The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933

2021 ◽  
pp. 007327532110549
Author(s):  
Alexandra Chiriac
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” (1910–1948) had aimed since its first edition to disseminate the newest achievements of science to the interested general public with the explicit intention of building national consciousness and solidarity that would forward Romania’s natural powers through science. Even though the editors of the journal had complained constantly that their efforts to promote the national scientific movement were making slow progress, they maintained their openness toward the international state of research by publishing notes and reviews of the main scientific developments worldwide. Caught between those two ideals (that of a Romanian science and of keeping up with the international scientific scene), the journal reflects the struggles, the difficulties, but also the successes of the individual researchers, acting as a two-way communication channel between science producers and consumers. It provides us with a valuable insight into the Self versus Other perception in a time when contact between the Romanian and Western European cultures was beginning to consciously evolve from mere imitation of a dominant power to the incorporation of fragmented foreign categories. It is a perfect example of ‘patchwork’, in which the native and foreign elements coexisted in a continuous process of redefining and reshaping the newly formed national identity.

scholarly journals Meteorological Impacts on Commercial Aviation Delays and Cancellations in the Continental United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Goodman ◽  
Jennifer D. Small Griswold
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
National Airspace System ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Causes Of Delays ◽  
Weather’S Impact ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractWeather creates numerous operational and safety hazards within the National Airspace System (NAS). In 2014, extreme weather events attributed 4.3% to the total number of delay minutes recorded by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. When factoring weather’s impact on the NAS delays and aircraft arriving late delays, weather was responsible for 32.6% of the total number of delay minutes recorded. Hourly surface meteorological aviation routine weather reports (METARs) at major airports can be used to provide valuable insight into the likely causes of weather delays at individual airports. When combined with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Operations Network (OPSNET) delay data, METARs can be used to identify the major causes of delays and to create delay climatologies for a specific airport. Also, patterns for delays and cancellations for the study period of 2003–15 can be identified for the individual airports included in this study. These patterns can be useful for operators and airport planners to optimize performance in the future.

scholarly journals Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Brück
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Past ◽  
Epistemological Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Embodied Engagement ◽  
Ancient Monument ◽  
Knowledge Claims ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Considerable Discussion

In recent years the development of a phenomenological archaeology has provoked considerable discussion within the discipline, particularly within British prehistory. This paper provides a review of this challenging body of research, outlining its problems and potentials and setting it within its broader disciplinary context. Phenomenology has been used to great effect to critique the Cartesian rationalism inherent in traditional archaeological approaches, encouraging imaginative and valuable reinterpretations of the architecture and landscape settings of different monuments. Nonetheless, there are a number of significant problems raised by this work. The suggestion that the archaeologist’s embodied engagement with an ancient monument or landscape can provide an insight into past experiences and interpretations is critically considered. The epistemological status of the knowledge-claims made, including how and whether the patterns identified should be verified, is discussed. The contribution of phenomenology to postprocessual debates surrounding concepts of the self, the individual, embodiment and emotion are also explored. The work of key proponents of phenomenology such as Tilley and Thomas provides a particular focus, although a range of other authors are also considered.

scholarly journals Tools of the Trade: How Do You Perform and Interpret an Exercise Test?

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Franz P. Rischard ◽  
Barry A. Borlaug
Keyword(s):  
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing ◽  
Response To Therapy ◽  
Pulmonary Vascular Disease ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Adaptation To Stress ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cardiopulmonary System ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Minute Walk

Background: Most pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) is poorly modifiable and incurable even with effective therapy. Therefore, adaptation to stress, the reserve of the cardiopulmonary system, is important for assessment of patient function and prognosis. Methods that assess the adaptation to stress, especially exercise, provide valuable insight into diagnosis, prognosis, and response to therapy. Implications for Clinicians: We provide a comprehensive review of the indications, methodology, and interpretation, as well as practical information of the forms of provocative testing in PVD. We include 6-minute walk testing, noninvasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), invasive CPET, and additional forms, including volume loading. Conclusions: Through a clear understanding of the methodology in the assessment of PVD, the clinician can determine which of these “tools of the trade” are best suited to the individual patient and situation.

scholarly journals Selbstbild und mediale Fremdwahrnehmung. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung über die Schwarze Szene in Leipziger Volkszeitung und BILD-Zeitung

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-133
Author(s):  
Corina Trippensee
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
Eine Analyse ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Current State ◽  
Medial Representation ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Die Studie gibt zunächst einen Überblick über den Forschungsstand in Deutschland zur „Schwarzen Szene“. Neben der Vorstellung von Geschichte und Entwicklung der Gothic-Szene steht eine umfassende Stilanalyse im Mittelpunkt, die Zeichen und Symbole dieser Jugendkultur vorstellt und auf deren Verwendung eingeht. In einer empirischen Untersuchung nimmt die Autorin einen doppelten Vergleich vor: Zwischen dem Selbstbild der Szene und ihrer medialen Fremdwahrnehmung sowie zwischen den jeweiligen Mediendarstellungen in zwei unterschiedlich ausgerichteten Zeitungen, der Leipziger Volkszeitung und der BILD-Zeitung. Anhand von qualitativen und quantitativen Daten gibt die Autorin differenzierte Einblicke in die medial auffällige, aber in ihren Binnendifferenzierungen dennoch wenig bekannte Schwarze Szene.First, the study provides an overview of the current state of research in Germany concerning the „black scene”. After the presentation of the history and development of the scene a comprehensive stylistic analysis is focused, which also introduces signs and symbols of this youth culture as well as their usage. In an empirical analysis the authoress draws a comparison in two ways: first between the self-perception of the scene on the one hand and the medial perception on the other hand, and secondly concerning the different medial representation in two different newspapers – the Leipziger Volkszeitung and the BILD-Zeitung. Based on qualitative and quantitative data, the authoress provides a complex insight into the goth scene, which is medial striking but nevertheless little known in its internal differentiations.

scholarly journals HDXmodeller: an online webserver for high-resolution HDX-MS with auto-validation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramin Ekhteiari Salmas ◽  
Antoni James Borysik
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Proteolytic Digestion ◽  
Folding Dynamics ◽  
Hydrogen Deuterium ◽  
Exchange Rate Models ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hdx Ms ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe extent to which proteins are protected from hydrogen deuterium exchange (HDX) provides valuable insight into their folding, dynamics and interactions. Characterised by mass spectrometry (MS), HDX benefits from negligible mass restrictions and exceptional throughput and sensitivity but at the expense of resolution. Exchange mechanisms which naturally transpire for individual residues cannot be accurately located or understood because amino acids are characterised in differently sized groups depending on the extent of proteolytic digestion. Here we report HDXmodeller, the world’s first online webserver for high-resolution HDX-MS. HDXmodeller accepts low-resolution HDX-MS input data and returns high-resolution exchange rates quantified for each residue. Crucially, HDXmodeller also returns a set of unique statistics that can correctly validate exchange rate models to an accuracy of 99%. Remarkably, these statistics are derived without any prior knowledge of the individual exchange rates and facilitate unparallel user confidence and the capacity to evaluate different data optimisation strategies.

Polish Romanticism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Coghen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dramatic Form ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Crucial Part

The starting point for Polish Romantics was, as for many of their Western counterparts, the focus on the self. But personal existence was represented as a worthy sacrifice for the sake of the national cause. In the aftermath of the failure of the 1830 Uprising, pessimism, melancholy, and metaphysical and political rebellion were countered by messianic ideas of the émigré poets. Idealism, led to religious belief, whether Catholicism or less orthodox systems. The confrontation of the individual with history was therefore enacted on the metaphysical plane, and presented mainly in the dramatic form, which became the domineering genre in the post-1831 period. Through the deep belief in the ethical and social roles of poetry Polish Romantics played a crucial part in preserving the national identity of their readers, truly earning the status ofwieszcz, the poet-prophet.

scholarly journals From Uniaxial Testing of Isolated Layers to a Tri-Layered Arterial Wall: A Novel Constitutive Modelling Framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Giudici ◽  
Ashraf W. Khir ◽  
Jason M. Szafron ◽  
Bart Spronck
Keyword(s):  
Arterial Wall ◽  
Strain Energy Function ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
Constitutive Modelling ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Uniaxial Testing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractMechanical testing and constitutive modelling of isolated arterial layers yields insight into the individual layers’ mechanical properties, but per se fails to recapitulate the in vivo loading state, neglecting layer-specific residual stresses. The aim of this study was to develop a testing/modelling framework that integrates layer-specific uniaxial testing data into a three-layered model of the arterial wall, thereby enabling study of layer-specific mechanics under realistic (patho)physiological conditions. Circumferentially and axially oriented strips of pig thoracic aortas (n = 10) were tested uniaxially. Individual arterial layers were then isolated from the wall, tested, and their mechanical behaviour modelled using a hyperelastic strain energy function. Subsequently, the three layers were computationally assembled into a single flat-walled sample, deformed into a cylindrical vessel, and subjected to physiological tension-inflation. At the in vivo axial stretch of 1.10 ± 0.03, average circumferential wall stress was 75 ± 9 kPa at 100 mmHg, which almost doubled to 138 ± 15 kPa at 160 mmHg. A ~ 200% stiffening of the adventitia over the 60 mmHg pressure increase shifted layer-specific load-bearing from the media (65 ± 10% → 61 ± 14%) to the adventitia (28 ± 9% → 32 ± 14%). Our approach provides valuable insight into the (patho)physiological mechanical roles of individual arterial layers at different loading states, and can be implemented conveniently using simple, inexpensive and widely available uniaxial testing equipment.

scholarly journals Techniques for Identifying the Age and Sex of Children at Death

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Buckberry
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Dental Development ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Age At Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Age And Sex

The skeletal remains of infants and children are a poignant reminder of the perilous nature of childhood in the past, yet they offer valuable insight into the life histories of individuals and into the health of populations. Many osteoarchaeological and bioarchaeological analyses are dependent on two vital pieces of information: the age-at-death and sex of the individual(s) under study. This chapter will outline how age-at-death and sex can be estimated from the skeletal remains and dental development of non-adults, and how these are easier or more difficult to determine than for adults, and will discuss the complexities and controversies surrounding different methods.

scholarly journals Antycypacja królestwa w ujęciu Franza Rosenzweiga

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Anna Firla
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Precious Resource ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

The Star of Redemption, thinker Franz Rosenzweig’s life’s work, has beenanalysed and interpreted across a variety of disciplines and perspectives for almosta hundred years. Future generations will continue to use and appreciate this text for itsenduring variety and multiplicity of ideas. This article aims to provide a hermeneutical insight into Rosenzweig’s idea of the anticipation of the Kingdom. Rosenzweig deriveshis ideas from the Tanakh. Eternity, according to Rosenzweig, is neither an infinite nor an indeterminately long period of time, but ‘a Tomorrow that could as well be Today’. Redemption occurs as eternity projected in time. The author understands time not only as a sequence of moments as occurrence in history. For him history will be newly decided inevery moment of encounter between the Other and the Self. History moves forward only because of the individual, who decides. Rosenzweig therefore considersprayer as the constitutive element of the human world order, which can anticipate and accelerate the coming of the Kingdom. Rosenzweig’s conception of prayer is fully developed in the third part of the Star, especially in the introduction, titled On the Possibility of Soliciting (erbeten) the Kingdom by Prayer. Here the author introduces different types of prayers andasks the most crucial question of the last part of the Star: Can a human being tempt Godsimply by praying? Subsequently, we must recognize the significance of Rosenzweig’scontribution to the interpretation of prayer as the anticipation of the Kingdom. His analysisremains current and a precious resource for further reflection.

scholarly journals From Conflict to Mutual Recognition

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
María Inés Nin Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Nucleus ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Relational Experiences ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This document exposes the conflict from the Post-Rational cognitive perspective, understanding the conflict as a relational phenomenon, which emerges when the need of recognition is exposed to its contrary: the non-recognition. “To know oneself” means in fact, to recognize oneself through the mediation of the other (Castiglioni, 2008). An individual develops himself by recognizing the “otherness” that constitutes him. The self (idem/identity) that goes out toward the other and then returns as ipse/selfhood, having acquired self-awareness through the other (Ricoeur, 1993). For this reason, recognition is a fundamental element in the building of human subjectivity (Honneth 1997). Identity is a continuous process that lasts a lifetime. It contains a central nucleus that ensures continuity by which a person is able to recognize him/ herself. In this way individuals learn to define who they are through interactions with others, especially those whom are more significant. Being recognized by others and by the environment offer the individual a sense of unity and coherence about himself. Conflict arises when the other or the environment becomes a threat to the survival of the subjectivity; when the absence or lack of recognition leads to harm in a person (Tello, 2011). Relational experiences are able to engender and ensure recognition, while holding onto an indispensable acceptance of individual differences. They thus allow each one to bring forth their own unique identity.

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