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Forensic-medical determination of the severity of closed injuries of the hyoid-laryngeal complex according to the data of a specialized clinic

Victims with closed blunt trauma of the hyoid-laryngeal complex often become the object of forensic examination. The purpose of the work was the forensic determination of the severity of injuries of the hyoid-laryngeal complex based on the materials of a specialized otolaryngological clinic in order to establish ways to improve the effectiveness of forensic diagnostics. 62 medical inpatient and outpatient cards of patients with injuries of the hyoid-laryngeal complex, who were treated in the Kharkiv clinical otolaryngological hospital No. 30 during 2011-2021, were processed. The mechanism of occurrence of injuries of the hyoid-laryngeal complex was as follows: in 51 (82.3% of cases there were blows to the neck with blunt hard objects (blows with fists and other objects), in 11 (17.7%) cases – squeezing of the neck with hands or blunt hard objects. The severity of injuries of the hyoid-laryngeal complex was determined from a forensic-medical point of view based on the observations of patients in a specialized hospital. Injuries of the hyoid-laryngeal complex in 3 (4.8%) patients with the occurrence of life-threatening phenomena, namely acute respiratory failure, were assessed as serious ones. Injuries in 8 (12.9%) patients were assessed as injuries of medium severity, mainly in cases of laryngeal cartilage fractures due to the lack of danger to life. Injuries in 38 (61.3%) patients were assessed as slight physical injuries that caused a short-term health disorder, mainly in cases of damage to the soft tissues of the larynx (hematoma, hemorrhage, swelling). Injuries in 13 (20.9%) patients in cases of acute post-traumatic laryngitis without pronounced morphological changes were assessed as slight ones. It was determined that additional diagnostic criteria for determining the severity of injuries of the hyoid-laryngeal complex, which have to be considered are: the dynamics and terms of restoration of post-traumatic morphological-clinical, and functional changes, the occurrence of life-threatening phenomena. The conducted scientific work made it possible to determine the ways of further improvement of diagnostics in the forensic-medical determination of the severity of the investigated injuries.

Dogmatic problems related to the current Hungarian regulation of money laundering

Money laundering is an illegal economic service carried out under the guise of legal economic operations, as a result of which the origin of the property acquired through crime can be verified, freeing it from its recognizably illegal nature. Its micro- and macro-economic effects are also extremely dangerous, the fight against money laundering can strengthen confidence in the financial system in addition to the fight against organized crime. The new Hungarian criminal law regulations effective from 1 January 2021, in addition to complying the expectations of international organizations and international conventions in force, also contain provisions that are contrary to the dogmatics of the Hungarian material criminal law and cannot be applied in practice. Resolving the many contradictions will be the task of law enforcement rather than legislation.Aim: To present the effective regulation of money laundering and to analyse factual elements incompatible with the dogmatics of Hungarian criminal law, and to outline possible alternatives for solving the problems.Methodology: Analytical presentation of the facts, analysis of the legal text and justification in the light of the literature and practice.Findings: The first form of money laundering, material static money laundering, is inapplicable in practice: it conflicts with the prohibition of double evaluation, the prohibition of self-incrimination, and among the cases of apparent material accumulation, it is classified as an unpunished subsequent act. For this reason, there is a general lack of danger to society behind the facts. It had to be codified in this way because of our international obligations, but in my opinion, it should not be applied in practice.Value: The study can provide a reference point for law enforcement practice in solving the issues that arise.

Residential security through the Home Assistant Platform

The etymology of the word safety means: lack of danger; feeling of peace and confidence; shelter from any danger; feeling of security. A security system of goods, values and protection of people can be implemented through an automated platform, under the name of Home Assistant. This server software application can communicate with an easy control system for fast and two-way access, which can be mounted to a restricted main entrance. The automatic opening of the access door is controlled both by stand-alone RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) modules, which act on an electric closing mechanism, and by an automation system configured in the Home Assistant application. The ultimate goal is the security of the premises through a system that can operate both locally and online via internet connection. The research methodology was based on the study of intelligent applications for residential access, described in the literature, aiming at integration into the open-source HA platform, by developing new code sequences. I come with this paper in support of those who want to bring an improvement in the existing automation system, respectively to encourage those who want an automated residence at a higher level.

Bayesian maximum a posteriori‐estimation of κ turbulence model parameters using algorithmic differentiation in SOLPS‐ITER

AbstractRadial anomalous diffusion coefficients are among the largest sources of uncertainty in mean‐field plasma‐edge codes such as SOLPS‐ITER. These coefficients are machine, scenario, and space‐dependent, thus hampering the predictive and interpretive capability of these codes. In fact, modellers usually adjust these coefficients manually, based on expert judgement or on large, computationally expensive, parameter scans. Matching data from various diagnostics, each with their own experimental uncertainties, additionally complicates the problem of finding a good parameter set. In addition, standard non‐linear regression techniques have shown to become prohibitive for expensive plasma‐edge simulations with many unknown parameters, as gradient calculation was based on finite differences. In this paper, we apply algorithmic differentiation (AD) as an efficient and more accurate alternative for gradient calculation in large, continuously developed codes as SOLPS‐ITER. In addition, the lack of uncertainty information and danger of data overfitting, key limitations of regression techniques, are overcome by combining data and uncertainties from different diagnostics in a Bayesian framework. We implement for the first time such a Bayesian inference framework into SOLPS‐ITER, using gradient‐based optimization with gradients obtained through tangent AD to find the maximum a posteriori (MAP) values of the parameters. The recently developed κ turbulence model is employed to limit the number of unknown parameters compared to full spatial profiles of diffusion coefficients. The Bayesian MAP‐estimation is compared to standard regression techniques on a small‐scale tokamak. We adopt fictitious experimental data obtained from a reference SOLPS‐ITER solution with artificial measurement noise.

A Chemosensory GPCR as a Potential Target to Control the Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne incognita Parasitism in Plants.

Root-knot nematodes (RKN), from the Meloidogyne genus, have a worldwide distribution and cause severe economic damage to many life-sustaining crops. Because of their lack of specificity and danger to the environment, most chemical nematicides have been banned from use. Thus, there is a great need for new and safe compounds to control RKN. Such research involves identifying beforehand the nematode proteins essential to the invasion. Since G protein-coupled receptors GPCRs are the target of a large number of drugs, we have focused our research on the identification of putative nematode GPCRs such as those capable of controlling the movement of the parasite towards (or within) its host. A datamining procedure applied to the genome of Meloidogyne incognita allowed us to identify a GPCR, belonging to the neuropeptide GPCR family that can serve as a target to carry out a virtual screening campaign. We reconstructed a 3D model of this receptor by homology modeling and validated it through extensive molecular dynamics simulations. This model was used for large scale molecular dockings which produced a filtered limited set of putative antagonists for this GPCR. Preliminary experiments using these selected molecules allowed the identification of an active compound, namely C260-2124, from the ChemDiv provider, which can serve as a starting point for further investigations.

Controlled and Secure Access to Promote the Industrial Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) aims at facilitating access to all devices that are connected to the internet, both wired and wireless. This scenario can initially seem interesting. Nevertheless, it has a lack of privacy and danger of malicious interaction with the devices. Therefore, IoT, as it stands, is not suitable for companies to make their data and devices accessible through the internet, since they could find an untidy cloud, made up of devices without the necessary control of use. This paper proposes the use of the cloud computing advantages to develop a secure access global system based on a cloud. The company will decide the controlled access to the chosen devices and data, both by employees and external people. The developed system can be used from different scenarios such as: a public cloud; an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); and a private cloud. To illustrate the operation of the developed system, a representative network of heterogeneous multiprotocol devices has been designed.

Odpowiedzialność karna a brak zagrożenia dla dobra prawnego przy przestępstwach abstrakcyjnego narażenia na niebezpieczeństwo

Na niniejszy tekst składają się rozważania o zakresie odpowiedzialności karnej w ramach przestępstw abstrakcyjnego narażenia na niebezpieczeństwo. Celem przeprowadzonej analizy jest próba zarysowania możliwości uzasadnienia ograniczenia odpowiedzialności karnej za wskazany typ przestępstw przez uwzględnienie tzw. przeciwdowodu braku zagrożenia. Rozważania skupiły się na relacji przeciwdowodu z konstrukcją normy prawnej, a także na problemie legitymacji prawnokarnej, definicji abstrakcyjnego narażenia i przedmiotu ochrony w odniesieniu do reguł wykładni prawa karnego.

Using the Electronic Medical Record to Better Define “No Products of Conception” as a Critical Value in Anatomic Pathology

At present, the College of American Pathologists checklist requires documentation of communication of critical values in anatomic pathology to caregivers. Recently, our institution has begun using the electronic medical record to document the lack of imminent danger or emergency associated with the case rather than calling the caregiver. I sought to document this trend. The results of all critical values and all endometrial curettings with a diagnosis of "no products of conception seen" for the last 3 years at 1 hospital were reviewed. During the first 18 months, 0 of 11 critical cases were documented by reference to the electronic medical record. During the second 18 months 5 of 14 cases (36%; P = .02) were documented to have an intrauterine pregnancy by ultrasound and the physician was not notified. In our laboratory, cases without products of conception and a documented intrauterine pregnancy are no longer considered critical values in anatomic pathology. Documentation of the lack of imminent danger to the patient through reference to the electronic medical record is an increasingly common and acceptable means of ensuring patient safety and more accurately defining critical values in anatomic pathology.

Sekuritologie v procesu stávání se vědou

Some people even claim that in recent times there has been a debate flared up over the alleged need to establish a new scientific direction. Because the critics of securitology as a science derive from the Masaryk University in Brno [Zdeněk KŘÍŽ, Miroslav MAREŠ, Petr SUCHÝ Securitology: Pseudoscience, no Metascience. "DEFENCE & STRATEGY" 2/2007, p. 117-124.], and at the same time securitology has its representatives. Therefore, it is justified to present the subject and methodology of the science (sciences) of security in the Journal DEFENCE & STRATEGY. This paper covers: 1. historical premises and justification of the science (sciences) of security, 2. justification of the subject of research in relation to dimensions (levels) of the researched object, 3. security as the lack of danger and security as a function of various factors, 4. sources and kinds of dangers, 5. security as an objective and/or subjective condition, 6. methodological foundations of the science (sciences) of security, 7. the source of the notion securitology.

NOTES Transvaginal Cholecystectomy: Report of the First Case

Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery is a new development area with potential advantages for patients. However, technical and ethical challenges involved in perforation and closure of a healthy organ, as seen in transgastric access, and lack of comprehension of physiopathology of these approaches haven't allowed clinical application. The present study, based on previous animal experiments, describes the first clinical application of transvaginal Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery. On March 13, 2007, a 43-year-old female patient with symptomatic cholelithiasis with surgical indication was submitted to elective Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery transvaginal cholecystectomy using a colonoscope, endoscopic graspers, and vaginal platform instruments. Operative time was 66 minutes, and vaginal access and closure were obtained in 15 minutes. The patient had good postoperative evolution and was dismissed within 48 hours without complications. Recent literature and experience of the present study group suggest possibilities for preliminary clinical applications by transvaginal natural orifice surgery. The access may offer earlier benefits in the literature than the transgastric route because of lack of danger of fistula and peritonitis. Further studies regarding instrument development and physiology of natural orifice surgery are ongoing, possibly bringing solutions for more advanced procedures.

2006 Distinguished Scientist Lecture—Insights Provided by Framingham Population Research

The Framingham Study established the utility of population-based research for seeking out correctable predisposing conditions for cardiovascular disease (CVD), putting prevention at the forefront of cardiology. It established the risk factor concept of CVD evolution, recognizing that there is no single cause that is essential or sufficient by itself for CVD occurrence. It demonstrated the importance of distinguishing between usual (average) and optimal risk factor levels. It corrected clinical misconceptions about vascular disease, including: the hazard of atrial fibrillation; the relevance of diabetes as a macrovascular threat; the significance of left ventricular hypertrophy and small amounts of proteinuria; and the role of obesity, weight gain, and physical activity. Framingham investigation dispelled the concept of “benign essential hypertension” and the greater importance of diastolic blood pressure. It determined the full clinical spectrum of CVD, including sudden death, and silent coronary, stroke, and peripheral artery disease. The study determined CVD population incidence at a time when only mortality statistics were available, and now the lifetime risk. It quantified the hazard of a family history of CVD based on observations on parents and their offspring. The study provided insights on mechanisms of atherogenesis, including: LDL and HDL dyslipidemia, obesity-induced clustering of CVD risk factors, and smoking as a trigger for coronary attacks. It warned in 1985 of the lack of efficacy and danger of estrogen replacement for preventing CVD. The Framingham Study devised CVD risk profiles enabling physicians to pull together risk factor information to assess the global risk of heart attacks, failure, strokes, and peripheral artery disease. Findings of the study stimulated pharmaceutical industry development of agents for reducing blood pressure, lipids, glucose, and smoking, as well as trials demonstrating the efficacy of correcting risk factors. It also stimulated national campaigns against smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and obesity.

Motives for and Against Injecting Drug Use Among Young Adults in Amsterdam: Qualitative Findings and Considerations for Disease Prevention

To elucidate injection initiation and risky injection practices among young drug users (YDUs) in Amsterdam, this study identifies self-reported motives for injecting and not injecting to inform interventions to be targeted at issues personally relevant for this population. A qualitative study was performed using in-depth interviews to obtain retrospective drug use histories. Recruitment took place both directly (by street outreach, outreach at methadone outposts) and indirectly (by respondent-driven sampling). The study started in the year 2001 and included 50 YDUs, aged 18–30, of which 18 had a history of injecting. Reasons for not starting injection were fears of needles, overstepping a limit, damage to appearance, fears of missing veins and causing abscesses, and illnesses. Reasons for starting injection were stronger effect or rush, curiosity, economy, knowing injectors, and perceived lack of danger to health. Motives for injecting and not injecting can differ widely individually. Some strong motives are hardly addressed by prevention programs and should inform new prevention initiatives. Users’ own motives for not injecting should be promoted, whereas their motives for initiation should be counter-balanced with factual information.

Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives: Scale Structure and Higher-Order Modifiers

This paper studies a distinction that was proposed in previous works between total and partial adjectives. In pairs of adjectives such as safe–dangerous, clean–dirty and healthy–sick, the first (“total”) adjective describes lack of danger, dirt, malady, etc., while the second (“partial”) adjective describes the existence of such properties. It is shown that the semantics of adjective phrases with modifiers such as almost, slightly, and completely is sensitive to whether the adjective is total or partial. The interpretation of such modified constructions is accounted for using a novel scale structure for total and partial adjectives. It is proposed that the standard value of a total adjective is always fixed as the lower bound of the corresponding partial adjective. By contrast, the standard value of partial adjectives can take any point on the partial scale. The effects of this theoretical distinction on the behavior of modified constructions are studied in detail, and their ramifications for the semantic theory of adjectives are discussed. Some other phenomena are surveyed that show evidence for total and partial adjectival constructions with various comparatives and exceptive phrases.

Staging Methods, Cinematic Technique, and Spatial Politics

Spatial Politics. Toward the middle of The Girl of the Golden West (Cecil B. DeMille, 1915), the Girl enters a restaurant, buys food, goes home and, with the help of her Indian maid, prepares to entertain Ramerrez, the outlaw whom she takes to be a gentleman. The film cuts between this narrative and various outdoor locations: Ramerrez's Mexican outlaws, the sheriff's men reaching the Girl's saloon, Ramerrez arriving at the Girl's cabin. Such crosscutting is not confusing or disruptive, but it is nonetheless obtrusive enough to be noticeable; and because the causality among the different locales remains obscure, there is no tension among them. Crosscutting here does not juxtapose, produce alterity, and encourage the spectator to draw a moral conclusion, as Griffith's Biograph films often did, but instead assembles different spaces and allows the spectator to travel leisurely among them.' And since the Girl is not confined to her domestic space but acts as a consumer, the film does not juxtapose outside and inside spaces, casting female domesticity against male outdoor heroism, but instead seems to combine domestic melodrama and western adventure without conflict. The lack of moral juxtaposition and conflict, indeed the relative lack of danger, all allow for a spectatorial mobility that may well be read in social terms. Crosscutting here enables a social space in which different genders, ethnicities, moral outlooks, ways of living can come together without impinging on each other. The spectator is free to engage in some or all of them, yet never has to feel threatened. Another reading would stress how this sequence epitomizes what we may call the fundamental contradiction of crosscutting: that it always seems to be in the service of narrative while simultaneously also defying it. David Bordwell has argued that crosscutting constitutes a discreet narration [that] oversees time, making it subordinate to causality, while the spectator follows the causal thread. Rick Altman, on the other hand, contends that crosscutting is a legacy from stage melodramas and defies classical narrative in that it produces episodic construction. Tom Gunning, who sees crosscutting as a crucial aesthetic component that helped stabilize the emerging film industry and woo a middle-class audience, asserts that crosscutting nonetheless moves both toward the invisible editing of

Democracy and the Individual

The mere combination of the names of John Dewey and Friedrich Nietzsche in the title of an essay might offend some readers. Many of the scholars of American pragmatism I have met view Nietzsche as just one more of those Continental, postmodern philosophers whose work, while perhaps stylish and currently en vogue, contributes little of value to philosophy because the issues with which they concern themselves in no way connect with the lives of the most people. The reaction of many scholars of Continental philosophy I know to American pragmatism has been to dismiss it as concerned only with utility narrowly conceived, e.g., with the usefulness of an idea for making money, ensuring that parking places are available at work, securing good health care, etc.1 I do not want to suggest that members of the two philosophical camps are always or necessarily antagonistic toward one other-certainly there are some who find the intersection of Continental philosophy and American pragmatism to be fruitful.2 Nonetheless, the relationship between scholars of American pragmatism and Continental philosophy is often cool, if not, at times, openly hostile. Thus to claim, as I will here, that Dewey and Nietzsche have much in common and, furthermore, that the work of Dewey continues and perhaps even improves upon that of Nietzsche probably seems at best provocative, at worst ridiculous.3 After all, the principal aim of Dewey's work seems to be to support and promote everything Nietzsche abhorred: a humanistic, liberal democracy that has the goal of helping humans find ways to eliminate suffering in their lives. As an acquaintance at a recent meeting of the APA remarked, connecting Nietzsche and American pragmatist William James might be plausible, but not Nietzsche and Dewey. A friend and Nietzsche scholar even went so far as to claim that Dewey's pragmatist is Nietzsche's Indeed, with only a glance, Dewey's program of pragmatic democracy does appear much like that of the described by Nietzsche in Beyond Good And Evil and the last, or ultimate, man described by Zarathustra: These falsely so-called spirits--being eloquent and prolifically scribbling slaves of the democratic taste and its modern ideas; they are all human beings without solitude.... What they would like to strive for with all their powers is the universal green-pasture happiness of the herd, with security, lack of danger, comfort, and an easier life for everyone. . .4 The earth has become small, and upon it hops the Ultimate Man, who makes everything small. ... We have discovered happiness, say the Ultimate Men and blink. They have left the places where living was hard: for one needs warmth.... They still quarrel, but they soon make up otherwise indigestion would result.5 The levelers and last men are primarily characterized by their inability to overcome themselves. They shun the danger, pain and turmoil of the sacrifice of themselves that is necessary for the birth of the Ubermensch. They are not strong enough to produce greatness out of themselves, and so they make out of their weakness and call rest, peace, and security humanity's ultimate happiness.6 If it is true that Dewey's pragmatism excludes self-transformation and extols the virtues of uninterrupted calmness and security, then Dewey indeed offers the democratic ideals of the last man. However, as we will see, Dewey's pragmatist is much closer to Nietzsche's free spirit than to the last man, and Dewey's promotion of democracy need not obscure this connection. The democracy that Nietzsche rejects is not the same democracy that Dewey endorses.7 Dewey's democratic pragmatism is characterized by what Dewey calls reconstruction, and reconstruction, particularly as applied to the self, is a type of selftransformation remarkably similar to the selfovercoming described by Nietzsche.8 My exploration of the connections between Nietzsche and Dewey will be composed of the following four parts. …

A simplified method for the internal fixation of fractures of the mandibular condyle

The morbidity following conservative management of fracture dislocations of the mandibular condyle is considered, and the theoretical advantages of open reduction discussed. The various methods described in the past are reviewed and a new technique is described whereby a Kirschner wire is drilled into the condylar fragment and then inlaid into the ramus. Advantages over previous methods include easy manipulation of the fragment and lack of danger to the facial nerve.

TREATMENT OF PSORIASIS

In 1925, I published an article 1 on the treatment for psoriasis by an ointment of crude coal tar and ultraviolet light. This treatment has given far better results than any method I have ever used. The advantages that I claimed for this treatment were its uniform effectiveness, its lack of danger and even untoward symptoms, its nondestructive character, its accessibility and its comparative cheapness. Further experience justifies these claims, and in some respects establishes the method as being unique in its therapeutic results. DEVELOPMENT OF THE METHOD OF TREATMENT It has long been known that most patients with psoriasis are better in summer than in winter, that a sojourn in a locality with much sunshine is beneficial, and that sunbaths alone will clear up some attacks. Therefore, it was argued that if it were possible to sensitize the patches artificially, the response to light should be more