Presence Of References Research Articles

The Byzantine Embassy to Himyar (c. 356 AD) and the introduction of Christianity in South Arabia

Most modern researchers point out that a clear pattern of monotheistic religion began to appear in South Arabia since the middle of the fourth century. While these researchers count on the overwhelming influence of Judaism, they marginalize any influence of Christianity despite the presence of references in literary sources confirming the coincidence of this pattern with the first missionary embassy sent by the largest Christian empire at the time, the Byzantine Empire, to the kingdom of Himyar (c. 356 AD). These researchers are based on the absence of any explicit reference to Christianity in the epigraphic evidence. Hence, this research aims to re-approach this issue through the only source account of this mission, which was recorded by the ecclesiastical historian Philostorgius, and linking it to evidence from other literary sources, whether Byzantine or Eastern Christianity, which may support it.

Online information on medical cannabis is not always aligned with scientific evidence and may raise unrealistic expectations

BackgroundThere is a growing literature on the potential medical uses of Cannabis sativa and cannabinoid compounds. Although these have only been approved by regulatory agencies for a few indications, there is a hype about their possible benefits in a variety of conditions and a large market in the wellness industry. As in many cases patients search for information on cannabis products online, we have analyzed the information on medical cannabis available on the Internet. Therefore, this study aims at assessing the quality of the information available online on medical cannabis.MethodsWe searched “medical cannabis” on June 2019 using google.com and downloaded the first 243 websites. After excluding dead links or websites with no information about cannabis, 176 websites were included. They were then classified for their typology (e.g., commercial, government, news outlets). As an indicator of trustworthiness, we used the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) score, which assesses the indication of date, author, ownership of the website, and the presence of references. We also considered if a website is certified by Health-On-the-Net (HON), an independent organization, by displaying a HONCode symbol. Subsequently, we performed a content analysis to assess both the medical cannabis indications mentioned by webpages and the completeness of the information provided (whether they mentioned potential side effects and legal/regulatory issues or not).ResultsAnalyzing 176 webpages returned by a search engine, we found that 52% of them were news websites. Pain, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis were the most frequently mentioned therapeutic areas (cited in 92, 84 and 80 webpages, respectively), which did not always match those for which there is regulatory approval. Information was also incomplete, with only 22% of the webpages mentioning potential side effects. Health portal websites provided the most complete information, with all of them (n = 7) reporting side effects. On average, 80% of webpages had a neutral stance on the potential benefits of medical cannabis, with commercial websites having more frequently a positive stance (67%).ConclusionsWe conclude that the information that can be found online is not always aligned in terms of the therapeutic areas for which science-based evidence is often still weak.

References to jurisprudence of foreign constitutional courts in judgments and decisions of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland

In its jurisprudence, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland often uses the comparative law method. For it, comparative material is not only the normative acts in force in other countries, but also foreign jurisprudence. This article presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative study of the judgments of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in terms of the presence of references to the judgments of other constitutional courts. Reference by the Tribunal to foreign constitutional jurisprudence is a relatively rare practice, but not an occasional one. It was intensified after Poland’s accession to the European Union. Although the main point of reference for the Tribunal in its comparative analysis is still the jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional Court and constitutional courts of other Western countries, it also increasingly frequently reaches to the judgments of the constitutional courts of Central European and Baltic countries. The subject issue is part of the progressive process of the so-called transnational judicial discourse or judicial globalization. The reluctance of the Tribunal to reach in its rulings to judgments of foreign constitutional courts, which has been observed since 2017, may be the beginning of its assumption of an exceptionalistic attitude similar to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Cultural Heritage of Judaism in the Poetry of Anna Frajlich

Abstract Evidence of the presence of references to Jewish culture in Anna Frajlich's work can be found in many of her poems. However, the connection with Judaism is most strongly verbalized in her poetic cycle “Wiersze izraelskie” [Israel poems], included in Ogrodem i ogrodzeniem [Garden and fence, 1993], Frajlich's first volume of poems to be published in Poland. The cycle was created during the author's visit to Eretz Israel in 1991. The cycle is comprised of seven parts, each with its own title, which differ in terms of subject matter, style, and genre. Poems range from a poetic picture to a lyrical joke. The poetic cycle opens with the poem “Na pustyni” [In the desert], followed by three lyrical poems that focus on the capital of the state of Israel—“Jerozolima” [Jerusalem], “Sala dziecięca w muzeum męczeństwa Yad Vashem w Jerozolimie” [The children's hall in the museum of martyrdom Yad Vashem in Jerusalem], and “Jeszcze o Jerozolimie” [Another on Jerusalem], and closes with another sequence of three parts: “Do przyjaciela w Haifie” [To a friend in Haifa'], “Z piosenką tą” [With that/this song'], and “Cezarea” [Caesarea]. The order of the poems signals the fundamental role played by the topographic and geographic dimensions of this poetry, which as a result becomes a diary of the lyric persona's travels from the south to the north (in the context of both place and time).

The Authorship of al-Risāla l-Ǧāmiʿa Re-Examined

Abstract Rasāʾil Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ and its summary, al-Risāla l-Ǧāmiʿa, are commonly attributed to the same authors. The strongest argument for this is the presence of references from the former to the latter. The aim of the present article is to analyze all of these references to establish their import for the theory of common authorship. When the fourteen references in the Beirut edition are compared with the oldest manuscripts, the result is that only six of these references appear in the latter, and even among these two are highly ambiguous. The only references from Rasāʾil Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ to al-Risāla l-Ǧāmiʿa unambiguously confirmed by the oldest manuscripts are the four references in version B of epistle 52, which is itself of dubious authenticity. Since all or most of the references outside epistle 52 are then clearly later interpolations, the conclusion is that the references in Rasāʾil Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ do not support the theory of common authorship.

Municipal Procedural Rules and Their Types

The paper analyzes the concept of municipal procedural norms. The author justifiably notes that the municipal procedural norm contains all the features of a legal norm and defines the procedure for ensuring the material powers of local self-government subjects. According to the author, municipal procedural norms are contained in the legislation at the federal and regional levels, as well as in municipal legal acts. The variety of identified municipal procedural norms allows us to distinguish three of their types. The first type of norms includes procedural norms that describe the sequential actions necessary to ensure that local self-government entities exercise their powers. The second type of municipal procedural norms is characterized by the presence of references to other normative legal acts. The third type is made up of municipal procedural norms, which only name specific actions necessary for the implementation of their powers by local self-government entities. Due to the large number of municipal legal acts containing procedural norms, it is proposed to codify them, as well as to introduce a new type of municipal legal acts into the system — the municipal procedural code. This codified act could structurally consist of two parts — general and special. In the general part of the municipal procedural code, it is advisable to include municipal procedural norms that establish general procedures for ensuring the implementation of all available material powers of local self-government bodies and other local self-government entities. In the special par, it would be necessary to fix the norms that ensure the specifics of the implementation of each material authority of the subject of local self-government to resolve issues of local significance. This approach to the systematization of procedural norms will significantly reduce the number of municipal procedural acts and duplication of procedural norms, thereby ensuring more effective law enforcement activities of local self-government bodies.

Gender and ethnic differences in publication of BMJ letters to the editor: an observational study using machine learning

ObjectivesTo analyse the relationship between first author’s gender and ethnicity (estimated from first name and surname), and chance of publication of rapid responses in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). To...

The Vocabulary Richness of Children’s Television in Ireland: A Cross-generational Comparison

This research investigates whether the vocabulary richness of children’s programming has changed over one generation, and therefore compares the programmes offered in 1992 to those offered in 2017. Three hours of programming were sourced, transcribed and coded using the Computerised Language Analysis (CLAN) software (MacWhinney, 1984). CLAN is a language analysis software originally developed for the purpose of analysing child language which allows for the detailed transcription and analysis of linguistic data, including statistical measures of lexical diversity (Pye & MacWhinney, 1994).
 The total words, words per minute, vocabulary diversity, total object, action, attribute and affective-state words as well as the total object, action, attribute and affective-state words spoken in the presence of a referent were calculated and compared for the programming.
 The vocabulary richness of children’s television has decreased over time. The number of words spoken in the presence of referents in the programming has increased over time, with this increase being significant for action and attribute words. This pattern of findings reflects a trend in children’s television towards the production of programmes of reduced lexical complexity which may facilitate children’s word learning.

When birds and sias fly: A neural indicator of inferring a word meaning in context

Inference generation is a crucial skill in language comprehension. Recent research suggests that readers use both the contents from prior written text and their background knowledge, stored in long-term memory, to generate predictive inferences about what will come up next in a sentence. We recorded Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) to examine the reader's ability to make online inferences even in the presence of pseudowords (orthographically legal, but meaningless letter strings), that is, in the presence of referents with no a priori match to vocabulary stored knowledge. As expected, a large and sustained negativity (250–900ms) was elicited by the target word ‘fly’ when preceded by the pseudoword ‘Sias’ in the sentence ‘Sias fly.’ relative to when preceded by ‘Birds’ in the sentence ‘Birds fly’. However, when readers were provided with an initial statement inviting to make an inference: ‘Sias have wings’, the word ‘fly’ in ‘Sias fly’ only elicited a negative voltage deflection over 100ms period (250–350), rapidly falling down to baseline. This result indicates that participants rapidly generated online inferences even with a hindered access to a referent's meaning (i.e. not knowing what ‘Sias’ are). Remarkably, brainwave traces to the access to a word's meaning in long-term memory (access to a well-known fact such as ‘Birds fly’) only diverged from ERPs for an inferred-from-reading knowledge (‘Sias fly’) for 100ms. We conclude that a fundamental search for across sentence coherence drives fast inference making processes in reading tasks. This pattern of brain response is critical to understand the rapid acquisition of new vocabulary when learning first and second languages.

Evaluation of Diet-Related Infographics on Pinterest for Use of Behavior Change Theories: A Content Analysis.

BackgroundThere is increasing interest in Pinterest as a method of disseminating health information. However, it is unclear whether the health information promoted on Pinterest is evidence-based or incorporates behavior change theory.ObjectivesThe objective of the study was to determine the presence of health behavior theory (HBT) constructs in pins found on Pinterest and assess the relationship between various pin characteristics and the likelihood of inclusion of HBT.MethodsA content analysis was conducted on pins collected from Pinterest identified with the search terms “nutrition infographic” and “healthy eating infographic.” The coding rubric included HBT constructs, pin characteristics, and visual communication tools. Each HBT construct was coded as present or not present (yes=1, no=0). A total theory score was calculated by summing the values for each of the 9 constructs (range 0-9). Adjusted regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with the inclusion of health behavior change theory in pins (P<.05).ResultsThe mean total theory score was 2.03 (SD 1.2). Perceived benefits were present most often (170/236, 72%), followed by behavioral capability (123/238, 51.7%) and perceived severity (79/236, 33.5%). The construct that appeared the least was self-regulation/self-control (2/237, 0.8%). Pin characteristics associated with the inclusion of HBT included a large amount of text (P=.01), photographs of real people (P=.001), cartoon pictures of food (P=.01), and the presence of references (P=.001). The number of repins (P=.04), likes (P=.01), and comments (P=.01) were positively associated with the inclusion of HBT.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that current Pinterest infographics targeting healthy eating contain few HBT elements. Health professionals and organizations should create and disseminate infographics that contain more elements of HBT to better influence healthy eating behavior. This may be accomplished by creating pins that use both text and images of people and food in order to portray elements of HBT and convey nutritional information.

Comparing the roles of referents and event structures in parsing preferences

Recent work has shown that potentially reciprocal verbs are interpreted reciprocally when their subjects are complex reference objects (plural referents that incorporate multiple referents), but transitively when their subjects are undifferentiated plural sets. Four self-paced reading experiments investigated why this is the case. The experiments contrasted the hypothesis that the parser's behaviour is driven by the complexity or specificity of potential event structures with the hypothesis that what matters is simply the availability of multiple referents. First we replicated Patson & Ferreira's Experiment 1 with self-paced reading, and then in three studies we manipulated the conjuncts within a conjoined noun phrase (NP) subject (e.g. the men and the women vs. the man and the women) in order to vary event structures. The results indicated that potentially reciprocal verbs were interpreted as reciprocal with any conjoined subject, regardless of what type of NPs comprised it. This suggests that the parser is sensitive specifically to the presence of referents, not to the relative complexity or specificity of the event structure that could be built based on those referents. These findings are consistent with Patson and Ferreira's hypothesis that available referents matter because they immediately saturate the thematic roles of reciprocal verbs.

Pricing strategy in the presence of reference prices with thresholds

Reference price models allow for the explicit incorporation of inter-temporal effects of pricing decisions. We introduce a reference price model with thresholds within which there are no reference effects. For frequently purchased items such as groceries, a pricing action in this period may affect demand in this period and in the next period, and reference price models build that effect into an expected price. Previous reference models have been structurally limited to either single-price or cyclical price strategies but not both. The incorporation of thresholds allows for both types of pricing strategies, depending on the specific parameters for the model. We investigate the conditions under which a price cycles and those under which a single price is optimal. We also present propositions for the reduction of the search space to improve computational performance and present results of computational experiments to highlight key results. Understanding the nature of the product demand can help managers develop pricing strategies that maximize their profits.

If Islam is our other, who are ‘we‘?

Since September 11, the Australian media has increasingly represented Muslim Australians as essential outsiders threatening standards and values of the modern liberal democratic polity. This article traces a similar trend in a number of Western European countries, finding a link with backlashes against multiculturalism and a call for a return to putatively universal and absolute values that are being contravened by Muslims. The article also connects both the dehumanising portrayals of Muslims, as enemies of humanity, and the concomitant depiction of Western nations as the embodiment of universal values with Carl Schmitt's theory that, under such circumstances, all constraints on how the enemy is to be treated are rendered nugatory. It argues that US policies regarding torture are consistent with Schmitt's analysis. Drawing on recent literature on the historical and sociological construction of secular forms, the article then asks whether Muslims are regarded as radical enemies because they are a threat to the West's self conception as modern and secular, or whether the conflict is of a religious nature. It concludes by looking at recent political rhetoric and educational policy in Australia to argue that despite the dominant note appearing to be one of secularism, there is a notable presence of references to Christian values, indicating that it is not simply religion per se that is seen as problematic, but Islam in particular.

The Quality of Canadian and U.S. Government Health Documents Remains Unchallenged Until Better Research Can Be Undertaken

A review of:&#x0D; &#x0D; Lambert, Frank. “Assessing the Authoritativeness of Canadian and American Health Documents: A Comparative Analysis Using Informetric Methodologies.” Government Information Quarterly 22.2 (2005): 277-96.&#x0D; &#x0D; Objective - To assess by means of citation analysis whether the public trust afforded health documents published by the Canadian and U.S. governments is appropriate, and to ascertain whether differences in the respective health care systems influence how publications are produced.&#x0D; &#x0D; Design – Comparative study.&#x0D; &#x0D; Setting – The Canadian Depository Service Program (DSP) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) web sites.&#x0D; &#x0D; Subjects – One hundred sixty-six electronic documents sourced from the DSP website, and 284 electronic documents sourced from the DHHS website. &#x0D; &#x0D; Methods – Subjects were randomly selected from repositories offering the most comprehensive collections. Documents with evidence of references to other works used in preparation were separated from those without such characteristics. Data variables were collected from documents with evidence of references. Statistical analysis of the data was undertaken. &#x0D; &#x0D; Main results – Of the respective samples, 89 (53%) from the DSP and 109 (38.4%) from the DHHS contained references. Personal authors were identified in 46 (51.7%) and 63 (58%) of the respective subsets. Handbooks and guidebooks accounted for the largest portion of the DSP subset (29; 32.6%) and government periodicals were the largest constituent of the DHHS subset (41; 37.6%). Scholarly journals were the most common reference type for both the DSP (44%) and the DHHS (58.5%) subsets. The number of references per document was widely dispersed for both subsets; the DSP mean was approximately 64 (SD=114.68) and the DHHS was 73.71 (SD=168.85). Kruskal-Wallis subset analysis of median number of references by document type found differences generalizable to the entire DSP and DHHS populations. Health Canada Reports, handbooks, and guidebooks contained significantly more references than periodical articles or fact sheets. Certain DHSS documents, classified as “other,” contained more references than periodical articles. Canadian documents were more likely to contain references than U.S. documents. Comparison of documents to determine whether one country employs more rigorous citation practices did not produce statistically significant results. U.S. Federal Government documents are more likely to be referenced in other U.S. government health documents, compared to Canadian publications. The presence of references in documents from either country significantly affected likelihood of being cited by web authors. &#x0D; &#x0D; Conclusion – Significant differences in reference use frequencies between DSP and DHHS documents challenges Foskett’s stance that documents of value contain references (Foskett). Use of peer-reviewed scholarly journals for both DSP and DHHS publications was reassuring, suggesting a fairly rigorous publication standard. Reliance of DHHS publications upon federal government documents remains unclear. Referencing of DSP documents, irrespective of reference usage suggests a level of trust towards Canadian government health publications. Web authors appear more comfortable citing referenced DHHS documents. Further study could involve the examination of reference frequency by journal compared against journal impact factors.

A tomada de consciência analisada a partir do conceito de divisão: um estudo de caso

This study aimed to illustrate the grasp of consciousness through the concept of division. A male child, aged 6 years and 4 months, learning the basics of the language at a private school in Recife, was interviewed and requested to represent a problem. A qualitative analysis was carried out observing 5 moments of grasp of consciousness: 1) the absence of consciousness of the totality of all the elements; 2) the consideration of the totality of all elements, without being conscious of the others; 3) the appearance of cognitive conflict as a means to enable the consciousness of the relationship between the terms; 4) resolution of the conflict by a pre-existing cognitive scheme - the absence of consciousness of the rest; 5) the representation of the term rest, without the consciousness of its relationship with the others. The results showed the building of different degrees of grasp of consciousness of division, enabled by the examineris interventions and by the presence of referents in this statement, beyond the reach of the grasp of consciousness.

Ilcomentumdi Benvenuto da Imola e gli ungheresi

The Author provides a survey on the presence of references to Hungary and Hungarians in Benvenuto da Imola's commentary on Dante's work. These references were used until now as indications for the dating - Szörényi shows several elements that refer to Louis I, the Great's military campain against Naples. Of course, Benvenuto's information about Hungary does not seem very rich.

Perceived colour differences in displayed colours Part 2: spatial differences in soft copy imaging

This paper follows and extends previously reported investigations into the ability of observers to match surface colour samples by synthesis using red, green and blue stimuli provided by a cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor, controlled by a computer and adjusted by either an observer or the experimenter. Investigations are described into the ability of observers to perceive small colour perturbations applied to a colour patch, in the simultaneous presence of a reference and five other closely related patches, all the patches being displayed on a CRT computer display. Consistency is found between results obtained by different sets of observers at three locations, using local equipment for display. The results obtained are found to indicate sensitivities to perturbations that depend on the hue and chroma of the reference, and the hue direction perturbations. The surround to the colour patches is shown significantly to influence the sensitivity of observers to the perturbations, and this finding is related to predictions made using a colour appearance model. The data obtained are fitted by the observer response model hitherto successfully employed by the authors in previously reported investigations, and the goodness of fit is quantified statistically. Conclusions are drawn concerning the red, green and blue bit ranges and CIELAB colour differences of perturbations likely to be perceptible to observers in the presence of an unperturbed reference.

Varicose Veins on the Internet

Objectives: to evaluate the quality of information on the Internet concerning varicose veins.Design: review of retrieved pamphlets and their scoring for educational value. Materials: a sample of 41 documents were retrieved from the Internet using four ««search engines»». Methods: characteristics, including country of origin, authorship, length, and presence of references were recorded. Based on factors such as disease summary, treatment options and complications a weighted score was created by two independent observers.Results: eleven documents were published by an academic institution or professional organisation. Twenty-seven documents originated from private practice groups, the source of three was unidentifiable. The median weighted score was 21.5 (interquartile range: 7.5–48.5). Scores originating from non-profit making organisations were significantly higher than those from private practice groups (44.5 vs 13, p=0.04). The length of the document showed a significant positive correlation with its educational quality as measured by the information score (r=0.82, p<0.001). Conclusion: there is a plethora of data concerning varicose veins on the Internet. Some documents offer comprehensive information but many are confusing or misleading. Longer pamphlets and information presented by non-profit making organisations are more reliable than short documents and information offered by private medical groups.

A framework for evaluating e-health: Systematic review of studies assessing the quality of health information and services for patients on the Internet

A framework for evaluating e-health: Systematic review of studies assessing the quality of health information and services for patients on the Internet

A framework for evaluating e-health: Systematic review of studies assessing the quality of health information and services for patients on the Internet

A framework for evaluating e-health: Systematic review of studies assessing the quality of health information and services for patients on the Internet