Disability and censuses: Methodological challenges and experience in measuring disability

Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke ◽

10.2298/zmsdn1448455m ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 455-460

Author(s):

Milan Markovic

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Primary Objective ◽

Scholarly Research ◽

Functional Difficulties ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

First Time

The present article has the primary objective of displaying stances about the role, the reach and limitations of a Census as a means of collecting data on disability in different countries. It will present the purpose of the Recommendation from the Washington Group on Disability Statistics in the context of introducing disability-related questions in national censuses from the year 2010 onwards. Furthermore, the article will inspect the limitations regarding measuring disability and functional difficulties through the means of a census, relying on the experience from other countries and scholarly research. This part will strongly focus on the formulations made by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics and the set of short questions presently used in national censuses. Finally, the article will briefly observe the experience from the Serbian national census in 2011 in measuring functional difficulties for the first time.

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Trend of Migration Studies in Sociocultural Anthropology: A Critical Analysis

Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India ◽

10.1177/2277436x211044055 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 2277436X2110440

Author(s):

Kiran Jyoti Kaur ◽

A. K. Sinha

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Secondary Data ◽

New Delhi ◽

Diaspora Studies ◽

Indian Diaspora ◽

Migration Studies ◽

Amitav Ghosh ◽

The University ◽

First Time

Migration studies have always found their unique place in anthropology since the birth of anthropology in India under colonial rule. From the formative phase, anthropology of migration has grown multifold. In the present time when the Indian diaspora is the largest in the whole world, the process of migration has affected the lives of all individuals and has become an important area of research. The present article examines the growth of this field in sociocultural anthropology in India and is based on secondary data. Work of renowned Indian anthropologists like M. N. Srinivas, Moni Nag, L. P. Vidyarthi, Amitav Ghosh and others like R. K. Jain, Ashish Bose, etc. on migration has been discussed in the present article. Migration studies in India have found and sustained a key place in the anthropology curriculum report since the first time of its release by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. Migration studies have grown from studying mobility among the tribals to the movement of people from rural to urban areas and then to international migration. New areas like displacement and refugee movements, literature and art, diaspora studies, urbanism, labour migration and many more are emerging as important topics in the landscape of migration studies.

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New species, records, and immature stages of Chimarra Stephens (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) from Campos Amazônicos National Park, northern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4500.2.6 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4500 (2) ◽

pp. 258

Author(s):

GLEISON ROBSON DESIDÉRIO ◽

PATRIK BARCELOS-SILVA ◽

NEUSA HAMADA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Aquatic Insects ◽

National Park ◽

Primary Objective ◽

Immature Stages ◽

Male Adult ◽

Northern Brazil ◽

Amazonas State ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species

Campos Amazônicos National Park is a federal conservation unit that contains part of the largest Cerrado refuge in the southern part of Brazilian Amazonia. Recently, during a survey of aquatic insects in the park, specimens of the caddisfly genus Chimarra were collected. The primary objective of this paper, as a result of this effort, is to describe and illustrate the male adult of a new species in Chimarra (Chimarrita), Chimarra singularis sp. nov., and the immature stages of Chimarra usitatissima Flint 1971. Additionally, the distributions of C.(Chimarrita) akantha Blahnik 1997 and C. (Curgia) jugescens Flint 1998 are extended to the southern part of Amazonas state, and C. (Chimarrita) heppneri Blahnik 1997 is recorded for the first time in northern Brazil.

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The Kwanyin Clan: Modern Literati Graffiti Writers

Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie orientale ◽

10.30687/annor/2385-3042/2019/01/013 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Adriana Iezzi

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Chinese Art ◽

Artistic Production ◽

New Development ◽

Art Forms ◽

Traditional Arts ◽

First Time ◽

The Way

After illustrating the varied artistic production of the Kwanyin Clan, one of the most important Chinese graffiti crews, this paper analyses six of their main artworks in detail (styles, techniques, aesthetic conceptions and artworks texts). In these artworks, the Kwanyin Clan tried for the first time to merge Euro-American graffiti practice with the ancient traditional arts practiced and appreciated by the Chinese literati (calligraphy, poetry, painting, seals and ceramics). Comparing the Kwanyin Clan members to ‘modern literati writers’, the present article shows how this crew succeeded in reinventing ancient Chinese art forms using Euro-American graffiti vocabulary, paving the way for a new development of graffiti art in China.

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從中國廣西東興京族語言環境的角度窺察京語的傳承方式：喃字

中正漢學研究 ◽

10.53106/2306036020190600330006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (33) ◽

pp. 171-190

Author(s):

阮蘇蘭阮蘇蘭 ◽

阮大瞿越阮大瞿越

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

National Minority ◽

Chinese Characters ◽

The Status ◽

City District ◽

First Time ◽

Language Transmission

京族分布於廣西東興市江平鎮，是中國的少數民族之一，其民族語言「京語」是越南語的一種方言。承受著來自漢語普通話、漢語白話方言以及通用越南語的巨大壓力，京語正處於消亡的邊緣。保護及傳承該民族語言的需求變得極為迫切，一群老一輩的京族知識份子選擇了以喃字作為傳承京語的手段。本文以2015年兩次在京族三島進行的社會語言學田野調查的考察成果為基礎，初步探索京族人之所以選擇傳承喃字作為傳承語言方式的原因，及喃字傳承方式。相比之下，漢字系統的「喃字」無法如現代越南語(或稱「國語字」)一般，能呈現京語的語音面貌，在記錄和傳承京語語言方面上並無優勢。本文認為，選擇「喃字」作為京語傳承載體是出於民族生命的考慮，強調「喃字」是和漢字一脈、京族和漢族是部分與整體的關係。  Jing people inhabit Jiangping town of Dongxing city district in Guangxi and constitute a national minority in China. Their language – the so-called Jing language -- is a dialect of the Vietnamese. Now the Jing language faces extinction because of the pressure from standard Mandarin, spoken dialects of Chinese, and standard Vietnamese. In order to protect and promulgate the Jing language, a group of local old intellectuals have decided to use Nôm characters as a tool of transmission of the Jing language. The present article, based on materials collected during two fieldwork trips to the “three islands area of the Jing nationality” in 2015, for the first time discusses the reasons why the Nôm characters have been chosen as the tool of language transmission as well as the ways of transmission of the Nôm characters themselves. In comparative perspective, the Nôm characters belonging to the Chinese characters system, unlike Romanization of modern Vietnamese (the so-called quốc ngữ) cannot represent the exact pronunciation of the Jing language, and therefore cannot offer advantage in the task of transmission of this language. The author argues that the choice of the Nôm characters as the tool of the Jing language transmission is caused by considerations of the survival of this ethnicity; it emphasizes original connections between Nôm and Chinese characters, as well as the status of the Jing as a part of the big Han nation.

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Pedagogical theories and the process of internalization of moral values

Acta Scientiarum Education ◽

10.4025/actascieduc.v43i1.49921 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. e49921

Author(s):

Juliana Santos Monteiro Vieira ◽

Dinamara Garcia Feldens

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Friedrich Nietzsche ◽

Moral Values ◽

Primary Objective ◽

Status Quo ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

State Culture ◽

The Status ◽

Pedagogical Discourses

The present article proposes to reflect on the process of internalization of moral values as the primary objective of Education, through historical and philosophical sources, analyzing, for this, theoretical frameworks of Pedagogy, such as: Comenius, Pestalozzi, Herbart and Durkheim. Our methodology was based on the bibliographic and authorial writings of these theorists and we try to question the logic established in pedagogical discourses, starting from the critic of moral values formulated by Friedrich Nietzsche, emphasizing aspects present in the referred theories and their reverberations in singularities and collectivities. The process of internalizing moral values had as its priority making education an instrument for the ordering of subjects, making it useful to the interests of state culture. It is understood that subjectivities are constituted inside and outside for the moral field and that the same is not alien or should be non-existent in school. However, it has been attempted to demonstrate in this article, how the moral field has been reduced to a process of disciplining and ordering, according to pre-determined models, virtues and values, which shows the limited pedagogical perspective in the vision of the moral field, which from its conception responds to interests and prioritizes the maintenance of the status quo.

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Flowers, Bird and Insects from the Archives of F. R. Osten-Sacken

Orientalistica ◽

10.31696/2618-7043-2021-4-5-1269-1277 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (5) ◽

pp. 1269-1277

Author(s):

Andrey M. Kulikov

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Foreign Affairs ◽

Geographical Society ◽

First Time

The article offers an overview of illustrations from the archives of an employee of the Russian Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, traveller and member of the Russian Geographical Society, Reinhold Friedrich Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken (Russ.: Fyodor Romanovich Osten-Saken) (1832–1916), preserved in the Russian Archive of Ancient Acts (RAAA). In total, the article describes content of four archival boxes (a Chinese popular print depicting western steamers in Tianjin; a Japanese album of 1893 with views of Tokyo; six Chinese paintings in the genre of flowers and birds (huaniao), which depict a lotus, lamprocapnos, pomegranate, dragonflies, cicadas and blue magpie; two prints from Chinese steles). Most of the paintings are published for the first time. The translation of the six explanatory texts for Chinese paintings in the genre of flowers and birds belongs to the author of the present article. The text of the article is accompanied by numerous illustrations of the items preserved in the RAAA.

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Mandel’štam. Rom. Pasolini

Volume 60 · 2019 - Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch ◽

10.3790/ljb.62.1.291 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 291-320

Author(s):

Chiara Caradonna

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Small Volume ◽

The Political ◽

Pier Paolo Pasolini ◽

Political Dimension ◽

The World ◽

First Time

Mandel’štam. Rome. Pasolini In 1972 a small volume presented for the first time a varied choice of poems by the Russian poet Osip Mandel’štam to the Italian public, translated by Serena Vitale. One of the book’s first and most enthusiastic readers was the poet, film director and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, who immediately reviewed it for the Italian newspaper Il Tempo. This review shows the great significance that Mandel’štam’s poetry acquired for Pasolini in the very last years of his life. So much so, that the first verse of Mandel’štam’s late poem, With the world of the powerful …, became the motto of Pasolini’s last, unfinished novel Petrolio. While offering a reading of this poem by Mandel’štam, the present article investigates the reasons for Pasolini’s passionate interest in the Russian poet, and sheds light on the political dimension of both Mandel’štam’s and Pasolini’s œuvre.

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A Newly Discovered Annotated Partimento Manuscript : "Rudimenti di Musica per Accompagnare del Sig. r Maestro Vignali" (1789)

Music Theory and Analysis (MTA) ◽

10.11116/mta.8.1.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 60-88

Author(s):

Sean Curtice ◽

Lydia Carlisi

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Real Time ◽

Present Article ◽

Teaching Methods ◽

Oral Tradition ◽

English Language ◽

Musical Culture ◽

First Time ◽

Unknown Manuscript

The partimento tradition of eighteenth-century Italy developed within a musical culture that prioritized oral pedagogy. While these teaching methods were successful in producing generations of great composers, they have left scholars with vexing questions concerning the precise manner in which partimenti should be realized. The recent appearance of a remarkable and previously unknown manuscript—"Rudimenti di Musica per Accompagnare del Sig. Maestro Vignali," dated 1789—promises to shed invaluable new light on the oral tradition of partimento instruction. The manuscript's likely author is Gabriele Vignali (c. 1736– 1799), a maestro di cappella active in Bologna; it is unique in the presently known canon owing to the detailed footnotes that accompany each of its twenty-four Bassi (one in each major and minor key). Vignali's annotations provide precisely the sort of commentary that was ordinarily restricted to real-time explanation, teaching the student to recognize keys, scale degrees, modulations, cadences, typical bass progressions, and significant motives. The present article and accompanying English-language edition examine this exceptional partimento collection in detail, offering modern partimentisti the opportunity for the first time to listen in, as it were, on a series of lessons between an eighteenth-century maestro and his student.

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Uric Acid and Potassium Serum Levels Are Independent Predictors of Blood Pressure Non-Dipping in Overweight or Obese Subjects

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu11122970 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 2970 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Roberta Zupo ◽

Fabio Castellana ◽

Barbara Boninfante ◽

Luisa Lampignano ◽

Antonio Lattanzio ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Blood Pressure ◽

Uric Acid ◽

Antihypertensive Drugs ◽

Intima Media Thickness ◽

Carotid Intima Media Thickness ◽

Serum Levels ◽

Primary Objective ◽

Ultrasound Measurement ◽

Obese Subjects ◽

First Time

Background: Obesity and sleeping blood pressure (BP) abnormalities are well recognized as some of the main risk factors for hypertension and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hypertension and non-dipping profile in overweight/obese subjects. Methods: A sample of 100 consecutive healthy overweight/obese subjects, aged 20–69 years and never treated with antihypertensive drugs was examined. Ambulatory 24 h BP monitoring was performed to diagnose hypertension and a non-dipping profile. Anthropometric, metabolic and routine hematochemical parameters were assessed. All subjects underwent ultrasound measurement of common carotid intima–media thickness. Results: Hypertension was demonstrated in 69% (n = 69) and 27% of the sample (n = 27) had a non-dipping profile. Among the hematochemical variables, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (p = 0.02) and FT4 (p = 0.01) serum levels were higher in the hypertensive group than in the normotensive group. Lower potassium and uric acid serum levels (p = 0.05) were independent predictive factors of a non-dipping BP profile. Conclusions: This study shows, for the first time, that 1) an unexpectedly high percentage (69%) of overweight/obese subjects is affected by hypertension; 2) early hypertensive subjects have an increased eGFR and higher FT4 serum levels; 3) lower potassium and uric acid levels are independent predictors of pathological nocturnal non-dipping.

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A revision of dragon millipedes I: genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, with the description of eight new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.761.24214 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 761 ◽

pp. 1-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Ruttapon Srisonchai ◽

Henrik Enghoff ◽

Natdanai Likhitrakarn ◽

Somsak Panha

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Present Article ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

New Genera ◽

Distribution Maps ◽

New Synonyms ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

First Time

The dragon millipede genusDesmoxytess.l. is split into five genera, based on morphological characters and preliminary molecular phylogenetic analyses. The present article includes a review ofDesmoxytess.s., while future articles will deal withHylomusCook and Loomis, 1924 and three new genera which preliminarily are referred to as the ‘acantherpestes’, ‘gigas’, and ‘spiny’ groups. Diagnostic morphological characters of each group are discussed.Hylomusis resurrected as a valid genus and the following 33 species are assigned to it:H.asper(Attems, 1937),comb. n.,H.cattienensis(Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin, 2005),comb. n.,H.cervarius(Attems, 1953),comb. n.,H.cornutus(Zhang & Li, 1982),comb. n.,H.dracoCook & Loomis, 1924,stat. rev.,H.enghoffi(Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin, 2005),comb. n.,H.eupterygotus(Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy, 2012),comb. n.,H.getuhensis(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2014),comb. n.,H.grandis(Golovatch, VandenSpiegel & Semenyuk, 2016),comb. n.,H.hostilis(Golovatch & Enghoff, 1994),comb. n.,H.jeekeli(Golovatch & Enghoff, 1994),comb. n.,H.lingulatus(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2014),comb. n.,H.laticollis(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2016),comb. n.,H.longispinus(Loksa, 1960),comb. n.,H.lui(Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy, 2012),comb. n.,H.minutuberculus(Zhang, 1986),comb. n.,H.nodulosus(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2014),comb. n.,H.parvulus(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2014),comb. n.,H.phasmoides(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2016),comb. n.,H.pilosus(Attems, 1937),comb. n.,H.proximus(Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin, 2005),comb. n.,H.rhinoceros(Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha, 2015),comb. n.,H.rhinoparvus(Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha, 2015),comb. n.,H.scolopendroides(Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2010),comb. n.,H.scutigeroides(Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2010),comb. n.,H.similis(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2016),comb. n.,H.simplex(Golovatch, VandenSpiegel & Semenyuk, 2016),comb. n.,H.simplipodus(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2016),comb. n.,H.specialis(Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin, 2005),comb. n.,H.spectabilis(Attems, 1937),comb. n.,H.spinitergus(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2016),comb. n.,H.spinissimus(Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy, 2012),comb. n.andH.variabilis(Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2016),comb. n.Desmoxytess.s. includes the following species:D.breviverpaSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha, 2016;D.cervina(Pocock,1895);D.delfae(Jeekel, 1964);D.desSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha, 2016;D.pinnasqualiSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha, 2016;D.planata(Pocock, 1895);D.purpuroseaEnghoff, Sutcharit & Panha, 2007;D.takensisSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha, 2016;D.taurina(Pocock, 1895);D.terae(Jeekel, 1964), all of which are re-described based mainly on type material. Two new synonyms are proposed:DesmoxytespterygotaGolovatch & Enghoff, 1994,syn. n.(=Desmoxytescervina(Pocock, 1895)),DesmoxytesrubraGolovatch & Enghoff, 1994,syn. n.(=Desmoxytesdelfae(Jeekel, 1964)). Six new species are described from Thailand:D.aurataSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n.,D.corythosaurusSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n.,D.eurosSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n.,D.flabellaSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n.,D.golovatchiSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n.,D.octoconigeraSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n., as well as one from Malaysia:D.perakensisSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n., and one from Myanmar:D.waepyanensisSrisonchai, Enghoff & Panha,sp. n.The species can mostly be easily distinguished by gonopod structure in combination with other external characters; some cases of particularly similar congeners are discussed. All species ofDesmoxytess.s. seem to be endemic to continental Southeast Asia (except the ‘tramp’ speciesD.planata). Some biological observations (relationship with mites, moulting) are recorded for the first time. Complete illustrations of external morphological characters, an identification key, and distribution maps of all species are provided.

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