EASY ENGLISH GRAMMAR

A tremendous effort has been made to bring out the grammar book, a simple one in the real sense of the title “Easy English Grammar” not only by giving simple definitions in simple sentences but also by quoting examples relevant to simple life situations with lofty thoughts.Being author of this book, I have tried my best level to bring out this book in a satisfactory manner out of my rich practical experience as a teacher of the college more than one decade in the field of English Language teaching working as an Assistant Professor of English. Thirty-seven exercises have been given in the book. Students do them sincerely.

Measuring Technological Change through an Extended Structural Decomposition Analysis: An Application to EU-28 Primary Sectors (2010–2015)

This paper addresses the input–output structural decomposition for an economic analysis. The objective is to determine the causes of changes in production in these sectors with a particular focus on disaggregating the technological change by distribution factors associated with a specific normalization of the Leontief inverse. In calculating the net multipliers, an attempt was made to exclude each sectors’ own consumption in a satisfactory manner. However, the treatment of own consumption when introducing a time factor requires further investigation to avoid questionable measurements. An empirical application is presented regarding agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors in six EU-28 countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain) over the 2010–2015 period. In general, a typical characteristic of primary sectors is the accumulation of a significant amount of their own consumption, facilitated by the design of their own symmetric accounting methods. Therefore, attention is focused on these sectors so as to reveal possible analysis techniques that will provide nuance or validate existing techniques.

Reverse Triage and People Whose Disabilities Render Them Dependent on Ventilators

The COVID-19 pandemic has occasioned a great deal of ethical reflection both in general and on the issue of reverse triage; a practice that effectively reallocates resources from one patient to another on the basis of the latter having a more favourable clinical prognosis. This paper addresses a specific concern that has arisen in relation to such proposals: the potential reallocation of ventilators relied upon by disabled or chronically ill patients. This issue is examined via three morally parallel scenarios. First, the standard reallocation of a ventilator in accordance with reverse triage protocols; second, the reallocation of a personal ventilator from a chronically ill patient ordinarily reliant on it; and, third, the reallocation of a personal ventilator owned by a financially privileged individual but who is not ordinarily reliant on it. This paper suggests that whilst property rights cannot resolve these scenarios in a satisfactory manner, it may be possible to do so if we draw on the resources of phenomenology. However, in contradistinction to a recent paper on this topic (Reynolds et al. 2021), we argue that ethical claims to ventilators are not well grounded by the overly demanding notion that they are embodied objects. We suggest that the alternative phenomenological notion of homelikeness provides for a more plausible resolution of the issue. The personal ventilators of individuals who commonly rely upon them become part of their ordinary, everyday or homelike being. They are a necessary part of the continuation or maintenance of their basic state of health or wellbeing and the reallocation of such objects is unethical. Keywords: Phenomenology, COVID-19, Pandemic, Triage, Reverse triage, Ventilation, Chronic illness, Allocation of resources

DEVELOPMENT OF A CHATBOT TO IDENTIFY DEPRESSION THROUGH A QUESTIONNAIRE

Purpose: to develop and test a prototype of Chatbot (Artificial Intelligence) with the purpose of applying a questionnaire to assess depression in visually impairmed invidivuals. Methods: This project was carried out in the Innovation in Health Technology Laboratory of the Sao Paulo Federal University. The Chatbot was developed using the platform BLiP. The social demography questionnaire and the Center for Epidemiological Scale Depression (CES D) were selected to collect the essential data and to identify the presence of depression, respectively. After the development, validation tests were applied to verify the functionality and structure of the chatbot. Results: The Chatbot prototype presented an excellent flow of conversation in the tests conducted. The questionnaires were applied in a satisfactory manner during the tests, showing that it could possibly be applied to real patients with depression symptoms. Software validation tests approved the prototypes function. Conclusions: The Chatbot prototype is an affordable and easy way to apply questionnaires that can be used to identify health conditions, such as the likelihood of being depressed. The Chatbot system can record the answers so it is analyzed by health care professionals to help decide if an intervention is necessary. KEYWORDS: Artificial Intelligence; Depression; Ophthalmology; Vision Disorders.

THE CITY OF SAMARRA UNDER THE ABBASID STATE, A BRIGHT HISTORY AND IMMORTAL RELICS

My research was marked (The city of Samarra under the Abbasid state, a bright history and immortal relics). The city of Samarra is considered one of the archaeological historical sites in Iraq. This city - with the testimony of ancient and modern sources, and the immortality of a number of its lofty monuments - played a dangerous role in the political and urban fields - throughout the era that I stayed there as the capital of the Abbasid state. Eight of the Abbasid caliphs settled in it, and its mother was scholars and writers. Every craftsman and artist differed in it, and it became - rightly - the first Abbasid city in various aspects of life. Which prompted me to choose this topic and write about it, because of my feeling and my feeling that this city has neglected its right, and has not prepared for it what it should have of study and investigation. I specify my studies either in the history of the city or its antiquities, but after reading it became clear to me that history is the immortalized antiquities, so this topic stopped me to research it. The basic structure of this research consisted of two sections preceded by an introduction and a preface and followed by a conclusion. The first topic came under the title (Samarra in the shadow of the Abbasid state), this research dealt with Samarra in the shadow of the Abbasid caliphs, showing the role of each caliph in this city. Part of its ruins are still tilted until today and the other part has been subjected to destruction and extinction, and then I ended the research with a conclusion in which I showed the most important findings of the research, including its adoption of the largest Islamic empire for half a century, that this city has a clear personality in the urban and historical fields, and it is the Islamic city Which was replete with many palaces and luxurious buildings in that era, it was able to occupy an important center for the duration of its stay as the capital of the Abbasids. And after I ask God Almighty that I have succeeded in presenting this topic in a satisfactory manner, for perfection is for God Almighty and from Him we derive help and success‎‎. Keywords: Abbasid State, The City of Samarra, Immortalized Antiquities

Use of semi-customized method for fabrication of an Ocular prosthesis-A case report

Loss of an eye can be physically and psychologically challenging for a patient. The purpose of the ocular prosthesis is to restore the appearance of the lost eye. There are many techniques for iris customisation which can be employed to fabricate the ocular prosthesis. This is a case report where in semi-customized method was employed to fabricate an ocular prosthesis in a simple, fast and satisfactory manner.

Investigation of the heat distribution in dry friction systems during fade and recovery using fiber-optic sensing and infrared technology

The design of dry-running friction pairings and systems determines not only their installation space and costs, but also their reliability under critical load conditions, for example in emergencies, in the case of faults, and in the event of misuse. While knowledge of the contact pattern is highly important for the development of clutches and brakes, the contact-related measurement of the temperature of these systems has not yet been solved in a satisfactory manner. Despite its importance, the temperature distribution has only been measured in a few studies. Typically, temperature measurements of complete clutches and brakes are carried out using thermocouples only. In this study, a new innovative test setup is presented. This setup is able to measure the heat distribution of the lining and the steel disk of a brake with high spatial resolution by means of fiber optic sensing technology and thermography. As a novelty, it enables measurement of the heat distribution and allows to correlate it with the fade and recovery behavior. Contrary to the expectations, the contact pattern is heterogeneous in circumferential direction. Possible causes are discussed using simulation results. Along with surface analysis, the new setup contributes to the investigation of the causes of fade and recovery.

Patient's Death From the Perspective of Nursing Students

Introduction: An exceedingly small amount of scientific research concerns the response to patient death among nursing students. There was a need to examine their perspective on patient death with which they experience during their studies. The authors wanted to check the subjective assessment of students' preparation for patient death and their perception of classes conducted in this area.Methods: The research used the diagnostic survey method and was conducted in May 2019 using Google Form on social media. The 467 nursing students answered 14 questions in the original questionnaire about their experience with patient death. The analyzed data were expressed as median, minimum and maximum values, or percentage, as appropriate. Comparison of groups was performed using the Mann–Whitney U-test or the Kruskal–Wallis test. The relationship between variables was analyzed with Spearman correlation coefficient or contingency coefficient (the χ2-test).Results: The authors analyzed 452 responses of nursing students, and 86.3% of them encountered death of a patient in the course of their studies. In the second-year master's studies, this value reached 99.3%. Among the most frequently mentioned accompanying emotions, students mentioned “reflection on the fragility of life” and “compassion.” Students do not feel sufficiently prepared for the death of a patient.Conclusions: Nursing students encounter the death of a patient very often and very early. Although the curriculum includes content related to the care of a dying patient, students believe that there is still too little of it and that it does not prepare it in a satisfactory manner. Students feel different, often negative emotions related to patient death, and also have various methods of dealing with such a situation. They also feel the need to increase education in this area.

El teatral regreso de Celestina a Italia y las políticas culturales fascistas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial

The return of Celestina to Italian publishing houses during the Second World War has been examined in a series of recent research publications. These studies have not, unfortunately, described in a satisfactory manner the reasons underpinning this interest in a foreign piece; nor have they explained how it came to be one of the most regularly performed Spanish classic texts in twentieth-century Italy. The aim of this article is to settle this critical deficit, taking into account the political, cultural and theatrical contexts which enabled said return. Seen from this broader perspective, the reappearance of Celestina offers testimony to the cultural relationships between Spain and Italy in times of fascism, along with providing ways of approaching and appropriating a morally challenging text. Celestina, I argue, is a particularly revealing case study for understanding the role of classics in the construction of European identity throughout the twentieth century.

Rekonstrukcja i rewitalizacja zagrożonych wymarciem języków z wykorzystaniem narzędzi lingwistyki komputerowej

RECONSTRUCTION AND REVITALISATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES USING COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS TOOLS The monograph presented here consists of an introduction, six chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter briefly discusses the current linguistic situation, paying particular attention to the languages with a small number of speakers, which are threatened with extinction, and provides a thorough analysis of reasons for the disappearance of such languages. In the following chapters, namely chapters two, three and four, the authors reviewed the current linguistic situation in the western part of Europe. They briefly discuss selected languages spoken in this area which are threatened with extinction and belong respectively to the Germanic (second chapter) and Romance (third chapter) language groups. The fourth chapter discusses the languages in danger of extinction in Europe which belong to other groups of the Indo-European language family, with particular emphasis on the Celtic language group. The fifth chapter contains a description of the syntactic structure generator of Norwegian, developed by the authors. This kind of software may serve as a model for building analogous systems for other languages in danger of extinction. At this point, it is worth mentioning that the Norwegian language chosen by the authors exists in two official variants. One of them – New Norwegian (Nynorsk) – is currently perceived as a language potentially threatened with extinction. On the other hand, the sixth chapter of the monograph presents further prospects for the development of the system elaborated by the authors. In particular, the possibilities of its evolution into Machine-Aided Human Translation software have been considered. The task of this software would be to support the process of translating texts into the endangered languages. It is important to mention here that, thanks to the use of machine learning techniques, especially deep learning artificial neural networks, the issue of computer translation has already been solved in a largely satisfactory manner in the general sense, which not so long ago seemed like a scenario from a science fiction novel.