Disturbing Elements Research Articles

Public health nurses' experiences of using interpreters when meeting with Arabic-speaking first-time mothers.

The aim of this study was to investigate public health nurses' experiences of using interpreters when meeting with Arabic-speaking first-time mothers. An inductive qualitative design was used. Individual interviews were conducted with Swedish public health nurses (n=11) with experience of working in child health care with interpreters when meeting with Arabic-speaking first-time mothers. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The analysis of the interviews resulted in one overarching theme: Having to accept and learn to incorporate interpreters when meeting with Arabic-speaking first-time mothers. Three subthemes were identified: (a) enabling an understanding of the situation of the mothers; (b) contributing to a trustful relationship; and (c) creating disturbing elements in the dialogue. Using interpreters optimized the conversation between the public health nurse and the Arab-speaking first-time mother; however, the complexity of using interpreters was also apparent.

Selection of the Relevant Turbulence Model in a CFD Simulation of a Flow Disturbed by Hydraulic Elbow — Comparative Analysis of the Simulation with Measurements Results Obtained by the Ultrasonic Flowmeter

The article is an attempt to compile the results of CFD liquid flow simulation through pipeline section containing hydraulic elbow with the results of ultrasonic flow measurements. To carry out the measurements behind the flow disturbing element (hydraulic elbow), an ultrasonic flowmeter with applied head set in accordance with the Z-type system was used. For comparative purposes, a flow simulation for 3 different turbulence models (k-epsilon, SST and SSG) was performed. It was found that with a proper ultrasonic flowmeter heads configurations, it is possible to measure the flow rate disturbed by the hydraulic elbow at any distance from the source of the disturbance. It has to use appropriate correction factor that can be determined by knowing the flow velocity profile equation. Based on comparison of CFD simulation results with experimental data, the accuracy/ purposefulness of using individual turbulence models in the case of discussed hydraulic installation was evaluated.

Elements of disturbance that affect epiphyte vitality in a temperate rainforest: an experimental approach

Abstract Aims Epiphytes are an abundant and diverse component of many wet temperate forests and have significant roles in ecosystem processes. Little is known about the processes and rates of their death and decomposition when they fall from the canopy, which limits our understanding of their role in forest carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling. In the temperate rainforest of the Quinault River Valley, Washington State, our aim was to test hypotheses regarding four elements of disturbance that might contribute to their decline. Methods We established set of experiments in which we placed samples of canopy epiphytes and their branch segments: (i) in the canopy versus forest floor microenvironment (stratum); (ii) attached to live versus dead branch substrates; (iii) subjected to physical disruption and ‘jarring’; and (iv) in direct versus indirect contact with the forest floor. Over the 2-year study, we assigned a non-destructive ‘vitality index’ (based on color and apparent mortality and dryness) to each sample every 2–3 months to compare effects of the experimental treatments and analyzed with a statistical model and post hoc pairwise comparisons of treatments. Important Findings The canopy versus ground stratum and live/dead branch status significantly affected epiphyte vitality. Effects of physical disruption and ground contact were not significant. There were seasonal effects (low vitality during the sampling times in the summer, revitalization upon sampling times in the winter) for all treatments except samples in contact with the ground. One implication of these results relates to effects of climate change, which is predicted to shift to hotter, drier summers and wetter winters. Climate change may affect forest dynamics and nutrient cycling in unpredictable ways. Results also point to future experiments to understand biotic and abiotic effects on epiphyte disturbance and dynamics.

Simultaneous immobilization of borate, arsenate, and silicate from geothermal water derived from mining activity by co-precipitation with hydroxyapatite

The treatment of the geothermal water discharged through mining activity is a critical issue because the rate of discharge is 12,000 m3 per day and the discharge contains high concentrations of borate (>20 mg/L) and arsenate (ca. 0.4 mg/L) as well as silicate and carbonate. The simultaneous reduction of borate and arsenate concentrations to acceptable levels was successfully performed by co-precipitation with hydroxyapatite (HAp). Although the coexisting high concentrations of carbonate act as a disturbing element, the co-precipitation equilibrium of borate was shifted to lower values by adjusting the P/Ca molar ratio, and the removal rate of borate was accelerated by using Al3+ additives, resulting in the efficient reduction of borate within 1 h. The initially immobilized boron in HAp is in the tetragonal form, which probably occupies the hydroxyl sites in HAp, gradually transforming into the trigonal form in the solid state, as interpreted by 1H NMR and 11B-NMR. The coexisting silicate was also immobilized in an ellestadite form, as confirmed by 29Si-NMR measurements. Arsenate and silicate were immobilized before borate in geothermal water. A dissolution assay of borate in the solid residues after co-precipitation with HAp verified the acceptable stability of borate, which is independent of the amount of added Al3+.

From Vance Palmer's 'The Passage' to Susan Johnson's 'The Landing'

This article compares Vance Palmer’s classic novel, The Passage (1930), set in Caloundra, with Susan Johnson’s The Landing (2015), a comic novel of manners set at the northern end of the contemporary Sunshine Coast. It considers the novels’ different perspectives on Australian society and changing values, including attitudes to nature, arguing that Palmer’s novel now seems more idealistic than realist while Johnson’s cynicism about Australian life shows some disturbing elements beneath the comedy.

“The same blinding void as before”: Irish Neutrality in Samuel Beckett’s nouvelles

AbstractWhen the Second World War ended, Samuel Beckett returned to his flat in Paris and set about writing. The experiences that he had gone through during the conflict (his subversive activities with the Resistance, his two-year period of hiding in Roussillon, his first-hand knowledge of the human cost of war as a hospital attendant in Saint-Lô) found their tortuous expression in the literary production that ensued. The Irish government’s official status as neutral over the previous five years was also a matter of concern for the exiled intellectual in Paris, and his opinions on this matter can be gleaned from a close reading of his nouvelles, particularly “The Calmative,” a narrative in which the blinding lights of the city of Dublin stand out as a disturbing element that demands an interpretation.

Piero Sraffa’s Use of the History of Economic Thought in the Cambridge Lectures

Attention to the history of economic thought and its connection with historical and political conditions played a crucial role in the evolution of Sraffa’s theoretical positions. Sraffa insisted on the importance of this methodological approach to the study of economic theory in his first lectures on advanced theory of value, delivered at Cambridge in the late 1920s. He saw the evolution of economic theory as the result of attempts by economists to deal with ‘practical problems’ and affected as such by the ‘disturbing elements’ of ‘opposite interests’ supporting different solutions. This view still deserves attention.

Localization of mobile robot using visual system

One of the main problems in mobile robotics is localization. This article aims to increase accuracy of localization of mobile robot using visual system. Mobile robot is taking images of environment containing artificial markers. Design of the markers was also one of the tasks. Markers can be used indoors and are placed on ceiling, where there is low number of other disturbing elements. They are designed to be able to split each marker into two parts—one is changeless and the second is changing with each marker. This provides an easy segmentation of all markers and then distinguishes between them easily as well. Localization is based on changes of markers angle and position in acquired images. During research of suitable algorithms, several approaches were tested to gain optimal results of localization considering time consumption and accuracy. The last part of this work deals with implementation of visual system and odometry fusion. That provides even more precise localization of the mobile robot.

Implementation of convergence P2P information retrieval system from captured video frames

With the evolution of information technology, devices such as smart TVs allow users to easily search for broadcast information, browse, participate in broadcasting, shop, etc. However, while watching, such additional information can be obstructive elements when seen by other people. Moreover, such smart functionalities cannot be utilized in public places. Therefore, in order to address the problem of the viewing disturbance element and formulate a method of providing the information, it is necessary to photograph the TV or the monitor screen using a smart device and immediately transmit the requisite information such as P2P information and advertisement information. We designed and implemented a system that allows confirmation. The proposed system minimizes interruption of viewing and presents a new user experience model so that anyone can easily use screenshots to generate additional information. A region of interest is extracted from a frame of a moving image photographed for efficiently searching for additional information such as the position information of the region of interest, the size information, and the projection information of the image edge of the region of interest. As a result of the experiment, it was confirmed that the additional information matched the video image shot using the smart device.

Cooperative Transmission Scheme for Cell Interference Mitigation in Wireless Communication System

In a wireless communication system, the performance is decreased by various interference and disturbance elements. In order to decrease the influence by these elements, the various schemes have been studied. In this paper, the method mitigating inter-cell interference (ICI) is proposed when a mobile user is located in the cell edge. ICI is one reason among the reasons of the performance reduction. The proposed scheme constructs the cooperative communication system and suggests the signal transmission method using pre-coding vectors. The proposed scheme can provide improved performance when the mobile user is located in the cell edge.

Homeostasis Paradigmática en la Praxis Gerencial Educativa

La presente contribución pretende develar consideraciones sobre la gestión gerencial en la educación del tercer milenio, y los requerimientos de revisión para el impulso transformacional paradigmático del desempeño en el contexto educacional. Los procesos homeostáticos y el mimetismo garante de permanencia de paradigmas en la praxis gerencial educativa, representan elementos perturbadores del modelo de gestión deseado, delineado en los variados fundamentos de gestión, pero no percibidos plenamente en los diversos espacios de la educación venezolana. Se requiere repensar estrategias transformacionales del desempeño gerencial que vayan más allá de los fundamentos para la reforma de la gestión y organización educacional concebidas de forma holística, incluyendo la transformación de la formación del gerente educacional, cuyos argumentos para la innovación no sean sustentados en asuntos meramente retóricos. La temática se vincula con el área Gerencia y Liderazgo Educativo, particularmente con la necesidad de procurar la transformación de la calidad educativa, a partir de una metodología hermenéutica asociada con los aportes teóricos de Malinowski (2016) y Cornejo (2014). Como consideraciones reflexivas, se argumenta que se requiere dirigir esfuerzos para establecer procesos transformacionales de la praxis gerencial hacia la construcción de respuestas requeridas por la dinámica educacional, incluyendo la formación permanente, actualizaciones estratégicas y organizativas.

Развитие когнитивных процессов у детей младшего школьного возраста с разными типами онтогенеза. Коррекционный курс

Sufficient level of mental development of the child, formation of the emotional sphere, voluntary activities and socio-psychological skills are the main indicators of child readiness for schooling. It appears to be important to use the neuropsychological approach in diagnostic and correctional work. Correction of disturbed elements in higher mental functions performed to facilitate learning of educational material by children of primary school age with different types of ontogenesis, which makes it possible to increase adaptive capacity, the stress-resistance of children, and to ensure success in social relations. Presented program has been tested on primary school children with combined disorders of cognitive and emotional-personal spheres, studying in the system of inclusion in school №1321 «Kovcheg» of Moscow city.

The use of the ratios of intensities of spectral lines for X-ray fluorescence analysis of metal alloys and oxide materials

An X-ray fluorescence analysis technique is proposed, which is based on using ratios of intensities of spectral lines. The technique includes performing calculations for evaluation of calibration equations, which allows using few reference samples or carrying out standardless analysis, if necessary. That parameters of the calibration equations depend linearly on concentrations of disturbing elements allows one to simplify taking their influence into account. To apply the developed technique to analysis of samples containing a significant amount of undetectable light elements, a use of a dependence of intensity ratio of the characteristic radiation of the X-ray tube’s anode, coherently and incoherently scattered by a sample, on a total content of undetectable elements is proposed. The technique’s adequacy is demonstrated by analysis of standard steel samples, metal cuttings and iron-ore materials.

Patrick Modiano i jego (nie)żydowskie genealogie

PATRICK MODIANO AND HIS (NON-)JEWISH GENEALOGIES With a few exceptions, Jewish motifs in the prose of Patrick Modiano are veiled, vague, metaphorical and connected with the wider, universal and problematic aspects of the struggle of a contemporary, lonely man with a wounded memory, uncertainty about his identity, as well as the impossibility of recovering lost time. However, the memory of the Jewish origin of his ancestors on his father’s side and the legacy of trauma of Holocaust victims and survivors are remarkably important and disturbing elements of the writer’s personality, sensitivity, and ethics. This is why the 2014 Nobel Prize winner’s work is the object of research by francophone literary scholars exploring post-Holocaust Jewish identity in the late 20 th -century writing. The article analyses the Jewish motifs in Modiano’s prose, classified by many contemporary critics as a model example of autofiction.

The Psychological Violence Against Girls and Women

This study is focused mostly on the psychological and emotional violence against girls and women. The implementation of the study is based on the use of the quantitative research method by spreading and completing the survey with 650 respondents from 24 to 60 years old. The detailed study aims to explore the causes and conditions which favor violence as a necessity to understand the roots of these social phenomena. This implies a comprehensive analysis of social, economical, political and sub-cultural factors which affect in the implementation of it. From the data of our survey there are some results: nearly 63.0 percent of the respondents said that they had suffered psychological violence. Insults, shouts and threats are actions which happen more frequently and the respondents say that they are the most disturbing elements. Most girls and women suffer from the psychological violence within their family. This kind of violence is mainly caused by men, by their husbands, fathers, brothers. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n3s1p91

Nudges and the limits of appropriate interference: reading backwards from J.S. Mill’s harm principle to Jeremy Bentham’s indirect legislation

ABSTRACTThe starting point of the present paper is the nudge phenomenon. The most disturbing element of nudge is its potential for individual manipulation, that is, for relying on initiatives that go beyond the acceptable limits of interference in individual choice. This feature is not ignored by nudge advocates, who discuss it extensively to justify the overriding benefits of such initiatives. In this discussion, they acknowledge the seminal importance of J.S. Mill’s harm principle, which is introduced in On Liberty. Academics without hidden agendas must look into Mill’s theories from an intellectual history perspective and study to what extent Mill’s harm principle lends support to the interference of government and society in private lives. This paper first unveils some contradictions in the interpretation of Mill’s harm principle in order to show that it is an unlikely source of philosophical justification for nudge proponents. The paper argues further that Mill was familiar with Jeremy Bentham’s writings on indirect legislation, presented in the Traités de legislation civile et pénale. It pinpoints elements of indirect legislation that are discussed by Mill in On Liberty, without ever naming them as such. The paper contends that Mill’s presentation of the harm principle can be read as a discussion with Bentham in relation to the appropriate limits of government intervention in people’s lives. This double reading of Mill and Bentham through the lens of indirect legislation makes it possible to pinpoint the main differences between the authors as regards the appropriate degree of government interference. Bentham’s theories appear to be a more appropriate source of philosophical justification for the use of nudges than Mill’s harm principle.

Influence of nonlinear characteristics of electromagnet and normal force of a linear induction motor on a magnetically levitated vehicle

In the literature related to maglev vehicles, most studies have primarily discussed the trade-off between a levitation system and guideway smoothness, such as deflection and surface roughness, and the optimization of a levitation controller. A dynamic model integrated with a kinematic vehicle, electromagnetic suspension system, guideway profile, and levitation controller model has been widely used for this purpose. However, in addition to guideway smoothness and stiffness, the normal force of a Linear induction motor (LIM) that is installed in the same bogie frame and drives the maglev vehicle can be regarded as a disturbance element affecting a levitation system. In addition, a linear model of an electromagnetic force is usually used in linear approximations around the nominal equilibrium point, in spite of its nonlinear characteristics. In this study, to analyze the interaction between electromagnetic and normal forces of the LIM, a dynamic model coupled with the normal force calculated from finite element analysis was developed. In addition, to comparatively analyze levitation stability by considering the linear and nonlinear characteristics of electromagnets, the non-linear electromagnetic forces measured in the experiment are coupled to the dynamic model. From the simulation results, it was confirmed that although a slight increase in current was observed with the LIM model when compared to without the LIM model, it produced no adverse effect on levitation stability. In simulation, considering the non-linear characteristics of an electromagnet, it was confirmed that the nominal current of the linear model converged to a higher value than the designed nominal current when the vehicle was standing still, whereas the nominal current of the non-linear was similar to the designed one.

Resolution dependence of deep convections in a global simulation from over 10-kilometer to sub-kilometer grid spacing

The success of sub-kilometer global atmospheric simulation opens the door for resolving deep convections, which are fundamental elements of cloudy disturbances that drive global circulation. A previous study found that the essential change in the simulated convection properties occurred at a grid spacing of about 2 km as a global mean. In grid-refinement experiments, we conducted further comprehensive analysis of the global-mean state and the characteristics of deep convection, to clarify the difference of the essential change by location and environment. We found that the essential change in convection properties was different in the location and environment for each cloudy disturbance. The convections over the tropics show larger resolution dependence than convections over mid-latitudes, whereas no significant difference was found in convections over land or ocean. Furthermore, convections over cloudy disturbances [(i.e., Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), tropical cyclones (TCs)] show essential change of convection properties at about 1 km grid spacing, suggesting resolution dependence. As a result, convections not categorized as cloudy disturbances make a large contribution to the global-mean convection properties. This implies that convections in disturbances are largely affected organization processes and hence have more horizontal resolution dependence. In contrast, other categorized convections that are not involved in major cloudy disturbances show the essential change at about 2 km grid spacing. This affects the latitude difference of the resolution dependence of convection properties and hence the zonal-mean outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). Despite the diversity of convection properties, most convections are resolved at less than 1 km grid spacing. In the future, longer integration of global atmosphere, to 0.87 km grid spacing, will stimulate significant discussion about the interaction between the convections and cloudy disturbances.

WTF! Taboo Language in TV Series: An Analysis of Professional and Amateur Translation

This paper focuses on the topic of censorship associated with the use of strong language and swear words in the translation of contemporary American TV series. In AVT, more specifically in Italian dubbing, the practice of censorship, in the form of suppression or toning down of what might be perceived as offensive, disturbing, too explicit or inconvenient, still remains a problematic issue. By focusing on two recent successful TV series - Girls and Orange is the New Black – which are characterized by the use of strong language (swear words, politically incorrect references) and the presence of taboo subjects (homosexuality, sex, drugs, violence) – this study will consider the different translation choices applied in dubbing and fansubbing. Previous academic studies have underlined the fact that professional translators tend to remove, more or less consciously, the disturbing elements from the source text, while fansubbers try to adhere as much as possible to the original text, not only in terms of linguistic contents but also in terms of register and style. The results of this analysis seem on the one hand to confirm that there is still not a systematic set of rules that govern the translation of strong language in dubbing, and on the other to indicate that the gap between professional and amateur translation is perhaps becoming less pronounced.

Environmental pollution along the Ionian Coast in Punta Alice area, Cirò Marina (Kr), Italy: preliminary results

The infiltration of heavy metals into soils is one of the most important soil pollution sources. The aim of this study is to determine the metals concentrations in soil around the ex Montedison industrial settlement. This industry, located in the Punta Alice area, until the 2008 produced hyper-pure sodium chloride. The sodium was obtained from the raw brine collected in the Mine Timpa del Salto, located in Belvedere Spinello. The presence of the factory, nowadays abandoned, is a disturbing element in the natural landscape of Punta Alice. In addition, it caused conditions of gradual pollution due to the presence of dangerous chemical elements and derivatives of the industrial activities. The research is based on the environmental impact study through field survey operations and soils sampling for a chemical characterization using ICP-MS analysis.