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The History of Medical Ethics in India

The History of Medical Ethics in India

Long-term Recovery from Addiction and Underlying Psychological Issues using Expressive Writing as a Potent Tool

This article follows a recently published book, titled: Effective use of Creative Writing in the Treatment of Chemical Addiction (Kreuter, 2021 – Nova Science Publishers). In that book, the writing of over sixty men in recovery from addiction express their feelings, thoughts, inspirations, and creative works all geared towards their long-term recovery. This article features work of men and women in both short-term recovery (28-day and 90-day settings, as well as beyond the dates of completion of their respective rehabilitation programs. Through ongoing weekly creative writing workshops, the alumni of Kreuter’s work at St. Christopher’s and Kreuter and Gilligan’s work at Resource Recovery of Orange County, deeper writing demonstrates the effectiveness of the therapeutic device referred to as creative writing. As case studies herein demonstrate, use of creative exposition guided by topical prompts and the offering of therapeutic insight yielded significant benefits to those who suffer from traumatic incident(s) in their lives. Through the writing of stories and letters, writers who came to the drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for chemical abuse are impacted in a healthy way through the attenuation of, at least, part, of their deeply repressed angst over the trauma. In theory, they may have a much easier time completing their recovery program and continuing their active lives with less risk of relapse because of the work they did on the underlying psychological condition. The use of profanity in some of the writings is purposefully left uncensored out of respect for the authors and has been found that such use signifies sincerity on the point of the writer. Use of language is a frequent topic in rehabilitation.

How to Avoid another Derivative Crisis: Risk management for emerging markets

The losses reported by companies and financial institutions caused enormous alarm and concern in society, as well as debate and confusion on the appropriate use of derivatives instruments. Were derivatives responsible for these losses or was it simply their poor management? The fact is that while derivatives securities can effectively control and hedge financial risks, their uncontrolled use can be very dangerous. The chapter “Derivative Products in Emerging Markets and Prudential Regulations”, included in the monography Emerging Markets: Recent Developments, Challenges and Future Prospects (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 2018), examined the recent changes observed in derivatives trading in emerging markets, such as Mexico. In my experience as a practitioner and researcher of risk management and derivative products, I analyze the main obstacles to the adequate use of these instruments and offer practical recommendations for the use of efficient operational platforms, rigorous regulations and effective surveillance to discourage delinquencies and rogue trading within the financial service industry.

Assessing the impact of the adoption of agroforestry technology on food production and poverty reduction among farming households in Oyo State, Nigeria

Assessing the impact of the adoption of agroforestry technology on food production and poverty reduction among farming households in Oyo State, Nigeria

Studyholism Inventory (SI-10): A Short Instrument for Evaluating Study Obsession Within the Heavy Study Investment Framework.

Loscalzo and Giannini (Loscalzo, Y., & Giannini, M. [2017]. Studyholism or Study Addiction? A comprehensive model for a possible new clinical condition. In A. M. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in psychological research, (Vol. 125, pp. 19-37). Hauppauge, NY, USA: Nova Science) recently proposed a theoretical model for a new potential clinical condition: Studyholism, or obsession toward studying. This study aims to analyze the psychometric properties of the instrument that has been created based on their theory, namely the Studyholism Inventory (SI-10). The participants are 1296 Italian college students aged between 19 and 55 years. We analyzed its factor structure, as well as its convergent and divergent validity, and we proposed the cut-off scores of the SI-10. Moreover, we investigated some demographic and study-related differences in studyholism and study engagement and the correlations with academic indicators. The results showed that the SI-10 is a ten-item (2 fillers) and 2-factor instrument (GFI = .98, CFI = .97, RMSEA = .07) with good psychometric properties. The SI-10 could be used in future research to analyze the features and correlates of studyholism, and for both clinical and preventive purposes, pointing to favor students’ well-being and academic success.

Review of Diversity and Complexity, written by Camilla Pagani, Nova Science, 2019.

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Recollections of Pioneers in Xenotransplantation Research Edited by David K. C.Cooper, Nova Medicine and Health, Nova Science Publishers, New York, NY, 2018.

XenotransplantationVolume 26, Issue 1 e12495 BOOK REVIEW Recollections of Pioneers in Xenotransplantation Research Edited by David K. C. Cooper, Nova Medicine and Health, Nova Science Publishers, New York, NY, 2018. Leo H. Buhler, University Hospitals Geneva, SwitzerlandSearch for more papers by this author Leo H. Buhler, University Hospitals Geneva, SwitzerlandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 30 January 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/xen.12495Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume26, Issue1January/February 2019e12495 RelatedInformation

Liquid Fuels as Jet Fuels and Propellants. A Review of their Productions and Applications by Mohammad H. Keshavarz , Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, USA, 2018

<b>Liquid Fuels as Jet Fuels and Propellants. A Review of their Productions and Applications</b> by <i>Mohammad H. Keshavarz</i> , Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, USA, 2018

Recollections of Pioneers in Xenotransplantation Research David K. C. Cooper, ed. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2018. 445 pp.

In Recollections of Pioneers in Xenotransplantation Research,1Cooper DKC Recollections of Pioneers in Xenotransplantation Research. Nova Science Publishers, New York, NY2018Google Scholar Dr. David K. C. Cooper curates a variety of essays that “reminisce” on xenotransplantation from its infancy to the current state of the art. This long view of xenotransplantation is important. It sheds light on the contemporary thinking of experts in the field over the past 60 years. From the initial enthusiasm for Dr. Keith Reemtsma’s chimpanzee xenotransplants in New Orleans to current challenges in porcine genetic modifications, the text illustrates how the tenets of modern xenotransplantation were established. Additionally, it tells the story of xenotransplantation within the broader context of transplantation. In doing so, it reminds the reader of the critical interplay between xeno- and allo-transplantation in advancing our knowledge of the immune system. These essays also tell an important story of the difficulties in funding and maintaining work in a field with such a long time-horizon and myriad challenges. Indeed, Roy Calene’s famous quote is repeated by multiple authors: “Clinical xenotransplantation is just around the corner—but it may be a very long corner.” The dedication of the individuals to the promise of xenotransplantation and their unceasing efforts to secure support are instructive to new scientists embarking upon careers in translational research. Though calling the individuals in these essays “pioneers” is perhaps overstatement—they have yet to reach their destination of clinically relevant xenotransplantation—the history preserved by this volume is worthwhile. Given recent advances in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9) technology and the explosion of work in genetic engineering, Recollections is a timely reflection on a field that is perennially on the cusp of clinical application. The author of this article has no conflicts of interest to disclose as described by the American Journal of Transplantation.

The Market Power of Global Scientific Publishing Companies in the Age of Globalization. An Analysis Based on the OCLC Worldcat

This article evaluates tendencies and trends of the global academic publishing industry, vital for any reasonable long-term publication strategy planning in research. Such analyses are made possible today by the OCLC Worldcat. Our multivariate attempt, combining Worldcat global library circulation figures of publisher companies with results from earlier publisher ranking studies, is based on factor analysis of 32 variables, and our promax factor analytical model establishes that there are eight factors of global publisher impact, explaining almost 86% of total variance: 1. overall global standing of the company 2. company as a factor on the market 3. company impact on the global political and economic debate 4. successfully distributing best-sellers 5. impact on the scholarly community 6. successfully distributing production to more than 50 global Worldcat libraries 7. output during the last 5 years 8. outstanding academic quality Of the 51 companies with complete data under investigation here, the following companies are classified in the upper half: Oxford University Press; Springer; Cambridge University Press; Routledge; World Bank; Princeton University Press; Elsevier; CRC Press; University of Chicago Press; University of California Press; Palgrave Macmillan; MIT Press; Yale University Press; University of North Carolina Press; De Gruyter; Wiley-Blackwell; Kluwer Academic Publishers; University of Pennsylvania Press; Johns Hopkins University Press; Brill; Nova Science Publishers; University of Illinois Press; Duke University Press; University of Washington Press; and Edward Elgar. Scientists, wanting to get global audiences, are well advised to publish with those companies; and journal editors, wanting to get a global distribution for their journals, are equally well advised to cooperate with them.

Pensions: Global Issues, Perspectives and Challenges - A Book Review

The objective of this work is the book “Pensions: Global Issues, Perspectives and Challenges”, 2017, 978-1-53612-467-5, from Nova Science Publishers Series Business Issues, Competition and Entrepreneurship . The editor is Alexandra Webb.

Towards A Society with a More Fair Economy or an Economy with a More Social Face: The Contribution of Scientific Social Knowledge to the Alternative Models of Socioeconomic Development -A Book Review

The objective of this work is the book “Towards a Society with a More Fair Economy or an Economy with a More Social Face: The Contribution of Scientific Social Knowledge to the Alternative Models of Socioeconomic Development”, 978-1-63482-948-9, from Nova Science Publishers Series Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives .

Inhibition of marine biofoulants settlement by new biomimetic coatings

Inhibition of marine biofoulants settlement by new biomimetic coatings

The Market Power of Global Scientific Publishing Companies in the Age of Globalization: An Analysis Based on the &lt;i&gt;OCLC Worldcat&lt;/i&gt;

This article evaluates tendencies and trends of the global academic publishing industry, vital for any reasonable long-term publication strategy planning in research. Such analyses are made possible today by the OCLC Worldcat. Our multivariate attempt, combining Worldcat global library circulation figures of publisher companies with results from earlier publisher ranking studies, is based on factor analysis of 32 variables, and our promax factor analytical model establishes that there are eight factors of global publisher impact, explaining almost 86% of total variance: 1. overall global standing of the company 2. company as a factor on the market 3. company impact on the global political and economic debate 4. successfully distributing best-sellers 5. impact on the scholarly community 6. successfully distributing production to more than 50 global Worldcat libraries 7. output during the last 5 years 8. outstanding academic quality Of the 51 companies with complete data under investigation here, the following companies are classified in the upper half: Oxford University Press; Springer; Cambridge University Press; Routledge; World Bank; Princeton University Press; Elsevier; CRC Press; University of Chicago Press; University of California Press; Palgrave Macmillan; MIT Press; Yale University Press; University of North Carolina Press; De Gruyter; Wiley-Blackwell; Kluwer Academic Publishers; University of Pennsylvania Press; Johns Hopkins University Press; Brill; Nova Science Publishers; University of Illinois Press; Duke University Press; University of Washington Press; and Edward Elgar. Scientists, wanting to get global audiences, are well advised to publish with those companies; and journal editors, wanting to get a global distribution for their journals, are equally well advised to cooperate with them.

Modeling and New Trends in Tourism - A Contribution to Social and Economic Development: A Book Review

The objective of this work is the book “Modeling and New Trends in Tourism: A Contribution to Social and Economic Development”, 978-1-63485-920-2, from Nova Science Publishers Series Hospitality, Tourism and Marketing Studies review, whose Editors are Kostas Rontos, Jose Antonio Filipe and Paris Tsartas. The book is composed of nineteen self-contained chapters.

РОЛЬ НАРУШЕНИЙ РЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ СВОЙСТВ ЭРИТРОЦИТОВ В ПАТОГЕНЕЗЕ ВОСПАЛИТЕЛЬНЫХ ЗАБОЛЕВАНИЙ КИШЕЧНИКА У ДЕТЕЙ

Цель исследования: изучение роли нарушений реологических свойств эритроцитов в патогенезе воспалительных заболеваний кишечника у детей. Материалы и методы. Обследовано 37 детей с воспалительными заболеваниями кишечника (ВЗК): 17 детей с болезнью Крона (БК) и 20 — с язвенным колитом (ЯК). Исследовали деформируемость эритроцитов, спонтанную агрегацию тромбоцитов в искусственном сдвиговом потоке, динамическую вязкость крови, морфологию агрегатов эритроцитов, состояние цитоскелета эритроцитов методом термоиндукции, состояние гемостаза на тромбоэластографе, среднемолекулярные пептиды, сорбционную емкость эритроцитов, связывающую способность альбумина. Результаты. Выявлено, что ВЗК сопровождаются значительным ухудшением гемореологических свойств крови, что является важным фактором патогенеза этих заболеваний и лежит в основе нарушений микроциркуляции при ВЗК. Установлено, что при БК нарушения большинства исследованных показателей не только существеннее, чем при ЯК, но и стабильнее — они сохраняются даже после проведенного лечения. Также как и реологические нарушения, эндогенная интоксикация сохраняется при БК и после проведенного лечения. Заключение. Нарушения реологических свойств крови являются важным фактором, обуславливающим ишемические повреждения кишечника. Это дает основание рекомендовать использование при ВЗК адъювантных методов борьбы с гипоксией и нарушениями микроциркуляции. Aim: to study the role of disturbances in erythrocytes rheological properties in pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) in children. Materials and methods. The study included 37 patients with IBD: 17 with Crohn’s disease (CD) and 20 with ulcerative colitis (UC). Erythrocyte deformability, spontaneous platelet aggregation, dynamical blood viscosity, morphology of erythrocyte aggregates, the state of erythrocyte cytoskeleton by thermoinduction method, hemostasis state by thromboelastograph, medium molecular peptides, erythrocyte sorption capacity, binding ability of albumin were researched. Results. We revealed that IBD accompanied by a significant degradation of blood hemorheological properties. It is an important factor in the pathogenesis of these diseases and is at the core of microcirculation disorders at IBD. It was found that at CD disorders the majority of studied parameters were not only more significant than in UC, but they also remained much more stable even after the treatment. At CD endogenous intoxication as well as rheological disorders persisted after treatment. Conclusion. Disorders of blood rheological properties are an important factor causing ischemic damage of the intestine. This gives reason for recommending the use of adjuvant methods to reduce hypoxia and microcirculatory disturbances at IBD.

Hamilton-Jacobi theory in multisymplectic classical field theories

The geometric framework for the Hamilton-Jacobi theory developed in the studies of Cariñena et al. [Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 3(7), 1417–1458 (2006)], Cariñena et al. [Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 13(2), 1650017 (2015)], and de León et al. [Variations, Geometry and Physics (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2009)] is extended for multisymplectic first-order classical field theories. The Hamilton-Jacobi problem is stated for the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian formalisms of these theories as a particular case of a more general problem, and the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation for field theories is recovered from this geometrical setting. Particular and complete solutions to these problems are defined and characterized in several equivalent ways in both formalisms, and the equivalence between them is proved. The use of distributions in jet bundles that represent the solutions to the field equations is the fundamental tool in this formulation. Some examples are analyzed and, in particular, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for non-autonomous mechanical systems is obtained as a special case of our results.

Review of 'Temporal Love. Temporality and Romantic Relationships' by Mira Moshe, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2016

Moshe’s book entitled Temporal Love. Temporality and Romantic Relationships deals with a classical but fashionable part of sociological studies, namely the sociology of emotions. As the third in a series dealing with this challenging topic, the book is a valid proof for Moshe’s interest in how emotions develop and influence various aspects of people’s lives. In an era which “enables us to perceive different time dimensions simultaneously” (p. vii), the author aims at addressing the role of time in shaping both people’s ideas about romantic relationships and the relationships themselves.

Die Buchpublikationen der Nobelpreis-Ökonomen und die führenden Buchverlage der Disziplin. Eine bibliometrische Analyse

Zusammenfassung Rezente Beiträge in der wachsenden Disziplin der Szientometrie und Bibliometrie haben begonnen, nicht nur den „Impact“ der Veröffentlichungen in Fachzeitschriften, sondern auch von Büchern zu studieren. Diese Methode kann auf einzelne Autoren oder sogar auf den „Impact“ eines gesamten Verlags-Unternehmens angewendet werden. In unserem Aufsatz analysieren wir die Publikationsmuster der Nobelpreisträger für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 1994–2014. Mehr als 50% der besten und zweithäufigsten global vertretenen Buchpublikationen dieser Autorinnen und Autoren geschahen bei nur 8 Verlagen, die alle durch ihre strenge Peer-Review bekannt sind. Wir diskutieren dann die bisherigen Rankings der Verlage in der Literatur, und präsentieren dann unseren eigenen multivariaten Versuch, der folgende Dimensionen kombiniert: – Die Veröffentlichung der Ergebnisse der Wissenschaft, – Zitate und Ranking in der akademischen Gemeinschaft, – Marktdurchdringung in zwei typischen westlichen Industrieländern, – Die Beachtung der veröffentlichten Bücher durch internationale Entscheidungsträger, – Marktdurchdringung in Entwicklungsländern, – Beachtung in den internationalen Medien. Die 6 Indikatoren für die 57 Unternehmen mit vollständigen Daten werden präsentiert und die Ergebnisse vorgestellt.

The self-systems: facilitating personal well-being experiences at school

The focus of inquiry pertaining to quality learning and student well-being experiences at school has involved numerous studies, utilizing complex quantitative methodological approaches. In a similar vein, for consideration of research advancement, there has been extensive progress made regarding motivational tenets of effective learning and enriched schooling experiences. We recently developed a model of student learning and school experiences (Phan in Progress in Education, vol 33. Nova Science Publishing, New York, pp 101–121, 2015; Phan and Ngu in Int J Pedag Curric 22(4):1–19, 2015a), detailing a number of personal, cognitive, motivational, and emotional components for validation and implementation. The present study, situated within the self-systems framework, explored the central roles and differential influences of three major components on adaptive outcomes: emotional well-being, daily functioning, and relating to others. Structural equation modelling analyses of 258 year 8 secondary school students produced some notable evidence for potential educational-social practices: (1) the positive influences of self-esteem on daily functioning and motivation towards schooling and learning, (2) the inverse association between self-efficacy and emotional well-being, and (3) the positive influences of relating to others on motivation towards schooling and learning, and liking for school. We also noted, however, some unexpected and inconclusive findings for discussion—for example, the negative influence of daily functioning on motivation towards schooling and learning.