108 research outputs found
Reinterpretasi Monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan Karya Arby Samah dalam Ikonografi Erwin Panofsky
No full textABSTRACTResearch was entered to trace the Bagindo Aziz Chan monument by Arby Samah trough the iconographicapproach put forward by Erwin Panofsky, as well as to uncover the reason for the contruction of themonument. The research uses qualitative methods of observation interviews and document.The figure Arby Samah described in the “Bagindo Aziz Chan Monument” is indeed a Bagindo figure,which was made using cement plaster technique, making the work began in 1973 by Arby Samah. Reliefsmade in the foundation of the statue tells the sequence of event killed Bagindo Aziz Chan. The use ofthe realist style found by the author on the Bagindo Aziz Chan monument although the cultivation ofthe statue still looks tough, but the delivery of the sign on the statue is the hope and ideals of BagindoAziz Chan during his leadership as mayor of Padang is clearly depicted. The making of the statue uses acement plaster which is a technique commonly technique. Used by sculpture artists in the 1970s. In 2005Bagindo Aziz Chan was awarded as a national hero from west Sumatera by the central government, andalso on July 19 the people of Padang commemorated the day of death of Bagindo Aziz Chan which was atribute to the leader of Padang. And also the name Bagindo Aziz Chan has been enshrined as the name ofa street and a building in the city of Padang.Keywords: Bagindo Aziz Chan Monument, Iconographic, Erwin Panofsky.ABSTRAKPenelitian dimaksudkan untuk menelusuri monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan karya Arby Samahmelalui pendekatan ikonografi yang dikemukakan oleh Erwin Panofsky, serta mengungkapalasan dibangunnya monumen tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif yaitupengamatan, wawancara dan dokumen.Tokoh yang digambarkan Arby Samah pada karya “Monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan” ini memangsosok Bagindo Aziz Chan, yang dibuat memakai teknik plaster semen, pembuatan karya tersebutselesai mulai dilakukan pada tahun 1971 dan selesai pada tahun 1973 yang dibuat oleh ArbySamah. Relief yang dibuat pada landasan patung menceritakan urutan peristiwa terbunuhnyaBagindo Aziz Chan. Pemakaian gaya realis yang didapati penulis pada monumen BagindoAziz Chan walaupun penggarapan patung tersebut masih terlihat kasar, namun penyampaiantanda pada patung tersebut merupakan harapan dan cita-cita Bagindo Aziz Chan selamakepemimpinannya sebagai wali kota Padang tergambarkan dengan jelas. Pembuatan patungtersebut menggunakan teknik plaster semen yang merupakan teknik yang umum dipakai olehseniman patung pada tahun 1970-an. Pada tahun 2005 Bagindo Aziz Chan dianugrahi sebagaipahlawan nasional asal Sumatera Barat oleh pemerintah pusat, dan juga pada tanggal 19 Julimasyarakat kota Padang memperingati hari wafatnya Bagindo Aziz Chan yang merupakanpenghormatan kepada pemimpin kota Padang yang tegas dan berani tersebut. Dan juga namaBagindo Aziz Chan sudah diabadikan sebagai nama jalan dan gedung di kota Padang.Kata Kunci: Monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan, Ikonografi Erwin Panofsk
The Impact of a Suggested Programme on Developing Writing Skills and Attitudes of Eleventh Graders
No full textThe present study investigated the impact of a suggested programme based on process writing approach on developing paragraph writing skills and students' attitudes towards writing in general and writing as a process in particular. The target paragraph writing skills were brainstorming, outlining, constructing a topic sentence and its controlling idea, providing supporting sentences, writing a conclusion and writing a unified and a coherent paragraph. The researcher purposively chose a sample of (87) eleventh graders from Al-Faloja Secondary Girls School in the Northern Governorate. The members of the sample were two classes that the researcher taught. One of them was assigned as an experimental group and the other was assigned as the control one. The two groups were equivalent since the experimental consisted of (43) participants and the control consisted of (44) participants. Three tools were used to serve the purpose of the study. The first was an attitude scale for students to determine their attitudes towards writing before and after the intervention. The second tool was an achievement test to measure the participants' paragraph writing skills before and after implementing the programme to see the difference. The third tool was the writing process based suggested programme. The results were collected and statistically analyzed, using (SPSS). The findings of the study revealed that there were significant differences between the score achieved by the control group and the experimental group after applying the suggested programme and in the participants' attitudes towards academic writing after the programme positively changed in favor of the experimental group. In the light of these findings, the researcher recommends EFL teachers to use process writing approach as a valuable approach of improving students' paragraph writing skills and developing their attitudes towards it
Samah seleem: the popular novel and the origins of the novel
No full textBu çalışma öncelikle, Semah Selim’in romancılığın esaslarına dair araştırma ve incelemelerini tanımlamaya yöneliktir. Bu minvalde Arap romancılığına ait başarılı öncü çalışmalarda Avrupa romancılığından etkilenimin, Arap kültüründen ve özellikle Arap halk kültüründen etkilenim ölçüsünde olmadığı betimlenmiştir. Her ne kadar yazar, temelsiz tercümelerin revaç bulmasında popüler romanların baskın etkisini gündeme getirmiş olsa bile yazarların konu seçiminde toplum zevkinin ve ilgisinin önemli rollleri olduğu bir vakıadırThis study primarily aims at introducing Dr. Samah Seleem’s work and academic endeavor concerning the popular novel and its origin/ the origin of novel to the readers. Her work has revealed that the beginnings of that novel are not attributed to the impact of European achievements. Rather, they could be attributed to the Arabian legacy and its popular roots in particular as the audience has played a major role in directing the writers’ attention to their areas of interest. However, the author thinks that the popular novels had tremendously led to the preponderance of fake translations.تسعى هذه الدراسة أّواًل للتعريف بجهود الدكتوره سماح سليم، واشتغاًلتها بالبحث
عن أصول الرواية، والتي انتهت فيها إلى أ ّن إرهاصات ال ِّرواية العربّية ًل تعود
ُّرها بالتراث العربي،
ُّرها بالنتاجات األوروبية، بقدر ما هي تعود إلى تأث
لعالقة تأث
اب حول
وخا َّصة ال ّشعبي. حيث كان لذائقة الجمهور الدور الكبير في توجيه ال ُكتَّ
رى المؤلفة أن الروايا ِت ال َّشعبي َة الموضوعات التي يهتمون بها، وإن كانت َت كان لها
دو ٌر ُمهٌّم في رواج الترجمات الكاذبة
Crossover Evaluation of Compressors and Nebulizers Typically Used by Cystic Fibrosis Patients
No full textAntidotal impact of extra virgin olive oil against genotoxicity, cytotoxicity and immunotoxicity induced by hexavalent chromium in rat
No full textAbstractAn in vivo study was carried out to verify whether extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) has the potential to modulate alterations resulted from exposure to hexavalent chromium (CrVI) as potassium dichromate in rats. For this purpose, CrVI was injected intraperitoneally (i.p.) at a dose of 0.4mg/kg bw/day, EVOO was given orally at a dose of 300μl daily either a lone or co-treated with CrVI at the same doses, routes and duration (26days). At the end of the experiment, blood and spleen samples were collected. Genotoxicity, cytotoxicity and immunotoxicity biomarkers induced by CrVI were evaluated. Also, histopathological and immunohistochemical investigations of spleen tissue were conducted. A significant increase in genotoxicity and cytotoxicity biomarkers (micronucleus frequency, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine level and lactate dehydrogenase activity) were recorded in CrVI treated rats. In addition, the immunotoxicity biomarkers showed a significant decrease in phagocytic%, stimulated nitric oxide production and decrease in the serum lysozyme activity. Histopathological and immunohistochemical studies support the cytotoxicity study. Oral administration of EVOO can ameliorate those effects but not restored to control level. Thus, authors recommend that regular consumption of this oil in the diet provides a constant supply of potential antioxidants that could reduce these alterations
Delayed Appearance of Cutaneous Lesions of Cutaneovisceral Angiomatosis (CAT) Leading to Misdiagnosis of Immune Thrombocytopenia
No full textEffective Maintenance by Reducing Failure-Cause Misdiagnosis in Semiconductor Industry (SI)
No full textInternational audienceIncreasing demand diversity and volume in semiconductor industry (SI) have resulted in shorter product life cycles. This competitive environment, with high-mix low-volume production , requires sustainable production capacities that can be achieved by reducing unscheduled equipment breakdowns. The fault detection and classification (FDC) is a well-known approach, used in the SI, to improve and stabilize the production capacities. This approach models equipment as a single unit and uses sensors data to identify equipment failures against product and process drifts. Besides its successful deployment for years, recent increase in unscheduled equipment breakdown needs an improved methodology to ensure sustainable capacities. The analysis on equipment utilization , using data collected from a world reputed semiconductor manufacturer, shows that failure durations as well as number of repair actions in each failure have significantly increased. This is an evidence of misdiagnosis in the identification of failures and prediction of its likely causes. In this paper, we propose two lines of defense against unstable and reducing production capacities. First, equipment should be stopped only if it is suspected as a source for product and process drifts whereas second defense line focuses on more accurate identification of failures and detection of associated causes. The objective is to facilitate maintenance engineers for more accurate decisions about failures and repair actions, upon an equipment stoppage. In the proposed methodology, these two lines of defense are modeled as Bayesian network (BN) with unsupervised learning of structure using data collected from the variables (classified as symptoms) across production, process , equipment and maintenance databases. The proofs of Asma Abu-Samah et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. concept demonstrate that contextual or statistical information other than FDC sensor signals, used as symptoms, provide reliable information (posterior probabilities) to find the source of product/process quality drifts, a.k.a. failure modes (FM), as well as potential failure and causes. The reliability and learning curves concludes that modeling equipment at module level than equipment offers 45% more accurate diagnosis. The said approach contributes in reducing not only the failure durations but also the number of repair actions that has resulted in recent increase in unstable production capacities and unscheduled equipment breakdowns
Role of Biomarkers Diagnostic Tools in Patients with COVID-19: Stratification Made Easy
No full textAhmed Abdallah Salman,1 Heba Mohamed Abdallah,2 Sami Eldahdouh,3 Sally Waheed Elkhadry,4 Samah Mohamed Awad,5 Ghada M K Gaballah,6 Eman Kamal Awaad,7 Mohammed Gaber Saad,8 Ahmed E Taha,9 Nahla K Gaballa7 1Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; 2Department of Clinical Pathology, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebin Elkom, Egypt; 3Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Shebin Elkom, Egypt; 4Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebin Elkom, Egypt; 5Clinical Microbiology and Immunology Department, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebin Elkom, Egypt; 6Medical Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Shebin Elkom, Egypt; 7Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebin Elkom, Egypt; 8Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care and Pain Management, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt; 9Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, EgyptCorrespondence: Ahmed Abdallah Salman, Email [email protected] and Aims: In coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, several serum biomarkers have been identified. Upon intensive care unit (ICU) admission, these laboratory markers become more crucial to distinguish between patients with severe cases of COVID-19. It might assist doctors in predicting the course of illnesses and treating patients appropriately. This work was to investigate the role of biomarkers in patients with COVID-19 classification admitted to the hospital and identified by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).Methods: Peripheral blood sample was taken from COVID-19 cases isolated on admission to determine C-reactive protein (CRP), D-dimer, Fibrinogen, neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR), leukocytes CRP ratio (LeCR), lymphocyte–CRP ratio (LCR), interleukin-6 (IL6), leukocytes interleukin 6 ratio (LeIL6), systemic inflammatory index (SII), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor one (tPAI-1). Follow-up for IL6, Ferritin, D-dimer, and tPAI-1 were determined on the 3rd and 7th days.Results: Comparisons of severity revealed that hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and Ischemia were major risk factors in COVID-19 patients. There was a statistically significant difference between the test groups for fibrinogen (p < 0.000), IL6 (p < 0.009), LeCR (p < 0.006), and LCR (p < 0.011).Conclusion: Based on laboratory test findings at the time of ICU admission, we can distinguish severe cases of COVID-19.Keywords: COVID-19, intensive care unit, risk factors, RT- PCR, serum biomarker
Politics and Paratext: On Translating Arwa Salih\u27s al-Mubtasarun / السياسة والنص المصاحب : ترجمة رواية ((ﺍﻟﻤﺒﺘﺴﺮﻭﻥ)) لأروى صالح
No full text[This article explores the importance of paratext in political translation by considering activist translation as a dynamic field of call and response shared across political consciousness rather than language. Building on the work of Maria Tymoczko on activist translation and Gayatri Spivak on intimacy, the author uses her translation of Arwa Salih\u27s al-Mubtasarun (1996; an autobiographical work by an Egyptian leftist) to discuss the ways in which the relationship between author, translator, and the target community of readers shapes the political translation, and how the translator\u27s paratextual interventions (introductions, footnotes, glossaries) are central to the production of historically situated radical knowledge. تستكشف هذه المقالة أهمية النص المصاحب في الترجمة ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺎسية من خلال النظر إلى الترجمة المقاومة باعتبارها حقلاً ديناميكياً للدعوة والاستجابة يتشكل عبر الوعي ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺎﺳﻲ عوضاً عن تشكله عبر اللغة . وبناءً على كتابات ماريا تيموكزكو حول الترجمة المقاومة وكذلك كتابات جياتري سپيڤاك حول الحميمية ، تتناول كاتبة المقالة ترجمتها لرواية المبتسرون لأروى صالح (١٩٩٦ ، سيرة مناضلة مصرية) للنظر في أهمية العلاقة بين الكاتب والمترجم ومجموع القراء ، بالإضافة ﺇلى مداخلات المترجم (من مقدمة وهوامش وتعريفات مصطلحات) ، في إنتاج معرفة راديكالية وتأريخية في ذات الحين .
Comparative study of hospitalization characteristics and predictors between hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism of patients in the United States
No full textBACKGROUND:
Hypo- and hyperthyroidism are the most common types of autoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland. Although the prevalence of overt hypo- and hyperthyroidism is 0.3% and 0.5%, respectively, the majority of patients with these disorders suffer from cardiovascular complications, which are considered to be a significant risk of mortality. The thyroid disorders and their complications affect patient quality of life and life spans, and elevate the government’s economic burdens regarding health care. The objective of the present study is to highlight the similarities and differences of hypo- and hyperthyroidism in terms of risk factors related to hospitalization outcomes such as mortality, length of stay, and total medical charges when there is a presence of cardiovascular and other complications.
METHOD:
The study implemented a cross-sectional design to achieve the primary objectives. Data were downloaded and extracted, with permission, from Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). A total of 721,958 patients with hypo- and hyperthyroidism were admitted to hospitals in the United States in 2012. The collected data included patient demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, race, insurance type, and income. Patient medical information included the number of medical procedures, chronic diseases, co-morbidities, and the type of thyroid disorder. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used to analyze the data of the present study, and all outcomes with a p-value less than 0.05 were found to be significant. Multinomial logistic regression and multiple linear regressions (the dummy method) were the appropriate statistical tests to determine the predictors of the study outcomes.
RESULTS:
A descriptive analysis of the present study revealed the highest incidences of thyroid disorders to be in those who were older than 80 years of age (29.3%), white (76.7%), female (74.9%), on Medicare (68.2%), and who had a household income in the 25th percentile (27.1%). Patient medical information showed the highest comorbidities to be hypertension (63.8%), fluid-electrolyte disorders (29.1%) and uncomplicated diabetes (24.4%). The incidence of mortality for patients with thyroid diseases was 2.4%. The mean (± SD) length of hospital stay and total medical charges were 5.06 (±6.113) days and $41829.47 (±60920.47), respectively. There was a higher prevalence of hypothyroidism than hyperthyroidism (97% vs. 3%). Overall mortality showed a higher incidence of hypothyroidism than of hyperthyroidism (2.4% vs. 1.75%). The incidence of mortality increased with cardiovascular complications, to 5.42% vs. 4.87% for congestive heart failure (CHF) and 2.47% vs. 1.99% for hypertension (HT), for patients with hypo- and hyperthyroidism, respectively. Risk factors for patients with hyperthyroidism related to length of stay were paralysis, weight loss, pulmonary circulation, fluid and electrolyte disorders, age, neurological disorders, coagulopathy, psychosis, and the number of procedures. Risk factors of length of stay for patients with hypothyroidism patients were weight loss, paralysis, fluid and electrolyte disorders, age, the number of procedures, and insurance type.
Risk factors of total charges for hyperthyroidism patients were Hispanic or Asian-Pacific Islander descent, younger than 30 years of age, paralysis, the number of procedures, weight loss, fluid and electrolyte disorders, coagulopathy, and neurological disorders. In patients with hypothyroidism of Hispanic or Asian-Pacific Islander descent who were younger than 30 years of age, risk factors related to total medical charges of patients with were the number of procedures, weight loss, coagulopathy, paralysis, and fluid and electrolyte disorders. Risk factors for patients with hyperthyroidism related to mortality were the number of procedures, age, metastasis, fluid and electrolyte disorders, insurance type, and renal failure. Risk factors for patients with hypothyroidism related to mortality were the number of procedures, age, fluid and electrolyte disorders, metastasis, weight loss, and coagulation.
CONCLUSION:
Several factors were observed to increase the risk of mortality, the total medical charges, and the length of stay for patients included in the present study. Comorbidities can increase cost and mortality, which are considered to be serious risks for patient outcomes. Similarities found in risk factors between hypo- and hyperthyroidism were attributed to the physiological changes of thyroid function, which worsened the patients’ health statuses; however, differences were found depending on the strength of each risk factor in relation to each type of thyroid disorder. These risks also increased the cost and mortality for patients with cardiovascular diseases. The government and researchers are required to manage preventable risk factors to minimize incidences of mortality and to control the costs of therapy and health services administered to patients with thyroid diseases.
Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Samah Ismai
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