scholarly journals NASMIJANO BEZUMLJE U IZVANBRODSKOM DNEVNIKU SLOBODANA NOVAKA

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-99
Author(s):  
Dragan Gligora
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Basic Strategy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Circular Structure ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Function ◽  
Almost All

SMILING INSANITY IN OUTBOARD LOG BOOK BY SLOBODAN NOVAK The paper argues that the starting point of Novak’s novel Outboard Log Book is a “twisted” world based on a paradox, which influences the main elements and strategies of narration. Due to this “twisted” feature of the novel, which is determined mostly politically and ideologically, the “disturbed perspective” prevails in the text. Since the basic strategy in the novel is the pun, i.e. world play, whose symbolism and meanings interconnect the plot, composition, narration, and the signifiers. The character of Magistar, transformed into a fool and an outcast in this upside-down world, can oppose the ideology and language as its main stronghold, only with “silence ideology” (known from previous Novak’s novels We Should Think Further, Southern Thoughts, and It Should Die Logically.), or he can try “to undermine it with the language itself”. When the world cannot be interpreted by language, almost all its functions are lost. What remains is the poetic function that becomes embedded in irony. The paradigmatic syntagm a shell that makes a noise embodies the individuality and further justifies literariness. However, it becomes obvious that even that “pledge” of art can be both disruptive and contradictory. The protagonist’s return to the island signals a circular structure of the key narrative strand, as well as his journey. Puns, playing with paradoxes, twists and replacements, as well as “the aspiration for logical dying” “are reconciled” at the end of the third part of the novel entitled Necropolis, which is visible in the “equalization of the opposing worlds”, and in finding a solution to the problem of temporality.

Foggy Muddle

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Jesper Gulddal
Keyword(s):  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
Circular Structure ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Car Accident ◽  
Investigative Process ◽  
The Way

This chapter on Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse takes a narratively unmotivated car accident as the starting point for a discussion of genre negation as a force of innovation in Hammett’s writing. As a violent interruption of preestablished modes of operation, the accident embodies the way in which the novel relates to the conventions of popular fiction only to wreck and overturn them. Thus, the linearity of the investigative process is replaced with a circular structure; the purity of genre is replaced with references to a catalogue of popular fiction templates, none of which are fully executed; narrative closure is replaced with ambiguity and contingency; and the classic figure of the ‘sidekick’ is literarily blown to pieces in what Gulddal reads as another emblematic representation of the principle of genre mobility.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Stock Markets

2022 ◽  
pp. 250-262
Author(s):  
Aslı Aybars ◽  
Mehtap Öner
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which emerged at the end of 2019 and spread to the world at a very fast pace, resulted in a pandemic affecting the finance industry besides many other industries though at varying extents. Financial markets, which can be regarded as cornerstones of each and every country's economic success, have been adversely influenced due to the fear and uncertainty arising with the emergence of the novel coronavirus at different degrees. This chapter provides a summary of a literature review based on the impact of this pandemic on stock returns and volatility in the stock exchanges of different countries and regions of the world. What has been captured as a result of this literature review is that almost all of the financial markets around the world have been influenced due to the virus. Further, industry-wise empirical studies demonstrate that not all industries are affected at the same level or even in the same direction.

scholarly journals COVID-19: a novel zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus from China: what we know and what we don't

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S Mackenzie ◽  
David W Smith
Keyword(s):  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Director General ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Disease ◽  
Unknown Aetiology ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Virus ◽  
Health Organization

At the end of December, 2019, a new disease of unknown aetiology appeared in Wuhan, China. It was quickly identified as a novel betacoronavirus, and related to SARS-CoV and a number of other bat-borne SARS-like coronaviruses. The virus rapidly spread to all provinces in China, as well as a number of countries overseas, and was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the Director-General of the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. This paper describes the evolution of the outbreak, and the known properties of the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2 and the clinical disease it causes, COVID-19, and comments on some of the important gaps in our knowledge of the virus and the disease it causes. The virus is the third zoonotic coronavirus, after SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, but appears to be the only one with pandemic potential.

scholarly journals Felix Culpa: Salvific Sin in the Play The Satin Slipper and in the Novel The Brothers Karamazov

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-179
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kashina
Keyword(s):  
Human Freedom ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
New Man ◽  
Spiritual Change ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Brothers Karamazov

The article attempts to compare the soteriological ideas of the play The Satin Slipper and the novel The Brothers Karamazov, two texts in which the authors express themselves most fully as theologians. For both texts, the theme of sin and atonement is central. The epigraphs to Paul Claudel’s play are two statements about the saving potential of sin. In Dostoevsky’s novel, it can be seen how sin becomes the most important starting point for further positive spiritual change of heroes. However, in his play, Claudel not only shows the possibility for sin to become the starting point for the conversion of protagonists, but also shows that in a certain sense the salvation of the world needs sin. For example, the main characters of the Satin Slipper make a kind of symbolic escape from paradise (Don Rodrigo leaves the Jesuit novitiate, Dona Prouhèze escapes from the “Garden of Eden” planted for her by her husband) and this allows them to reveal themselves in fullness and to realize their vocation, which is salvific for the world. Mitya Karamazov at the end of Dostoevsky’s novel says that the “new man” in him “would never have come to the surface” if certain things had not happened (and what happened includes a series of Mitya’s sins). This reminds of the idea of “happy guilt”, a term from the Latin hymn Exultet, which refers to the need for sin for the redemption. However, as Claudel shows, even by the very name of his play (Dona Prouhèze, before making her escape, donates her satin slipper as a gift to the Mother of God so that the Blessed Virgin would prevent her from taking the path of evil) suggests that sin becomes salvation only thanks to human freedom.

scholarly journals Nonlinear Markov Chain Modelling of the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muammer Catak ◽  
Necati Duran
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chain ◽  
Markov Chains ◽  
Markov Chain Model ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Markov Chain Modelling

Almost all countries around the world are struggling against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. In this paper, a nonlinear Markov chains model is proposed in order to analyse and to understand the behaviour of the Covid-19 pandemic. The data from China was used to build up the presented model. Thereafter, the nonlinear Markov chain model is employed to estimate the daily new Covid-19 cases in some countries including Italy, Spain, France, UK, the USA, Germany, Turkey, and Kuwait. In addition, the correlation between the daily new Covid-19 cases and the daily number of deaths is examined.

scholarly journals Covid-19 and Related Myths in Indian Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 645-651
Author(s):  
Rutika Nikhar
Keyword(s):  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Community ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Source Of Information

31ST December 2019, was the day the WHO came to know about the new corona virus after a cluster of pneumonia cases caused by the virus in Wuhan province of China. On March 11 2020 WHO declared COVID-19 as pandemic. Since then the world hasn’t remained the same. It has not only changed the medical community, but also the overall mind-sets and behaviour of people worldwide. What began as a Whatsapp forward, was soon analysed worldwide through various social platforms, media and publications. The novel corona virus SARS-CoV-2, has spread from Wuhan, China to almost ALL the continents and along with it spread the rumours and myths and misinformation regarding it. The virus killed tens of millions of people, and engraved fear in the minds of the hundreds of millions. The paranoia and panic led to people to form their own speculations and have their own conclusions. Not just the fear, but the incomplete information with respect to the virus and the disease in itself has caused confusion in not just common population but the medical fraternity as well. Months of research and studies on the virus and the disease has helped clear the myths surrounding it. But yet these myths still exist amongst the people receiving misinformation and rumours and among the ones who have no access to a legitimate source of information. So let’s bust some myths surrounding the virus that changed the world.

A Guide to the Ants of Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia): Identification Key to Ant Genera and Images of the EFForTS collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizky Nazarreta ◽  
◽  
Damayanti Buchori ◽  
Yoshiaki Hashimoto ◽  
Purnama Hidayat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Total Biomass ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
The Third ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World

Ants are tiny creatures that are often overlooked in our everyday lives. Yet, there are more than 15.000 species of ants on Earth, and their total biomass is higher than that of all humans combined. They invented agriculture more than 50 million years ago, turn more soil than earthworms, can lift 5,000 times their bod weight, and can form supercolonies that span across continents. With the third largest tropical forest in the world, Indonesia is home to thousands of ant species, many of them unknown to science. This book documents more than 300 ant species that were found in rainforests and agroforestry of Jambi Province, Sumatra, and includes a recently updated Identification Key to the ant genera of Southeast Asia. Studying this book will bring you closer to our planet’s fascinating diversity, and the little things that run our world. This book will be a great starting point for those who want to know more about the ants of Southeast Asia, as well as a valuable resource for scientists and students studying ants this part of the world. All in all, this book is a compendium of the ants of Jambi, Sumatra, and embodies a starting point for further ant research in Indonesia.

Decree Powers and Constitutional Law in France under the Third Republic

1940 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1104-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Kirchheimer
Keyword(s):  
Third Republic ◽  
General Character ◽  
World War ◽  
The Third ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Emergency Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Rule Making

In the World War period and after, the use of extraordinary powers by the executive for legislative purposes became so widespread in Europe that constitutional theorists began to find it convenient to give up the doctrine of legislative supremacy. The constitutional basis for these extraordinary powers has been found in one of two ways: either the parliament may authorize the government to exercise certain legislative functions by way of delegation, or certain provisions in the constitution may be interpreted as giving the executive the right under certain circumstances not only to take specific administrative steps, but also to issue rules of a more general character. In either case, the question invariably arises as to how far the delegation of power may go, or as to the degree to which alleged constitutional emergency provisions may be used to supersede parliamentary legislation.In France, no constitutional emergency power is provided in the “organic” laws of 1875 which could give a starting point for independent rule-making activity. A law of April 3, 1878, defined very closely the conditions under which a state of siege may be declared and surrounded such a declaration with elaborate provisions for parliamentary supervision. It is apparent that this statute does not allow the government to decree rules of a general character.

Beiwerk als Werk

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-206
Author(s):  
Toni Bernhart
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Young Student ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Love Letters

AbstractAfter Love Letters by Christopher Strachey in 1954, Stochastische Texte by the mathematician Theo Lutz in 1959 were the first successful attempt in the world to create a literary text through a computer. In 2019, Lutz’s archive was acquired by the German Literature Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach). It includes a large number of previously undiscovered and unpublished items which made possible the attempt to reconstruct the generation of the text in a number of steps. Lutz’s experiment was inspired by the philosopher Max Bense, whose work was assisted by a young student, Rul Gunzenhäuser, who would himself later prove to be a pioneer in informatics. It took its starting point from words extracted from the novel Das Schloss by Franz Kafka. Lutz subsequently wrote a computer program in order to generate a randomly assembled text on a Zuse Z 22 machine. In a final step, the text was then poetically revised by the author.

scholarly journals Abdominal disturbances in children with Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 874-875
Author(s):  
Ferizate Dika-Haxhirexha ◽  
Sevdije Koxha ◽  
Ledia Qatipi ◽  
Shqiponja Turkeshi ◽  
Aulona Haxhirexha
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Pain ◽  
Acute Abdominal Pain ◽  
Free Fluid ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Pulmonary Lesions ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time

Covid-19 continues to spread at an unprecedented pace, sparing no country in the world and including almost all ages. Although at the beginning of the pandemic, it was thought that the virus did not affect children, however over time, in different countries, more and more cases of children with Covid-19 begun to appear, though rarely among them were recorded any victims.  However, the clinical picture of infections with this virus in children was much more challenging than in adults.  In this article, we will present the case of three children of ages 4 to 14 years, with signs of acute abdomen, respectively with acute abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, and in whom acute appendicitis was suspected. In all three patients, anamnestic data showed positive family members infected with covid-19.   All three children were sent to the surgery ward for follow-up and further treatment.  The laboratory analyzes in all of them resulted in increased values ​​of both erythrocyte sediment and CRP, while only in one of them the values ​​of LDH and transaminases (AST, ALT) were also increased.  Ultrasonographic examination of the abdomen in two children showed the presence of a small amount of free fluid in the abdomen and mesentery thickening with several packets of enlarged lymph nodes. Radiography of the lungs did not show pulmonary lesions in any of the children. Body temperature ranged from 37.2 to 38.50C, while urine was within the normal range.  All children were hospitalized and kept under observation for several consecutive days. At the same time, they were treated with antibiotics of the group of cephalosporins of the third generation, as well as with antipyretics (paracetamol). As their condition improved and the abdominal pain subsided completely, they were released from the hospital with instructions to continue the rest and taking vitamins at home in the form of ready-made preparations for children. Conclusion: While the Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading and not sparing even children, pediatricians and surgeons must be very cautious in treating children with acute abdominal pain since infections with Covid-19, and not surgical diseases, might be the real cause of these concerns.   

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