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Journal articles on the topic "BRT (key words)"
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Ferranti, Emma, Lauren Andres, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, Lorena Melgaço, Daniel Oberling, and Andrew Quinn. "Operational Challenges and Mega Sporting Events Legacy: The Case of BRT Systems in the Global South." Sustainability 12, no. 4 (February 21, 2020): 1609. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12041609.
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This paper examines the bus rapid transit (BRT) legacies of mega sporting events (MSEs) held in the Global South cities of Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. It discusses the extent to which these transport systems have been operationally sustainable, post-MSE; in other words, their ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level and hence their ability to act as public good as planned and according to specific needs. It argues that in both cities, long-term operational challenges have emerged due to conflictual temporalities between the priorities of the MSE and the mid/long term requirements of a transport system, supplemented by a poor spatial contextualisation of BRT design. These include financial viability, providing a service with appropriate frequency and capacity, integration with other transport systems, and resilience to external shocks such as extreme weather. These findings have key academic and policy implications both by opening further areas of research towards MSEs as a tool to deliver sustainable urban transport, and provides important lessons for future MSE hosts and cities considering BRT.
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Carmona Rojas, Madisson Yojan. "Prácticas espaciales en el transporte público de la Avenida Insurgentes de la Ciudad de México / Space practices in public transport of the Insurgentes Avenue of Mexico City." Caderno de Geografia 27, no. 51 (October 11, 2017): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2318-2962.2017v27n51p656.
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<p>El modelo de transporte púbico BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) llega a la ciudad de México en el año 2005, impulsado por un importante grupo de organizaciones privadas dedicadas a promocionar su decidido papel en la transformación de la movilidad cotidiana de las principales ciudades de América Latina. En este artículo se toman como base los operadores espaciales (estaciones de abordaje, sistema de cobro y acceso sistematizado, carriles confinados y automatización en los tiempos de circulación) sobre los cuales se diseña e implementa el Metrobús, para analizar los cambios en la normatividad de transporte y vialidad y las prácticas de movilidad cotidiana de los usuarios de este sistema. Además, este texto se propone leer este modelo de transporte público como resultado de una tendencia a la sobrerregulación y extrema vigilancia de las prácticas de uso y apropiación del espacio urbano.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Palabras Clave: </strong>BRT (Autobuses de Tránsito Rápido), operadores espaciales, prácticas espaciales, espacio urbano. </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Abstract </strong></p><p>The BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) public transportation model arrives in Mexico City in 2005, driven by an important group of private organizations dedicated to promoting its decisive role in transforming the daily mobility of the main cities of Latin America. In this article, the space operators (boarding stations, system of collection and systematized access, confined lanes and automation in the times of circulation) are taken as base, on which Metrobús is designed and implemented, to analyze the changes in the normativity of Transport and road and the daily mobility practices of the users of this system. In addition, this text intends to read this model of public transport as a result of a tendency to overregulation and extreme vigilance of the practices of use and appropriation of urban space.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Key Words: </strong>BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), space operators, space practices, urban space. </p>
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Putri, Mukhlisya Dewi Ratna, Reni Karno Kinasih, and Nabila Nabila Nabila. "Kesertaan Warga Senior Jakarta pada Sistem Transportasi Era Industri 4.0." Rekayasa Sipil 9, no. 2 (October 8, 2020): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22441/jrs.2020.v09.i2.05.
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AbstractJakarta, the capital of Indonesia, undertook a major change of the transportation system, digitization of the transportation system was initiated by implementing a cashless payment system on the Commuter line in Jabodetabek, followed by implementing BRT with Busway mode, then MRT and LRT all of them are also cashless. All-digitization and application-based transportation systems force people to change. This is a trouble for senior citizens and is alleged to be one of the factors that causes them to be reluctant to switch to public transportation.This study analyzes the hypothesis that the reluctance of people of late adulthood to late elderly to use public transportation is due to the difficulty in understanding the digitalization system that is applied and because of the low level of respondents' trust in digital systems in public transportation. The study was conducted by distributing closed questionnaires to respondents who are Jabodetabek (Jakarta-Bogor-Depok-Tangerang-Bekasi) residents aged 45 years to 65 years who still have a fairly high activity, data tabulated then performed regression analysis. Key words: transportation system 4.0 era, transportation digitization, elderly transportation AbstrakDaerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta, ibu kota Indonesia, melakukan perombakan besar pada sistem transportasi, digitalisasi pada sistem transportasi diawali dengan menerapkan sistem pembayaran tanpa uang tunai (cashless) pada Commuter line di Jabodetabek, disusul dengan mengimplementasi BRT dengan moda Busway, kemudian MRT dan LRT yang semuanya juga cashless. Sistem transportasi yang serba didigitalisasi serta berorientasi pada aplikasi memaksa masyarakat untuk berubah. Hal ini merepotkan bagi warga senior dan disinyalir menjadi salah satu faktor yang menyebabkan mereka enggan untuk beralih ke transportasi publik.Penelitian ini menganalisa menguji hipotesa bahwa keengganan masyarakat usia dewasa akhir hingga lansia akhir untuk menggunakan transportasi umum adalah karena kesulitan memahami sistem digitalisasi yang diterapkan dan karena rendahnya tingkat kepercayaan responden terhadap sistem digital pada transportasi umum. Penelitian dilakukan dengan menyebarkan kuesioner tertutup kepada responden yang merupakan warga jabodetabek berusia 45 tahun hingga 65 tahun yang masih mempunyai aktivitas yang cukup tinggi data ditabulasi kemudian dilakukan analisa statistik dengan SPSS.Kata kunci: sistem transportasi era 4.0, sistem transportasi, digitalisasi transportasi.
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Teymur qızı Bəxtiyarova, Aynur. "BMT-nin TƏSİSATLARI VƏ İNFORMASİYA CƏMİYYƏTİ QURUCULUĞU." SCIENTIFIC WORK 52, no. 03 (February 28, 2020): 43–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/aem/2007-2020/52/43-46.
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Noor, Agustian. "Perangkat Lunak Pembelajaran Metode Kriptografi WAKE (Word Auto Key Encryption)." Jurnal Sains dan Informatika 3, no. 1 (September 28, 2017): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.34128/jsi.v3i1.68.
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Metode kriptografi dapat digunakan untuk mengamankan data yang bersifat rahasia agar data tersebut tidak diketahui oleh orang lain yang tidak berkepentingan. Metode WAKE merupakan salah satu metode yang telah digunakan secara komersial. WAKE merupakan singkatan dari Word Auto Key Encryption. Metode ini ditemukan oleh David Wheeler pada tahun 1993. Metode ini menggunakan kunci 128 bit, dan sebuah tabel 256 x 32 bit. Dalam algoritmanya, metode ini menggunakan operasi XOR, AND, OR dan Shift Right. Metode WAKE ini telah digunakan pada program Dr. Solomon Anti Virus versi terbaru. Metode WAKE dapat dibagi menjadi beberapa proses yaitu proses pembentukan tabel dan kunci, enkripsi dan dekripsi. Proses penyelesaian metode ini cukup rumit dan sulit untuk dikerjakan secara manual berhubung karena algoritmanya yang cukup panjang dan kompleks
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Contreras, Jorge A. Vargas, J. Rafael Herrera Herrera, and J. Enrique Escobedo Cabrera. "NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF MAMMAL FROM CAMPECHE, MÉXICO." Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología (Nueva Epoca) 8, no. 1 (December 1, 2004): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ie.20074484e.2004.8.1.186.
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Diez–Arroyo, Marisa. "English words as euphemisms in Spanish fashion." English Today 32, no. 3 (March 2, 2016): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078416000043.
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Euphemism is a concept closely related to taboo or embarrassing topics; classic examples include sex, religion and politics. It has been mainly studied to show how, within a given language, alternative expressions replace other unsuitable ones that, accordingly, may cause offence and discomfort to the audience. While this first approximation to the question of euphemism anticipates a key point in the use of these substitute expressions, namely the relationship between speaker-hearer in communication, the present discussion seeks to push this interdependence a bit further, framing it around English words or Anglicisms in the context of Spanish fashion. Some examples include ‘backstage’, ‘fifties’, and ‘street style’. This brings up some interesting questions: why should fashion, a clearly non-taboo topic, resort to the use of euphemistic words? How can English words qualify as good candidates to carry out the euphemistic role?
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Arnelas Seco, Itziar, and Juan Antonio Devesa Alcaraz. "Rectificación de errata en Centaurea corcubionensis M. Laínz (Acta Bot. Malacitana 37: 53 y 69, 2012). Error correction of Centaurea corcubionensis M. Laínz (Acta Bot. Malacitana 37: 53 and 69, 2012)." Acta Botanica Malacitana 38 (December 1, 2013): 262–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/abm.v38i0.2615.
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Error correction of Centaurea corcubionensis M. Laínz (Acta Bot. Malacitana 37: 53 and 69, 2012) Palabras clave. Centaurea, Asteraceae, corología, Península Ibérica. Key words: Centaurea, Asteraceae, chorology, Iberian Peninsula
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Carneiro, J. W. P., A. S. Muniz, and T. A. Guedes. "Greenhouse bedding plant production of Stevia rebaudiana (Bert) Bertoni." Canadian Journal of Plant Science 77, no. 3 (July 1, 1997): 473–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/p96-166.
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The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of 14 growing media on greenhouse bedding plant production of Stevia rebaudiana (Bert) Bertoni. The best mixture consisted of sand clay (LEd2) soil, laying hen manure (10% vol/vol), and lime. Key words: Natural sweetener, fertilizers, transplant production
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Shimal, Abeer F., Baydaa H. Helal, and Ashwaq T. Hashim. "Extended of TEA: A 256 bits block cipher algorithm for image encryption." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 11, no. 5 (October 1, 2021): 3996. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v11i5.pp3996-4007.
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<p>This paper introduces an effective image encryption approach that merges a chaotic map and polynomial with a block cipher. According to this scheme, there are three levels of encryption. In the first level, pixel positions of the image are scuffled into blocks randomly based on a chaotic map. In the second level, the polynomials are constructed by taking N unused pixels from the permuted blocks as polynomial coefficients. Finally, the third level a proposed secret-key block cipher called extended of tiny encryption algorithm (ETEA) is used. The proposed ETEA algorithm increased the block size from 64-bit to 256-bit by using F-function in type three Feistel network design. The key schedule generation is very straightforward through admixture the entire major subjects in the identical manner for every round. The proposed ETEA algorithm is word-oriented, where wholly internal operations are executed on words of 32 bits. So, it is possible to efficiently implement the proposed algorithm on smart cards. The results of the experimental demonstration that the proposed encryption algorithm for all methods are efficient and have high security features through statistical analysis using histograms, correlation, entropy, randomness tests, and the avalanche effect.</p>
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "BRT (key words)"
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Vasquez, Bustamante Jose Luis, Ochoa Chavez Raphael Marcelo, Manuel Silvera, and Fernando Castro. "Optimization of passengers boarding in the BRT system based on the security protocols established by the Covid-19 pandemic." Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656570.
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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the city of Lima has more than 9,485,405 inhabitants. This causes problems of pedestrian crowding in public places. The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system called Metropolitano transports 650,000 passengers a day, of which 81,800 of them use the boarding platform of the Naranjal station located in one of the most populated districts of Lima. In this station are concentrated 12.6% users of the entire transportation system. This research proposes a pedestrian microsimulation model with the objective of optimizing the pedestrian area of one of the most demanded platforms in Lima, considering the security protocols established by the Covid-19 Pandemic. To obtain results, the parameters of pedestrian density, bus frequency and queuing time were considered. The effectiveness of the proposed design is validated using a model made with the software Vissim. The results showed that the maximum number of pedestrians that can occupy the Naranjal station following the Covid-19 security protocols are 4166 persons, considering a 180 second bus frequency on lines with the highest demand and a maximum queuing time of 764.51 seconds.
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Hýl, Petr. "Slovinské národní divadlo v Lublani." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215582.
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Vasterman, Peter, ed. From Media Hype to Twitter Storm. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982178.
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The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms have play an important role in political issues, scandals and crises. Twitter storms sometimes ruin reputations within hours. Although different concepts are used, such as media hypes, news waves, media storms, information cascades or risk amplification, all the studies in this book refer to the same process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, building up huge news waves in the media or rapidly spreading social epidemics in the social media. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of this important topic. It is not only interesting for scholars and students in media and journalism, but also for professionals in PR and communication, crisis communication and reputation management.
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The End of the Word: A Book of Bro-ken Words. Grounder Publishing, 1999.
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Hancock, Maxine. ‘Nor do thou go to work without my Key’. Edited by Michael Davies and W. R. Owens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199581306.013.25.
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A full reading of John Bunyan’s works demands that attention be paid not only to the central text, but also to the marginal notes. This chapter reviews the history of critical and editorial attention given to Bunyan’s marginal notes, and considers what is known regarding their import for Bunyan and for his seventeenth-century readers. In assessing the ongoing significance of the marginal notes for critical readings of Bunyan’s texts, this chapter also examines taxonomies of the functions and effects of these, as well as current theories of margination. Possible future directions for further work on the marginal notes are also considered as offering potentially enriching readings of Bunyan, in terms of the mimetic and dialogic aspects of the notes.
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Carvalho, Mário Jorge de, and Samuel Oliveira. Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2005-3.
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It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major. There was a time when this small dialogue was held in high regard and enjoyed much authority.2 The Alcibiades Major was unreservedly attributed to Plato. It was much read, quoted and alluded to. And it is no exaggeration to say that it was one of the key works of the corpus platonicum. The contrast with the present could hardly be more striking.
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Simons, Peter. Lowe, the Primacy of Metaphysics, and the Basis of Categorial Distinctions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796299.003.0003.
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This chapter continues and amplifies themes from my paper in the volume Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics entitled ‘Four Categories – and More’, a paper which begins with the words ‘Jonathan Lowe’ and ends with the words ‘I salute him’. It continues my appreciation of and predominant agreement with the methods, tone, and philosophical attitude of Jonathan Lowe, while continuing to demur from several of his key metaphysical theses. I emphasize here our independent convergence on what seems an odd, even an inconsistent view, but is I think deep, important, and under-recognized, namely that the most basic attributes characterizing and linking the fundamental categories of being are not themselves beings.
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Waithe, Marcus. Ruskin’s Style of Thought. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0012.
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John Ruskin complained of being ‘called a “word painter” instead of a thinker.’ This chapter challenges the basis of that opposition, in claiming that Ruskin’s way of putting things is itself a valuable kind of thought. A resonant case is his reference in Proserpina (1875-86) to ‘the melancholy humour of a root in loving darkness’, where the vitalist idea of ‘vegetable love’ intrudes on botanical convention in a way that isn’t simply ‘purple’. These later tendencies draw on the purportedly systemic methods of the early works, where definition plays a key role in reopening apparently closed views. When Ruskin wants to tell us what a wall is, he indicates that it has ‘purposes in its existence, like an organized creature’, and that its foundation is ‘what the paw is to an animal’ (The Stones of Venice). From first principles of definition, he conjures something not just unexpected, but manifestly rethought.
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Sorensen, Juliet S. Human Rights and Corruption. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781789909678.
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This research review on corruption and human rights examines anti-corruption law and policy through a legal lens. Intended for a global audience of scholars, practitioners and policymakers, the text recommends over twenty key works on the subject of corruption and human rights, together illustrating corruption’s insidious effect on a range of human rights, but also the limitations of a rights-based approach.
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Mithun, Marianne. Argument Marking in the Polysynthetic Verb and Its Implications. Edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, and Nicholas Evans. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.4.
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It is generally agreed that the essence of polysynthesis goes beyond sheer numbers of morphemes per word, but which other properties might be criterial is unclear. Most frequently cited is the marking of core arguments within the verb, such that the key elements of the clause, predicate, and arguments, are contained within that one word. Also often cited are noun incorporation, applicatives, rich inventories of adverbial affixes, and pragmatically motivated word order. But argument marking on the verb is not categorical: pronominal affix paradigms show a range of differential marking patterns dependent on various semantic and grammatical features, none reliably predictive of other characteristics typically associated with polysynthesis. Yet these characteristics tend to cluster, indicating that they are not reflections of a single, underlying governing principle, but rather constitute structural complexes that emerge from constellations of cognitive and social factors favoring the development and maintenance of complex morphologies.
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Ó Donghaile, Deaglán. Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siécle. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459433.001.0001.
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Oscar Wilde’s political identity informed his literary writings, which were motivated by his revolutionary outlook as much as they were driven by his Paterian “passion for sensations”. Addressing his radical engagements with anarchism, socialism and anticolonial thought, this monograph provides a new interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism and of his major works by emphasising the importance of progressive politics to his positioning and self-identification within late Victorian literary culture. Consisting of previously unpublished material, it provides a politicised and historicised account of Wilde’s key works by situating them within the framework of his very pronounced – but to date critically under-recognised and as yet untheorised - ideological commitment to these radical political causes. This book interprets Wilde’s better-known works against the important political contexts addressed in his correspondence, reviews, lectures and journalism, and through his personal relationships with contemporary radicals.
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Pooley, Roger. Bunyan’s Reading. Edited by Michael Davies and W. R. Owens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199581306.013.6.
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The Bible is John Bunyan’s primary text, but the range of his reading, before and after his conversion experience, reveals some of the sources of his imaginative works as well as his pastoral and theological concerns. This chapter discusses, in turn, some of the key books in his intellectual and spiritual formation, including popular ballads, newsbooks, and romances; best-selling religious works by Lewis Bayly and Arthur Dent; Martin Luther’s commentary on Galatians; the terrifying story of the apostate Francis Spira; a treatise by Isaac Ambrose in which (it is claimed) he wrote marginal annotations; and John Foxe’s great ecclesiastical history, Acts and Monuments, a copy of which Bunyan had with him in prison, and to which he refers often in his writings.
Book chapters on the topic "BRT (key words)"
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McMahon, Laura. "Cinematic Time and Animal Worlds." In Animal Worlds, 42–65. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446389.003.0002.
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This chapter develops key aspects of the book’s theoretical framework, moving between philosophies of animal worlds and Deleuze’s account of cinematic time. It draws on the concept of the Umwelt proposed by Uexküll, and the different responses to this concept offered by Heidegger and Deleuze and Guattari. Focusing in particular on Deleuze and Guattari’s reworking of the Umwelt as a process of ‘desubjectified’ assemblages, the chapter links this to Deleuze’s thinking of the time-image as a shift from subject to world, and as a realm that is intricately bound up with questions of differing, becoming and the virtual. While suggesting ways of thinking through links between Deleuze, cinema and the slow animal film, the chapter also turns to recent accounts of the relation between animals and film, by Burt, Pick, Lippit, Sobchack and others. Engaging with yet also moving beyond the recourse to Bazin that has tended to shape the field thus far, it emphasises what Deleuze’s theory of cinematic time can add to this developing body of work, as well as what a more detailed and wide-ranging account of Deleuze and Guattari’s model of animal worlds can contribute to the field of critical animal studies.
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White, Mo. "‘It’s all just a little bit of History repeating’." In Practices of Projection, 122–35. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934118.003.0008.
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The chapter looks at the use of slide-tape by artists during the 1970s and 1980s in the UK. Slide-tape was a series of projected 35 mm photographic slides with a synchronized audio soundtrack. As a form, it is significant in the UK for being used by a number of key and emerging artists for a brief period before being abandoned. This moment itself has been largely forgotten, and the chapter considers this and the importance of slide-tape as a critical tool used in artists’ projected works. Slide-tape was a time-based media form, with the technology—the slide projector—itself having a distinct presence in the live performance of the work. Amongst the artists who used the form were Black Audio Film Collective and Tina Keane and others who took part in the key exhibition About Time: Video, Performance and Installation by 21 Women Artists, which took place at the ICA, London, in 1980. In the chapter the author accounts for the emergence of this work and suggests that slide-tape allowed for artists’ experimental work where the simultaneous projection of images and sound was transformed to establish a new form. As the form has been taken up and used recently by contemporary artists, the impact of this overlooked history to what is described as legacy media is discussed and located.
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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. "Love and the Restoration of Ourselves." In A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.003.0030.
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A little girl in Raytown, Missouri, used to spend part of almost every day in a special place in the woods near her house. The place had a calming effect on her. “Sometimes I go there when I’m mad . . . and then, just with the peacefulness, I’m better. I can come back home happy, and my mom doesn’t even know why.” In his book Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv recounts the end of this fifth grader’s story. “And then they just cut the woods down. It was like they cut down part of me.” I know this same feeling. When I was her age, I watched the prairiesavannah I loved to explore turned into a housing development, chasing away my friends, the meadowlarks. I watched my aging Irish poet friend, Ken Olsen, try to fight the city to save the little bit of woods next to his house from being turned into an apartment complex. The loss nearly gave him a heart attack … or it did give him one, just not one that could be seen. Another friend mourned for weeks after the city cut down the oak in front of her apartment complex that offered dappled green shade to her fourth-floor home. It’s grief, pure and simple. But with all grief, life goes on, sometimes even when we don’t want it to. And there’s hope in that. The land systems long to rejuvenate, just as we long to have them back. Leopold’s restoration work at the Shack and the Arboretum have expanded exponentially, into every ecosystem on land and even into ocean ecosystems, such as coral reefs, kelp beds, tidal communities, and oyster beds. Because so much damage has been done, this is one of the most vibrant, growing, and needed areas of the Leopold legacy. Steven Brower, a landscape architect and Leopold family historian from Burlington, often walks the woods, caves, and bottomlands where Aldo roamed as a child. Brower’s eyes penetrate the landscapes with a kind of x-ray vision, seeing what once was underneath what is today.
Conference papers on the topic "BRT (key words)"
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Skufina, T., and S. Baranov. "ВЛИЯНИЕ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ ПЕНСИОННОГО ВОЗРАСТА НА ЧИСЛЕННОСТЬ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ ТРУДОСПОСОБНОГО ВОЗРАСТА." In Perspektivy social`no-ekonomicheskogo razvitiia prigranichnyh regionov 2019. Институт экономики - обособленное подразделение Федерального исследовательского центра "Карельский научный центр Российской академии наук", 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36867/br.2019.42.99.057.
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Приведена постановка проблемы и значимость оценки влияния повышения пенсионного возраста на основные макроэкономические показатели. Рассмотрено влияние повышения пенсионного возраста на численность трудоспособного населения Российской Федерации. Анализ реальных данных и трех вариантов прогноза численности трудоспособного населения до 2036 г. указал на устойчивый спад численности трудоспособного населения, наблюдаемый с 2006 г. Приведены оценки авторов, указывающие, что повышение возраста выхода на пенсию приостановил устойчивую тенденцию снижения численности трудоспособного населения в России. Ключевые слова: пенсионная реформа, трудоспособное население, ВВП, производственные функции, прогноз. The article presents the problem and the importance of assessing the impact of raising the retirement age on the main macroeconomic indicators. The influence of increasing the retirement age on the number of ablebodied population of the Russian Federation is considered. Analysis of real data and three variants of the workingage population forecast up to 2036 pointed to a steady decline in the working age population observed since 2006. The authors estimates indicate that the increase in the retirement age has suspended the steady decline in the number of workingage population in Russia. Key words: pension reform, ablebodied population, GDP, production functions, forecast.
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Zhang, Yu, Houquan Zhou, and Zhenghua Li. "Fast and Accurate Neural CRF Constituency Parsing." In Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Seventeenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-PRICAI-20}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/560.
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Estimating probability distribution is one of the core issues in the NLP field. However, in both deep learning (DL) and pre-DL eras, unlike the vast applications of linear-chain CRF in sequence labeling tasks, very few works have applied tree-structure CRF to constituency parsing, mainly due to the complexity and inefficiency of the inside-outside algorithm. This work presents a fast and accurate neural CRF constituency parser. The key idea is to batchify the inside algorithm for loss computation by direct large tensor operations on GPU, and meanwhile avoid the outside algorithm for gradient computation via efficient back-propagation. We also propose a simple two-stage bracketing-then-labeling parsing approach to improve efficiency further. To improve the parsing performance, inspired by recent progress in dependency parsing, we introduce a new scoring architecture based on boundary representation and biaffine attention, and a beneficial dropout strategy. Experiments on PTB, CTB5.1, and CTB7 show that our two-stage CRF parser achieves new state-of-the-art performance on both settings of w/o and w/ BERT, and can parse over 1,000 sentences per second. We release our code at https://github.com/yzhangcs/crfpar.
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Martucci, Angelo. "Fault Detection and Accommodation in Real Time Embedded Full Authority Digital Electronic Engine Controls." In ASME 1998 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/98-gt-155.
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Fault Detection and Accommodation Logic easily occupies at least fifty percent of the real time embedded software application program in the contemporary Full Authority Digital Electronic Engine Control (FADEC). Indeed, if a layman were to look at the logic distribution in a FADEC he might think the main purpose of the FADEC was to detect failures! This, of course, is not the case. It is true, however, that real world applications must be programmed to deal with the inevitable fact that system failures will occur. The success of the application program then depends not only on how well it controls the engine, but how well it detects, isolates and accommodates failures. In other words, the fault tolerance of an application is just as important as the robustness of the control algorithms. Over the past two decades many basic Fault Detection and Accommodation (FDA) techniques have been developed and have become commonplace in FADECs. These techniques have been developed in such a way as to maximize an application’s Built In Test (BIT) effectiveness for both “hard”, “soft”, and intermittent failures, while minimizing failure annunciation due to “false alarm” events. These techniques have been implemented in both hardware and software. This paper will present and discuss these basic FDA techniques for input signals, output signals, processors, memory devices and communication devices. Many of the newer FDA techniques will also be discussed. An overview of the key components of FDA, and the established “norms” for effective FDA will be added for completeness. Since the structure of FDA is dependent upon system architecture, the system under consideration is chosen as the Dual-Channel Full Authority Digital Electronic Engine Control. This is the configuration that is most commonly used in commercial and military engine control applications.
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Chen, C. Q., P. T. Ng, S. P. Neo, P. K. Tan, A. C. T. Quah, and J. Zhu. "Application of Nanoprobing on Subtle Defects in the Embedded Non-Volatile Memory Device." In ISTFA 2019. ASM International, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2019p0336.
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Abstract Non-volatile memory is the most important memory device in IC chips. As a memory, embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) is a fundamental structure in many kinds of semiconductor devices. It is commonly used in the modern electrical appliance as a code or data memory. For different applications, there are different memory designs or IP, like ROM, OTP, Flash, MRAM, PCRAM etc. The physical mechanism of these NVMs are different, some are electron based, some are resistance based and fuse or anti-fused based. The experiment described in this paper is performed on an electron charge storage based NVM. That means a medium is employed to store electron charge to differentiate two statuses “0” and “1”. Floating Poly gate is this medium used as electron charge storage in this NVM. Since the storage medium is in floating condition, it cannot be accessed externally. The methods of performing direct analysis are limited for this kind of device, especially in the case of subtle defects or soft fail. As semiconductor devices scale, the defects become smaller and more subtle. Nanoprobing is usually the only way to find the defect location electrically before any further physical analysis. In this experiment, the single bit NVM fail was analyzed. Different PFA methods used during the analysis, failed to find the defect. Nanoprobing was employed to precisely isolate the defect. Key word: nanoprobing, NVM, subtle defect, Poly-crystalline, floating gate
Reports on the topic "BRT (key words)"
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Basu, Sayani. Optogenetics: A Key to Future Brain Disease Therapeutics. Spring Library, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47496/sl.blog.27.
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Optogenetics, a combination of optics and genetic engineering, promises to not only paint the full picture of how the human brain works but also offers a possible way to influence it with great accuracy.
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Robledo, Ana, and Amber Gove. What Works in Early Reading Materials. RTI Press, February 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2018.op.0058.1902.
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Access to books is key to learning to read and sustaining a love of reading. Yet many low- and middle-income countries struggle to provide their students with reading materials of sufficient quality and quantity. Since 2008, RTI International has provided technical assistance in early reading assessment and instruction to ministries of education in dozens of low- and middle-income countries. The central objective of many of these programs has been to improve learning outcomes—in particular, reading—for students in the early grades of primary school. Under these programs, RTI has partnered with ministry staff to produce and distribute evidence-based instructional materials at a regional or national scale, in quantities that increase the likelihood that children will have ample opportunities to practice reading skills, and at a cost that can be sustained in the long term by the education system. In this paper, we seek to capture the practices RTI has developed and refined over the last decade, particularly in response to the challenges inherent in contexts with high linguistic diversity and low operational capacity for producing and distributing instructional materials. These practices constitute our approach to developing and producing instructional materials for early grade literacy. We also touch upon effective planning for printing and distribution procurement, but we do not consider the printing and distribution processes in depth in this paper. We expect this volume will be useful for donors, policymakers, and practitioners interested in improving access to cost-effective, high-quality teaching and learning materials for the early grades.
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Buene, Eivind. Intimate Relations. Norges Musikkhøgskole, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.481274.
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Blue Mountain is a 35-minute work for two actors and orchestra. It was commissioned by the Ultima Festival, and premiered in 2014 by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. The Ultima festival challenged me – being both a composer and writer – to make something where I wrote both text and music. Interestingly, I hadn’t really thought of that before, writing text to my own music – or music to my own text. This is a very common thing in popular music, the songwriter. But in the lied, the orchestral piece or indeed in opera, there is a strict division of labour between composer and writer. There are exceptions, most famously Wagner, who did libretto, music and staging for his operas. And 20th century composers like Olivier Messiaen, who wrote his own poems for his music – or Luciano Berio, who made a collage of such detail that it the text arguably became his own in Sinfonia. But this relationship is often a convoluted one, not often discussed in the tradition of musical analysis where text tend to be taken as a given, not subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny that is often the case with music. This exposition is an attempt to unfold this process of composing with both words and music. A key challenge has been to make the text an intrinsic part of the performance situation, and the music something more than mere accompaniment to narration. To render the words meaningless without the music and vice versa. So the question that emerged was how music and words can be not only equal partners, but also yield a new species of music/text? A second questions follows en suite, and that is what challenges the conflation of different roles – the writer and the composer – presents? I will try to address these questions through a discussion of the methods applied in Blue Mountain, the results they have yielded, and the challenges this work has posed.
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Smerecka, Honorata. ANALYSIS OF PRESS HEADLINES FROM KROSNOCITY.PL AND KROSNO24.PL WEB PORTALS IN KROSNO. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11108.
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The analysis of press headlines from the krosnocity.pl and krosno24.pl news portals in Krosno allowed to distinguish features and ways of creating headlines in the local press: from schematic constructions to metaphors, word games, hyperbolization of events and quoting statements. During the linguistic research, several key functions of local Internet portals also emerged: it is primarily to inform about the most important events from the region, but also to support the development of the city, promote local products and businesses, take care of the good name and the interests of its inhabitants and make their achievements and passions known.
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Rogers, Amanda. Creative Expression and Contemporary Arts Making Among Young Cambodians. Swansea University, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/sureport.56822.
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This project analysed the creative practices and concerns of young adult artists (18-35 years old) in contemporary Cambodia. It examined the extent to which the arts are being used to open up new ways of enacting Cambodian identity that encompass, but also move beyond, a preoccupation with the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979). Existing research has focused on how the recuperation and revival of traditional performance is linked to the post-genocidal reconstruction of the nation. In contrast, this research examines if, and how, young artists are moving beyond the revival process to create works that speak to a young Cambodian population.The research used NGO Cambodian Living Arts’ 2020 Cultural Season of performances, workshops, and talks as a case study through which to examine key concerns of young Cambodian artists, trace how these affected their creative process, and analyse how the resulting works were received among audiences. It was funded through the AHRC GCRF Network Plus Grant ‘Changing the Story’ which uses arts and humanities approaches to ‘build inclusive societies with, and for, young people in post-conflict settings.
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Piper, Benjamin, Yasmin Sitabkhan, Jessica Mejia, and Kellie Betts. Effectiveness of Teachers’ Guides in the Global South: Scripting, Learning Outcomes, and Classroom Utilization. RTI Press, May 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2018.op.0053.1805.
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This report presents the results of RTI International Education’s study on teachers' guides across 13 countries and 19 projects. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we examine how teachers’ guides across the projects differ and find substantial variation in the design and structure of the documents. We develop a scripting index so that the scripting levels of the guides can be compared across projects. The impact results of the programs that use teachers’ guides show significant impacts on learning outcomes, associated with approximately an additional half year of learning, showing that structured teachers’ guides contribute to improved learning outcomes. During observations, we find that teachers make a variety of changes in their classroom instruction from how the guides are written, showing that the utilization of structured teachers’ guides do not create robotic teachers unable to use their own professional skills to teach children. Unfortunately, many changes that teachers make reduce the amount of group work and interactivity that was described in the guides, suggesting that programs should encourage teachers to more heavily utilize the instructional routines designed in the guide. The report includes a set of research-based guidelines that material developers can use to develop teachers’ guides that will support effective instructional practices and help improve learning outcomes. The key takeaway from the report is that structured teachers' guides improve learning outcomes, but that overly scripted teachers' guides are somewhat less effective than simplified teachers' guides that give specific guidance to the teacher but are not written word for word for each lesson in the guide.
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Khomenko, Tetiana. TIME AND SPACE OF HISTORICAL PARALLELS OF EUGEN SVERSTIUK’S JOURNALISM. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11095.
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The article is dedicated to the investigation of time-space measurements of journalistic works of Eugen Sverstiuk, a well-known Ukrainian journalist. In particular, the time-space continuum of his works is being discussed, which is characterized as comprehensive, continuous, filled with archetypical images which metaphorize the text, but at the same time structure it, and are beaded on the axis of time and documentarily located in the space. The logics of images initiated in the text is exaggerated by constant dwelling of the author in the time-space dimensions of the epoque, of which he was a contemporary, as well as precise knowledge of World and Ukrainian history and culture. Historical parallelism of journalism of E. Sverstiuk possesses double potential. On the one hand, the author provides arguments for confirmation of his own opinion, and on the other, he shows us historical collisions in the new aspect, which helps consider the past, better understand the present, and think of the future. Pages of his works is space for author’s considerations, which logics impresses by free transgression of the author in the time, and his ability to grasp the most essential, although sometimes precedent, sometimes sudden and forgotten, or even unknown historical facts in order to force them to resonate in the new historical realities, first of all to indicate the importance of national and the need for assigning to it more significance. Using retrospectives, E. Sverstiuk encourages us to return to the national sources and to seek in ourselves the reflections of nationality in order to return historical truth to our audience. This is what, according to E. Sverstiuk, was believed to be one of the most necessary conditions of existence to the independent state. Time-space continuum of E. Sverstiuk’s journalism is reproduction of comprehensive history as continuous process of the development of humanity, and of formation of comprehensive, total, and so to say epic reading and understanding of these processes via accentuation of reader’s attention on key events, phenomena, and facts.
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Yatsymirska, Mariya. SOCIAL EXPRESSION IN MULTIMEDIA TEXTS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11072.
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The article investigates functional techniques of extralinguistic expression in multimedia texts; the effectiveness of figurative expressions as a reaction to modern events in Ukraine and their influence on the formation of public opinion is shown. Publications of journalists, broadcasts of media resonators, experts, public figures, politicians, readers are analyzed. The language of the media plays a key role in shaping the worldview of the young political elite in the first place. The essence of each statement is a focused thought that reacts to events in the world or in one’s own country. The most popular platform for mass information and social interaction is, first of all, network journalism, which is characterized by mobility and unlimited time and space. Authors have complete freedom to express their views in direct language, including their own word formation. Phonetic, lexical, phraseological and stylistic means of speech create expression of the text. A figurative word, a good aphorism or proverb, a paraphrased expression, etc. enhance the effectiveness of a multimedia text. This is especially important for headlines that simultaneously inform and influence the views of millions of readers. Given the wide range of issues raised by the Internet as a medium, research in this area is interdisciplinary. The science of information, combining language and social communication, is at the forefront of global interactions. The Internet is an effective source of knowledge and a forum for free thought. Nonlinear texts (hypertexts) – «branching texts or texts that perform actions on request», multimedia texts change the principles of information collection, storage and dissemination, involving billions of readers in the discussion of global issues. Mastering the word is not an easy task if the author of the publication is not well-read, is not deep in the topic, does not know the psychology of the audience for which he writes. Therefore, the study of media broadcasting is an important component of the professional training of future journalists. The functions of the language of the media require the authors to make the right statements and convincing arguments in the text. Journalism education is not only knowledge of imperative and dispositive norms, but also apodictic ones. In practice, this means that there are rules in media creativity that are based on logical necessity. Apodicticity is the first sign of impressive language on the platform of print or electronic media. Social expression is a combination of creative abilities and linguistic competencies that a journalist realizes in his activity. Creative self-expression is realized in a set of many important factors in the media: the choice of topic, convincing arguments, logical presentation of ideas and deep philological education. Linguistic art, in contrast to painting, music, sculpture, accumulates all visual, auditory, tactile and empathic sensations in a universal sign – the word. The choice of the word for the reproduction of sensory and semantic meanings, its competent use in the appropriate context distinguishes the journalist-intellectual from other participants in forums, round tables, analytical or entertainment programs. Expressive speech in the media is a product of the intellect (ability to think) of all those who write on socio-political or economic topics. In the same plane with him – intelligence (awareness, prudence), the first sign of which (according to Ivan Ogienko) is a good knowledge of the language. Intellectual language is an important means of organizing a journalistic text. It, on the one hand, logically conveys the author’s thoughts, and on the other – encourages the reader to reflect and comprehend what is read. The richness of language is accumulated through continuous self-education and interesting communication. Studies of social expression as an important factor influencing the formation of public consciousness should open up new facets of rational and emotional media broadcasting; to trace physical and psychological reactions to communicative mimicry in the media. Speech mimicry as one of the methods of disguise is increasingly becoming a dangerous factor in manipulating the media. Mimicry is an unprincipled adaptation to the surrounding social conditions; one of the most famous examples of an animal characterized by mimicry (change of protective color and shape) is a chameleon. In a figurative sense, chameleons are called adaptive journalists. Observations show that mimicry in politics is to some extent a kind of game that, like every game, is always conditional and artificial.
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Johnson, Corey, Colton James, Sarah Traughber, and Charles Walker. Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Implications in Neostigmine versus Sugammadex. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21007/con.dnp.2021.0005.
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Purpose/Background: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a frequent complaint in the postoperative period, which can delay discharge, result in readmission, and increase cost for patients and facilities. Inducing paralysis is common in anesthesia, as is utilizing the drugs neostigmine and sugammadex as reversal agents for non-depolarizing neuromuscular blockers. Many studies are available that compare these two drugs to determine if neostigmine increases the risk of PONV over sugammadex. Sugammadex has a more favorable pharmacologic profile and may improve patient outcomes by reducing PONV. Methods: This review included screening a total of 39 studies and peer-reviewed articles that looked at patients undergoing general anesthesia who received non-depolarizing neuromuscular blockers requiring either neostigmine or sugammadex for reversal, along with their respective PONV rates. 8 articles were included, while 31 articles were removed based on our exclusion criteria. These were published between 2014 and 2020 exclusively. The key words used were “neostigmine”, “sugammadex”, “PONV”, along with combinations “paralytic reversal agents and PONV”. This search was performed on the scholarly database MEDLINE. The data items were PONV rates in neostigmine group, PONV rates in sugammadex group, incidence of postoperative analgesic consumption in neostigmine group, and incidence of postoperative analgesic consumption in sugammadex group. Results: Despite numerical differences being noted in the incidence of PONV with sugammadex over reversal with neostigmine, there did not appear to be any statistically significant data in the multiple peer-reviewed trials included in our review, for not one of the 8 studies concluded that there was a higher incidence of PONV in one drug or the other of an y clinical relevance. Although the side-effect profile tended to be better in the sugammadex group than neostigmine in areas other than PONV, there was not sufficient evidence to conclude that one drug was superior to the other in causing a direct reduction of PONV. Implications for Nursing Practice: There were variable but slight differences noted between both drug groups in PONV rates, but it remained that none of the studies determined it was statically significant or clinically conclusive. This review did, however, note other advantages to sugammadex over neostigmine, including its pharmacologic profile of more efficiently reversing non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs and its more favorable pharmacokinetics. This lack of statistically significant evidence found within these studies consequentially does not support pharmacologic decision-making of one drug in favor of the other for reducing PONV; therefore, PONV alone is not a sufficient rationale for a provider to justify using one reversal over another at the current time until further research proves otherwise.
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HEFNER, Robert. IHSAN ETHICS AND POLITICAL REVITALIZATION Appreciating Muqtedar Khan’s Islam and Good Governance. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.001.20.
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Ours is an age of pervasive political turbulence, and the scale of the challenge requires new thinking on politics as well as public ethics for our world. In Western countries, the specter of Islamophobia, alt-right populism, along with racialized violence has shaken public confidence in long-secure assumptions rooted in democracy, diversity, and citizenship. The tragic denouement of so many of the Arab uprisings together with the ascendance of apocalyptic extremists like Daesh and Boko Haram have caused an even greater sense of alarm in large parts of the Muslim-majority world. It is against this backdrop that M.A. Muqtedar Khan has written a book of breathtaking range and ethical beauty. The author explores the history and sociology of the Muslim world, both classic and contemporary. He does so, however, not merely to chronicle the phases of its development, but to explore just why the message of compassion, mercy, and ethical beauty so prominent in the Quran and Sunna of the Prophet came over time to be displaced by a narrow legalism that emphasized jurisprudence, punishment, and social control. In the modern era, Western Orientalists and Islamists alike have pushed the juridification and interpretive reification of Islamic ethical traditions even further. Each group has asserted that the essence of Islam lies in jurisprudence (fiqh), and both have tended to imagine this legal heritage on the model of Western positive law, according to which law is authorized, codified, and enforced by a leviathan state. “Reification of Shariah and equating of Islam and Shariah has a rather emaciating effect on Islam,” Khan rightly argues. It leads its proponents to overlook “the depth and heights of Islamic faith, mysticism, philosophy or even emotions such as divine love (Muhabba)” (13). As the sociologist of Islamic law, Sami Zubaida, has similarly observed, in all these developments one sees evidence, not of a traditionalist reassertion of Muslim values, but a “triumph of Western models” of religion and state (Zubaida 2003:135). To counteract these impoverishing trends, Khan presents a far-reaching analysis that “seeks to move away from the now failed vision of Islamic states without demanding radical secularization” (2). He does so by positioning himself squarely within the ethical and mystical legacy of the Qur’an and traditions of the Prophet. As the book’s title makes clear, the key to this effort of religious recovery is “the cosmology of Ihsan and the worldview of Al-Tasawwuf, the science of Islamic mysticism” (1-2). For Islamist activists whose models of Islam have more to do with contemporary identity politics than a deep reading of Islamic traditions, Khan’s foregrounding of Ihsan may seem unfamiliar or baffling. But one of the many achievements of this book is the skill with which it plumbs the depth of scripture, classical commentaries, and tasawwuf practices to recover and confirm the ethic that lies at their heart. “The Quran promises that God is with those who do beautiful things,” the author reminds us (Khan 2019:1). The concept of Ihsan appears 191 times in 175 verses in the Quran (110). The concept is given its richest elaboration, Khan explains, in the famous hadith of the Angel Gabriel. This tradition recounts that when Gabriel appeared before the Prophet he asked, “What is Ihsan?” Both Gabriel’s question and the Prophet’s response make clear that Ihsan is an ideal at the center of the Qur’an and Sunna of the Prophet, and that it enjoins “perfection, goodness, to better, to do beautiful things and to do righteous deeds” (3). It is this cosmological ethic that Khan argues must be restored and implemented “to develop a political philosophy … that emphasizes love over law” (2). In its expansive exploration of Islamic ethics and civilization, Khan’s Islam and Good Governance will remind some readers of the late Shahab Ahmed’s remarkable book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Ahmed 2016). Both are works of impressive range and spiritual depth. But whereas Ahmed stood in the humanities wing of Islamic studies, Khan is an intellectual polymath who moves easily across the Islamic sciences, social theory, and comparative politics. He brings the full weight of his effort to conclusion with policy recommendations for how “to combine Sufism with political theory” (6), and to do so in a way that recommends specific “Islamic principles that encourage good governance, and politics in pursuit of goodness” (8).