but emerging. Our results highlight the characteristics, advantages and tensions created by agility at the organisational level, and give insight for executives to support their decisions on organisational design. By examining the structural, cultural, and leadership antecedents that are necessary for success, this paper contributes to the ongoing debate about agile organisations. The concept of ‘Agility Forest’ proposed here will contribute to the better understanding of the connections between structure, culture, and leadership.
A Damping Modification Factor Prediction Model for Horizontal Displacement Spectrum from Shallow Crustal and Upper-Mantle Earthquakes in Japan Accounting for Site Conditions
Authors: Kang Lili , Jiang Yanxu , Wu Hao , Zhao John X. 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT
This article presents damping modification factors (DMFs) for the horizontal component of the strong-motion records generated by the shallow crustal and upper-mantle earthquakes in Japan. This model can be used to scale a 5% damped design spectrum that does not associate with a known magnitude and rupture distance to obtain a design spectrum with the desirable damping ratios. Our previous study suggested that the site effect on DMF was significant, and we used site class as the site-effect parameter. We used a quadratic function of damping ratio in a natural logarithm scale to model the effect of damping ratios and we used fourth-order polynomials of the natural logarithm spectral period to present the effect of the spectral period when the spectral period is over 0.06 s. The between-event, between-site, and within-site standard deviations can be described by the linear function of the damping ratio in a natural logarithm scale. The between-event standard deviations are smaller than the within-event standard deviations and the between-site standard deviations are less than the within-site ones at many spectral periods. Reasonable displacement spectra can be obtained by using the DMF model from this study to scale the 5% damped displacement spectra. The differences in the DMF values from the three types of earthquakes are moderate at many spectral periods and the predicted DMF values from this study are similar to those from other studies at some spectral periods, but the differences are considerable at the other spectral periods. The variation trend of the DMF values suggests that the predicted DMF values may reach the theoretic value of 1.0 at some spectral periods over 5.0 s. Residual distribution analysis suggested that the bilinear function of magnitude and fault-top depth can be used in a model for scenario earthquakes.
Ground-Motion Model for Significant Duration Constrained by Seismological Simulations
Authors: Pinilla-Ramos Camilo , Abrahamson Norman , Phung Van-Bang , Kayen Robert , Castellanos-Nash Pablo 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACT
A duration ground-motion model for crustal earthquakes based on the normalized Arias intensity (IA) is developed. Two sets of seismological simulations are used to constrain the form and scaling of the duration model. Simulations using a 3D crustal model show that an additive model for the source, path, and site terms captures the physical behavior of duration better than a multiplicative model for the site term. Stochastic finite-fault simulations are used to constrain the saturation of the large-magnitude scaling at short distances. The duration model is developed in two parts: a duration model for the time interval between 5% and 75% of the normalized Arias intensity (D5−75) and a duration model for the ratio of the D5−X/D5−75 duration for X values from 10 to 95. Together, these two models provide a more complete description of the evolution of the seismic energy with time than a single duration metric. A new aspect of the statistical model for duration is the inclusion of a random effect for the path term in addition to random effects for the source and site terms. The source and site random effects are modeled as scale factors on the duration, whereas the path-term random effect is a scale factor on the distance slope. The distribution of the duration residuals has a skewness that is between the skewness of a lognormal distribution and the symmetry of a normal distribution. The final duration aleatory variability is modeled by a power-normal distribution with an exponent of 0.3, which accounts for the amplitude dependence of the aleatory variability of the duration with smaller aleatory variability for large-magnitude events and larger aleatory variability for small-magnitude events as compared to the variability from a lognormal distribution.
A New Statistical Perspective on Båth’s Law
Authors: Grimm Christian , Hainzl Sebastian , Käser Martin , Küchenhoff Helmut 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The empirical Båth’s law states that the average magnitude difference (ΔM) between a mainshock and its strongest aftershock is ∼1.2, independent of the size of the mainshock. Although this observation can generally be explained by a scaling of aftershock productivity with mainshock magnitude in combination with a Gutenberg–Richter frequency–magnitude distribution, estimates of ΔM may be preferable because they are directly related to the most interesting information, namely the magnitudes of the main events, without relying on assumptions. However, a major challenge in calculating this value is the bias introduced by missing data points when the strongest aftershock is below the observed cut-off magnitude. Ignoring missing values leads to a systematic error because the data points removed are those with particularly large magnitude differences ΔM. The error can be minimized by restricting the statistics to mainshocks that are at least 2 magnitude units above the cutoff, but then the sample size is strongly reduced. This work provides an innovative approach for modeling ΔM by adapting methods for time-to-event data, which often suffer from incomplete observations (censoring). In doing so, we adequately account for unobserved values and estimate a fully parametric distribution of the magnitude differences ΔM for mainshocks in a global earthquake catalog. Our results suggest that magnitude differences are best modeled by the Gompertz distribution and that larger ΔM are expected at increasing depths and higher heat flows.
COHERENCIAS Y CORRELACIONES CUÁNTICAS EN MATERIA CONDENSADA
Authors: Quiroga Luis 
Published: October 2023

La búsqueda de manifestaciones cuánticas coherentes a escala macroscópica es actualmente intensa. En especial, con la fabricación de nanoestructuras semiconductoras se ha podido llegar a un nivel de control tanto espacial como temporal donde esos efectos cuánticos asombrosos pudieran ser demostrados. En este artículo se presenta una revisión crítica de resultados recientes sobre la creación de estados cuánticos enredados en sistemas de puntos cuánticos, la observación de su decoherencia en escalas de tiempo del orden de picosegundos, así como también la transferencia de coherencias entre un estado cuántico macroscópico tipo condensado de Bose-Einstein y la luz que emite.
Investigation of factors affecting preschool teachers’ attitudes towards teaching profession in Vietnam
Authors: Vu Hien Thi Thanh , Nguyen Tuan Van , Vu Hang Thi Thuy , Lam Trang Ho Thuc , Tran Thao Thi Thu 
Published: October 2023

The attitudes of preschool teachers toward the teaching profession are crucial because they have a direct influence on their job satisfaction, motivation, classroom dynamics, and overall efficacy in providing quality education and fostering the development of young children. The main aim of this study was to examine the elements that preschool teachers in Vietnam view as having the most significant impact on their perspective of the teaching profession. Preschool teachers were given a survey questionnaire containing questions about subjective and objective factors that influenced their perceptions of the profession, and then given instructions on how to complete it. A sample of 347 early childhood educators from the Central Highlands of Vietnam participated in the study. The most significant finding was that a majority of preschool teachers' perceptions for their work were significantly influenced by a variety of subjective and objective factors. Possessing a positive attitude toward the teaching profession was one of the most important factors influencing the level of professional success and the quality of teaching activities. A significant number of preschool employees began their careers without enthusiasm or passion for the field, as well as without a comprehensive comprehension of the humanistic and moral principles that guide the field.
Effects of citicoline and atorvastatin administration on the regenerative capacity of the distal segment of the transected sciatic nerve in conditions of delayed nerve repair
Authors: Bolandghamat Samira , Behnam-Rassouli Morteza , Mahdavi-Shahri Nasser , Moghimi Ali 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Background:The reduced organ function following delayed nerve repair highlights the need for pharmacological interventions. In this regard, many chemical agents have been administered after nerve injury, but their functional outcomes are still not satisfactory. The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of the administration of citicoline and atorvastatin, throughout a delayed nerve repair period, on the regenerative capacity of the distal end of the transected sciatic nerve.
Methods:The sciatic nerve of male rats (250-300 g) was transected and the animals were intraperitoneally administrated citicoline (200 mg/kg, n=5), atorvastatin (5 mg/kg, n=5), citicoline + atorvastatin and vehicles (control groups 1 and 2, n=5) for 1 month. In the sham group (n=5), the sciatic nerve was only exposed. After 1 month, the transected nerve was repaired. Fourteen weeks after surgical repair, morphometric and electron microscopic evaluations were performed on the nerve.
Results:In the present study, improvement in the structural (fiber diameter, axon diameter, and myelin thickness, etc.) and ultrastructural (degree of myelin destruction) indices of the distal segment of the nerve was observed in the citicoline and atorvastatin groups compared to the control groups (P< 0.01). Also, the nerve structural and ultrastructural indices in the citicoline + atorvastatin group were better than each of the citicoline and atorvastatin groups.
Conclusions:The results of this study showed that the administration of citicoline and atorvastatin leads to maintaining the regeneration capacity of the distal part of the nerve in the condition of delayed nerve repair.
Coal Consumption, Ecological Footprint and Economic Growth: New Evidence from Top Eighteen Coal Countries
Authors: Rasheed Shahida , Adeneye Yusuf 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between coal consumption, ecological footprint, and economic growth in 18 coal-dependent nations between 1980 and 2015. Using the pooled mean group (PMG) and dynamic fixed effect (DFE) of the panel ARDL estimation technique, the study finds that in developed coal-dependent nations, coal consumption has a positive relationship with economic growth in the short run. However, in the long run, a negative relationship with economic growth was found. Correspondingly, both short-run and long-run demonstrate a positive effect of coal consumption on economic growth in developing countries. In addition, the study finds that in both developed and developing countries, ecological footprint has a positive relationship with economic growth in the long run only. The robust analysis using the three-stage least square (3SLS) reviews bi-directional relationships between coal consumption, ecological footprint, and economic growth, particularly in developed, developing and ecological deficit countries. In contrast, the study finds no evidence of a bi-directional relationship between coal and GDP in ecological surplus countries. Our findings confirm the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in developed countries but not in developing countries. Based on the above results we provide a set of policy recommendations.